Technical Growth Intern (Voice AI)

Josh Talks; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 167,000 - 335,000; Full time

Job summary

Voice of India, a growth-focused AI4Bharat/Josh Talks initiative, seeks a technically driven Growth Intern to amplify our voice AI benchmarks and leaderboards. You will work between the founders and research team to reach researchers, founders, and enterprise AI leaders, driving campaigns on X and LinkedIn.

You will own outreach, plan launches, and build a creator network to ensure our data and benchmarks reach the right people in India and beyond.

Qualifications

• Experience running launches for a technical product, developer tool or AI company.
• Hands-on experience with LinkedIn Campaign Manager or X ads and audience targeting.
• An existing network among AI researchers, builders or creators.
• Experience running creator or influencer campaigns.
• Basic design skills for charts and visuals (Figma, Canva or similar).
• Comfort with outreach and data tools such as Apollo, spreadsheets or simple scripts, and with AI tools that help you move faster.

Responsibilities

• Track launches and ensure results are out the same day.
• Plan and schedule benchmark launches and research-team coordination.
• Build target lists of researchers and leaders; run LinkedIn campaigns.
• Brief creators on new leaderboards and coordinate their posts.
• Analyze reach and engagement; adapt next week's plan.
• Maintain growth loops across X and LinkedIn; turn feedback into product changes.

Skills

Launch experience

LinkedIn/X ads targeting

AI researchers network

Creator/influencer campaigns

Design basics (charts/visuals)

Outreach and data tools (Apollo/Sheets

Tools

Figma

Canva

Apollo

Job description

Voice of India is an evaluation platform that measures how well AI systems work under Indian linguistic, cultural and deployment conditions. It is built by AI4Bharat at IIT Madras and Josh Talks, and launched in New Delhi on 4 August 2026. Our mission is to make AI understand India as it actually speaks, and to measure honestly how close it is.

What sets us apart:

• Real speech, real conditions. Results are broken down by geography, audio quality, speaking rate, gender, device and age. District-level error rates in our benchmark range from about 4% to 44%.
• Honest numbers. Our paper finds that no evaluated system consistently reaches a 20% word error rate across all 15 languages, and that public benchmarks can overstate real-world performance.
• Research behind the boards. Methods are published, not just posted.
• Data nobody else has. A private, held-out test set across India's regional clusters.

About the role

Voice of India's boards are only as useful as the people who see them. When a new speech model launches, the right researcher, founder or AI leader should hear what our evals say about it within a day. Today that depends on a few people posting when they can. We want it to be a system.

We're hiring a Technical Growth Intern (Voice AI) to help own how Voice of India reaches the people who matter: researchers who build speech models for Indian languages, founders and engineers who ship voice products for India, and the AI and data leaders who decide which models their companies buy. You will help scale our presence on X and LinkedIn, and find new ways to put our leaderboards, benchmarks and datasets in front of the right people.

The core question for this role is simple: does everyone who builds, ships or buys voice AI for India know what Voice of India says about the models they care about?

This is a highly autonomous internship. You'll work directly with the founders and the research team, sitting between the product and its audience. Growth here is not about follower counts for their own sake. It is about reaching the right people, and that is how you will be measured.

In this role, you will

The work runs as one loop: know who we need to reach, get our work in front of them, learn what lands, and feed it back into the product.

1. Map the people we need to reach. Build and keep current the lists of who matters: speech and voice researchers at model labs, founders and engineers at voice platforms, and AI and data leaders at enterprises that buy voice AI for Indian languages. Know who they follow, where they spend time and what they share.
2. Scale Voice of India on X. Help run our X presence: leaderboard updates, benchmark launches, threads and charts. Make sure major voice AI model launches are covered on our boards within a day of release, and that the right people see it.
3. Scale Voice of India on LinkedIn. Grow our company page and the founders' presence, and run targeted promotion so our posts reach researchers at labs, teams at voice platforms and AI leaders at large Indian and global enterprises.
4. Run launches. Plan and ship every release, from new leaderboards and benchmarks to datasets and papers: timing, founder posts, threads, visuals, and the follow-up that keeps a launch alive after day one.
5. Build distribution beyond our own accounts. Work with creators, researchers and partners who already have the audience we need, so our results travel through voices people trust.
6. Run product ops. Keep the boards fresh and the site sharp: track new model releases, work with the research team on what gets evaluated next, and turn audience feedback into changes on the platform.

In a typical week, you might:

• Track every voice AI model launch and get our results out the same day
• Plan and schedule a benchmark launch thread with the research team
• Build a target list of voice researchers and AI leaders, and set up a LinkedIn campaign to reach them
• Brief a group of creators on a new leaderboard and coordinate their posts
• Look at who each post reached and who engaged, and change next week's plan

What matters most

Everything in the loop serves two outcomes. They are how this role will be measured.

1. Reaching the right people

Reach only matters if it is the right reach. A post seen by a million people who will never build or buy a speech model is worth less than one seen by the hundred people who do.

• Know the audience by name. Keep clear, current lists of the researchers, builders and buyers we need, and know which of them already follow us.
• Measure who, not just how many. Track reach and engagement among the people we target, not just impressions and follower counts.
• Be first on launches. Be the place people check when a new voice model ships, by getting our results out fast.
• Earn the reshare. Make posts researchers want to share: clear charts, honest numbers, no hype.

2. Scaling X and LinkedIn into systems

Today a few people post when they can. You'll help turn that into a repeatable engine that runs every day, through launches and quiet weeks alike.

• Run a calendar. Keep a weekly calendar of leaderboard posts and releases across Voice of India's accounts and the founders' accounts.
• Build templates. Create reusable formats for leaderboard updates, launch threads and charts, so quality stays high as volume grows.
• Spend on reach with intent. Use targeted LinkedIn and X promotion to reach specific groups, and cut whatever does not reach them.
• Grow a creator network. Build lasting relationships with creators and researchers who regularly cover voice AI.
• Close the loop. Report what worked each week, and feed what the audience wants back into the product and research roadmap.

What we offer

• High ownership. Own a real slice of Voice of India's reach from day one, with direct access to the founders.
• A front-row seat. See every new voice model and every result before it goes public.
• Real impact. Your work decides whether the labs, builders and buyers of voice AI see what our evals say.
• Room to grow. Build the growth function at an early product and shape how it scales.
• A track record of growing an audience on X or LinkedIn, for a company or for yourself
• Strong writing: you can turn a technical result into a clear post, thread or chart caption
• Comfort with data: you track what each post reached and change course based on it
• Genuine interest in AI, and the curiosity to learn how speech models are built and evaluated
• High ownership: you ship without waiting to be told, and you sweat the details
• Comfortable in Hindi and English; knowing another Indian language is a plus

Preferred qualifications

You don't need to match every bullet. Apply even if you meet only some of these.

• Experience running launches for a technical product, developer tool or AI company
• Hands-on experience with LinkedIn Campaign Manager or X ads and audience targeting
• An existing network among AI researchers, builders or creators
• Experience running creator or influencer campaigns
• Basic design skills for charts and visuals (Figma, Canva or similar)
• Comfort with outreach and data tools such as Apollo, spreadsheets or simple scripts, and with AI tools that help you move faster

Why join Voice of India

• Shape how voice AI gets built for India. Labs, voice platforms and enterprises use our boards to decide which models to build, ship and buy.
• See every model first. Work with the newest speech models across Indian languages, often before most of the field has tried them.
• Grow something with substance. You'll be growing a platform built on real research, created by AI4Bharat at IIT Madras and Josh Talks, with a published benchmark the field can check.
• Reach every part of India's speech. Our evals cover 15 Indian languages and 139 regional clusters, so the audience is every builder who wants voice AI to work for India.
• Join early. Join a small, talent-dense team early, and shape the product, the team and how we grow.