Associate - People Operations & Market Research

Protechsoft Technologies; United States; Remote; USD 5,200 - 8,300; Full time

Job summary

Protechsoft Technologies seeks a strategic liaison to build partnerships with universities, colleges, academic networks and student communities across India and selected international markets. You will translate the organisation's vision and technology work into compelling value propositions for institutional decision-makers and campus influencers.

The role requires strong written and spoken communication, analytical and structured thinking, and the ability to travel extensively.

Qualifications

• Exceptional written and verbal communication.
• Strong analytical and structured thinking.
• Independent study of unfamiliar subjects.
• Demonstrated habit of extensive reading and knowledge acquisition.
• Ability to translate abstract concepts into execution plans.
• Confidence engaging with senior academicians and leaders.
• Strong presentation, storytelling and persuasive communication.
• High learning velocity across technology, economics, education and society subjects.
• Owns tasks with minimal supervision.
• Willingness to travel extensively.

Responsibilities

• Develop institutional opportunity landscape across India and select markets.
• Build relationships with institutional decision-makers and campus influencers.
• Explain the organisation's vision and tech work in clear, persuasive terms.
• Decode student and institutional participation decisions.
• Create an intelligence-led talent radar and management reports.
• Represent the organisation through on-site meetings and visits.
• Conduct market-discovery assignments with prospective customers.
• Support prospect development and events to engage decision-makers.

Skills

Communication skills

Analytical thinking

Independent learner

Stakeholder engagement

Presentation skills

Curiosity

Ownership

Travel willingness

Job description

• Develop an institutional opportunity landscape covering universities, colleges, academic networks and student communities in India and selected international markets. Assess their strategic relevance and determine where meaningful partnerships can be created around talent, technology, education and social-impact programs.
• Act as the organisation's strategic interface with academia. Build credible relationships with institutional decision-makers and campus influencers, and communicate the organisation's vision, technological work and proposed initiatives in a manner that is clear, relevant and persuasive to each audience.
• Decode how institutions and students make participation decisions. Examine approval structures, behavioural motivations, communication preferences and barriers to involvement, and use these insights to shape outreach models that produce committed participants rather than superficial enrolments.
• Evaluate the end-to-end participant journey from the first institutional conversation and student awareness to enrolment, active involvement, program completion and continued association. Use evidence from each stage to locate drop-offs, recognise behavioural trends and improve participation quality.
• Create an intelligence-led talent radar capable of identifying promising students across disciplines, institutions and regions. Convert program and engagement data into management reports that reveal talent concentrations, institutional responsiveness, participant behaviour and possibilities for wider expansion.
• Represent the organisation extensively by visiting institutions, interact with key stakeholders and take ownership of on-site discussions wherever physical presence is essential for establishing credibility or advancing an initiative.
• Undertake structured market-discovery assignments involving potential customers. Capture how prospective organisations currently operate, the problems affecting their performance, the capabilities they require from technology and their response to proposed applications or concepts.
• Contribute to prospect development and business engagement. Maintain purposeful follow-up with identified organisations, create awareness of the organisations capabilities and bring suitable decision-makers into company events, technology showcases, product discussions and focused business forums.

We are looking for candidates with strong intellectual and execution capabilities rather than candidates seeking a conventional business management position.

Candidate Profile:

The ideal candidate should possess:

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong analytical and structured thinking ability.
• The intellectual curiosity to independently study unfamiliar subjects.
• A demonstrated habit of extensive reading and knowledge acquisition.
• The ability to understand an abstract concept and convert it into a structured execution framework.
• Confidence to engage with senior academicians and institutional leadership.
• Strong presentation, storytelling and persuasive communication capabilities.
• The ability to ask intelligent questions and extract meaningful information from institutional and market discussions.
• High learning velocity and the ability to operate across technology, economics, education, talent and societal subjects.
• Strong ownership and the ability to execute without continuous operational supervision.
• Willingness to travel extensively across India and internationally based on organisational requirements

CTC Offered: INR 5 Lakhs to 8 Lakhs Per Annum