Technical Growth Intern (Voice AI)

About the Role

Voice of India is an evaluation platform built by AI4Bharat at IIT Madras and Josh Talks, aimed at measuring AI system performance under Indian linguistic, cultural, and deployment conditions. The mission is to ensure AI understands India as it speaks and to honestly assess its proximity to that goal.

This role involves owning how Voice of India reaches researchers, founders, and AI leaders who build, ship, or buy voice AI for India. The focus is on scaling presence on X and LinkedIn, and identifying new avenues to present leaderboards, benchmarks, and datasets to relevant audiences. Growth is measured by reaching the right people, not just increasing follower counts.

Key Responsibilities

The work involves a continuous loop: identifying target audiences, presenting work to them, learning from their engagement, and feeding this information back into the product.

• Map key individuals to reach:
• Build and maintain lists of speech/voice researchers at model labs.
• Identify founders and engineers at voice platforms.
• Target AI and data leaders at enterprises that purchase voice AI for Indian languages.
• Understand their online behavior, including who they follow, where they spend time, and what they share.
• Scale Voice of India on X:
• Assist in managing the X presence, including leaderboard updates, benchmark launches, threads, and charts.
• Ensure major voice AI model launches are covered on leaderboards within a day of release.
• Facilitate visibility of these updates to the target audience.
• Scale Voice of India on LinkedIn:
• Grow the company page and founders' presence.
• Execute targeted promotions to ensure posts reach researchers, voice platform teams, and AI leaders at large Indian and global enterprises.
• Run launches:
• Plan and execute releases of new leaderboards, benchmarks, datasets, and papers.
• Manage timing, founder posts, threads, visuals, and follow-up activities.
• Build distribution beyond owned accounts:
• Collaborate with creators, researchers, and partners who have relevant audiences.
• Run product operations:
• Maintain the freshness of leaderboards and the website.
• Track new model releases.
• Work with the research team on evaluation priorities.
• Incorporate audience feedback into platform changes.

In a typical week, you might:

• Track voice AI model launches and disseminate results on the same day.
• Plan and schedule benchmark launch threads with the research team.
• Build target lists of voice researchers and AI leaders for LinkedIn campaigns.
• Brief creators on new leaderboards and coordinate their posts.
• Analyze post reach and engagement to refine future plans.

What Matters Most

The role is measured by two primary outcomes:

• Reaching the Right People:
• Maintain current lists of target researchers, builders, and buyers.
• Measure reach and engagement specifically among the target audience.
• Be the primary source for results upon new voice model releases.
• Create sharable content like clear charts and honest numbers.
• Scaling X and LinkedIn into Systems:
• Manage a consistent content calendar for X and LinkedIn accounts.
• Develop reusable content formats for updates, threads, and charts.
• Utilize targeted promotion on LinkedIn and X.
• Cultivate relationships with creators and researchers in the voice AI space.
• Report on weekly outcomes and integrate audience feedback into product and research roadmaps.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• X
• LinkedIn
• Hindi and English (comfort with another Indian language is a plus)
• Figma, Canva or similar (for basic design)
• Apollo, spreadsheets, simple scripts (for outreach and data tools)
• AI tools

Qualifications

• Minimum Qualifications:
• Proven track record of audience growth on X or LinkedIn (for a company or personally).
• Strong writing skills, capable of translating technical results into clear posts, threads, or chart captions.
• Comfort with data analysis, tracking post performance, and adjusting strategy based on insights.
• Genuine interest in AI and a curiosity to learn about speech model construction and evaluation.
• High ownership mentality: proactive in execution and detail-oriented.
• Preferred 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.
• Existing network within the AI researcher, builder, or creator community.
• Experience running creator or influencer campaigns.
• Comfort with outreach and data tools, including spreadsheets and simple scripts.
• Familiarity with AI tools that enhance productivity.