Research / Senior Research Manager

Title: Research / Senior Research Manager

Location: Remote, India, with current and ongoing work authorization 
Salary: Competitive
Position: Full-time
Application deadline: July 31, 2026 (applications may be reviewed as they are submitted)

Role Overview

PxD seeks a dynamic, creative, and self-motivated Research / Senior Research Manager to join a high-performing and flexible team in India. In this role, you will contribute to PxD's digital agriculture portfolio by working closely with researchers, government partners, and cross-functional teams to design, test, evaluate, and scale evidence-based solutions for smallholder farmers. We are looking for a proactive self-starter with strong research management skills, excellent stakeholder engagement abilities, and a passion for generating actionable evidence to improve program outcomes. 

The Research / Senior Research Manager will manage a portfolio of projects across PxD programs in India focused on designing, testing, and scaling impactful and inclusive digital agricultural initiatives. While anchored in research and iterative learning, this role will work fluidly across service delivery and research functions, ensuring that insights are embedded into program implementation, operational decision-making, and government-facing engagements.

The Research / Senior Research Manager will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams and external stakeholders to build sustainable systems that improve agricultural services for farmers, institutionalize processes to ensure service longevity, and support the integration of solutions that positively impact smallholder farmers. In practice, this means not only leading research (rapid user testing, A/B tests, experiments, and evaluations) but also supporting program refinement, operational troubleshooting, and strategic decision-making across PxD initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• Work with relevant stakeholders and experts to identify learning objectives and resources available for multiple projects and manage the implementation of research activities, ensuring that projects receive appropriate input from internal and external stakeholders and adhere to appropriate rigor, policies, timelines, and budgets.
• Collaborate with team leadership across research and service delivery to scope, design, pilot, and scale evidence-backed digital agriculture services, ensuring research insights are translated into operational improvements.
• Interpret and contextualize external and internal evidence and insights for PxD programs.
• Guide teams on the use of evidence-based approaches and ensure that PxD maintains the standards for technical appropriateness and rigor.
• Oversee data management and analysis for the project and survey creation, A/B testing and implementation.
• Oversee documentation of research activities, research results, and rationale for decisions made.
• Develop and fill in frameworks with specific information to identify program insights.
• Manage relationships with government counterparts, implementing partners, research collaborators, and other external stakeholders to support successful project implementation. 
• Develop and ensure compliance with IRB protocols for human subject research and relevant in-country research permission requirements.
• Contribute to funding proposals and project reports.
• Contribute to the strategic planning and global functioning of the organization.
• Provide close mentorship and guidance to Associate and Manager-level staff.
• Operate flexibly across research, program management, and service delivery functions, contributing where needed to ensure program success beyond strictly defined research activities.
• Contribute and support internal and external communications to disseminate project results and research findings, including briefs, blogs, reports, and presentations.
• Contribute to PxD’s institutional knowledge management and internal learning efforts.

Qualifications & Experience

• Degree in economics, agricultural economics, public policy, or a closely related field.
• Professional experience working on at least three large projects involving the design and management of rigorous research and/or evidence-based programs in India.
• Ability to draw inferences from data to identify pathways for program improvement.
• Adept at consuming large amounts of academic and scientific literature as well as other technical information, synthesizing key findings, and applying takeaways to program and research design.
• Deep understanding of economics and randomized evaluations.
• Excellent knowledge of Stata, R, or similar software for data analysis.
• Experience in survey design using SurveyCTO/ODK or similar tools.
• Strong grasp of the research & program life cycle and ability to supervise all activities on the ground.
• Experience managing program and/or research staff.
• Experience managing partnerships with an implementing organization.
• Understanding and application of research ethics for human subjects in the social sciences.
• Strong writing and oral communication skills in English, with attention to detail and advanced writing and presentation skills.
• Willingness to travel to field sites.

About PxD

PxD is a rapidly scaling global non-profit that harnesses the power of technology, data science, and behavioral economics to provide targeted information to farmers in low and middle income countries. Providing the right information to the right people, in the right way and at the right time, increases incomes, protects the environment, and improves well-being. We are evidence-based: we test our interventions with randomized controlled trials to prove our impact and cost effectiveness, to simultaneously learn from and improve our service, and to demonstrate our value to funders and partners. There are few programmes in international development that are as demonstrably cost effective as ours.

How to Apply

To apply, please visit the PxD website and use the online application form to submit a CV, cover letter, and brief responses to the screening questions. The position will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the application deadline of July 31, 2026, 5pm IST.

PxD is committed to building an inclusive and diverse organization. We do not make decisions based on gender, gender identity, class, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other personal characteristics that are unrelated to the role. We accommodate flexible working to make sure you are as productive and happy as you can be.

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