Sayalee (Saya) Karkare

Digital Marketing Specialist

Pune, Maharashtra, India6 yrs 9 mos experience

Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Expert in content writing and storytelling for diverse audiences.
Proven track record in service design for immigrant integration.
Award-winning educator with innovative curriculum design.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a versatile content strategist with expertise in education, media, and social services.

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Skills

Core Skills

Prompt EngineeringService DesignTeachingDocumentary ProductionResearch

Other Skills

Subject Matter ExpertsCustomer JourneysProgram ManagementPresentationsCommunications PlanningGrant WritingObservationalSpeech WritingContent StrategyPublic CommunicationsVisual CommunicationPresentation SkillsTeaching English as a Second LanguageLarge Language Models (LLM)Generative AI

About

Hi, I’m Saya. I help experienced professionals establish a clear and credible presence on LinkedIn. How I work I offer a focused, one-week setup for professionals who want clarity and direction in how they present themselves on LinkedIn. The setup typically includes: - one or two conversations to understand how you think, what you care about, and what role LinkedIn plays in your professional life - a rewrite or refinement of your LinkedIn profile, including your About section and headline - identifying two or three coherent strands you could write from, and shaping your first few posts (usually up to three) The emphasis throughout is on clarity, tone, and direction. Details: https://bit.ly/linkedin-setup About me: Before launching my voice-first content strategy practice, I spent 15 years working across storytelling, education and research, learning how to turn complex ideas into stories people remember. I grew up between cities and cultures, and I still chase that mix of curiosity and belonging in my work. I’m a parent, a lifelong reader, and someone who believes that the right story at the right time can change how people see you—and how you see yourself.

Experience

6 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 8 mos

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Snorkel ai

AI Content Specialist

Sep 2024 – Jun 2025 · 9 mos · United States · Remote

I worked on structured evaluation and prompt design for large language models, contributing to training and quality assessment across humanities domains including German literature, philosophy, and folklore.
My work involved developing adversarial question sets to probe reasoning reliability, surface hallucination patterns, and test model overconfidence within controlled evaluation frameworks.
This role required precision, contextual sensitivity, and alignment with evolving model governance standards.

Prompt EngineeringSubject Matter Experts

Opintokeskus visio

Service Designer

Oct 2022 – Mar 2023 · 5 mos · Finland · On-site

NGO Opintokeskus Visio gave us the following Design Challenge: Design a service or a product that increases the feeling of belonging amongst immigrant groups, specifically by enabling their participation in the NGO sector.
Conducted desk research, online and in-person interviews with various stakeholders such as NGOS and immigrants to understand the current state of integration processes in place
Generated multiple user personas and empathy maps to understand the specific needs and motivations of immigrants
Designed customer journey maps to understand their pain points in participating fully in Finnish society and identified areas of improvement
Generated solutions through an ideation workshop and designed a prototype workshop with immmigrants
Conducted user testing on the prototype, which led to valuable insights and informed the final recommendations provided to the client.

Customer JourneysProgram ManagementService Design

University of colorado boulder

Graduate Teaching Instructor

Aug 2014 – May 2018 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Boulder, Colorado, United States · On-site

Designed and delivered undergraduate courses in German history, language, and literature, creating engaging curricula that catered to diverse learning styles and academic needs.
Mentored and evaluated students from various backgrounds, fostering an inclusive classroom environment that promoted critical thinking and cross-cultural understanding.
Recognized with the Graduate Excellence in Teaching Award for innovative curriculum design and dedication to student success at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

PresentationsCommunications PlanningTeaching

Tata institute of social sciences

Director & Editor of Books in the Big City (40 minute documentary)

Apr 2012 – Aug 2013 · 1 yr 4 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region · On-site

Conceived, directed and edited a documentary on exploring the changing reading culture of Mumbai through interviews with local booksellers, readers, writers, librarians and bibliophiles.
Managed logistics to arrange film screenings across 15 local venues (including the Goethe Institute, Mumbai, IIT, St. Xavier's College, Tata Literature Festival etc.)
Wrote successful funding applications and received grants and support from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), the Max Planck Institute, Germany and the University of Vienna.

Grant WritingObservationalDocumentary Production

Unido

Research Consultant

Aug 2009 – Dec 2010 · 1 yr 4 mos · Vienna, Austria · On-site

Designed logframes, evaluated field reports and coordinated between the Head and Field Offices for Rural Women and Youth Entrepreneurship projects in Pakistan, Sudan and Egypt
Wrote speeches and talking points for the Office of the Director-General
Provided research and editorial assistance to the United Nations Industrial Development Report (2009).

Grant WritingSpeech WritingResearch