Sidra Jalil

Program Consultant

Pearls Pakistan

Jun 2026 - Current (4 months)

Leading the 10th edition of Women Tech Quest (WTQ) 2026, a national platform bringing 1,000+ women in technology together across Karachi, Lahore, and Islamabad.

Driving strategy, partnerships, sponsorships, communications, and execution for an AI-focused competition across Coding, Design, and QA & Testing.

Working to create a high-impact platform where women can Compete, Create and Connect, while strengthening Pakistan’s women-in-tech ecosystem.

Trust and Safety Consultant

Tech Valley Pakistan

Mar 2026 - Current (7 months)

Leading Trust & Safety strategy for Digital Pasban, a nationwide digital safety initiative focused on empowering parents, educators, and children to navigate the digital world safely.

Driving the development of digital safety awareness, child online protection, and responsible technology practices through strategic partnerships and community-led programs.

Supporting the scale-up of Digital Pasban to build a more informed, resilient, and safer digital ecosystem for families across Pakistan.

President

OPEN Islamabad

Feb 2026 - Current (8 months)

Elected to lead the Islamabad chapter of the world’s premier network of Pakistani entrepreneurs, focusing on institutional excellence and global connectivity.

Key Strategic Focus Areas:

Policy Advocacy: Bridging the gap between tech founders and regulators to ensure the ecosystem has a seat at the national decision-making table.

The Future Frontier: Launching Special Interest Groups (SIGs) in AI, Semiconductors, and Cybersecurity to keep the local community ahead of the global tech curve.

CM Advisory Circles: Structuring high-value mentorship and advisory pipelines leveraging the expertise of our Charter Members.

Institutional Excellence: Implementing a 'Playbook Culture' to ensure seam

Founder

InspireMill

Feb 2020 - Current (6 years 8 months)

InspireMill is a technology-driven community organization dedicated to fostering growth opportunities for youth and women, while also promoting entrepreneurship. Through our innovative approach, we empower individuals to harness the power of technology and entrepreneurship for personal and community development.

Curated and Convened 'Build Your Future': a 3 Day long bootcamp is a custom-made entrepreneurship program for the women living in rural areas of Pakistan. The boot camp aims to empower women by motivating them to identify their skills and work upon innovative solutions through a thoroughly curated ideation approach, Providing them formal training inclusive of digital skills to create out-of-the-box business solutions and

Marketing Director

Tech Destination Pakistan

May 2025 - Feb 2026 (10 months)

Leading the national marketing and branding strategy to position Pakistan as a Global Tech Destination, I drive the design and execution of high-impact campaigns, international outreach, and digital storytelling initiatives that elevate the visibility of Pakistan’s IT/ITeS sectors.

The focus is on unifying brand narratives across Government, Industry, and International stakeholders to build trust, attract investment, and grow tech exports while embedding innovation, data, and design thinking into public sector communications. The objective is to anchor the vision around "Think Tech, Think Pakistan"

The Mandate includes:

Shaping Pakistan’s Global Tech Identity: Building and promoting the TechDestination Paki

Manager Outreach and Partnership, South Asia

TikTok

Apr 2022 - Apr 2025 (3 years 1 month)

Research, identify, and collaborate with external experts across diverse fields, such as academia, civil society stakeholders, to leverage their specialized knowledge, research, and resources. The goal is to develop and refine cutting-edge safety programs that integrate AI-driven technologies and machine learning for more effective mitigation of online risks.

Collaborate with cross-functional internal teams to develop, refine, and execute strategic plans for specific issue verticals (e.g., Minor Safety, Harassment/Bullying, Platform Integrity, Hateful Behavior, etc).

Act as a primary spokesperson and representative for TikTok's Trust & Safety policies, procedures, and operational workflows . Ensure clear communicatio

Director Of Operations

Code for Pakistan

Sep 2017 - Oct 2019 (2 years 2 months)

To act as a direct interface with donors, government departments and other agencies on issues relating to operational activities and to represent CFP at a senior level in various forums.

To actively promote the work of CFP; ensure visibility of the programme including media representation, external representation and direct interface with relevant regional and head office representatives

To work in close coordination with Technical Directors to finalise project proposals, initiate project implementation and to ensure technical soundness and quality during implementation

To facilitate and coordinate visiting missions; this may include development of TOR, selection of consultants, ensuring external evaluatio

Program Manager

TechOne Incubator

May 2016 - Apr 2017 (1 year)

Project Manager

Pakistan Innovation Foundation

Mar 2015 - Feb 2016 (1 year)

Managing the team (comprising full-time, part-time, interns, and volunteer resources) to provide end-to-end delivery of PIF's programmes and initiatives.

- Planning and end-to-end organisation of Events (Hackathons, Innovation Labs, Conferences, Talks or Showcases Sessions etc.)

- Support PIF's efforts to create and execute a new business development strategy including new relationships, partnerships, and programmmes

- Support programme development and design and lead execution and delivery

- Create and execute a measurement, evaluation, and learning strategy as well as documentation of results and key learning from various initiatives

- Ensure take up of PIF's work by local and foreig

Senior Research Executive

Ipsos

Dec 2013 - Feb 2015 (1 year 3 months)

Design and plan research projects following client briefing and needs

Design questionnaire and methodologies of collecting information

Co-ordinate the execution of projects, informs clients on progress and gives specific instructions to other departments regarding collection and electronic processing of information.

Working on interpretation of results and analysis, provides feedback to client and writes reports and recommendation

Assistant Manager Enterprise Sales

mh Solutions

Mar 2013 - Nov 2013 (9 months)

Designing and planning sales plan for products and services of mh9 solutions to meet the quarterly and annual sales goals.

Key Account Manager of Spectorsoft and 3SC Technologies products and services in Pakistan.

Responsible for selling financial solutions like Prognosis and Proceed to Telecom and Banking Sector in Pakistan.

Responsible for handling sales and after sales support of unified communication tools, IP Telephony for Avaya, Cisco, Nortel and Microsoft Lync to Media, telecom and banking sector.

Selling Information security and surveillance solutions and services, products of SpectorSoft for home and corporate users.

Generating need for content management softwares, requi

Dy Manager Research

Kantar Oasis Insights

Jun 2012 - Feb 2013 (9 months)

Cmmunicating with clients to understand and document the business objectives
Formulating analysis plans and acquiring client sign-off
Designing or assisting in the development of questionnaires and moderator guides to ensure the necessary data is captured and client requirements are fulfilled
Conducting in-depth data analyses using traditional and advanced methods
Authoring reports containing actionable recommendations
Making presentations—answering questions and instilling confidence

Co Founder and Business Analyst

Smonte Technologies

Jun 2010 - May 2012 (2 years)

Understanding business process management and business requirements of the customers and translating them to specific software requirements.

Acting as an interface between business units, technology teams and support teams.

Using business intelligence and a deep understanding of market and customer needs and translating them to operations and application needs.

Working on business ideas to help technical teams build new applications.

Responsible for planning and developing marketing and sales strategy for iphone and android apps mainly iSeeker, LetIt, StarvingFrog and BeatYourBoss.

Senior Research Executive

AcNielsen

Sep 2009 - Jun 2010 (10 months)

Design and plan research projects following client briefing and needs

Assist in developing Nielsen business with new and existing clients

Design questionnaire and methodologies of collecting information

Co-ordinate the execution of projects, informs clients on progress and gives specific instructions to other departments regarding collection and electronic processing of information.

Working on interpretation of results and analysis, provides feedback to client and writes reports and recommendation

Online Marketing Associate

Vopium AS

Feb 2009 - Aug 2009 (7 months)

Online Marketing via blogging

Monitoring and evaluating different marketing campaigns

Writing press releases of important events and latest updates in the software and tools

Submitting PRs at different sites and promoting

Link Building

Marketing and Support Executive

ZYB

Oct 2007 - Dec 2008 (1 year 3 months)

Achieving the goal of satisfying customers in the shortest period of time and to provide a full customer service environment.

Quality testing of the product and developing FAQ’s.

Developing of Technical Guides for mobiles phones like Nokia, Sony Ericsson etc

Market Research and Analysis regarding the technological changes and new innovations in the telecom industry

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Business Development and Support Executive

Mobile Weavers

Feb 2007 - Sep 2007 (8 months)

Responsible for providing technical support to the customers that usually involves general information about device compatibility, product information and functioning of different applications on different devices
Testing of different Pocket PC, Smart phone, Java and Symbian applications on latest Nokia series 60, 80 and Sony Ericsson and Motorola devices.
Online Marketing through blogs by posting different news, events and technology updates on Blogs in order to bring more visitors by placing different links on these posts.
Link building of Youpark’s link with different other portals with high page rank and a reasonable number of viewers/visitors.
Maintaining posts on Google Blogs about latest updates and news in the fi

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QA Intern

Mobile Weavers

Nov 2006 - Jan 2007 (3 months)

Understanding technical architecture (3-tier) of Youpark.
Preparation of documents like QA Process, Architecture Diagram, Use Cases with a reverse engineering approach in group..
Preparation of documents SRS Feedback Process, SRS Review Checklist, SRS Template, Use Case templates , procedure and guidelines for version control and Document Naming Convention Standard individually.
Understanding of QA Testing Tool “J-meter”.
Understanding of different standards like IEEE, CMMI and Volere

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