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Meet our lean team
Cofounder, CEO
Nikunj leads the overall vision & strategy at Cutshort and enables the team with everything they need to be highly effective. Before Cutshort, Nikunj led top teams at U.S. based venture backed companies and played an instrumental role in the exit of his last startup for INR 110 crore. He has an MBA from XLRI Jamshedpur (Bronze medalist). His journey: From building culture to making sales, Nikunj has learned many vital skills while steering Cutshort.
Cofounder, Product and Design
Anubhav is a design prodigy who also happens to be a self taught fullstack engineer. An Economics graduate from Delhi University, Anubhav is the hands and brains behind all that you see / touch / feel on Cutshort. You can also catch him playing the keys in an ambient-prog-rock band, Celestial Teapot. His journey: Since having worked on 2 startups while in college, Anubhav has developed a knack for designing and building world class products.
Customer Success Evangelist
With 9 years of hands-on experience at various startups & enterprises such as Future Group, Neha leads Customer Success at Cutshort. She is a gifted multitasker and artfully balances many moving things on the go, including the tantrums of her newborn. Her journey: Neha came in from a non technical + marketing background. Today, not only she has learned product and customer success skills, but can also debug technical issues in a jiffy.
Customer Success
An ex-CEO at an IoT startup that raised funds and posted INR 1.5Cr in revenue, Anupran is a Product person with a knack in analytics and customer engagement. He loves animals (snakes are his favorite!) and has a pet Beagle named Peanut! His journey: Anupran realized the mistakes his previous startup made in key areas like building products & building culture and has picked strong competencies across a diverse set of areas.
Fullstack engineer
A strong believer of making people's lives easier through technology, Siddhant has been self learning computer science since the age of 16. A coffeeholic by nature, he has been turning those coffees into code while managing his engineering studies. His journey: From a hobby to now a profession, Siddhant loves developing new products and playing with different technologies.
Account Management & Sales
A Yoga teacher, a number geek and a customer advocate, Sweta breaks many typical stereotypes. She may be the youngest member in the Account Management team, but often comes up with insights and suggestions that experienced folks miss. Her journey: Sweta started as a fresher who is hungry to grow fast. In a short span, she has picked up valuable lessons on how to manage customers at scale with data insights, prioritization and automation.
Marketing
A young hustler who says is on a voyage to discover his potential, Neeraj is a fresh graduate out in the world looking for his higher calling. A rookie wordsmith, he loves spinning rhymes like a silkworm and lives by the motto- there are no bad puns. His debut music video with Hyperlocal delivery giant Swiggy has 30k+ views on LinkedIn!
Fullstack engineer
Safir has always been amazed by the magic of technology and is on a quest to take it to the next level. He believes that by the power of philosophy and technology together, he can find the absolute truth of life. A technically sound person overwhelmed by the mysteries in life. His heart is engrossed in the thesis of Philosophy and Psychology, and his poetries never lose rhyme.
Sales evangelist
Parth is a management grad whose forte is communication. Being an extrovert of the highest order, he lives and breathes people. Scaling business at Cutshort; he has one motto: making sure users are happy. Coming from a theatre background, you’ll find drama in everything he does: right from his conversations to his life in general. He’s most likely to be found humming old Hindi songs in the middle of Zoom meetings.
Sales evangelist
Prakhar is a Computer Science Engineering graduate from Manipal University Jaipur, but he found his calling in sales and marketing. He discovers the credibility and potential of the companies signing up on CutShort and is also the first point of contact for them. In his free time you can find him playing squash or with his camera capturing the wild. His life goal is to become a wildlife conservationist.
Sales evangelist
Hrishikesh is a Sales Evangelist at Cutshort. A hospitality graduate, turned a sales savant. If there is one thing he loves more than food, is closing deals. During his time off work, you can find him either working on his own cookbook, or gaming on his PlayStation.
In the media
From our blogs
Dear recruiters in emerging cities: welcome onboard!
Since we rolled out Cutshort 3 years ago, users from 10,000+ companies have signed up on Cutshort. They have closed 4000+ positions using our unique AI powered solution that brings in-built sourcing, pre-assessments, screening tools and automation to the recruitment process.
December 4th
Hiring remote employees from India – has the time come now?
Remote work, as an idea is being discussed for last few years. Barring the startups in Europe, USA and Canada that faced talent crunch and made remote their main talent acquisition pillar, not many mainstream companies and professionals have thought of it as a realistic option.
November 22nd
Top 5 HR Trends that Start-ups Can’t Afford to Ignore in 2020
The last couple of years have seen some interesting things happening in the HR industry. On the one hand, cutting-edge technologies have found their way into HR software, and the post-globalization internet economy continues to change workforce patterns in a big way. At the same time, companies are struggling when it comes to creating a work environment that makes employees feel nurtured, productive, and creative.
August 19th
Your context is unique. So should be your interview process.
One of the things I learned very early enough was that a startup is NOT a mini version of an enterprise. Things that work at a 2500+ people enterprise most often don't work at a startup.
February 13th
Refresh the way you hire.
We are almost in the year 2018. Hiring today is much different from what it was even 5 years ago. Good talent now is busy, distracted and even scarcer, which means attracting it today requires a different mindset.
November 16th
More on the blog
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Checkout the following open roles at Cutshort
About Cutshort:
Welcome to today’s professional world where:
- Older job skills are becoming irrelevant. There is a constant need to upgrade.
- The value of work matters more than the number of years of experience a person has.
- The education system is still failing to prepare people for the real professional world.
- You can work on anything from anywhere for whatever time
These facts may look scary but they are actually opportunities if the professionals get to:
- Figure out their career interests and paths
- Learn the skills
- Share learnings
- Find people for mentorship, side projects, freelancing, etc
- Get opportunities to apply their skills at a place that fits their needs
At Cutshort, this is what we do. We have built an AI-powered solution to help millions of professionals plan and grow their careers to become more successful and satisfied in their lives. Since we started in 2015, 2M professionals have used Cutshort to hire, find jobs, and connect with each other to grow their careers.
About the role:
This is not just another sales job - it's what the future of sales would be about - using smart sales automation and a data-driven approach to create more happy customers.
In this role, you will play a fundamental role in enabling the team to achieve our ambitious customer acquisition and revenue growth objectives. Since we are looking for team members in both inbound and outbound SDR, depending on your strengths and interests, your responsibilities might range right from understanding the core requirement of an account to understanding our ICPs and penetrating the market.
Overall, be it any role, your core function is to engage with our B2B users and evangelize our solutions to them to solve their pain points.
This role will require:
- An understanding of the value of the "sales" function in a company.
- Strong communication skills (we don't mean fancy vocabulary or US accent), an ability to write/speak clearly, logically, and persuasively.
- An eagerness to learn and compound on your career
- Solid listening skills with empathy
- Multitasking ability - you will need to seamlessly communicate across various channels such as Telephone, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Slack, Skype, etc.
The work culture at Cutshort
We are a small team that believes in
- Working with a few, but only with the highest quality team members who want to become the very best in their fields.
- Having a flat organizational structure with a merit-first, no-politics environment
- Partnering with our employees to achieve their career goals and helping them grow professionally, financially, and holistically.
Please read more here:
https://medium.com/cutshort/should-you-work-at-cutshort-read-this-to-find-out-466d9086dec6
Also, explore: https://www.instagram.com/cutshorthq/
Interested? Let's talk!
- Older job skills are becoming irrelevant. There is a constant need to upgrade.
- The value of work matters more than the number of years of experience a person has.
- The education system is still failing to prepare people for the real professional world.
- You can work on anything from anywhere for whatever time
These facts may look scary but they are actually opportunities if the professionals get to:
- Figure out their career interests and paths
- Learn the skills
- Share learnings
- Find people for mentorship, side projects, freelancing, etc
- Get opportunities to apply their skills at a place that fits their needs
At Cutshort, this is what we do. We have built a solution to help millions of professionals plan and grow their careers to become more successful and satisfied in their lives.
Since we started in 2015, 2M professionals have used Cutshort to hire, find jobs, and connect with each other to grow their careers.
- Develop and execute sales plans to achieve revenue targets and grow the customer base.
- Identify and target potential new clients in the enterprise market, and build relationships with decision-makers at these organizations.
- Work closely with the internal teams to develop and deliver targeted sales campaigns.
- Negotiate contracts and close deals with new and existing clients.
- Optimize your sales pipeline and forecast future revenue.
- Provide ongoing support and account management along with the Customer Success Team to ensure customer satisfaction and retention.
- Stay up-to-date with industry trends and best practices, and curate out-of-the-box sales strategies.
- Have fun doing what you are doing 🙂
A new approach to sales can open a lot of doors of opportunities https://bettersales.substack.com/
The work culture at Cutshort
- Working with a few, but only with the highest quality team members who want to become the very best in their fields.
- Having a flat organizational structure with a merit-first, no-politics environment
- Partnering with our employees to achieve their career goals and helping them grow professionally, financially, and holistically.
Please read more here: https://medium.com/cutshort/should-you-work-at-cutshort-read-this-to-find-out-466d9086dec6?source=friends_link&sk=ae2b24ac96b881e00d44b18e2dee65b1
Also, explore: https://instagram.com/cutshorthq
- Older job skills are becoming irrelevant. There is a constant need to upgrade.
- The value of work matters more than the number of years of experience a person has.
- The education system is still failing to prepare people for the real professional world.
- You can work on anything from anywhere for whatever time
- Figure out their career interests and paths
- Learn the skills
- Share learnings
- Find people for mentorship, side projects, freelancing, etc
- Get opportunities to apply their skills at a place that fits their needs
At Cutshort, this is what we do. We have built an AI-powered solution to help millions of professionals plan and grow their careers to become more successful and satisfied in their lives. Since we started in 2015, 2M professionals have used Cutshort to hire, find jobs, and connect with each other to grow their careers.
- An understanding of the value of the "sales" function in a company.
- Maturity, patient listening, and convincing power.
- Strong communication skills (we don't mean fancy vocabulary or US accent), an ability to write/speak clearly, logically, and persuasively.
- Multitasking ability - you will need to seamlessly switch your channels - Emails, Texts, WhatsApp, Phone, Skype, etc.
- Desirable - Product thinking and Startup experience.
A new approach to sales can open a lot of doors of opportunities https://bettersales.substack.com/
The work culture at Cutshort
- Working with a few, but only with the highest quality team members who want to become the very best in their fields.
- Having a flat organizational structure with a merit-first, no-politics environment
- Partnering with our employees to achieve their career goals and helping them grow professionally, financially, and holistically.
Please read more here: https://medium.com/cutshort/should-you-work-at-cutshort-read-this-to-find-out-466d9086dec6?source=friends_link&sk=ae2b24ac96b881e00d44b18e2dee65b1
Also, explore: https://instagram.com/cutshorthq
- Older job skills are becoming irrelevant. There is a constant need to upgrade.
- The value of work matters more than the number of years of experience a person has.
- The education system is still failing to prepare people for the real professional world.
- You can work on anything from anywhere for whatever time
These facts may look scary but they are actually opportunities if the professionals get to:
- Figure out their career interests and paths
- Learn the skills
- Share learnings
- Find people for mentorship, side projects, freelancing, etc
- Get opportunities to apply their skills at a place that fits their needs
At Cutshort, this is what we do. We have built a solution to help millions of professionals plan and grow their careers to become more successful and satisfied in their lives. Since we started in 2015, 2M professionals have used Cutshort to hire, find jobs, and connect with each other to grow their careers.
- An understanding of the value of the "sales" function in a company.
- Maturity, patient listening, and convincing power.
- Strong communication skills (we don't mean fancy vocabulary or US accent), an ability to write/speak clearly, logically, and persuasively.
- Multitasking ability - you will need to seamlessly switch your channels - Emails, Texts, WhatsApp, Phone, Skype, etc.
- Desirable - Product thinking and Startup experience.
A new approach to sales can open a lot of doors of opportunities https://bettersales.substack.com/
The work culture at Cutshort
- Working with a few, but only with the highest quality team members who want to become the very best in their fields.
- Having a flat organizational structure with a merit-first, no-politics environment
- Partnering with our employees to achieve their career goals and helping them grow professionally, financially, and holistically.
Please read more here: https://medium.com/cutshort/should-you-work-at-cutshort-read-this-to-find-out-466d9086dec6?source=friends_link&sk=ae2b24ac96b881e00d44b18e2dee65b1
Also, explore: https://instagram.com/cutshorthq
About this role
If you like to develop strong architecture and framework for a product, then this role is made for you. Here at Cutshort, you will be a part of a small but highly cross functional, enthusiastic team. The opportunities here would not be limited to just core product and development but anything and everything that contributes to the success of the company.
About Cutshort
Welcome to today’s professional world where:
- Older job skills are becoming irrelevant. There is a constant need to upgrade.
- The value of work matters more than the number of years of experience a person has.
- The education system is still failing to prepare people for the real professional world.
- You can work on anything from anywhere for whatever time
These facts may look scary but they are actually opportunities if the professionals get to:
- Figure out their career interest paths
- Learn the skills
- Share learnings
- Find people for mentorship, side projects, freelancing etc
- Get opportunities to apply their skills at a place that fits their needs
At Cutshort, this is what we do. We have built an AI-powered solution to help millions of professionals plan and grow their careers to become more successful and satisfied in their lives. Since we started in 2015, 1.5M+ professionals have used Cutshort to hire, find jobs, connect with each other to grow their careers.
Responsibilities
- You will build robust secure and scalable micro-services to power Cutshort and our other applications
- You will continuously evaluate relevant technologies, influence and drive architecture and design discussions
- Focus on code optimisation, code quality, maintainability etc.
- Identify architectural weaknesses, design issues, performance and scalability issues, and recommend solutions.
Requirements
- 5 - 7 years of full-time experience in working on backend technologies like NodeJS, MongoDB, Firebase, etc
- Experience with AWS stack
- Experience in server-side services using ElasticSearch
- Understanding of scaling up the engineering and deploying processes is desirable.
- Ability to make architectural decisions (choice of development frameworks and tools, database optimisations, load handling)
The work culture at Cutshort
We are a small, remote team that believes in
- Working with a few, but only with the highest quality team members who want to become the very best in their fields.
- Having a flat organisational structure with a merit-first, no-politics environment
- Partnering with our employees to achieve their career goals and helping them grow professionally, financially and holistically.
Please read more here: https://medium.com/cutshort/should-you-work-at-cutshort-read-this-to-find-out-466d9086dec6?source=friends_link&sk=ae2b24ac96b881e00d44b18e2dee65b1
About this role
If you like translating digital to real users and all set to take the ownership, then this role is made for you. Here at Cutshort, you will be a part of a small but highly cross functional, enthusiastic team. The opportunities here would not be limited to just core product and development but anything and everything that contributes to the success of the company (e.g being able to help automate sales and marketing processes, etc).
About Cutshort
Welcome to today’s professional world where:
- Older job skills are becoming irrelevant. There is a constant need to upgrade.
- The value of work matters more than the number of years of experience a person has.
- The education system is still failing to prepare people for the real professional world.
- Professionals are shifting their career more than ever.
These facts may look scary but they are actually opportunities if the professionals get to:
- Figure out their career interest paths
- Build the relevant skills
- Share learnings
- Find people for mentorship, side projects, freelancing etc
- Get opportunities to apply their skills at a place that fits their needs
At Cutshort, this is what we do. We have built an AI-powered solution to help millions of professionals plan and grow their careers to become more successful and satisfied in their lives. Since we started in 2015, 1.5M+ professionals have used Cutshort to hire, find jobs, and connect with each other to grow their careers.
Responsibilities
- Conduct user research, prototype, create user journeys, A/B testing and more
- Use the prototyping tools such as Figma/AdobeXD
- Engage in quantitative and qualitative research and convert them into actionable insights
- Create a smooth user experience by exploring unique approaches to solve users' problems
- Work closely with different teams of developers, data scientists, marketing, customer success, sales to understand the problems and devise holistic solutions
Requirements
- At least 3 years of full-time experience as a UX Designer in a product based startup or a UI/UX Design agency
- At least 3 years of experience working with software development teams
- Background in HCI and understanding of MVP along with good UI sense
- Strong analytical skills and first principles thinking combined with data crunching abilities to identify the core problems and solve them
The work culture at Cutshort
We are a lean team that believes in
- Working with a few, but only with the highest quality team members who want to become the very best in their fields.
- Having a flat organisational structure with a merit-first, no-politics environment
- Partnering with our employees to achieve their career goals and helping them grow professionally, financially and holistically.
Please read more here: https://medium.com/cutshort/should-you-work-at-cutshort-read-this-to-find-out-466d9086dec6?source=friends_link&sk=ae2b24ac96b881e00d44b18e2dee65b1
Also, explore: https://instagram.com/cutshorthq
PS: Do you fancy an off-site in Vegas? Hop in!
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When people work below their true potential, everything suffers. The economy, the society, their personal life, health and happiness.
Welcome to today’s professional world where:
- Older job skills are becoming irrelevant. There is a constant need to upgrade.
- The value of work matters more than the number of years of experience a person has.
- The education system is still failing to prepare people for the real professional world.
- You can work on anything from anywhere for whatever time
- Figure our their career interests paths
- Learn the skils
- Share learnings
- Find people for mentorship, side projects, freelancing etc
- Get opportunities to apply their skills at place that fits their needs
We are a small, remote team that believes in
- Working with a few, but only with highest quality team members who want to become the very best in their fields.
- Having a flat organisational structure with merit-first, no-politics environment
- Partnering with our employees to achieve their career goals and helping them grow professionally, financially and holistically.
You will be SPOC for a bunch of communities and will play the pivotal role of bringing the community together and becoming more valuable. Some ways you can do this are:
- Find interesting people who could benefit from the communities
- Find experienced developers working in good companies like Hotstar, Amazon etc and organize interesting sessions that help everyone grow their careers
- Plan and run interesting contests, sessions etc as the community needs
- A natural interest in technology and programming. It's okay if you don't code - but you should have some experience in the software development process.
- Interest in connecting with new, interesting people and a desire to help them.
- Good business communication skills (we don't mean fancy vocabulary or US accent), an ability to write/speak clearly, logically and persuasively.
- Multitasking ability - you will need to seamlessly switch your channels - emails, texts, WhatsApps, phone, skype etc.
- Desirable - ability to write short, interesting social media posts.
Interested to know more? Please reply to engage with us!
As a Senior Content Strategist, you’ll help build a world-class tech platform by creating quality content, strategizing, and growing the marketing team at Cutshort.
You will:
- Leverage your business knowledge and storytelling expertise to develop and refine our content plans and projects
- Write content and social media copies
- Manage content production, and end-to-end project management and ensure quality adherence among team members, freelancers, and agencies
- Overlook content calendar management & lead content distribution network
- Strategize & work on brand positioning by bringing more depth to content curation
- Understand customer insights and data that translates into creative communication
- Utilize industry best practices and familiarity with the organization's brand vision to inspire ideas and content
- Help the team deliver content requests for key stakeholders such as Product, SEO, and Business Development teams.
This role will require:
- 4 to 8 years of prior experience in strategizing and creating content
- Good copywriting skills
- Good time management skills, including prioritizing, scheduling, and adapting as necessary
- Excellent overall writing skills in several different styles/ tones
- Impeccable spelling and grammar, and proofreading skills
- A deep understanding of consumers and industry
- Great research, organizational, and learning skills
- Should be comfortable working with team members in a highly interactive environment
- Prior hands-on experience in leading & scaling teams
- Experience in journalism or related field is good to have
Want to join Netflix/Zomato/Fintech unicorn? Here is why you should consider Cutshort instead
- Make a big impact - make millions of professionals have successful careers. Isn’t this more meaningful than making people eat stuff they shouldn’t be eating (Swiggy/Zomato) or stealing their sleep (Netflix) or selling gullible people loans they can’t repay (BNPL)?
- A chance to build a high-performing marketing team
- Get to work across 4 areas in one stint: B2B, B2C, Marketplace & SaaS.
- Get the scale of a funded startup but ownership of a smaller company. You won’t be just managing a feature here- but the entire platform!
- No politics - all teams want you to succeed in delivering impact
- Work with smart people who think fundamentally
Hiring Process:
- Automation: Work Samples: Screening
- Exploratory Call+ Basic Screening
- Assignment: Screened by Nikunj Verma (our CEO)
- Final Round: Interview with Vikash (our COO)
The work culture at Cutshort:
We believe in:
- Working with a few, but only with the highest quality team members who want to become the very best in their fields.
- Having a flat organizational structure with a merit-first, no-politics environment
- Partnering with our employees to achieve their career goals and helping them grow professionally, financially, and holistically.
- Older job skills are becoming irrelevant. There is a constant need to upgrade.
- The value of work matters more than the number of years of experience a person has.
- The education system is still failing to prepare people for the real professional world.
- You can work on anything from anywhere for whatever time.
- Figure our their career interests paths
- Learn the skills
- Share learnings
- Find people for mentorship, side projects, freelancing etc
- Get opportunities to apply their skills at a place that fits their needs
- Work with the product team to help improve the platform.
- Work with the sales team to increase the renewal rate.
- Work with the marketing team to execute customer centric campaigns.
- Tactical and fundamental understanding of subscription models and sales.
- 2 to 3 years of customer facing experience preferably in SaaS.
- Needs to possess maturity, be a patient listener and a good communicator to be successful in this role.
- Ability to write/speak clearly and logically in response to customer problems and coming up with articulate solutions.
- Needs to have a good sales acumen.
- Logical thinking with a product-first mindset.
- Working with a few, but only with the highest quality team members who want to become the very best in their fields.
- Having a flat organizational structure with a merit-first, no-politics environment
- Partnering with our employees to achieve their career goals and helping them grow professionally, financially and holistically.
Interested? Let's talk!
- Older job skills are becoming irrelevant. There is a constant need to upgrade.
- The value of work matters more than the number of years of experience a person has.
- The education system is still failing to prepare people for the real professional world.
- You can work on anything from anywhere for whatever time
- Figure out their career interests and paths
- Learn the skills
- Share learnings
- Find people for mentorship, side projects, freelancing etc
- Get opportunities to apply their skills at a place that fits their needs
What we have achieved so far?
Since we started in 2015:
- 1M professionals have used Cutshort to hire, find jobs, and connect with each other to grow their careers.
- Recruiters/founders/hiring managers from 20000+ companies from small startups to Google have used our product.
- We have become India's biggest website to hire premium talent (source: similarweb)
- We have bootstrapped and scaled revenues to $1.5M/year. 97% of the ownership is within the company.
About the role - Product Manager at Cutshort
- Research user problems and using lean methodology, build validated and innovative solutions to solve them
- Use the cutting edge technologies such as AI, GPT-3, metaverse, Web3 etc (whenever they make sense) to solve unsolved problems
- Embed growth features inside the product to grow it exponentially
- Work closely with different teams of developers, data scientists, marketing, customer success, sales to understand the problems and devise holistic solutions
- At least 1 year of full-time experience as a Product Manager in a technology-driven startup environment
- At least 2 years of experience working in software development teams
- A sound understanding of the technology world and how it is shaping the future.
- Strong analytical skills and first principles thinking combined with data crunching abilities to identify the core problems and solve them.
- Make a big impact - make millions of professionals have successful careers. Isn’t this more meaningful than making people eat stuff they shouldn’t be eating (Swiggy/Zomato) or stealing their sleep (Netflix) or selling gullible people loans they can’t repay (BNPL)?
- A chance to do product innovation to solve unsolved problems
- Get to work across 4 areas in one stint: B2B, B2C, Marketplace & SaaS.
- Get the scale of a funded startup but ownership of a smaller company. You won’t be just managing a feature here- but the entire platform!
- No politics - all teams want you to succeed in delivering impact
- Work with smart people who think fundamentally
Hiring process
- One phone screening round
- An assignment to test your key skills
- Interview 1 with our Tech Co-Founder & Product Management Advisor
- Interview 2 with Nikunj (Founder & CEO)
- Open discussion with our tech and design team
- Offer and close
The work culture at Cutshort
- Working with a few, but only with the highest quality team members who want to become the very best in their fields.
- Having a flat organizational structure with a merit-first, no-politics environment
- Partnering with our employees to achieve their career goals and helping them grow professionally, financially and holistically.