GradRight Careers

GradRight is India’s fastest growing ed-fin-tech startup focused on global higher education. Using data science, technology and strategic partnerships across the industry, we enable students to find the “Right University” at the “Right Cost”. We are on a mission to aid a million students to find their best-fit universities and financial offerings by 2025. 

Our flagship product - FundRight is the world’s first student loan bidding platform. GradRight won the HSBC Fintech Innovation Challenge supported by the Ministry of Electronics & IT & was among the top 7 global finalists in The PIEoneer awards hosted by The PIE News, UK. In a short span, we have received $ 450 million dollars in loan requests and facilitated disbursements of more than $ 80 million in loans this year and we are poised to scale up rapidly. We are launching the second product - SelectRight as an innovative approach to college selection and student recruitment for students and universities, respectively. The product rests on the three pillars of data science, transparency and ethics and hopes to create value for students and universities. 

The core team of GradRight has significant domestic and international expertise in setting up, managing and working in higher education institutions. The team members are passionate about making a difference to students and universities in the sector.

As a production support engineer, you will be responsible for keeping the lights on for our production infrastructure and supporting all stakeholders (customers & internal teams) around their IT and product usage/configuration needs. You’ll own incident response management and work with various stakeholders to solve production issues. You’ll also work with product teams to help improve products based on your feedback.

1. Attend meetings with stakeholders to analyze, troubleshoot and diagnose product related problems
2. Own production data, support stakeholders with updates of data that can’t be edited via our administrative tools
3. Manage escalations to the engineering team and own the entire issue resolution workflow
4. Identify product improvement opportunities and work with product/engineering teams to implement them
5. Track metrics related to product performance and identify areas of improvement
6. Act as the initial point of contact for all IT related concerns
7. Create and maintain training materials and documentation pertaining to troubleshooting and usage of our applications

1. At least 2 years of experience working in a technology environment with microservices architecture
2. At least 1-year experience in incident management and stakeholder support
3. Experience with MongoDB and its related UI tools
4. Experience with writing SQL or NoSQL queries to get relevant reports
5. Excellent communication skills
6. Excellent debugging skills
7. Prior experience with BI tools (PowerBI, Looker), monitoring tools (NewRelic, Crashlytics, etc) is a plus
8. DevOps experience is a plus

Location: Bengaluru 

1. Our team - https://gradright.com/team.html
2. Customer testimonials - https://gradright.com/testimonials.html
3. GradRight on social media - LinkedIn , Instagram

GradRight is an ed-fin-tech company committed to drive transparency and accountability in global higher education sector. Using data science, technology and strategic partnerships across the industry, we are enabling students to find the “Right University” at the “Right Cost”. We are on a mission to aid a million students to find their best-fit universities and financial offerings by 2025.

Our flagship product - FundRight is the world’s first student loan bidding platform. In just two years, we have enabled students to get the best deals on a $ 1 Billion of loan requests and facilitated disbursements of more than $ 120 Million in loans. We are India's largest single pipeline of education loans and we are poised to scale up globally.

Our second product - SelectRight is the world's first MarTech, SaaS platform that redefines the way students select the right colleges and the way colleges find and engage with the right students.  The product rests on the three pillars of data science, transparency and ethics. 

We are the world's first platform that integrates 'Selection' with 'Financing'. and brings students, banks and universities in a SaaS environment to make smarter decisions and manage their processes more efficiently.

GradRight is a Delaware, USA registered company with a wholly owned subsidiary in India. 

We are productising the entire journey of finding, selection and financing for students in conjunction with how colleges find and select students and banks fund the students at the right cost.

As a product designer at GradRight, you’ll bring an unmatched customer-centricity to your work, with a focus on designing for the long term and large scale for a global student, university and lender ecosystem.

You’ll understand customer journeys and problems, and tie it with institutional knowledge to help us build the best experiences for students and our partners.

1. Understand customer journeys, problems, and needs. Document the same in a way that cross-functional teams can understand and use
2. Work with product managers, owners and engineering team to understand problem statements and design products/features that are technically feasible
3. Drive big picture and day-to-day execution of design work across our products, from service design to high-fidelity mockups
4. Establish, track and own success metrics for design and user experience across all our products
5. Help build the design organization in the company and manage/mentor junior designers

1. At least 3 years of product design experience
2. An exceptional design portfolio showcasing both B2C and B2B work
3. Solid understanding and experience in design research methodologies
4. Practical experience in applying various UI/UX design principles
5. Proficient in design software i.e Figma, Invision, Sketch 
6. Experience in understanding user psychology and passion for design thinking
7. Problem-solving aptitude 
8. Have an analytical mind to align with the vision and business acumen 
9. Understanding of modern design standards

1. Experience designing for an international audience
2. Experience in ed-tech or fin-tech domains

Location: Bangalore / Hyderabad

1. Our team - https://gradright.com/team.html
2. Customer Testimonials - https://gradright.com/testimonials.html

GradRight is an ed-fin-tech startup focused on global higher education. Using data science, technology and strategic partnerships across the industry, we are enabling students to find the “Right University” at the “Right Cost”.

We are on a mission to aid a million students to find their best-fit universities and financial offerings by 2025. Our flagship product - FundRight is the world’s first student loan bidding platform. We helped disburse more than USD 40 million in loans in 2020-21, and are growing aggressively.

Obsession with customer needs, passionate about customer experience and thrive on data - if you resonate with these, then we’d love to hear from you. As a product manager on FundRight, you’ll work with all stakeholders to understand the business needs, translate them into amazing offerings and own the success for the product.

You’ll support the building of a fast-paced environment that encourages cross-functional collaboration to design and deliver products aligned with the company’s vision and strategy.

1. Collect and analyze customer needs, collaborate with key stakeholders to ideate and deliver compelling solutions that create incremental value for customers
2. Create buy-in for product vision across all stakeholders
3. Develop positioning strategies that can drive growth and improve market share
4. Create and maintain detailed product requirements and roadmap
5. Create and track product success metrics and use them to identify problems and opportunities to pursue
6. Work with designers to build wireframes, validate and translate them into full-blown designs
7. Collaborate with engineering teams to drive feasibility analysis and refine product requirements
8. Work closely with engineering teams to deliver the roadmap while optimizing for time-to-market
9. Own the design <> engineering teams hand-off, release timelines and work with business teams to plan and execute product launches
10. Evaluate marketing and sales strategies to ensure that they are in line with product strategy
11. Standardize the product design process and evangelize the same across all stakeholders

1. At least 3 years experience as a product manager at a startup, with war stories to share
2. Proven track record of managing all aspects of product development lifecycle
3. Strong understanding of software development workflows and ability to work with top-notch engineering teams
4. Strong problem-solving skills and willingness to roll up one’s sleeves to get the job done
5. Excellent written and verbal communication skills
6. Strong presentational and public speaking skills
7. Bias for experimentation and ability to ask the right questions

1. Both B2C and B2B experience, preferably on marketplace like initiatives
2. Exposure to edTech and/or finTech domains
3. Worked on products that addressed an international audience
4. Worked on products that scaled to millions of users

Location: Hyderabad 

Additional resources:

1. Our team - https://gradright.com/team.html
2. Customer testimonials - https://gradright.com/testimonials.html
3. GradRight on social media - LinkedIn , Instagram

GradRight is an ed-fin-tech startup focused on global higher education. Using data science, technology and strategic partnerships across the industry, we enable students to find the “Right University” at the “Right Cost”. We are on a mission to aid a million students to find their best-fit universities and financial offerings by 2025.

Our flagship product - FundRight is the world’s first student loan bidding platform. In a short span of 10 months, we have facilitated disbursements of more than $ 50 million in loans this year and we are poised to scale up rapidly.

We are launching our second product - SelectRight as an innovative approach to college selection and student recruitment for students and universities, respectively. The product rests on the three pillars of data science, transparency and ethics and hopes to create value for students and universities. 

We are pursuing a complex set of problems that involve building for an international audience and for an industry that has largely been service-centric. As an SDE at GradRight, you’ll bring an unmatched customer-centricity to your work, with a focus on building for the long term and large scale.

You’ll contribute to frameworks that enable flexible/scalable customer journeys and tie them with institutional knowledge to help us build the best experiences for students and our partners.

1. Contribute to design discussions and decisions around building scalable and modular architecture
2. Build clean, modular and scalable backend services
3. Own quality and velocity of releases across all product teams
4. Manage and mentor a team of junior engineers
5. Participate in sprint ceremonies and actively contribute to scaling the engineering organisation from a process perspective
6. Stay on top of the software engineering ecosystem and propose new technologies/methodologies that can be adopted
7. Contribute to engineering hiring by conducting interviews
8. Champion infrastructure-as-code mindset and encourage automation
9. Identify problems around engineering processes, propose solutions and drive implementations for the same

1. At least 7 years of experience as an SDE, building large scale services
2. Extensive experience in at least one programming language and ability to write maintainable, scalable and unit-testable code
3. Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns
4. Excellent command over data structures and algorithms
5. Passion for solving complex problems
6. Good understanding of various database technologies with strong opinions around their use cases
7. Experience with performance monitoring and scaling backend services
8. Experience with microservices and distributed systems in general
9. Experience with team management
10. Excellent written and verbal communication skills

1. Experience working with node.js, MongoDB and Google Cloud
2. Experience in CI/CD and cloud infrastructure management
3. Worked on products that addressed an international audience
4. Worked on products that scaled to millions of users

Location: Bengaluru 

1. Our team - https://gradright.com/team.html
2. Customer testimonials - https://gradright.com/testimonials.html
3. GradRight on social media - LinkedIn , Instagram

GradRight is an ed-fin-tech startup focused on global higher education. Using data science, technology and strategic partnerships across the industry, we are enabling students to find the “Right University” at the “Right Cost”. We are on a mission to aid a million students to find their best-fit universities and financial offerings by 2025.

Our flagship product - FundRight is the world’s first student loan bidding platform. In a short span of 10 months, we have facilitated disbursements of more than $ 50 million in loans this year and we are poised to scale up rapidly.

We are launching our second product - SelectRight as an innovative approach to college selection and student recruitment for students and universities, respectively. The product rests on the three pillars of data science, transparency and ethics and hopes to create a lot of value for students and universities. 

We are pursuing a complex set of problems that involve building for an international audience and for an industry that has largely been service-centric. As an SDE at GradRight, you’ll bring an unmatched customer-centricity to your work, with a focus on building for the long term and large scale.

You’ll build beautiful front-end experiences and enable flexible customer journeys while focusing on an international audience.

1. Contribute to design discussions and decisions around building a scalable and modular front-end architecture
2. Write clean and modular code
3. Participate in sprint ceremonies and actively contribute to scaling the engineering organization from a process perspective
4. Stay on top of the software engineering ecosystem and propose new technologies/methodologies that can be adopted
5. Contribute to engineering hiring by conducting interviews
6. Manage and mentor a small team of junior engineers

1. At least 3 years experience as an SDE
2. Strong experience with at least one frontend framework, preferably vue.js
3. Able to write maintainable, scalable and unit-testable code
4. Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns
5. Excellent command over data structures and algorithms
6. Passion for solving complex problems
7. Experience with team management
8. Excellent written and verbal communication skills

1. Experience with GraphQL and micro-frontend architectures
2. Worked on products that addressed an international audience
3. Worked on products that scaled to millions of users

Location: Bengaluru 

1. Our team - https://gradright.com/team.html
2. Customer testimonials - https://gradright.com/testimonials.html
3. GradRight on social media - LinkedIn , Instagram

GradRight is an ed-fin-tech startup focused on global higher education. Using data science, technology and strategic partnerships across the industry, we are enabling students to find the “Right University” at the “Right Cost”. We are on a mission to aid a million students to find their best-fit universities and financial offerings by 2025.

Our flagship product - FundRight is the world’s first student loan bidding platform. In a short span of 10 months, we have facilitated disbursements of more than $ 50 million in loans this year and we are poised to scale up rapidly.

We are launching our second product - SelectRight as an innovative approach to college selection and student recruitment for students and universities, respectively. The product rests on the three pillars of data science, transparency and ethics and hopes to create a lot of value for students and universities. 

We are pursuing a complex set of problems that involve building for an international audience and for an industry that has largely been service-centric. As an SDE at GradRight, you’ll bring an unmatched customer-centricity to your work, with a focus on building for the long term and large scale.

You’ll contribute to frameworks that enable flexible/scalable customer journeys and tie them with institutional knowledge to help us build the best experiences for students and our partners.

1. Contribute to design discussions and decisions around building scalable and modular architecture
2. Build clean, modular and scalable backend services
3. Participate in sprint ceremonies and actively contribute to scaling the engineering organization from a process perspective
4. Stay on top of the software engineering ecosystem and propose new technologies/methodologies that can be adopted
5. Contribute to engineering hiring by conducting interviews
6. Champion infrastructure as code mindset and encourage automation
7. Manage and mentor a small team of junior engineers

1. At least 4 years of experience as an SDE, building large scale services
2. Extensive experience in at least one programming language and ability to write maintainable, scalable and unit-testable code
3. Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns
4. Excellent command over data structures and algorithms
5. Passion for solving complex problems
6. Good understanding of various database technologies with strong opinions around their use cases
7. Experience with performance monitoring and scaling backend services
8. Experience with microservices and distributed systems in general
9. Experience with team management
10. Excellent written and verbal communication skills

1. Experience working with node.js, MongoDB and Google Cloud
2. Experience in CI/CD and cloud infrastructure management
3. Worked on products that addressed an international audience
4. Worked on products that scaled to millions of users

Location: Bengaluru 

Additional resources:

1. Our team - https://gradright.com/team.html
2. Customer testimonials - https://gradright.com/testimonials.html
3. GradRight on social media - LinkedIn , Instagram

About us:

GradRight is an Ed-fintech startup focused on global higher education. We are committed to enabling global youth aspirations by helping students find the "right education" at the "right cost." We aim to assist students in discovering their best fit universities and funding plans.

Our flagship product - FundRight is the world’s first student loan bidding platform. GradRight won the HSBC Fintech Innovation Challenge supported by the Ministry of Electronics & IT, Government of India & was among the top 7 global finalists in The PIEoneer awards hosted by The PIE News, UK. Since September 2020, we have received over US$500 million in loan requests and successfully secured over US$75 million in loan approvals for more than 1600 students.

Our recently launched product - SelectRight brings together students and universities on one platform to provide an innovative approach to university selection and student recruitment. The product rests on the three pillars of data-science, transparency, and ethics to match students to their best fit universities and programs. 

GradRight's core team possesses extensive domestic and international experience in the launch and scale-up of premier higher education institutions. We are firm believers in the transformative power of education. The team culture balances hard work with play and thrives on team members fuelling each other’s learning and growth.

GradRight was founded in 2019 by Sasidhar Sista, an alumnus of BITS Pilani, and University of Pennsylvania; and Aman Singh, an alumnus of  the Indian School of Business and Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. 

Responsibilities:

1. Design and oversee all aspects of our digital marketing department including our marketing database, email, and display advertising campaigns.
2. Develop and monitor campaign budgets.
3. Prepare accurate reports on our marketing campaign’s overall performance.
4. Identify the latest trends and technologies affecting our industry.
5. Work with your team to brainstorm new and innovative growth strategies.
6. Ensure effective management and allocation of work between the digital marketing associates, copywriter, freelancers and brands team. 

Requirements:

1. 3+ years experience in a digital marketing or advertising position.
2. In-depth knowledge of various social media platforms, best practices, and website analytics.
3. Sound understanding of Marketing tools like WordPress, Unbounce, Zapier, etc. and a decent handle on HTML, CSS, and JavaScript is required.
4. Highly creative with excellent analytical abilities.
5. Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills.
6. Up-to-date on the latest trends and technologies in digital marketing