Vahak Career

Who Are We?

 

Vahak (https://www.vahak.in) is India’s largest & most trusted online transport marketplace & directory for road transport businesses and individual commercial vehicle (Trucks, Trailers, Containers, Hyva, LCVs) owners for online truck and load booking, transport business branding and transport business network expansion. Lorry owners can find intercity and intracity loads from all over India and connect with other businesses to find trusted transporters and best deals in the Indian Logistics services market.

 

With the Vahak app, users can book loads and lorries from a live transport marketplace with over 5,00,000+ Transporters and Lorry owners in over 10,000+ locations for daily transport requirements.

 

Vahak has raised a capital of $5 Million in a “Pre Series A” round RTP Global with participation from Luxor Capital and Leo Capital. The other marquee angel investors included Kunal Shah, Founder and CEO, CRED; Jitendra Gupta, Founder and CEO, Jupiter; Vidit Aatrey and Sanjeev Barnwal, Co-founders, Meesho; Mohd Farid, Co-founder, Sharechat; Amrish Rau, CEO, Pine Labs; Harsimarbir Singh, Co-founder, Pristyn Care; Rohit and Kunal Bahl, Cofounders, Snapdeal; and Ravish Naresh, Co-founder and CEO, Khatabook

 

 

We are looking for a Principal DevOps Engineer who would will be working on handling our infrastructure and work with team to ensure zero downtime. Candidate will be reporting directly to CTO / VP Engineering.

 

 

• Works independently without any supervision
• Work on continuous improvement of the products through innovation and Someone with a knack for benchmarking and optimization
• Experience in deploying for highly complex, distributed transaction processing
• Stay abreast with new innovations and the latest technology trends and explore ways of leveraging these for improving the product in alignment with the
• As a component owner, where the component impacts across multiple platforms (5-10- member team), work with customers to obtain their requirements, and deliver the end to end

 

 

• 7+ years of experience as a Devops Should have managed a DevOps Team.
• Experience with Golang cycle is a plus
• At least one End to End CI/CD Implementation experience
• Excellent Problem Solving and Debugging skills in DevOps area
• Good understanding of Containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)
• Hands-on Build/Package tool experience
• Experience with AWS services Glue, Athena, Lambda, EC2, RDS, EKS/ECS, ALB, VPC, SSM, Route 53
• Experience with setting up CI/CD pipeline for Glue jobs, Athena, Lambda functions
• Experience architecting interaction with services and application deployments on AWS
• Experience with Groovy and writing Jenkinsfile
• Experience with repository management, code scanning/linting, secure scanning tools
• Experience with deployments and application configuration on Kubernetes
• Experience with microservice orchestration tools (e.g. Kubernetes, Openshift, HashiCorp Nomad)
• Experience with time-series and document databases (e.g. Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Prometheus)
• Experience with message buses (e.g. Apache Kafka, NATS)
• Experience with key-value stores and service discovery mechanisms (e.g. Redis, HashiCorp Consul, etcd)

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Who Are We?

Vahak (https://www.vahak.in) is India’s largest & most trusted online transport marketplace & directory for road transport businesses and individual commercial vehicle (Trucks, Trailers, Containers, Hyva, LCVs) owners for online truck and load booking, transport business branding and transport business network expansion. Lorry owners can find intercity and intracity loads from all over India and connect with other businesses to find trusted transporters and best deals in the Indian logistics services market. With the Vahak app, users can book loads and lorries from a live transport marketplace with over 5 Lakh + Transporters and Lorry owners in over 10,000+ locations for daily transport requirements. 

Vahak has raised a capital of $5 Million in a “Pre Series A” round from RTP Global along with participation from Luxor Capital and Leo Capital. The other marquee angel investors include Kunal Shah, Founder and CEO, CRED; Jitendra Gupta, Founder and CEO, Jupiter; Vidit Aatrey and Sanjeev Barnwal, Co-founders, Meesho; Mohd Farid, Co-founder, Sharechat; Amrish Rau, CEO, Pine Labs; Harsimarbir Singh, Co-founder, Pristyn Care; Rohit and Kunal Bahl, Co-founders, Snapdeal; and Ravish Naresh, Co-founder and CEO, Khatabook.

About the Role :

As part of the team, you'll be building and leading the overall inside sales function at Vahak. You will drive penetration across multiple focus areas (logistics, financial services, customer retention, etc). This role requires a sales leader who believes that when you have a great product, a process driven rigorous sales process, and a motivated, skilled and customer focused team, magic happens.

What you’ll do:

• Be the Leader for the Inside Sales function for the organisation, and will need to build the sales playbook and entire team 
• Mandated to recruit, train, and drive a high performance inside sales team
• To build the processes and systems to enhance lead generation, lead management, sales planning, pricing, and incentivization
• To track the effectiveness of ongoing campaigns through regular reporting that includes details of sales revenue, Conversions, and processes.
• Identifying new opportunities in industry verticals and driving expansion into them
• Running Weekly, monthly, quarterly forecast meetings, business reviews, monitoring of the sales activity of the team, and tracking of results
• To maintain customer relationships and satisfaction at par with the industry standard

What you’ll need:

• Bachelor’s Degree with 3-6 years of experience in B2C/B2B/Direct/Inside sales
• Experience in financial services (loans, insurance, payments) preferred, but not mandatory. Experience in logistics startups, E-com, etc also relevant
• Outstanding sales success records in the past
• Prior experience in leading and training a customer focused sales team (minimum size of 30 agents)
• Self-starter who will take ownership of deliverables with minimal direction
• Ability to leverage established relationships and proven sales techniques for success
• Effective communicator, strong interpersonal skills
• Should be fluent in both English and Hindi

About Vahak

Founded in 2019, Vahak is India's largest online transport marketplace with more than 10L+ transporters and lorry owners on it’s platform. It’s a B2B marketplace for agents & brokers, transporters and individual lorry owners to carry out seamless load and lorry bookings. We’re going after a ~$100+ billion annual market size, and we’re just getting started.

JD for Associate/Assistant Manager Role

 

As part of the team, you will be the finance partner to the Vahak leadership team. You are expected to drive and influence strategic decision making on financial planning, P&L tracking and periodic governance.

What you’ll do :

• Develop a deep understanding of the business, cost drivers and other functions of the organisation to drive efficient growth
• Performing data driven trend analysis for operational metrics with focus on improving the shape of the P&L while highlighting key insights to leadership
• Owning analysis and tracking of all financial metrics - including revenue, cost of sales, expenses, capital expenditures, cash flow analysis, etc
• Drive Budget and forecasting planning cycles - annual, half yearly, quarterly
• Governance - Management reporting of key metrics that aid business decision making and support key strategic initiatives on a weekly and monthly basis. Setting up leadership dashboards and financial models for tracking the same
• Own and drive reviews with functional heads on monthly performance updates
• Single PoC for investor relations including providing MIS, reports and analysis
• Assist in Financial modelling for critical new opportunities - geography expansions, new business lines, investment decisions, etc
• Lead 1-2 relevant business & strategy projects

What you’ll need:

• 3- years of prior experience in FP&A, Business Finance or corporate development
• CA / MBA from tier-1 colleges
• Strong Excel Skills, good business acumen and communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills, ability to work with and influence cross functional teams
• Strong Financial modelling and Power-point skills
• Self-starter who will take ownership of deliverables with minimal direction
• Knowledge of SQL would be a plus

About Vahak:

Founded in 2019, Vahak is India's largest online transport marketplace with more than 10L+ transporters and lorry owners on its platform. It’s a B2B marketplace for agents & brokers, transporters and individual lorry owners to carry out seamless load and lorry bookings.

JD for Senior Digital Marketing Manager: 

We're looking for someone who thrives in the very early stages of a company and is self motivated, multi-tasker, and a demonstrated team-player. Also, get the best learning experience  working directly with the founding team. Candidates will be directly reporting to the Growth & Marketing Head. 

Roles and Responsibilities: 

• Plan monthly/quarterly performance marketing strategy to drive growth.
• Driving activations and repeat transactions from users. 
• Using Engagement & Analytics platforms for journey building & segmentation of users  for targeted campaigns. 
• Re-engaging with users to increase their time spent on the site or app. 
• Evaluate and optimize the end-to-end Sales Funnel.
• Plan digital channel mix visitor traffic, conversion rates, ROAS etc.
• Proactively recommend creative ideas & drive the optimum strategy for new user acquisition.
• Optimize allocation of budget & drive continuous improvements in key metrics.
• Execute and manage all paid media campaigns directly and in alignment with internal and external stakeholders.
• Regularly measure, review & report all campaigns.
• Regularly follow market trends & implement the latest marketing tools & strategies.
• Capturing & reporting of key metrics through Google, Clevertap & branch analytics, high degree of familiarity with the tools.
• Insights from the analytics to be implemented into successive performance campaigns & larger website/app strategy.
• Reviews & reporting with other teams & internal stakeholders.

Requirements: 

• 4-6+ years of experience in Digital Marketing (Startup/Tech Logistics/Transport industry experience would  be an added advantage.) 
• Strong understanding of the User Funnel for acquisition & retention. 
• Prior experience using Engagement, MMP & Analytics tools is a must (such as Branch, Appsflyer,  Mixpanel, Clevertap, Moengage, Netcore, Exotel, Webengage etc) 
• Strong understanding of Remarketing campaigns. 
• A strong grasp of web analytics, A/B testing, and metrics-driven marketing. ∙ Attention to detail and the ability to effectively multi-task in a deadline driven  atmosphere. 
• Highly proficient in Excel, Database query. 

About Vahak:

Founded in 2019, Vahak is India's largest online transport marketplace with more than 10L+ transporters and lorry owners on its platform. It’s a B2B marketplace for agents & brokers, transporters and individual lorry owners to carry out seamless load and lorry bookings.

JD for Head of Content:

We're looking for someone who thrives in the very early stages of a company and is self motivated, multi-tasker, and a demonstrated team-player. Also, get the best learning experience  working directly with the founding team. Candidates will be directly reporting to the Growth & Marketing Head. 

 

She/he will ensure engaging content across all channels: be it online or offline, app, social media or website, ad copies or blog posts. This is a leadership role and will require mentoring the team to consistently deliver breakthrough content ideas that in turn would drive substantial engagement and user-generated content.

 

Roles & Responsibilities:

 

• Making content marketing a scalable and effective acquisition channel for Vahak.
• Ensuring content becomes an effective means to acquire, engage and retain users, and generate significant word-of-mouth and shareability on social media a target-oriented approach is a must (user engagement, retention, organic growth).
• Strengthen the Vahak brand by creating category shaping content.
• Develop a differentiated content strategy with a strong emphasis on visual content. Continuous evolution of strategy based on user feedback and competitor's reactions is a must.
• Building a content strategy - across channels (blog, social media, website, PR, SERP) and formats (video, text, ebooks, memes and more).
• Defining strategic goals (Metrics, Targets, OKRs) and monthly/quarterly planning.
• Process excellence - Build, monitor and improve processes.
• Stakeholder Management / Consensus Building - direct marketing/ product/ HR efforts to achieve set goals.
• Owns the content calendar and ensures this is delivered through a combination of sources - in-house team, influencers, brands, and users, within agreed budgets.
• Strategize and create content for Social Media channels and work towards building an active transport community online.
• Create marketing content for Google/Facebook Ads, mailers, SMSs, newsletter etc.
• Develop and monitor analytics to track what content is working, analyze gaps, and incorporate learning into the content calendar.
• Develop and implement creative ideas for marketing/PR campaigns (requires close coordination with the marketing team).
• Conduct keyword research and use SEO best practices to increase organic reach.
• Seek out backlink and joint blogging and content opportunities with third-party platforms. Regularly update and own the company's website.

 

Requirements:

 

• 8+years of overall experience of building content strategies (added advantage - Startup/Marketplace/Transport industry experience). Someone who has seen/ led the journey of building a content marketing powerhouse.
• Entrepreneurial mindset: Works proactively, takes calculated risks, independent thinking, and decision making.
• Excellent first principle problem-solving skills.
• Someone who can balance strategy with execution.
• Someone who has built and improved complicated processes to achieve common goals involving multiple stakeholders.
• Has led a team of at least 20 people.
• Hand- on experience with SEO and video content production will be a big plus.
• There will be minimal management and extreme autonomy.
• Should be Data oriented (highly proficient in Excel, Database query etc.) 

 

About Vahak:

Founded in 2019, Vahak is India's largest online transport marketplace with more than 10L+ transporters and lorry owners on its platform. It’s a B2B marketplace for agents & brokers, transporters and individual lorry owners to carry out seamless load and lorry bookings.

JD for PR Lead:

We're looking for someone who thrives in the very early stages of a company and is self motivated, multi-tasker, and a demonstrated team-player. Also, get the best learning experience  working directly with the founding team. Candidates will be directly reporting to the Growth & Marketing Head. 

 

Roles & Responsibilities:

 

• Manage strong media relations with Online media, Print, Radio, Consumer PR, Show Publicity, Corporate Communication, and Tech Community.
• Create and build a PR & Publicity strategy that helps to increase our brand equity as the most preferred online transport marketplace destination in India and to support marketing campaigns across multiple language & content genres.
• Managing the relationship, deliverables and performance of the PR agency partner and any other PR and publicity stakeholders.
• Analyzing media coverage and making data-backed recommendations on improving SOV and regularly exceeding the share of voice metrics.
• Commissioning or undertaking relevant market research/syndicated research, staying updated on new promotional opportunities, and using talent + innovation to the optimum.
• Organizing and managing promotional events such as media junkets, authority leader interviews, press conferences, interaction days, screenings,etc.
• Dealing with enquiries from the public (and CRM), the press, and related organizations.
• Cultivate and maintain meaningful relationships with media houses and influential professionals.
• Establishing the org brand and its members as thought leaders to a broader audience through multiple integrated public relations programs, events, etc.
• Manage strategic proactive media outreach by identifying Companies brand awareness opportunities; takes initiative to act upon these opportunities to achieve results.

 

Requirements:

 

• MBA in Marketing/Communications/Public Relations/Journalism or a related field, with 10+ years of experience in PR/Corporate Communication.
• Strong relationships with media houses are a must.
• Excellent communication (verbal & written) skills, high attention to detail.
• Ability to use data to build strong PR narratives, and capture marketing opportunities
• Should be adept at crisis management.
• Strong knowledge of digital media and current local/global trends in media consumption.

About Vahak

Founded in 2019, Vahak is India's largest online transport marketplace with more than 10L+ transporters and lorry owners on its platform. It’s a B2B marketplace for agents & brokers, transporters and individual lorry owners to carry out seamless load and lorry bookings.

 

JD for Head of Digital Marketing:

We're looking for someone who thrives in the very early stages of a company and is self motivated, multi-tasker, and a demonstrated team-player. Also, get the best learning experience  working directly with the founding team. Candidates will be directly reporting to the Growth & Marketing Head. This is a leadership role and will require mentoring the team to consistently deliver breakthrough marketing ideas that in turn would drive substantial growth.

 

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Plan monthly/quarterly performance marketing strategies and roadmaps to drive growth.
• Driving activations and repeat transactions from users.
• Identifying, developing & optimizing growth/marketing channels specific to Vahak.
• Using Engagement & Analytics platforms for journey building & segmentation of users for targeted campaigns.
• Re-engaging with users to increase their time spent on the site or app.
• Evaluate and optimize the end-to-end Sales Funnel.
• Analyzing marketing data and user feedback (campaign results, conversion rates, traffic, etc.) to help shape future marketing strategies.
• Proactively recommend creative ideas & drive the optimum strategy for new user acquisition.
• Optimize allocation of budget & drive continuous improvements in key metrics.
• Execute and manage all paid media campaigns directly and in alignment with internal and external stakeholders.
• Regularly follow market trends & implement the latest marketing tools & strategies.
• Capturing & reporting of key metrics through Google, Clevertap & branch analytics, high degree of familiarity with the tools.
• Insights from the analytics to be implemented into successive performance campaigns & larger website/app strategy.
• Reviews & reporting with other teams & internal stakeholders.

 

Requirements:

• 8+years of overall experience and 6+years in Digital Marketing (Startup/Tech Logistics/Transport industry experience would be an added advantage.)
• Strong understanding of the User Funnel for acquisition & retention.
• Great communication skills (verbal and written), analytical skills, and presentation skills.
• Prior experience using Engagement, MMP & Analytics tools is a must (such as Branch, Appsflyer, Mixpanel, Clevertap, Moengage, Netcore, Exotel, Webengage etc)
• Strong understanding of Remarketing campaigns.
• A strong grasp of web analytics, A/B testing, and metrics-driven marketing. ∙ Attention to detail and the ability to effectively multi-task in a deadline driven
• Highly proficient in Excel, Database query.

 

As a Customer Retention & Market Automation Manager, you will play a key role in driving & growing our mobile app & website’s engagement and retention metrics. You will be collaborating with Product Managers, Designers, Growth Marketers, Engineers & Customer Success Managers. You will run various messaging experiments on multiple channels like notifications, SMS, Email, Whatsapp.

Our ideal candidate will have strong analytical and problem solving skills, led or managed teams, and have understanding of engagement tools like Moengage, Clevertap or Webengage. We love people who are humble and collaborative with hunger for excellence.

• Create omni-channel (push notifications, Whatsapp, In-app prompts, SMS, Email etc) marketing campaigns & journeys based on different user segments to drive user acquisition, activation, engagement & retention.
• Define AARRR KPIs and Optimize them with CleverTap multi-channel journeys by continuously performing A/B tests. Drive increased engagement & retention.
• Be responsible for and own execution, monitoring and measurement of marketing campaigns and their success. Collaborate with designers & Content creators to get graphic/text content.
• Compile regular reports of campaign performance and results, collaborate with analyst to monitor and review past campaigns and journeys.
• Improve new campaigns using data and feedback from existing and previous projects.
• Create detailed and diverse user-segments to identify high, medium & low activity cohorts. Create communication & content strategies to increase the size of high-activity cohorts.
• Analyze website & mobile traffic, create user journeys & campaigns to enable cross-channel product experience and marketing.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or any other related field.
• 2+ years of experience in creating mobile/web application journeys & campaigns on tools like moengage, clevertap etc.
• In-depth knowledge & hands on experience of digital analytics software like Zoho Page Sense, Google Analytics, CleverTap, Branch, Firebase, Facebook Analytics.
• Excellent copy writing skills to produce high quality copies for marketing campaigns and journeys.

Soft Skills:

• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple milestones and projects efficiently.
• Team spirit, good time-management skills, strong communication skills to collaborate with various stakeholders.
• Detail oriented, advanced problem solving skills with customer-centric approach.

Vahak (https://www.vahak.in) is India’s largest & most trusted online transport marketplace & directory for road transport businesses and individual commercial vehicle (Trucks, Trailers, Containers, Hyva, LCVs) owners for online truck and load booking, transport business branding and transport business network expansion. Lorry owners can find intercity and intracity loads from all over India and connect with other businesses to find trusted transporters and best deals in the Indian logistics services market. With the Vahak app, users can book loads and lorries from a live transport marketplace with over 5 Lakh + Transporters and Lorry owners in over 10,000+ locations for daily transport requirements.

Vahak has raised a capital of $5 Million in a “Pre Series A” round from RTP Global along with participation from Luxor Capital and Leo Capital. The other marquee angel investors include Kunal Shah, Founder and CEO, CRED; Jitendra Gupta, Founder and CEO, Jupiter; Vidit Aatrey and Sanjeev Barnwal, Co-founders, Meesho; Mohd Farid, Co-founder, Sharechat; Amrish Rau, CEO, Pine Labs; Harsimarbir Singh, Co-founder, Pristyn Care; Rohit and Kunal Bahl, Co-founders, Snapdeal; and Ravish Naresh, Co-founder and CEO, Khatabook.


About Role:

We are looking for an enthusiastic Product Manager to join our hyper-growing team and company. As a PM you will play a vital role in defining the product vision, roadmaps and execution strategy for our mobile & web applications.

Our ideal candidate will have strong problem-solving skills, customer-centric approach, product management knowledge, strong communication skills, and understanding of marketplace products & their challenges, backend systems, AWS, mobile and web applications. We love people who thrive to excel everywhere they go and keep themselves
humble as they collaborate with multiple teams.

Responsibilities:

Product Management:

• Collaborate with Product Managers, CPO & Engineering Managers to plan Product Roadmaps aligned with company’s product vision.
• Collaborate with Product Designers, Content Writers, Tech leads, Engineering Managers to execute the roadmap using Agile methodologies for product development.
• Break down the roadmaps into epics & user-stories for smooth execution. Facilitate the creation and maintenance of proper product documentation.
• Work with development leads so that product requirements & estimates are well-understood.
• Conduct meetings with customer support, marketing & business teams to execute experiments & quality features.

Ownership:

• Take ownership of assigned product squads, track & define KPIs to track our progress & success.
• Optimize assigned funnels or KPIs for modules like onboarding, activation, retentions, conversion & referral.
• Help the product, data & tech teams build delightful marketplace & community experiences.
• Research about user pain points, requirements, customer support & marketing feedbacks to always be updated with upcoming challenges & problems.
• Be updated with latest & historic online b2b marketplaces specially in freight & trucking.

Data driven problem-solving:

• Understand and analyse user-journeys on the platform, build dashboards to track Conversion Rates & CTRs. Run A/B tests and experiments to improve the key metrics
• Collaborate with data team and analysts to analyse performance indicators, evaluate experiments, evaluate projects/feature goals & success etc.
• Setup dashboards & systems to track crashes, errors, exceptions and bugs on production. Formulate processes and workflows to reduce the same.

Qualification & Requirements:

Experience:

• Prior experience of working in/with product companies. Experience in Marketplace & E-commerce industry, b2b, b2c marketplaces is a bonus.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or other relevant fields.
• 4+ years of experience in product management.

Technical Skills:

• Working knowledge on public clouds such as AWS, GCP, Azure.
• Past experience with hands-on engineering, product or QA is a strong bonus.
• Working knowledge with monitoring tools like New Relic, Sentry, Cloudwatch
• Very good knowledge on SQL/NoSQL.
• Should be familiar with Application App Release cycle
• Robust and evolving knowledge of current web & mobile app technologies

Soft Skills:

• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple milestones and projects efficiently.
• Team spirit, good time-management skills, strong communication skills to collaborate with various stakeholders.
• Detail oriented, advanced problem solving skills with customer-centric approach