Academic counselor

•  Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
•  Ability to work independently, learn quickly and be proactive
•  10-14 years of hands-on experience working on Web Full Stack technologies, with at least 4-6 years of experience developing applications with/on React/NextJS, NoSQL, REST APIs
•  Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeDcript (ES6), NodeJS, HTML5, CSS3, CSS Preprocessors, Webpack, Gulp
•  Client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks – jQUery, ReactJS, Redux, Babel, JSX
•  Experience in designing high-performance REST APIs and associated data structures
•  Familiarity with developing microservices using containerization technologies such as docker, Kubernetes, etc.
•  Working knowledge of git and using branches for development

Product Manager 

About us: 

At Porter, we are passionate about improving productivity. We want to help businesses, large and small, optimize their last-mile operations and empower them to unleash the growth of their core functions. Last mile delivery logistics is one of the biggest and fastest growing sectors of the economy with a market cap upwards of 50 billion USD and a growth rate exceeding 15% CAGR.

Porter is the fastest growing leader in this sector with operations in major cities, a fleet size exceeding 1L registered and 50k active driver partners and a customer base with 3.5M being monthly active. Our industry-best technology platform has raised over 150 million USD from investors including Sequoia Capital, Kae Capital, Mahindra group, LGT Aspada, Tiger Global and Vitruvian Partners.

We are addressing a massive problem and going after a huge market. We’re trying to create a household name in transportation and our ambition is to disrupt all facets of supply chain. At Porter, we’re here to do the best work of our lives.

If you want to do the same and love the challenges and opportunities of a fast paced work environment, then we believe Porter is the right place for you.

Company URL: https://porter.in/

Who are we looking for? 

We are looking for team players with natural product intuition who can help us build world-class solutions  for the logistics space in India. You will be developing various parts of the application that will directly affect  the user experience. We are working on some ground-breaking assignment and fleet optimization solutions,  dynamic pricing algorithms, active-geofencing and heat-map analysis. You’ll get an opportunity to work with  some of the best minds in the country to make a major dent in the 150-billion-dollar surface transport  industry.

Roles & Responsibilities:  

• We’re seeking a talented product leader to define and execute against a giant vision that we have for the  logistics sector 

• Deeply understand Porter’s mission and strategies. 

• Lead market, user research; drive innovation, definition, roadmap planning, deliverable tracking and design  of new Porter products and product features to deliver against team and company goals. 

• Requires challenging all members of cross-functional team (engineering, business, design, etc.) to think  boldly and creatively and then to funnel that energy into concrete products and execution plans. 

• Be data driven: The product design and direction should be based on data (customer behaviour analytics, business metrics etc.). Solicit and embrace critical feedback. 

• Monitor and measure launched products and feed leanings back into product development process. • Clearly communicate product plans, benefits and results, as appropriate, to all the stakeholders. 

Skills Required: 

● Software engineering experience and a very sound technical understanding. 

● Have an experience in delivering consumer Internet products from the ideation board to the customer ● Stellar design instincts and product taste 

● Ability to leverage data to make decisions without getting stuck in analysis paralysis and a never ending  desire to grow and learn. 

● Minimum 3 to 5 years’ experience in Product management

Requirements

Responsibilities

Hiring Process

• Responsible for gathering, crunching, collecting raw data.
• Own all data needs in the growth team and across key cross-functional initiatives from data extraction, dashboard creation, and data analysis.
• Provide insights and recommended actions as response to current situation, trend, as well as preventive one for better preparation.
• Collaborate with data engineering and cross-functional stakeholders to define data requirements, create dashboard, to drive business decisions and optimize business outcomes
• Manage any regular reporting and tracking.
• Deliver analysis, insights, reporting, data marts, and tools to support the business team.
• Build & maintain data mart and dashboards for tracking business OKR and initiatives.
• Ingest both internal and external data to support business needs.

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Operation Research or other related disciplines.
• Having 2 - 5 years experience will be an advantage, but fresh graduates are welcomed to apply as well.
• Expert in Spreadsheet, SQL and strong experience with Data Visualization and Reporting tools (e.g. Tableau, Google Data Studio)
• Comfortable working independently and collaboratively with minimal guidance.

The job requires the candidate to work on Wordpress multisite and PHP -

• Design and implement applications/sites in WordPress
• Lead and Mentor technical team for all maintenance and new site tasks
• To pro-actively address all technical issues and coordinate with India and UK teams
• Participate in agile development process to ensure project deliverables are met, on time and of high quality
• Managing and delivery of projects from conceptualization, visualization to technology mapping and final execution of projects
• Monitoring development activities and reporting project progress
• Understand specification document and perform coding as per the requirements and standards
• Good knowledge on SQL Queries. Should be able to create and execute moderate to complex queries.   

Skills:

• Expert in PHP, WordPress & other open source tools
• Strong knowledge in JavaScript, Ajax, jQuery, XML, XHTML, HTML5, CSS & knowledge of working with third party web services
• Knowledge on Ecommerce (Payment Gateways, Shopping Carts, SEO Friendliness Coding, etc.)
• SQL and MySQL
• Desired Candidate Profile:
• Master’s degree (B Tech)/MCA
• Min 9-11 years of experience in PHP
• Strong programming skills
• Good aptitude and problem-solving skills