Account Executive

Role Overview:

As the Executive Assistant to the CEO, you will play a pivotal role in enabling the CEO to focus on

strategic priorities. You will act as a trusted partner, managing schedules, coordinating high-stakes

communication, and ensuring smooth operations across various teams. This role requires exceptional

organizational skills, discretion, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.

Key Responsibilities:

Administrative Support

• Manage the CEO’s calendar, appointments, and meetings, ensuring effective time management.
• Handle travel arrangements, itineraries, and accommodations for the CEO.
• Prepare and edit correspondence, presentations, reports, and other documentation as required.
• Take minutes during key meetings and ensure follow-up on action items.

Strategic Coordination

• Collaborate with various teams to gather information and provide the CEO with concise updates on key projects.
• Support the CEO in tracking and prioritizing strategic initiatives.

Communication

• Act as the first point of contact for the CEO, managing incoming emails, calls, and requests.
• Liaise with internal and external stakeholders, including investors, partners, and clients, on behalf of the CEO.
• Ensure that communication between the CEO and the team is seamless and efficient.

Event and Meeting Coordination

• Plan and coordinate executive-level meetings, conferences, and events.
• Assist in organizing CEO participation in industry forums, startup pitch events, and media appearances.
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Confidentiality and Discretion

• Handle sensitive information with the utmost confidentiality and professionalism.
• Serve as a gatekeeper, ensuring the CEO’s focus remains on high-priority initiatives.
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Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Management, or a related field.
• 1+ years of experience as an Executive Assistant, preferably in a startup or fast-paced

environment.

• Excellent organizational and multitasking skills, with attention to detail.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficiency in tools like Google Workspace, MS Office, and project management platforms.
• Ability to work independently and make sound decisions under pressure.
• High level of discretion and professionalism in handling confidential matters.

Background :

Praan (Praan, Inc.) is an impact-focused deep-tech startup democratising clean air using breakthrough filterless technology. The company is backed by top-tier VCs and CXOs globally and currently operates between the United States and India. Our team puts extreme attention to detail and loves building technology that's aspirational. Praan's team and culture is positioned to empower people to solve large global problems at an accelerated pace.

Why :

Everyone worries about the doomsday in climate change which is expected to occur in the 2050s. However, there's one doom's day which is the reality for millions of people around the world today. Air pollution takes more than 7 Million lives globally every single year. Over 5% of premature child deaths occur due to air pollution in developing countries. Everyone has relied on governments or experts to solve the problem, but most solutions up until today have either been too expensive or too ineffective. Praan is an attempt to make the future cleaner, healthier, and safer for the generations to come.

Job Description :

• Create B2B target lists and prospect lists for Praan's MKII or HIVE product lines
• Conduct outbound prospecting activities, including cold calling, emailing, and networking, to generate new leads and opportunities.
• Research and identify key decision-makers within target industries and companies to pitch our products and solutions.
• Engage with prospects to understand their business needs, challenges, and pain points, and effectively communicate how our offerings can address their requirements.
• Develop and maintain a deep understanding of our products, services, and competitive positioning to effectively articulate our value proposition.
• Qualify leads based on predefined criteria to ensure alignment with our target market and ideal customer profile.
• Effectively communicate the features, benefits, and value of our products and solutions to prospects.
• Build and nurture relationships with prospects through consistent follow-up and engagement strategies.
• Coordinate and schedule meetings between qualified leads and our CEO or other key stakeholders.
• Provide regular updates and reports on lead generation activities, pipeline status, and conversion metrics.

Skill Requirements :

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Marketing, or related field.
• Proven track record of success in a sales or lead generation role in a B2B environment.
• Strong sales acumen with excellent communication and negotiation skills.
• Ability to build rapport quickly with diverse stakeholders, including C-level executives and decision-makers.
• Demonstrated experience conducting outbound prospecting activities, including cold calling, emailing, and networking.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.
• Results-oriented mindset with a focus on achieving and exceeding sales targets and goals.

Praan is an equal-opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on race, religion, caste, gender, disability or any other criteria. We just care about working with great human beings!

Job Responsibilities:

• Creating website layout/user interface by using standard HTML/CSS practices.

• Developing websites that are responsive, cross-browser compatible.

• Designing and managing the website back-end including database and server integration.

• Generating WordPress themes and plugins.

• Conducting website performance tests.

• Troubleshooting content issues.

• Conducting WordPress training with the client.

• Estimating development timings for individual tasks and new site builds.

• Co-ordinating with web designers to match visual design intent.

• Knowledge of code versioning tools like GIT.

• Working with debugging tools.

• Monitoring, reviewing and revising the performance of the live website.

Required Skills:

• Ability to build websites from scratch using WordPress.

• Proven experience in woo-commerce & supported plugins.

• Knowledge in creating website layout/user interface by using HTML, CSS, jQuery, JavaScript, PHP & MySQL.

• Good understanding of theme customization.

• Competent in creating and maintaining software documentation

• Good understanding of SEO principles and content management systems.

• Must have knowledge of database management, hosting website, email server configuration on both shared and VPS servers.

• Must be available for full time in office job in Thane.
• Must have relevant skills.

We are hiring a Recruitment Executive who can take care of hiring and team building.

Job Roles and Responsibilities:

• Coordinate with managers to identify staffing needs.
• Determine selection criteria.
• Source potential candidates through online channels (e.g. Job portals , Social media platforms, Professional networks).
• Plan interview and selection procedures, including screening calls, assessments and in-person interviews.
• Assess candidate information, including resumes and contact details, using our Applicant Tracking System.
• Design job descriptions and interview questions that reflect each position's requirements.
• Lead employer branding initiatives and manage a team of Recruitment executives.
• Forecast monthly, quarterly and annual hiring needs by department.
• Foster long-term relationships with past applicants and potential candidates.

Requirements:

• Must have experience in Non IT and leadership roles hiring, preferably for startups.
• Proven work experience (minimum 3+ years) as a Recruitment Specialist or similar role.
• Experience in volume/bulk hiring for Sales roles.
• Familiarity with social media, resume databases and professional networks.
• Hands-on experience with full-cycle recruiting using various interview techniques and evaluation methods.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• A keen understanding of the differences between various roles within organisations.
• B-Tech or MBA in Human Resources Management.

Senior Product Owner (Digital Transformation)

Executive Summary
Are you looking to level up? The Senior Product Owner (Digital Transformation) role at FirstPrinciples and the partner that you will be staffed with is a multi-million dollar digital transformation initiatives on web and mobile with one of the largest large Luxury Home Builders in the United States.

About FirstPrinciples & The Role

FirstPrinciples is a Tech Holding company with a Venture Studio as part of its holdings. One part of the Venture Studio business at FirstPrinciples is about working with large enterprises on long-term digital transformation initiatives within their organization. The position that we are currently hiring for involves a multi-million dollar digital transformation initiatives for one of the largest Luxury Home Builders in the United States. Our scope involves working as expert consultants to advice and execute on upgrading the IT & Tech different internal and stakeholder facing systems within their organization. We are working on both web and mobile platforms. 

Who is This For

This is for an experienced Product Owner/Manager who is looking to take their career to the next stage by working on a large scale initiative that will challenge and extend their current capacities.

At FirstPrinciples, we truly act as a Tech Strategic Consultant along with having the operational capacity to implement the suggested recommendations. This role is for someone who is able to provide recommendations to the client while having the ownership of the end deliverables. While we have technical leaders also staffed within this partnership, we are looking for someone who can talk the talk with senior engineers and tech architects and understand their recommendations and its implications. 

Requirements

• One of the following certifications (PRINCE2, CSP, CAPM, CBAP (BABOK), Agile, CSP, CSPO, PMPO)
• Experience in independently managing, End-to-End Business Analysis, Product Analysis, Project Management for complex IT Projects and Products / Apps
• Working with Client to understand provide Consulting or Business Solutions, Problem Solving Approach and Skills, Strong Analytical Skills, should be able to read between the lines
• Managing scope via release management and planning and creating User-Stories, Running Sprints Cycle and Experience working with a team of 15-20 resources
• Requirements Gathering, Requirements Analysis, Requirements Management, Requirements Elicitation, Requirements Matrix (RTMs)
• Experience in Developing Low-Level and High-Level Prototyping using Wireframes tools (using any of the latest wireframing tools, such as JustInMind, Adobe XD, MockFlow, etc)
• Ownership of the Product Backlog & Deliverables and developing the User Stories & Release Planning
• Experience in Writing and Maintaining Business Requirement Documents (BRD) or PRDs and Functional Specification Document (FSD), Software Requirements Specification (SRS)
• Should have experience in creating Project Budgeting, Creating Efforts Estimations (EE), Presentation Decks, and Clean Documentation 
• Experience in Writing Test Cases and Managing UAT and Deployment 
• Analysis: GAP, Fish-bone Analysis, RCA (Root Cause Analysis), MoSCOW
• Experience in Consulting clients on Problem Statements V/s Solution Building based on AS-IS and TO-BE
• Experience converting Business Cases to Technology case and Building Products from scratch thus Translating Business Requirements into Software Requirement Specifications
• Interacting with the Technical team to ensure Delivery and Implementation of the Software Solution/Projects
• Client Relationship Management, Excellent at English Speaking, and Written Communication
• Understanding of Change Management, Risk Management and Project Management

Management Skills

1. Excellent Written and Oral Communication Skills and Etiquettes
2. Excellent Presentation Skills 
3. Experience in working with Onshore and Offshore Teams and Experience handling Cross-Functional Projects, Resources and Clients
4. Experience dealing with Pressure and Meeting strict Project Deadlines
5. Leadership and Motivational Skills to ensure the Work is being done by the Resources on time and within the specified budget
6. Conflict and Resolution Management
7. Prior experience in operations management - good to have 
8. Experience working with US Clients

TechStack & Platform

1. MEAN Stack (Web)
2. Native iOS & Android (Mobile)
3. AWS