Analyst - Business Analytics

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 dooms-day 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 children death 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 at making the future cleaner, healthier, and safer for the generations to come. 

Job Description

• Lead the technical sales efforts for Praan's filterless purification systems, targeting industrial clients for the MK II platform, and commercial clients for the HIVE platform
• Identify potential customers, establish and nurture relationships, and conduct product demonstrations to showcase the features and advantages of our product portfolio
• Collaborate closely with the engineering and product teams to understand technical details, product capabilities, and competitive advantages, enabling you to effectively communicate the value proposition to potential customers
• Understand customer requirements and tailor product solutions to meet their specific needs, providing technical recommendations and guidance throughout the sales process
• Develop and deliver persuasive sales presentations, proposals, and product demonstrations to key decision-makers, highlighting the benefits and ROI of our products
• Actively track and manage sales opportunities through the entire sales cycle, from lead generation to deal closure, ensuring timely follow-ups and effective communication to meet sales targets
• Provide feedback from the market to the product development teams, helping to shape future product enhancements and new offerings based on customer needs and market trends

Skill Requirements

• Past academic education in Engineering + MBA or equivallent 
• Proven track record working on engineering projects and have sold products like vibro sifters
• Past experience of 7 years to 10 years in the relevant industry
• Proven track record of successful technical sales, preferably in the B2B environment, with a focus on complex products or solutions
• Proven track record of achieving monthly/quarterly and yearly targets
• Strong leadership skills - will be managing a team of 4-5 Inside sales representatives
• Strong technical acumen and the ability to understand and explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate complex ideas clearly and concisely
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain strong relationships with customers, understanding their needs and providing effective solutions
• Self-motivated, results-oriented, and able to work independently as well as collaboratively within a cross-functional team environment
• Willingness to travel as required to meet with clients, attend trade shows, and participate in industry events.

Openings : 01

Experience : 1 -2 years of experience

Location : Surat - Adajan

• 5-Days Working
• Paid Leaves
• Health Insurance
• Overtime Pay
• Fun Activities

Job Description:

Lead Analyst for Outbound Marketing (LinkedIn & Others) and Inbound Leads responsibilities.

The Lead Analyst is responsible for utilizing various outbound marketing tools and techniques, such as sending messages, emails, or making calls on platforms like LinkedIn, to generate high-quality leads. They are also accountable for managing and maintaining records of the connected leads in customer relationship management (CRM) tools and providing qualified leads to the Sales department. In addition, the Lead Analyst shall also have a role of communicating with inbound leads generated from marketing efforts.

Job Responsibility:

• Generate qualified leads using outbound marketing tools and methods such as messages, email, and calls on platforms like LinkedIn and others.
• Maintain records of connected leads in CRM tools and supply qualified leads to the sales department.
• Communicate with inbound leads generated from marketing.
• Analyze profiles in various lead generation platforms like Apollo.io and LinkedIn.
• Use deep knowledge of qualified profile/company filtration to identify and target the most promising accounts.
• Utilize Sales Navigator to find and connect with leads.
• Maintain accurate reports on lead generation and follow-up activities.
• Use CRM tools to track and manage leads and opportunities.
• Hunt for proper profiles, filter by industry, category, and location.
• Use basic communication skills for chat and initial communication with leads.
• Understand market research in a given industry.
• Approach at least 20 qualified accounts per day.
• Handle inbound leads generated via marketing efforts.
• Handle clients approaching the company with their requirements on WhatsApp, emails.
• Understand the basic high-level requirements of the clients.
• Provide accurate data to the sales team by maintaining the data in CRM.
• Reply to clients only during urgencies during holidays or post office hours. This might not be required daily, but a positive attitude is a must.

Required Skills & Qualification:

• Proven experience in lead generation and outbound marketing.
• Deep knowledge of qualified profile/company filtration.
• Experience using Sales Navigator.
• Proficiency in report maintenance and CRM tools.
• Strong LinkedIn skills, including profile hunting, filtering, and industry/category/location targeting.
• Good communication skills, including basic chat and communication with leads (Inbound & Outbound).
• Understanding of market research in a given industry.
• Positive attitude and ability to handle urgent client inquiries during off-hours.

Job Description

• 0-1 year of experience working on (Web, SaaS Dashboards, Android & IoS Apps).
• An impressive portfolio/case study to back that High proficiency with Adobe XD, Figma, Sketch, or any other prototyping tool
• Experience with design tools such as Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop
• Excellent understanding of basics in UI Design such as (Grids, typography, and defining visual hierarchy)
• Applied knowledge of UX Processes, methods, and Principles.
• Impressive communication skills and ability to convey your ideas.

Responsibilities

• Create compelling User Interfaces designed to keep the user and their needs at the centre.
• Design intuitive UX deliverables for web and mobile enterprise applications.
• Understand the brief, align with the customer's business, goals, and milestones, and reflect that in the work done.
• Work closely with the Design Lead to ensure that your concepts meet our customer's expectations and will deliver the desired results.
• Create low to high-fidelity mock-ups with pixel-perfect designs to be handed off to the development team that clearly illustrate how sites function.
• Create a BrandGuide / Logo Process if required by stakeholders.
• Work with the development team to ensure pixel-perfect outcomes of the front-end assets
• They should be enthusiastic about sharing their ideas and proactively participate and collaborate on projects with the team.

In order to be considered for this opening, please apply on our career page:

Are you interested to be part of the tech team of an innovative international tech school aimed at developing the change makers of tomorrow?

About Seedstars Academy

Seedstars Academyis a new international school being launched in Bengaluru, the first one of its kind available for students in India. In a 24 months program, students gain both coding skills and entrepreneurial skills, helping them become the change makers of tomorrow. With a Swiss certification and a program developed and tested across the world in the last 20+ years, this is a world class alternative students in India now have access to. The Academy is brought in India by Seedstars and 01 Edu.

About the job

We are looking for new team members with a technical background to help us change the education landscape of India! The role of the technical tutor is to set up the study program modules, facilitate or organize additional events together with our partners under the supervision of the Head of Tech and support the students through the program and ensure that the content is made available to the students.

Role & responsibilities

• Understand the 01Edu System curriculum and content, ability to implement instructions to modify platform content and know the platform inside and out.
• Perform audits of student work during the test period.
• Communicate with students during sprint (piscines) and study period and answer their questions.
• Monitor students progress and guide them
• Be able to identify platform bugs and communicate with the manager and/or 01 tech team.
• Initiate or support with organizing tech events and collaborations (demo days, hackathons, partners’ activities)
• Query the database to perform analytics and extract insights.
• Ensure data backup and implement specific actions to maintain data integrity and building security
• Work collaboratively with 01Edu team on the platform use
• Regularly conduct performance analysis on students progress, identify and encourage students to overcome obstacles
• Have credibility with corporate partners (ex. understand technical inputs for a hackathon).

Our ideal candidate

• Has a computer science background, has experience with multiple programming languages and feels comfortable learning new languages (such as Go)
• Ability to quickly learn new or unfamiliar technology and products using documentation and internet resources.
• Ability to implement, administer, and troubleshoot network infrastructure devices, including wireless access points, firewalls, routers, switches, controllers is a plus
• Ability to work with all levels of staff within and outside of IT and outside the organization.
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Share our values and support our inclusion and diversity vision
• Great communication skills
• Good knowledge of English (intermediate level)

Why our employees love working with us

• We are on a mission which is bigger than all of us: to impact people’s lives in emerging markets.
• You work in an entrepreneurial culture where you’re surrounded by a vibrant and diverse team.
• We offer autonomy and flexibility with a strong belief that responsible people should have the freedom to do their work when and how they want.
• We were awarded as one of the most democratic workplaces in the world due to our freedom centered practices .

We are an equal opportunity employer with a diverse mix of nationalities and backgrounds represented in our company. We truly value diversity and believe that the cultural landscape of our organization should reflect the types of work that we engage in and the places that we do it. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status and strongly encourage applicants from historically underrepresented groups to apply to all of our roles at Seedstars.

In order to be considered for this opening, please apply on our career page.

JD for IOT DE:

The role requires experience in Azure core technologies – IoT Hub/ Event Hub, Stream Analytics, IoT Central, Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Cosmos, Azure Data Factory, Azure SQL Database, Azure HDInsight / Databricks, SQL data warehouse.

You Have:

• Minimum 2 years of software development experience
• Minimum 2 years of experience in IoT/streaming data pipelines solution development
• Bachelor's and/or Master’s degree in computer science
• Strong Consulting skills in data management including data governance, data quality, security, data integration, processing, and provisioning
• Delivered data management projects with real-time/near real-time data insights delivery on Azure Cloud
• Translated complex analytical requirements into the technical design including data models, ETLs, and Dashboards / Reports
• Experience deploying dashboards and self-service analytics solutions on both relational and non-relational databases
• Experience with different computing paradigms in databases such as In-Memory, Distributed, Massively Parallel Processing
• Successfully delivered large scale IOT data management initiatives covering Plan, Design, Build and Deploy phases leveraging different delivery methodologies including Agile
• Experience in handling telemetry data with Spark Streaming, Kafka, Flink, Scala, Pyspark, Spark SQL.
• Hands-on experience on containers and Dockers
• Exposure to streaming protocols like MQTT and AMQP
• Knowledge of OT network protocols like OPC UA, CAN Bus, and similar protocols
• Strong knowledge of continuous integration, static code analysis, and test-driven development
• Experience in delivering projects in a highly collaborative delivery model with teams at onsite and offshore
• Must have excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Delivered change management initiatives focused on driving data platforms adoption across the enterprise
• Strong verbal and written communications skills are a must, as well as the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations
   

Roles & Responsibilities
 

You Will:

• Translate functional requirements into technical design
• Interact with clients and internal stakeholders to understand the data and platform requirements in detail and determine core Azure services needed to fulfill the technical design
• Design, Develop and Deliver data integration interfaces in ADF and Azure Databricks
• Design, Develop and Deliver data provisioning interfaces to fulfill consumption needs
• Deliver data models on Azure platform, it could be on Azure Cosmos, SQL DW / Synapse, or SQL
• Advise clients on ML Engineering and deploying ML Ops at Scale on AKS
• Automate core activities to minimize the delivery lead times and improve the overall quality
• Optimize platform cost by selecting the right platform services and architecting the solution in a cost-effective manner
• Deploy Azure DevOps and CI CD processes
• Deploy logging and monitoring across the different integration points for critical alerts