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Job Summary

An experienced Kong Admin Support Engineer is required to manage administration, support, and enhancement of the Kong API Gateway platform. The role involves handling custom plugin development, portal customization, troubleshooting, and ensuring secure and scalable API management in a production environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide L2/L3 administration and support for Kong API Gateway.
• Manage installation, configuration, upgrades, and performance tuning of Kong components.
• Develop and maintain custom Kong plugins based on business requirements.
• Customize and enhance the Developer Portal including UI, workflows, and integrations.
• Monitor API traffic, logs, and gateway health; resolve incidents and performance issues.
• Implement security policies such as authentication, rate limiting, and access control.
• Collaborate with development, DevOps, and infrastructure teams for deployments and releases.
• Maintain documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures.
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Required Skills & Qualifications

• Minimum 3+ years of experience in Kong administration/support.
• Strong experience in custom plugin development using Lua or relevant technologies.
• Hands-on experience with Kong Developer Portal customization and management.

Responsibilities:

• Contacting potential clients to establish rapport and arrange meetings.
• Planning and overseeing new marketing initiatives.
• Researching organizations and individuals to find new opportunities.
• Increasing the value of current customers while attracting new ones.
• Finding and developing new markets and improving sales.
• Attending conferences, meetings, and industry events.
• Developing quotes and proposals for clients.
• Developing goals for the development team and business growth and ensuring they are met.
• Training personnel and helping team members develop their skills.

Business Development Manager Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing or related field.
• Experience in sales, marketing or related field.
• Strong communication skills and IT fluency.
• Ability to manage complex projects and multi-task.
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Ability to flourish with minimal guidance, be proactive, and handle uncertainty.
• Proficient in Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.
• Comfortable using a computer for various tasks.

• Job Title - Senior Product Marketing Manager - PC & Console
• Reports Into - Head of PC & Console Marketing
• Location - Bangalore/ Hybrid

A Little Bit about Kwalee….

Kwalee is one of the world’s leading multiplatform game developers and publishers, with well over 1 billion downloads worldwide for mobile hits such as Draw It, Teacher Simulator, Let’s Be Cops 3D, Airport Security and Makeover Studio 3D. We also have a growing PC and Console team of incredible pedigree that is on the hunt for great new titles to join Scathe, Die by the Blade, Robobeat, Space Chef and Wildmender.

What’s In It For You?

• Hybrid working - 3 days in the office, 2 days remote/ WFH is the norm
• Flexible working hours - we trust you to choose how and when you work best
• Profit sharing scheme - we win, you win 
• Private medical cover - delivered through BUPA
• Life Assurance - for long term peace of mind
• On site gym - take care of yourself
• Relocation support - available
• Quarterly Team Building days - we’ve done Paintballing, Go Karting & even Robot Wars
• Pitch and make your own games on Creative Wednesdays! 

Are You Up To The Challenge?

As a Senior PCC Product Marketing Manager, you’ll manage a product marketing manager and be responsible for launching some of our portfolio of Indie tiles across multiple platforms with a significant focus on building brand awareness, advocacy, Wishlists, community and ultimately (and most importantly) game sales.

Reporting into the Head of PCC Marketing you’ll be hugely influential in creating, executing, tracking and optimising integrated campaigns across both paid media (paid social, influencers and events) and organic media (community, social, influencers, ambassadors, SEO and rich content).  

You will work in close collaboration with the Community & Social Media (CSM) team, Influencer & Media (I&M) Team, PCC Creative Team and Digital MArketing (UA & Growth) Team.  

What Does The Job Actually Involve?

Create and execute product marketing plans (PMPs) that deliver against each game’s pre launch awareness and post launch revenue expectations, from initial signing through to retail launch and post launch - including budgets, KPI sets and beat schedules

• Ability to juggle multiple campaigns and projects across numerous media channels and multiple games at the same time and communicate clearly with multiple stakeholders both within and external to your team to ensure challenging deadlines and Wishlist/ sales KPIs are met
• Collaborating with internal and external creative teams to create best-in-class marketing assets to budget
• Determine KPIs for the PMPs and meaningful metrics that allow accurate analysis of each campaign and track commercial performance so you can optimise your plans in near real time
• Working as the key stakeholder and influencer within the PCC team and primary contact point for those outside of the department
• Setting ‘challenging but achievable’ targets for your team for both quality of output, timely delivery of campaigns and above target results and taking responsibility for meeting these target
• International travel as required

Your Hard Skills

• Passion for games and knowledge of industry trends and key players
• Previous experience on PC & Console games including three years in a product/brand management role for an established video games company
• Highly numerate and data fluent you’ll own your budgets and be accountable to them as well as having the ability to interpret research and analysis and use it daily to make good decisions quickly 
• Strong creative and brief writing skills with an understanding of Google Docs
• A creative flair with an eye for detail when briefing and feeding back on marketing artwork, assets and trailers. 
• You have excellent time management skills and understand the importance of hitting deadlines
• Ability to work with other functional teams in the PC and Console Department, as well as with other Marketing teams within and outside of Kwalee.

Your Soft Skills

Kwalee has grown fast in recent years but we’re very much a family of colleagues. We welcome people of all ages, races, colours, beliefs, sexual orientations, genders and circumstances, and all we ask is that you collaborate, work hard, ask questions and have fun with your team and colleagues. 

We don’t like egos or arrogance and we love playing games and celebrating success together. If that sounds like you, then please apply.

Your Team Mates

As a part of the marketing team you will ultimately report to the VP of Marketing whilst having P&L accountability to the Head of PC & Console department.

The PC Console Marketing team is mostly based in Leamington Spa HQ and in Bangalore, India. An open, enthusiastic and engaging personality and communication style is essential. You’re incredibly organised, data astute and fluent in process management so tracking numerous campaigns in several languages across multiple media will be second nature for you.

A Little Bit About Kwalee

Founded in 2011 by David Darling CBE, a key architect of the UK games industry who previously co-founded and led Codemasters, our team also includes legends such as Andrew Graham (creator of Micro Machines series) and Jason Falcus (programmer of classics including NBA Jam) alongside a growing and diverse team of global gaming experts.

Kwalee is one of the world’s leading multiplatform game publishers and developers, with well over 900 million downloads worldwide for mobile hits such as Draw It, Teacher Simulator, Let’s Be Cops 3D, Airport Security and Makeover Studio 3D. We’ve also have a growing PC and Console team of incredible pedigree that is on the hunt for great new titles to join TENS!, Eternal Hope, Die by the Blade and Scathe. 

Everyone contributes creatively to Kwalee’s success, with all employees eligible to pitch their own game ideas on Creative Wednesdays, and we’re proud to have built our success on this inclusive principle.

We have an amazing team of experts collaborating daily between our studios in Leamington Spa, Lisbon, Bangalore and Beijing, or on a remote basis from Turkey, Brazil, Cyprus, the Philippines and many more places around the world. We’ve recently acquired our first external studio, TicTales, which is based in France. 

We have a truly global team making games for a global audience, and it’s paying off: - Kwalee has been voted the Best Large Studio and Best Leadership Team at the TIGA Awards (Independent Game Developers’ Association) and our games have been downloaded in every country on earth - including Antarctica!

Desired Candidate Profile

• Degree in Ayurveda
• Interest for and experience in creative copywriting
• Good organizational, self and time-management skills
• Ability to multi-task and follow deadlines
• Willingness to learn skills outside of comfort zone
• Willingness to grow in a fast-paced environment
• Not afraid of challenges and hard work
• Reliable team player with a sense of ownership
• Attention to detail
• Ability to take initiative    

Designing products at BiCSoM is about turning dreams and ideas into lovable technology and design solutions. As a mindful member of the BiCSoM team you will design rule-breaking mobile applications, web applications, websites, Progressive Web apps, IoT design solutions, Voice solutions using practices of User experience design and User interface design. Large number of people across the globe use our products everyday, we take pride in wearing ‘Made with love in India’ on our sleeves.

What are we looking for?

1. We expect you to have your domain knowledge of UX and UI, which includes, Information architecture, empathy map creation, user research, user interviews, low fidelity and high fidelity wireframes, designing UI screens using Adobe XD, prototyping and design hand off to developers 
2. Experts in English language
3. There are few skills which you need to have from get-go:
1. You are a problem solver, polite and someone who values team members and customers
2. You respect time and understand, lost time never  comes back
4. You have the ability to explain your design and come up with out of the box design solutions for mobile applications and web sites
5. You are a smart and energetic talent from design background
6. Based on the situations you can contribute individually or work with team and make work productive and fun
7. In terms of day to day work, for 6 months to 1 year you should have done the following:
1. Completed a bootcamp or formal training in UX/UI design 
2. Designed at least 2 mobile apps or websites
3. Thorough understanding of Information architecture, Microcopies, Typography, Material design systems, Cupertino design system, Visual designs, icons and illustrations
4. Conducting user research interviews and design Mood boards
5. UX testing once the product is live
6. Collaborative design workflows using Adobe XD and Framer
7. Documenting your design work based on Style guides
8. Knowledge of Microcopies is a plus

1. Work location: Bengaluru city and Remote
2. Working days - 6 days a week

BiCSoM Technologies Private Limited is committed to breakthrough innovation and success for its team members. From our mindful culture of compassion and wisdom to passionate customer success philosophy, this is one awesome place to work! So come and experience what it takes to build digital products which are loved by millions of users across the globe. You will find speed, agility, fun and supportive culture where we are responsible for each other’s success. 

1. BiCSoM is a registered startup under the Startup India initiative of Government of India and a DIPP registered MSME
2. BiCSoM was recognized as one of the top AR/VR startups in India in 2018 in DCB Bank innovation carnival

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