Associate Director

About the Role

The Business Development Manager (BDM) will be responsible for driving revenue growth by identifying and pursuing new business opportunities, building strong client relationships, and executing strategic sales plans for corporate travel solutions. The incumbent must have established connections with corporate and mid-size companies and proven success in achieving high-value sales targets.

Key Responsibilities

🔹 Client Acquisition & Relationship Management

• Identify, target, and acquire new corporate clients with an annual business worth of ₹2–3 Cr.
• Build and maintain long-term relationships with corporate clients to ensure repeat business.
• Understand client travel requirements and provide customized corporate travel solutions.

🔹 Sales & Negotiation

• Present, pitch, and negotiate corporate travel service agreements.
• Manage contract terms to ensure mutually beneficial agreements.
• Achieve and exceed assigned sales targets.

🔹 Strategic Planning & Market Development

• Develop and execute corporate sales strategies aligned with business objectives.
• Conduct market research to identify industry trends, competitor activities, and emerging opportunities.
• Identify and pursue partnership opportunities to grow the corporate travel portfolio.

🔹 Performance Tracking & Reporting

• Track sales metrics, evaluate performance, and adjust strategies as needed.
• Provide regular updates on market developments, partnership performance, and revenue achievements.

🔹 Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Coordinate with operations, marketing, and finance teams to ensure seamless service delivery.
• Provide training and support to partners for better product knowledge and sales performance.

Skills & Qualifications

• Experience: Minimum 4 years in Corporate Travel Sales with proven track record.
• Industry Knowledge: Strong understanding of corporate travel market, industry trends, and competitor landscape.
• Networking: Strong corporate and mid-size company connections in Gurgaon/NCR region.
• Communication: Excellent verbal & written communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
• Negotiation Skills: Proven ability to negotiate high-value contracts.
• Strategic Thinking: Ability to create and execute effective sales strategies.
• Problem Solving: Creative approach to meeting client needs and resolving challenges.

EXCITED ABOUT YOUR TASKS?

● Employee Records Management:

○ Maintain and update employee records, ensuring accuracy and confidentiality.

○ Prepare and process employment documentation, including new hire, termination, and promotion

forms.

○ Manage HRIS (Human Resources Information System) to ensure all records are current.

● Recruitment Support:

○ Assist with the recruitment process by posting job openings, scheduling interviews, and

coordinating candidate communications.

○ Help onboard new employees, including preparing induction materials, facilitating orientation, and

ensuring all necessary paperwork is completed.

● Payroll and Benefits Administration:

○ Assist with the preparation and processing of payroll data.

○ Ensure proper documentation for employee benefits enrollment, changes, and claims.

○ Coordinate with finance for payroll queries and discrepancies.

●HR Compliance and Reporting:

○ Support HR with compliance tasks, such as ensuring the company adheres to labor laws and

employment regulations.

○ Prepare HR reports, including headcount, turnover rates, and other metrics as needed.

● Employee Relations Support:

○ Provide general administrative support to HR managers and employees.

○ Respond to employee inquiries regarding HR policies and procedures.

● Training and Development:

○ Assist in organizing training sessions, workshops, and other employee development activities.

○ Maintain records of training and professional development activities.

● General Administrative Tasks:

○ Assist in managing office supplies, HR documents, and communication materials.

○ Coordinate meetings, appointments, and other scheduling activities for the HR department.

WHAT WILL YOU NEED TO SUCCEED?

● Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field.

● Proven experience as an HR Administrator or in a similar administrative role.

● Strong knowledge of HR software, MS Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), and HRIS systems.

● Excellent organizational, time-management, and multitasking skills.

● Attention to detail and a high degree of confidentiality.

● Familiarity with employment laws and regulations.

● Effective communication skills, both written and verbal.

● Problem-solving ability and a proactive approach to tasks.

Working Days:

Monday to Friday 10 am - 7 pm (WFO)

Saturdays-10 am - 3 pm (WFH)

However, the candidate must be comfortable with flexible shifts, if required.

Looking for Indiranagar, Bangalore location ONLY

FEMALE CANDIADTES PREFERRED ONLY

Full Stack Engineer (RUBY ON RAILS + REACT)

About Us

DirectShifts has set out to modernize healthcare recruiting. We're a team of physicians, entrepreneurs, and problem solvers who have come together to solve major pain points facing medical professionals today.

We've built a healthcare staffing technology platform that connects healthcare professionals directly with employers by using advanced technologies and digitizing the recruitment and staffing processes. Using an AI-based platform, DirectShifts matches the right clinicians to the right jobs at healthcare employers.

DirectShifts is headquartered in New York, NY and our team is spread across the US and India. Join us!

About What You’ll Be Doing

DirectShifts is growing rapidly and we are looking for a full-stack engineer to join our technical team, working out of India. We need incredibly tenacious engineers who are not only great engineers but who can bring unique value to our rapidly growing team.

If you are passionate about coding – and do it on a day-to-day basis, then this is the place for you.

We are big fans of focusing mainly on two things: 1) talking to users and 2) build products. 

You will be responsible for implementing ideas and mocks for our app (web and mobile) which is used daily by healthcare professionals, internal users, and healthcare employers - you will own the frontend development as well as the building blocks and the APIs that power the web app (and the mobile apps). You need to be comfortable dabbling with some basic infrastructure management on AWS.

About You

Ideal Qualifications

• Recent Hands-on experience with Ruby on Rails and React.js
• 4+ years of work experience, primarily as a full-stack developer
• A strong foundation of Ruby on Rails
• Strong React, HTML, Javascript & CSS skills
• High ownership at all stages of product development - from conception to maintenance
• Adaptability - learn new technologies as and when needed
• Good communication skills to get your point across
• Bachelor in Computer Science
• Ability to work remotely

Bonus Skills

• Redux experience
• Experience with REST APIs
• Experience with cloud services (preferably AWS)

Specifically, You Will:

Work closely with the founders and senior management across various functions. You will have the opportunity to influence the trajectory of the products and of the company. This is a great opportunity to help healthcare systems & professionals become more efficient which directly helps them provide better care, improve outcomes and save more lives!

You will excel if you have

An ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and the ability to iterate quickly by understanding what users want. 

More about DirectShifts

We have raised more than $45 million from some of the world’s leading investors including Serent Capital, YCombinator, and Soma Capital. We're on a mission to disrupt a massive industry and improve healthcare in the United States by ensuring every patient has easy access to the healthcare they need. At DirectShifts, everyone has a voice to create change and move the needle; no hierarchy, no bureaucracy, no politics, no BS...just real people working on solving real problems.

**THIS IS A 100% WORK FROM OFFICE ROLE**

We are looking for an experienced DevOps engineer that will help our team establish DevOps practice. You will work closely with the technical lead to identify and establish DevOps practices in the company.
You will help us build scalable, efficient cloud infrastructure. You’ll implement monitoring for automated system health checks. Lastly, you’ll build our CI pipeline, and train and guide the team in DevOps practices.

ROLE and RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Understanding customer requirements and project KPIs
• Implementing various development, testing, automation tools, and IT infrastructure
• Planning the team structure, activities, and involvement in project management
activities.
• Managing stakeholders and external interfaces
• Setting up tools and required infrastructure
• Defining and setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for
DevOps operation
• Have the technical skill to review, verify, and validate the software code developed in
the project.
• Troubleshooting techniques and fixing the code bugs
• Monitoring the processes during the entire lifecycle for its adherence and updating or
creating new processes for improvement and minimizing the wastage
• Encouraging and building automated processes wherever possible
• Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously performing
vulnerability assessment and risk management
• Incidence management and root cause analysis
• Coordination and communication within the team and with customers
• Selecting and deploying appropriate CI/CD tools
• Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous
development, and constant deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline)
• Mentoring and guiding the team members
• Monitoring and measuring customer experience and KPIs
• Managing periodic reporting on the progress to the management and the customer

Essential Skills and Experience Technical Skills

• Proven 3+years of experience as DevOps
• A bachelor’s degree or higher qualification in computer science
• The ability to code and script in multiple languages and automation frameworks
like Python, C#, Java, Perl, Ruby, SQL Server, NoSQL, and MySQL
• An understanding of the best security practices and automating security testing and
updating in the CI/CD (continuous integration, continuous deployment) pipelines
• An ability to conveniently deploy monitoring and logging infrastructure using tools.
• Proficiency in container frameworks
• Mastery in the use of infrastructure automation toolsets like Terraform, Ansible, and command line interfaces for Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, and other cloud platforms
• Certification in Cloud Security
• An understanding of various operating systems
• A strong focus on automation and agile development
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• An ability to work in a fast-paced environment and handle multiple projects
simultaneously

OTHER INFORMATION

The DevOps Engineer will also be expected to demonstrate their commitment:
• to gedu values and regulations, including equal opportunities policy.
• the gedu’s Social, Economic and Environmental responsibilities and minimise environmental impact in the performance of the role and actively contribute to the delivery of gedu’s Environmental Policy.
• to their Health and Safety responsibilities to ensure their contribution to a safe and secure working environment for staff, students, and other visitors to the campus.

1. End to end accounts Pay Order management / Invoicing / Billing in systems (QuickBooks, Tally or any other ERP)
2. Execution of orders -  starting from receiving Purchase Order to service deployment (Enabling the cloud platform for client)
3. Documentation, understanding of compliance.
4. Client Communication  - Written and verbal communication (Deal with clients, Sales team and other employees. 
5. Reporting  - Various reports (Governance/Monthly/quarterly review reports).
6. Deal with clients, management, suppliers and other employees professionally at all times
7. Complete all the  tasks on time, timelines are critical.
8. Open for new tasks and ready to accept the challenges since this is a dynamic profile.

Is Education overrated? Yes. We believe so. But there is no way to locate you otherwise. So we might look for at least a Bachelors degree in commerce from an accredited university and prefer a Bachelors or Masters in finance. A higher degree, CA, CA inter or MBA/PGDBA in Finance will be an added advantage.

1. 1 – 3 years of prior experience working in billing, invoicing and order management.
2. Experience of working in IT industry would be preferred
3. Strong analytical skills
4. Passion for quality control and productivity
5. Ability to perform advanced computing functions
6. Familiarity with databases
7. Familiarity with Google Workspace
8. Strong communication skills
9. Ability to solve problems
10. Ability to work well in groups
11. Ability to multitask
12. Knowledge of the Cloud based products is an additional advantage.