Associate

About the Role

We are looking for a dynamic and results-driven Sales & Design Manager to lead client engagement, drive sales conversions, and ensure exceptional customer experiences in the premium and luxury interiors segment. The ideal candidate combines strong sales acumen with design sensibility, excelling at managing client relationships, understanding design requirements, and converting leads into successful projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify and qualify leads from various sources aligned with the company’s target audience.
• Convert sales leads to final closures, ensuring smooth communication and client satisfaction.
• Manage and maintain an accurate lead database with timely updates and follow-ups.
• Track conversion rates, analyze data, and optimize lead generation and conversion processes.
• Drive sales growth and client sign-ups
• Collaborate with sales, marketing, and design teams to align business goals.
• Meet clients at the office to explain products, services, and pricing.
• Conduct site visits, prepare design diagrams, quotations, and concept proposals.
• Provide end-to-end pre-sales solutions, from client consultation to design advice and closure.
• Advise clients on design aspects such as space planning, color coordination, furnishings, and material selection.
• Attend site meetings and maintain accurate data sheets and records.
• Render design ideas in drawings or illustrations and present them for client approval.
• Ensure client satisfaction through proactive follow-ups, escalation handling, and strong relationship management.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Experience: 5–7 years in selling premium or luxury interior solutions.
• Industry Background: Luxury brands, lifestyle services, premium customer experience, or high-ticket sales.
• Education: Graduate in any discipline (Interior Design background preferred).
• Languages: Fluent in English, Hindi, and Kannada. Knowledge of Tamil, Telugu, or Malayalam is a plus.
• Skills:
• Strong verbal communication and persuasion skills.
• Client-first mindset with a high level of professionalism.
• Confidence in engaging with HNI clients and corporate professionals.
• Proficiency in CRM systems and reporting tools.

Looking for candidates only with tier 1 colleges OR have experience in a product-based company.

Desired Skills :

● Experience with data modeling and SQL/NoSQL databases

● Experience with distributed systems and microservices

● Good experience in working with any of Java/SpringBoot, GoLang or NodeJS

● Excellent problem solving and debugging skills

● Passionate about the experience of software engineering as much as the output

● A strong sense of ownership

● Ability to communicate your ideas and approach to solving problems with clarity

Responsibilities:

• Design and produce high-quality graphics for digital and print materials, including websites, social media, advertisements, brochures, and presentations.
• Collaborate with the marketing and product teams to develop creative concepts and design solutions that align with our brand identity.
• Create and maintain brand guidelines to ensure consistency across all visual communications.
• Develop visually appealing layouts and graphics for email campaigns, landing pages, and other online marketing materials.
• Stay updated with the latest design trends, tools, and technologies to continuously improve design quality.

At Upswing, we are committed to building a robust, scalable & secure API platform to power the world of Open Finance.

We are a passionate and self-driven team of thinkers who aspire to build the rails to connect the legacy financial sector with financial innovators through a simple and powerful banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platform.

We are looking for motivated engineers who will be working in a highly creative and cutting-edge technology environment to build a world-class financial services suite.

About the role

As part of the DevSecOps team at Upswing, you will get to work on building state-of-the-art infrastructure for the future. You will also be –

• Managing security aspects of the Cloud Infrastructure 
• Designing and Implementing Security measures, Incident Response guidelines 
• Conducting Security Awareness Training
• Developing SIEM tooling and pipelines end to end for vulnerability/security/incident reporting 
• Developing automation and performing routine VAPT for Network and Applications
• Integrating with 3rd party vendors for the services required to improve security posture 
• Mentoring people across the teams to enable best practices 

What will you do if you join us?

• Engage in a lot of cross-team collaboration to independently drive forward DevSecOps practices across the org 
• Take Ownership of existing, ongoing, and future DevSecOps initiatives 
• Plan and Engage in Architecture discussions to bring in different angles (especially security angles) to the table
• Build Automation stack and tools for security pipeline 
• Integrate different security measures and pipelines with the SIEM tool
• Conducting routine VAPT using manual and automated workflows, generating and maintaining the report for the same
• Introduce and Implement best practices across teams for a great security posture in the org

You should have

• Curiosity for on-the-job learning and experimenting with new technologies and ideas
• A strong background in Linux environment
• Proven experience in Architecting networks with security first implementation
• Experience with VAPT tooling for Networks and Applications is required 
• Strong experience in Cloud technologies, multi-cloud environments, and best practices in Cloud 
• Experience with at least one scripting language (Ruby/Python/Groovy)
• Experience in Terraform is highly desirable but not mandatory
• Some experience with Kubernetes, and Docker is required 
• Understanding Java web applications and monitoring them for security vulnerabilities would be a plus 
• Any other DevSecOps-related experience will be considered

Role Description

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities

We are seeking a highly motivated individual to coordinate and collaborate with our sales, delivery, and support teams in the creation of sales-related documents, specifically pre-sales activities, documents, proposals, client presentations, due-diligence, risk assessments, and more.

As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for understanding clients' existing business processes and requirements and providing pre-sales support for our Sales Managers and Account Managers.

Proposals- In this role, you will need to understand the requirements and create a winning proposal or presentation based on inputs from multiple technology and domain teams. You will need to coordinate with different teams to ascertain inter-dependencies and maintain an overall proposal delivery project plan with defined tasks, deliverables, and associated timelines.

Repository - You will be responsible for creating and maintaining case studies, introductory segment presentations, and samples in coordination with delivery and sales teams.

Pipeline Reporting- The role also involves sales pipeline reporting and tracking, including financial and sales activity reporting. You will also be responsible for ensuring that all standard company presentations, brochures, and collaterals are up-to-date and indexed properly in the repository.

As a self-starter, you will be expected to identify key issues and priorities and focus on delivering required results with minimal direction and supervision. Multitasking with a high level of ownership is essential for success in this role, considering the high level of role seniority and sensitivity.

Market Intelligence- As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for conducting comprehensive reviews of the market through a thorough analysis of demand-supply dynamics, competition landscape, value chain, and regulatory frameworks governing the industry. In addition, you will conduct in-depth assessments of companies involving a review of their business structure, product/service offerings, management team, recent developments, go-to-market approach, and outlook.

Leadership- As a mentor, you will be responsible for training associates/analysts working on the projects being executed. You will support the development of proposals through case-studies, samples, and preliminary background research. You will exhibit sector-specific subject-matter expertise as relevant.

Reporting: EVP, Client Engagement Team

Internal and External Interfaces - DPA sales & marketing, operations teams and Clients

 Position Details: Full-time, permanent position

Qualification: MBA in Finance/ Marketing. Experience in the financial services industry will be an added advantage.

Research background will be an added advantage.

Work Timing: Day shift ~ 11am to 8 PM shift

Skills and Experience:

·  Good flair for writing and presentation skills

·  Good communication skills with an excellent command over English

·  Good understanding of financial markets/economics

·  Ability to articulate and communicate thoughts/opinions in effective manner.

·  Good command over MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint

Behavioral and Culture Competencies

·  Should be able to think on their feet when it comes to proposing solutions to clients based on their pain points/requirements.

·  Must be a team player.

·  Able to co-ordinate with multiple teams within the organization along with client teams(s)

·  Comfortable in client communication, written and oral

·  Able to work under pressure and with short deadlines

About Decimal Point Analytics:

Decimal Point Analytics (DPA) is a modern technology-enabled research and consulting firm. Since our inception in 2003, we have been a trusted partner to an entire spectrum of financial market professionals. We are thrilled to be able to deliver innovation in research processes through a team of experts in financial services and computing. By utilizing and scaling the values we bring into the engagements, our customers have been able to delight their end-customers and garner competitive advantage in the process.

Why should you be excited about this role?

We are the backbone of the organization when it comes to engaging with clients and growing the business at a strategic level. If you believe that you have what it takes to contribute meaningfully to accomplish these goals, this is the role for you!

If you are a detail-oriented and motivated individual with a passion for sales support and coordination, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity.