BDE

Job Description :

- Strong understanding of the Ruby programming language and Rails framework

- Proficiency in Javascript including experience with React, Angular or Vue

- Database understanding (Postgres/MySQL)

- Previous experience maintaining production applications

- Focus on writing clear, maintainable, tested code.

Skills Required :

- Navigating and understanding a large codebase

- Experience with Git continuous integration and regular deployments

- Understanding and appreciation for UX and usability

- Excellent communication skills and diligent ability to contribute to the team by performing code reviews,

- Writing tests using Rspec and Capybara.

1) Convert ideas into visual treats. These visual treats (output) can be in the form of:

• Web Related: Pages/Sliders/Banners
• Landing Page/Forms
• Emailers/Ebook/Downloadable Coupons forms
• Branding /Stationary Kits includingLogo
• Mascot
• Outdoor Media :Hoarding
• Selfie WallsTheme Walls
• Social Media Creatives:Social Media Covers
• Social Media Posting creative
• Blog Covers and related Images
• Paid Ads Creatives:Carousals
• Remarketing Banners
• Social Media Page Customization
• Documents & Presentations
• Image Manipulation

How you will do it? By having a sound understanding of:

• Cartoon strips
• Infographics
• Storyboards
• Conversational Designs
• Theme based designing
• Business Specific/Trending Specific Scenarios
• Viral Marketing traits
• Branding
• Hands on experience:Photoshop, Corel, Illustrator
• 3D works

2) Videos and VFX:

• · Explanatory
• · Motion Graphics
• · New/Info Specific
• · VFX Centric
• · Streaming Specific
• · Interviews

How you will do it? By having a sound understanding of:

• Script visualization
• Editing on latest video editing tools
• VFX areas
• Camera Handling

You will work closely with the:

• Digital - Social Media and Brand ideation team
• Content teams
• Technology teams

You should be able to

• Believe everything, yes everything, can be done in Photoshop
• Create illustrations
• Work in teams
• Work in solace
• Most important: Willingness to learn

Did you say you know (or are willing to learn) HTML/CSS too – you already have an advantage!

What kind of people are we looking for? Simple:

• We don’t like experts, we prefer people who are always willing to learn and are able to learn quickly
• Not a mere task taker.
• Ability to work with deliverables in mind.
• Entrepreneurial instinct beyond office cubicle
• Intelligence to do multitasking and prioritization of work
• Excellent communication skills- written oral and articulation.
• Ability to initiate/participate with intelligence, thoughtful new ideas in business discussion and meetings.
• Instinct of exhaustive reading, research ,analysis beyond the conventional format and adding value to the deliverables
• Strong strategic bent with inclination towards learning and contributing.
• Adaptability and flexibility to work with cross-functional areas of business.
• Zeal to be driven by productivity than by activity
• Self discipline and ability to do work with self supervision.
• You do what you preach, or at least try
• You not only work hard, you party hard too
• You have an eye for detail
• If you’re a (regular) blogger, we already love you!
• You are a DIY person. Period

Job responsibilities for a Business Development Executive (BDE) with 0-1 year experience, focusing on skills such as communication, bidding experience, Upwork and LinkedIn knowledge, marketing strategy, marketing search, international business knowledge, and international market expertise, might include:

1. Market Research and Analysis:

• Conduct research on international markets to identify potential opportunities for business expansion.
• Analyze market trends, competitor strategies, and customer preferences to inform business development strategies.

1. Bidding and Proposal Writing:

• Prepare and submit bids on platforms like Upwork, focusing on international clients.
• Craft persuasive proposals outlining services, pricing, and timelines to win projects.
• Engage in negotiations with clients to secure favorable terms and agreements.

1. Client Communication and Relationship Building:

• Communicate effectively with clients through various channels such as email, phone calls, and video conferences.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with clients to foster long-term partnerships.
• Address client inquiries, concerns, and feedback promptly and professionally.

1. Marketing Strategy Development:

• Collaborate with the marketing team to develop and implement effective marketing strategies targeting international markets.
• Utilize LinkedIn and other platforms to promote services, build brand awareness, and generate leads.
• Monitor the performance of marketing campaigns and make recommendations for optimization.

1. International Business Expansion:

• Assist in the development of strategies for expanding the company's international presence.
• Identify potential business partners, distributors, or collaborators in target markets.
• Coordinate with internal teams to ensure compliance with international regulations and standards.

1. Documentation and Reporting:

• Maintain accurate records of client interactions, proposals, and contracts.
• Prepare regular reports on business development activities, including lead generation, conversion rates, and revenue projections.
• Provide insights and recommendations based on data analysis to improve business development strategies.

1. Continuous Learning and Skill Development:

• Stay updated on industry trends, market dynamics, and emerging technologies related to international business development.
• Participate in training programs and workshops to enhance skills in areas such as communication, negotiation, and marketing.

1. Team Collaboration:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including sales, marketing, and operations to ensure alignment of business development activities with overall company objectives.
• Support team members in achieving their goals and contribute to a positive and collaborative work environment.

Project Head for a well-funded construction tech platform backed by a renowned group.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for supervision and execution of project as per agreed design and cost parameters.
• To coordinate with local architects and contractors to ensure detailed plans are in line with the project expectations.
• To ensure availability of materials, equipment that are needed at site.
• To check with the statutory compliance of the project and to ensure that the project site is free from complications before starting the project.
• To provide technical guidance on site whenever & wherever required and resolving critical issues on site.
• To ensure that there is safe working environment at the site and check if all safety measures are taken care of.
• Should have successfully demonstrated capability to design and implement SOPs for end-to-end construction activities.
• Should be well conversant with the quality parameters and check lists for end-to-end construction processes and monitoring mechanisms to ensure compliance with quality standards.

What is the company looking for

• BE/ B. Tech in civil engineering.
• 2-4 years prior work experience in construction and real estate.
• Should be from Kolkata or willing to relocate to Kolkata.

Job Description

This requirement is to service our client which is a leading big data technology company that measures what viewers consume across platforms to enable marketers make better advertising decisions. We are seeking a Senior Data Operations Analyst to mine large-scale datasets for our client. Their work will have a direct impact on driving business strategies for prominent industry leaders. Self-motivation and strong communication skills are both must-haves. Ability to work in a fast-paced work environment is desired.

Problems being solved by our client: 

Measure consumer usage of devices linked to the internet and home networks including computers, mobile phones, tablets, streaming sticks, smart TVs, thermostats and other appliances. There are more screens and other connected devices in homes than ever before, yet there have been major gaps in understanding how consumers interact with this technology. Our client uses a measurement technology to unravel dynamics of consumers’ interactions with multiple devices.

Duties and responsibilities:

• The successful candidate will contribute to the development of novel audience measurement and demographic inference solutions. 
• Develop, implement, and support statistical or machine learning methodologies and processes. 

• Build, test new features and concepts and integrate into production process
• Participate in ongoing research and evaluation of new technologies
• Exercise your experience in the development lifecycle through analysis, design, development, testing and deployment of this system
• Collaborate with teams in Software Engineering, Operations, and Product Management to deliver timely and quality data. You will be the knowledge expert, delivering quality data to our clients

Qualifications:

• 3-5 years relevant work experience in areas as outlined below
• Experience in extracting data using SQL from large databases
• Experience in writing complex ETL processes and frameworks for analytics and data management. Must have experience in working on ETL tools.

• Master’s degree or PhD in Statistics, Data Science, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or a similar degree with a focus on statistical methods. A Bachelor’s degree in the same fields with significant, demonstrated professional research experience will also be considered. 
• Programming experience in scientific computing language (R, Python, Julia) and the ability to interact with relational data (SQL, Apache Pig, SparkSQL). General purpose programming (Python, Scala, Java) and familiarity with Hadoop is a plus.  
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. 
• Experience with TV or digital audience measurement or market research data is a plus. 
• Familiarity with systems analysis or systems thinking is a plus. 

• Must be comfortable with analyzing complex, high-volume and high-dimension data from varying sources
• Excellent verbal, written and computer communication skills
• Ability to engage with Senior Leaders across all functional departments
• Ability to take on new responsibilities and adapt to changes

We are looking for a .Net developer to build software using languages and technologies of the .NET framework. You will create applications from scratch, configure existing systems and provide user support.

In this role, you should be able to write functional code with a sharp eye for spotting defects. You should be a team player and an excellent communicator. If you are also passionate about the .NET framework and software design/architecture, we'd like to meet you.

Your goal will be to work with internal teams to design, develop and maintain software.

Responsibilities

• Participate in requirements analysis
• Collaborate with internal teams to produce software design and architecture
• Write clean, scalable code using .NET programming languages
• Test and deploy applications and systems
• Revise, update, refactor and debug code
• Improve existing software
• Develop documentation throughout the software development life cycle (SDLC)
• Serve as an expert on applications and provide technical support
• Producing code using .NET languages (C#, VB . NET)
• Upgrading, configuring and debugging existing systems
• Providing technical support for web, desktop or mobile applications

Requirements and skills

• Proven experience as a .NET Developer or Application Developer
• Familiarity with the ASP.NET framework, SQL Server and design/architectural patterns (e.g. Model-View-Controller (MVC))
• Knowledge of at least one of the .NET languages (e.g. C#, Visual Basic . NET) and HTML5/CSS3
• Familiarity with architecture styles/APIs (REST, RPC)
• Understanding of Agile methodologies
• Excellent troubleshooting and communication skills
• Attention to detail
• BSc/BA in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.

About Us 

upGrad is an online education platform building the careers of tomorrow by offering the most industry-relevant programs in an immersive learning experience. Our mission is to create a  new digital-first learning experience to deliver tangible career impact to individuals at scale.  upGrad currently offers programs in Data Science, Machine Learning, Product Management,  Digital Marketing, and Entrepreneurship, etc. upGrad is looking for people passionate about management and education to help design learning programs for working professionals to stay sharp and stay relevant and help build careers of tomorrow. 

• upGrad was awarded the Best Tech for Education by IAMAI for 2018-19 • upGrad was also ranked as one of the LinkedIn Top Startups 2018: The 25 most  sought-after startups in India 

• upGrad was earlier selected as one of the top ten most innovative companies in India by FastCompany. 

• We were also covered by the Financial Times along with other disruptors in Ed-Tech • upGrad is the official education partner for the Government of India - Startup India program 

• Our program with IIIT B has been ranked #1 program in the country in the domain of  Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning \

Role Summary 

This role will primarily be responsible for envisioning, defining, and owning the execution of upGrad's product design strategy. As the strategic design leader, team coach, and customer champion you'll galvanize people to solve complex problems, developing strategies, and ensuring product designers have the space to create products that deliver enduring value.  You will also lead change cross-functionally to drive better experiences and influence our company's product, operations, content, and data to unlock the unrealized wants of learners and coaches across new subjects and fields.

You’ll lead your team through the design process, help build a vision, and navigate ambiguity through partnering with research and enabling experimentation, all while mentoring, and growing a hardworking and capable design team.  

You’ll run design critiques, host collaboration & brainstorming sessions, drive design execution excellence, identify areas of process efficiency, and promote a high-output and fast-paced design practice.

Roles & Responsibilities

•  Work closely with your team and other designers in defining, designing, and iterating  on product features across web and mobile platforms 
• Get out of the Office and work with research to observe the impact of your work in the real world, and take that input back to your work as a designer to be constantly improving our products.
• Invest in design standards, documentation, and processes alongside your team members to further our design practice 
•  Shape product strategy and vision together with product managers and have a significant impact across all the product teams
• Bring consistency to all the platforms and products
• Drive and support cross-team initiatives that make the Design practice better at upGrad such as improving our hiring processes, expanding our community presence,  interviewing potential new team members
• Work in the way that works for you and what you're designing, whether that's spending time sketching or jumping straight into pixels and code.
•  Work with other members of the Design team to help them deliver great work and develop their own skills. This could be as a mentor, a coach, or a collaborator. 

Skills Required::

•  7 years of Product Design experience with at least 2 years of experience leading  product design teams
• Consistent track record of leading highly collaborative cross-functional teams thought ambiguity and deliver the best products possible to our customers are an experienced mentor and coachable to give and receive honest, thoughtful,  and direct feedback that removes roadblocks encourages growth, and accelerates delivery
• Are intent on crafting psychologically optimistic spaces where your direct reports and your collaborators are confident in sharing their ideas, opinions, and reservations in order to get to the best customer-focused solution
• Experienced recruiting, hiring, and retaining multi-disciplinary design teams
• Ability to understand complex feature sets and their dependencies while being able  to deliver a design strategy that accounts for capabilities and limitations of the product 
•  Methodology rich, including standard approaches for design deliverables including  user journeys, research plans, mocks, prototypes, documentation, and quality checks 
•  Have the ability to communicate research findings and design decisions openly and  confidently, regardless of the audience  
• Have partnered with research teams or led research experiments to validate and  inform product thinking 
• Have a proven history of partnering with engineering in a continuous delivery environment

• Write high quality code in ReactJS using TypeScript or JSX that is easy to maintain and test.
• Participate in an Agile environment using Scrum software development practices, Automated unit testing, Continuous integration, Code reviews, Version control systems, Automated build processes. Raise issues proactively that might impact delivery commitments.
• Fix production issues and maintain the code as needed .

• BS degree in CS or equivalent work experience 5+ years professional experience building single page applications in ReactJS using TypeScript or JSX with extensive experience working with HTML5 and CSS3.
• Experience working with cross-browser behaviors and quirks.

• Passion for new technologies. Product development experience building large scale web applications.
• Experience designing and developing highly scalable consumer facing web application. Care deeply about writing high-performance, reusable code for components that will be used across our product.
• GraphQL experience is preferred. 

ETL Developer – Talend

Job Duties:

• ETL Developer is responsible for Design and Development of ETL Jobs which follow standards,

best practices and are maintainable, modular and reusable.

• Proficiency with Talend or Pentaho Data Integration / Kettle.
• ETL Developer will analyze and review complex object and data models and the metadata

repository in order to structure the processes and data for better management and efficient

access.

• Working on multiple projects, and delegating work to Junior Analysts to deliver projects on time.
• Training and mentoring Junior Analysts and building their proficiency in the ETL process.
• Preparing mapping document to extract, transform, and load data ensuring compatibility with

all tables and requirement specifications.

• Experience in ETL system design and development with Talend / Pentaho PDI is essential.
• Create quality rules in Talend.
• Tune Talend / Pentaho jobs for performance optimization.
• Write relational(sql) and multidimensional(mdx) database queries.
• Functional Knowledge of Talend Administration Center/ Pentaho data integrator, Job Servers &

Load balancing setup, and all its administrative functions.

• Develop, maintain, and enhance unit test suites to verify the accuracy of ETL processes,

dimensional data, OLAP cubes and various forms of BI content including reports, dashboards,

and analytical models.

• Exposure in Map Reduce components of Talend / Pentaho PDI.
• Comprehensive understanding and working knowledge in Data Warehouse loading, tuning, and

maintenance.

• Working knowledge of relational database theory and dimensional database models.
• Creating and deploying Talend / Pentaho custom components is an add-on advantage.
• Nice to have java knowledge.

Skills and Qualification:

• BE, B.Tech / MS Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject.
• Having an experience of 3+ years.
• Proficiency with Talend or Pentaho Data Integration / Kettle.
• Ability to work independently.
• Ability to handle a team.
• Good written and oral communication skills.