
Business Development Associate
Location : Gurgaon
Working : Work from office (WFO )
Industry : Ed Tech
Functional Area : INSIDE SALES
Shift: Day Shift / Night Shift ( optional )
Roles & Responsibilities :
The sales Representative at Planetspark will be responsible for assisting and guiding the right offering/course to the consumers and getting them to purchase the right learning course.
Responsibilities:
● Understanding the offerings for the students and guiding them throughout the process to choose the right option for them
● Initiating phone conversations with parents who complete the demo classes for their kids.
● Intensely following up with the prospects and closing the sales within the sales cycle.
● Diligently communicating and priming the lead through channels like email, and calls.
● Ensuring accurate and proper record-keeping of call information in electronic and digital format.
● Achieving the monthly targets while completing all the input metrics targets,

About Planet Spark
About
PlanetSpark is on its journey to becoming the global leader in the large and untapped communication skills segment. We are Series A funded by some top VCs and are on a 30% month-on-month growth curve. We have our footprint in India, the Middle East, North America, and Australia. Come join a passionate team of over 500 young and energetic members and 400+ expert and handpicked teachers on this roller coaster ride to build the most loved brand for kids who will move the world!
Connect with the team
Company social profiles
Similar jobs
Cassandra Administrator
Experience: 4+ Years
Location: Hyderabad / Bangalore / Chennai / Mumbai / Pune / Kolkata / Gurgaon
Client: Deloitte
Job Description
We are looking for an experienced Cassandra Administrator with strong expertise in Apache Cassandra and DataStax Enterprise (DSE) environments. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience in database administration, performance tuning, high availability, and migration activities.
Key Responsibilities
- Install, configure, upgrade, and maintain DSE Cassandra database clusters.
- Monitor database performance and optimize for scalability and availability.
- Set up and manage replication, backup, and recovery processes.
- Perform DSE Cassandra migration from RHEL to AWS Amazon Linux 2023.
- Troubleshoot and resolve database performance issues and outages.
- Collaborate with Development and DevOps teams to provide database support.
- Develop and maintain automation scripts using Shell, Python, or Ansible.
- Create and maintain technical documentation.
- Implement disaster recovery and high-availability solutions.
- Assist in designing highly scalable and fault-tolerant systems.
Required Skills
- 4+ years of experience in NoSQL database administration.
- Strong hands-on experience with Apache Cassandra / DataStax Enterprise (DSE).
- Good understanding of Cassandra architecture, consistency levels, partitioning, compaction, gossip protocol, and snitches.
- Experience with Nodetool, CQLSH, and DataStax OpsCenter.
- Proficiency in Cassandra Query Language (CQL).
- Hands-on experience in performance tuning and troubleshooting.
- Strong knowledge of Linux/Unix environments.
- Experience with Shell scripting or Python.
- Familiarity with AWS and monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK Stack.
Nice to Have
- Experience with Ansible.
- Exposure to high availability and disaster recovery solutions.
Notice Period: Immediate to 30 days preferred.
EXCITED ABOUT YOUR TASKS?
● Assist in sourcing, screening, and shortlisting candidates through job portals, social media, and other channels.
● Conduct initial candidate assessments, coordinate interview schedules, and facilitate communication with candidates.
● Maintain and update candidate databases and job postings as needed.
● Support the recruitment team in managing candidate pipelines and ensuring timely follow-ups.
● Engage in outreach to passive candidates, understand their career interests, and inform them about
open roles.
● Help create and maintain job descriptions and other recruitment-related documents.
● Participate in team meetings and brainstorming sessions to enhance recruitment strategies.
WHAT WILL YOU NEED TO SUCCEED?
●1 to 3 years of experience in IT and Non-it Hiring
● Strong interest in recruitment, HR, and talent acquisition.
● Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
● Ability to multitask, prioritize, and manage time effectively.
● Proficiency in MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
● Proficiency of job portals and social media recruitment is a plus.
We are seeking a dynamic and motivated Business Development Executive to join our team and drive sales for our e-commerce agency in the USA market during night shifts. The ideal candidate should have a proven track record in business development, a deep understanding of the e-commerce industry, and be willing to work during USA night hours.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Client Acquisition: Identify and target potential clients and businesses in the USA interested in our e-commerce services and solutions.
2. Sales Strategy: Develop and execute a comprehensive sales strategy to achieve revenue targets and maximize growth.
3. Lead Generation: Generate high-quality leads through cold outreach, networking, market research, and collaboration with marketing teams.
4. Client Engagement: Build and maintain strong client relationships, understanding their needs, and offering tailored e-commerce solutions.
5. Product Knowledge: Stay up-to-date with our agency's e-commerce services and offerings to effectively communicate their value to potential clients.
6. Sales Presentations: Create and deliver compelling sales presentations and proposals that highlight the benefits of our services.
7. Pipeline Management: Manage and maintain a sales pipeline, tracking leads, opportunities, and conversion rates.
8. Market Research: Stay informed about industry trends, competitor activities, and emerging opportunities in the e-commerce sector.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in business, marketing, or a related field.
- Proven track record in business development or sales, with experience in the e-commerce industry being a plus.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Ability to work independently and meet sales targets.
- Results-oriented with a focus on customer satisfaction.
- Willingness to work during night hours to cater to the USA market.
Benefits:
- Competitive salary and commission structure
- Night shift differential
- Professional development opportunities
- Collaborative and supportive work environment
Job Type: Full-time
Schedule:
Day shift
Supplemental pay types:
Performance bonus
Ability to commute/relocate:
Gautam Buddha Nagar, Uttar Pradesh: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)
Education:
Bachelor's (Preferred)
Experience:
Business development: 1 year (Required)
Language:
English (Required)
Work Location: In person
Project Details:
- Task: Annotate and label 25,000 images as per defined guidelines.
- Duration: 2 months (Immediate start)
- Compensation: ₹10,000 per month (₹20,000 total for 2 months)
- Location: Remote (candidates from South India also welcome)
🖥️ Requirements:
- Personal laptop with good performance (capable of handling annotation tools)
- Stable high-speed internet connection
- Prior experience in data annotation / labeling on platforms like Freelancer, Upwork, Toloka, or RWS
Strong attention to detail and ability to meet weekly targets
Role Overview:
Responsible for leading all HR functions at the plant, including manpower planning, recruitment, industrial relations, employee engagement, statutory compliance, and coordination with corporate HR. Ensures smooth HR operations supporting plant productivity and compliance.
Key Responsibilities:
• Lead HR operations
• Partner with operations leadership to align manpower with production targets.
• Manage end-to-end recruitment for staff, operators, and technical positions.
• Develop and implement HR policies and systems aligned with corporate standards.
• Drive performance management, appraisals, and competency mapping.
• Handle industrial relations, grievance redressal, and union communication (if applicable).
• Ensure statutory compliance – Factories Act, ESI, PF, labour laws, etc.
• Oversee time office, attendance, and payroll coordination.
• Lead employee engagement, retention, and welfare initiatives.
• Coordinate with finance for cost tracking and HR budgeting.
• Mentor and guide junior HR staff at the plant.
- Work in close coordination with senior management to define strategy and targets for FI Partnerships
- Develop the pitch, collateral, presentations and other supporting material to adequately demonstrate risk/reward for the Financial Institution partners
- Generate leads pipeline (inbound and outbound) and implementation plan
- Lead and prepare presentations to Financial Institutions
- End to end management of the process for acquiring partners for the platform including conclusion of commercials, legal agreement, system integration etc
- Coordination with internal teams like Legal, Credit Risk, Product etc and with external teams of the Bank or Financial Institutions
- Progressively reduce financing cost profile across the platform and NBFC
- Work on arranging for debt funds for the NBFC from other Financial Institutions
- Work with Banking partners to actively participate in joint marketing and other efforts to drive customers both from open market and existing customers of the partner
- Work with the external stakeholders to develop products and new markets, identify business opportunities
- Track and improve on conversion from leads to closure
- Manage relationships and help resolution of issues in case of any with the Financial Institutions.
- Regular reporting of performance
- Develop deep relationships with Financial Institutions like Banks, NBFCs etc
JD:
Your role will include:
- Writing and testing your code, innovating and contributing towards increasing the value delivered by your team.
- Setting a high bar through your design, development, analysis and deployment activities
- Understanding and participating in evolving the architecture of our products.
- Keeping up-to-date with new technologies, best practices, and work on optimizing the tooling and automation.
- Understanding the latest development and engineering paradigms like Scrum/Agile/TDD/BDD/DDD etc.
You have experience with the following:
- Strong experience of leading and being part of technical teams preferably following agile methodology.
- Strong technical background with ability to provide technical guidance to other team members.
- Knowledge of microservices and must have experience of implementing a few microservices by the least.
- Knowledge of API driven platform development & Software Integration.
- You have hands-on experience in building secure, high-performing and scalable systems in Java.
- Exposure to JVM based languages like Java, Scala, Clojure.
- Develop and manage e-commerce websites, web applications & web sites.
- Analyze, design, code, debug, test, document & deploy applications.
- Participate in project & deployment planning.
- Must be a self-starter & be able to work with minimum supervision
- Exp. In modules/extensions development/customization.
- Exp. In Theme integration/customization.
- Exp. In API creation/integration.
- Exp. In Migration from Magento1 to Magento2
- Extensive experience of PHP and MySQL.
- Exposure on Magento 2, CMS and JavaScript frameworks such as jQuery.
- Demonstrable knowledge of XML, XHTML, CSS, Modules i.e. API integration,
- Payment Gateways, XML with a focus on standards.
- Demonstrable source control experience
- Two or more published websites in E-Commerce










