Business Development Associate

The Web 3 & Blockchain Innovation Lab plays a pivotal role in leading the lab strategic vision and

operational excellence, fostering a culture of innovation and learning by doing among students.

This individual is responsible for setting the lab strategic direction, managing a team of stream

leaders, and ensuring the lab success in bridging the gap between academia and industry. As a

thought leader and brand ambassador, the Head of the lab promotes the lab focus areas both

internally and externally, embodying the qualities of leadership and innovation that inspire

students and staff alike.

Key Responsibilities:

* Vision and Strategy:

* Develop and communicate a clear vision for the Innovation Labs, aligning with

* the institution strategic objectives.

* Set strategic goals for the lab, including defining key areas of focus, innovation

    strategies, and research priorities.

* Ensure the lab activities contribute to the broader academic and research

   missions of the institution.

Innovation Lab - Industry Interface:

* Build and maintain strong relationships with industry partners, facilitating collaborations that enhance the lab's research and innovation projects.

* Serve as a key liaison between the lab and academic departments, promoting interdisciplinary industry relevant research and learning opportunities.

* Lead initiatives to secure funding, sponsorship, and partnerships that support the lab's activities and growth.

* Brand Ambassador and Thought Leadership:

* Act as a brand ambassador and thought leader, representing the Innovation Labs at conferences, seminars, and public forums.

* Promote the lab's achievements and projects through various channels, enhancing its reputation and visibility.

* Foster a network of alumni, industry leaders, and academic peers to support and engage with the lab's work.

Mentorship and Role Modeling:

* Serve as a mentor and role model for students and mentors, inspiring them to pursue innovation and excellence.

* Encourage the development of leadership skills among lab members, particularly stream leaders and emerging talents.

* Support a learning environment that values diversity, inclusivity, and personal growth.

Skills and Qualifications :

* Advanced degree in a relevant field (e.g., Engineering, Computer Science, Business Administration) or equivalent experience in innovation management.

* Proven leadership experience in managing research or innovation labs, particularly in an academic or similar setting.

* Deep technical expertise in multiple blockchain platforms, smart contracts, DeFi & dApps, Web 3 libraries/frameworks and cryptography. Should be able to demonstrate a deep understanding of the benefits decentralization.

* Strong strategic thinking and planning skills, with the ability to translate vision into actionable plans.

* Excellent relationship-building skills, with experience in academia-industry partnerships.

* Demonstrated success in securing funding, sponsorships, or partnerships.

* Exceptional communication and public speaking skills, capable of engaging a wide range of audiences.

* Deep understanding of the latest trends and technologies in areas relevant to the lab's focus..

Industry: Hospitality

Preferred Skills: Budgeting, Forecasting, Analytical and Numerical Ability, Financial Planning, Microsoft Excel

Functions: Accounting/Finance

Working Days: 5

Role Overview:

We are looking for a junior FP&A Analyst who can support the finance team in planning, budgeting, forecasting, and business analysis. This role is ideal for someone with 1+ year of relevant FP&A experience who understands business numbers and can translate data into insights.

Note: 

This is not an accounting-focused role. We are looking for candidates with a business finance / FP&A mindset, not core accounting or audit profiles.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Budgeting & Forecasting

• Assist in preparation of annual budgets and periodic forecasts
• Track actuals vs budget and highlight key variances

2. Business Analysis

• Analyze financial and operational data to support decision-making
• Work closely with restaurant operations to understand cost drivers and revenue trends

3. MIS & Reporting

• Prepare monthly MIS reports, dashboards, and performance summaries
• Ensure timely and accurate reporting for internal stakeholders

4. Variance Analysis

• Identify deviations in cost, revenue, and profitability
• Provide actionable insights to improve business performance

5. Data Handling & Modeling

• Work on Excel-based financial models and reports
• Maintain and update financial datasets

6. Stakeholder Coordination

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including operations and finance
• Support ad-hoc analysis and business reviews

Eligibility Criteria:

Experience:

• Minimum 1 year of experience in FP&A / Business Finance / Financial Analysis
• Experience in hospitality, retail, QSR, FMCG, or similar fast-paced industries is preferred

Required Skills:

• Strong analytical and numerical ability
• Good understanding of financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting concepts
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel (mandatory)
• Basic understanding of business finance and performance metrics
• Ability to work with large datasets and generate insights
• Good communication skills (no constraints)

Job Description:

We are hiring Javascript developers to join our team in developing enterprise mobile applications. This person will work closely with the UX team, as well as, other engineering teams while developing applications and user interfaces.

Experience & Expertise:

• Highly skilled at front-end engineering using Object-Oriented JavaScript with at least 2+ years of extensive experience on Javascript libraries and micro frameworks
• Expertise on frameworks like , React JS, React Native, Redux, Typescript, etc is highly preferred
• Should have strong hands on mobile cross-platform application development
• Experience integrating user interfaces with middle-tier code and back-end data sources
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and detail-oriented skills
• Must be able to work both on a team or individually, in an adaptable, agile environment
• Excellent communication skills

Job Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the user experience team to develop functional prototypes
• Work with development teams to implement user experience deliverables
• Contribute UI component code to a shared controls library and resource dictionary
• Participate in product definition and strategy development
• Collaborate with team members, developers, and third parties to ensure the integrity of the interaction is maintained throughout the project development life cycle
• Support quality assurance testing processes

Skills Required:

Ionic Framework, Angular 2, Redux, TypeScript, Cross platform, Micro frameworks, React JS, React Native,

What will I be doing?

As the UX Lead, focused on our Core Experience area, you will define a cohesive strategy and deliver cross-team, multi-phase projects from concept through implementation.

You need to lead an existing team that will be focused on creating a simple, easy-to-use, and best-in-class experience for our users. You'll lead a team of 4-5 product designers not only by means of their product work, and you'll also be a coach and foster their career development

You'll work cohesively with the leadership and engineering team.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Analyze the product’s present UX pitfalls, optimization, and growth opportunity or the impact of a user problem and then help tune the project scope accordingly with the product partners
• Understand frequency of usage and the relative importance of a feature/experience, and how it fits into the complete product
• Rationally narrow down to a design recommendation with a strong focus on short-term and long-term implications of the choice Independently deliver high-quality visual design work and support the production with the engineering partners
• Write relevant front end code (HTML, CSS)

What Skill do I need? 

• We emphasize proof of work more than your credentials. Lead and support key design projects
• Relevant work experience of 5+years (preferably in a start-up space) 
• Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary UX/Product design teams to deliver high-quality projects at scale
• Proficient in Sketch, XD, Photoshop, Illustrator, or other design tools 
• Has experience working in AGILE methodology
• Knowledge of current UX best practices, including user research and accessibility across mobile and web

Hi

About the Co.-

Our Client aims to be the country’s first food platform that brings together digital-first brands, experiences and retail destinations that will influence and shape the narrative around food amongst India’s most discerning consumers.

The company's first brand, was launched earlier this year. Best known for its namesake restaurant in Mumbai, It now offers a range of fresh and packaged food products and FMCG range available through multiple digital platforms, marketplaces, its own D2C platform and leading modern trade and gourmet stores in India.

What you’ll be doing?

• Design and develop new, engaging, fast, end-to-end product experiences led by a content to commerce approach for our consumers as part of India’s biggest venture in the omnichannel gourmet food space.

• Work closely with your's and other engineering teams (SAP, PoS, OMS etc) with a keen eye towards scalable architecture to design and implement new 0 to 1 integrations with an appetite to quickly scale from 1 to n across products.

• Work cross-functionally across multiple teams to drive buy-in on new product experiences and engineering frameworks.

• Recruit and build an entirely new engineering team and move fast in converting new ideas to product collaborating with Product, Design, Leadership and other functions, while maintaining high product quality and reliability.

• Complete responsibility for leading a team of application and front-end / Back-end engineers to drive product experiences in full-stack product development, while relentlessly improving performance, scalability, and maintainability.

• Staying ahead of the curve by lending a stable structure to the teams and products while bringing operational excellence as products mature.

• Coaching, mentoring managers and Architects in the team. Good team management skills with ability to multitask, strong problem solving and analytical skills.

What you’ll bring?

• 9+ years of overall experience with 5+ years of digital engineering management experience, managing a diverse set of candidates (frontend, backend, mobile), across various technologies.

• Experience building high performance websites and mobile apps with scalable architecture. Experience in building headless magento preferred.

• Ability to bring in software engineering life cycle best practices - meaningful and deeply-rooted opinions about testing, security and code quality, ability to make sound quality/speed trade-offs.

• Exceptional technical skills with significant experience building and operating critical high-scale systems with a hands on approach to lead from the front.

• Ability to think and analyse both breadth-wise (client, server, DB, control flow) and depth-wise (threads, sessions, space-time complexity) while designing and implementing services.

• Exceptional design and architectural skills.

• Expertise and interest in growing teams- interviewing junior and senior engineers, collaborating with a recruiting team, smoothly onboarding new team members.

• Great management and team development skills: ability to set roadmap and goals for a team and every one of its members, delegate intelligently, mentor engineers, deliver frequent and honest feedback, help team members grow in their careers, and deliver results.

• Passionate, entrepreneurial, technically hands-on with a love for 0 to 1 and delivering premium experiences for our customers.

Why work with us?

• You will be part of our founding team and get your hands dirty in the 0-1 stage of building a D2C brand.

• You will work with a solid set of people from diverse backgrounds.

• You will independently lead projects and have ownership of your deliverables.

• You will be pushed out of your comfort zone and watch your learning curve spike

Regards

Team Merito

Safety Connect is a growing company in the domain of field force and road safety.

We are looking for a high-energy and dynamic Inside Sales Representative to join our growing team and fix quality meetings with potential customers. This role will be responsible for servicing outbound sales with a focus on generating, qualifying, and engaging all prospective clients. This role is one of the first touchpoints for prospects and has the opportunity to set the tone for the sales cycle.  

This position requires outbound cold calling, emailing, qualification, and tight collaboration with the Business Development Manager (BDM) to generate new opportunities.  

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Primary responsibility would be to generate demand and move leads through the pipeline and convert them into sales-qualified leads.

• Respond, engage and qualify inbound leads and inquiries. 

• Develop and execute a strong prospecting plan of attack, including email and call scripts. 

• Quickly learns about the product, effectively communicate the value proposition and be able to respond to objections.

• Follow-up on leads and provide appropriate information to foster relationships.

• Educate leads on our product and nurture them until they are qualified and ready to talk with BDM. 

• Schedule meetings and demos for BDM.  

Requirements /Qualifications: 

• Exceptional communication skills (both verbal and written). 

• Self-motivated with diligent work ethic, Experience with CRM applications.

• Data-driven mindset.

• 1-2 years of experience as an Inside Sales Representative in SaaS/ B2B.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent required.

Required Qualifications:

• Prior Experience in ServiceNow development and administration in an enterprise environment.
• Ability to configure, develop, and implement functionality within ServiceNow.
• ServiceNow System Developer, Administrator Certification.
• Ability to relate to software engineering challenges and practices.

Preferred Education/Experience:

• Education: BS degree in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent on the job, hands-on experience.
• Minimum of 4+ years of overall IT experience, with a practical understanding of various technologies and processes such as operations systems, storage, networking, monitoring, and discovery.
• Experience delivering automated solutions and impl12ementation of highly scalable, highly available services.
• Other ServiceNow Micro Certifications.