Business Development Associate

Role : Lead – Influencer Marketing

Overview of job -

Our client is the world’s largest media investment company and is a part of WPP. In fact, we are responsible for one in every three ads you see globally. We are looking to hire a Partner – Influencer Marketing to join us. In this role, you will be leading the advocacy narrative for the largest FMCG organization in India. An individual with expertise in digital marketing/planning, an entrepreneurial mindset and a knack for influencer marketing are key areas of strength that will be expected of the right candidate. Ready to build the influencer marketing ecosystem for working with a team of 15+ young minds specializing in the space of digital & influencer marketing. The role entails managing and building the influencer scope for more than 50 brands.

The 5 key pillars of the job -

A) Liaison with the global team and local to maintain and further develop a strategic narrative on influencer marketing

B) Blur lines between digital planning and influencer planning to drive effectiveness

C) Develop and deliver creative - first of its kind advocacy solutions for brands

D) Create a measurable framework on influencer marketing. E) Understanding of social media, digital marketing and content marketing ecosystem will be important elements to this role.

We are currently looking for a 10+ years’ experience individual, based out of Mumbai to join us. 

Minimum qualifications:

• Graduate – Mandatory, Post graduate – Preferred

• Minimum 10+ years’ experience with 4+ years of experience in digital marketing/digital planning/performance marketing

• Should have previously managed a team

• Experience in influencer marketing, Social media, and ecommerce 

Our IT Project Managers are responsible for assisting various tasks throughout the project lifecycle. Being a central liaison between all project stakeholders consisting Executive Board, Developers, and QA, they makes sure that we do not miss any deliverables from the schedule.

Curious about your work?

• Processing new projects that come in from the client.
• Attending calls/meetings with the client’s teams as needed.
• Determining work flow, steps and timelines for all projects.
• Assisting in the creation of documentation and reports such as project overviews and communicating the same to various internal stakeholders.
• Maintains ongoing daily communication with other departments and resources regarding project status.
• Ensuring each project flows within the timeline, receives checks, and is completely ready for delivery on time.
• Providing timely updates to the client side

Who will you work with?

Everyone, in a way! At SimplePlan, ours is an intentionally flat setup — you will be working directly with team leads, execution heads as well as team members across the length and breadth of the agency.

Who are you?

We're looking for someone who is passionate about scaling teams and working with groups of people towards a common objective — someone who:

• has 0-1 year of experience in Website Projects
• has a tech bachelors' degree
• is proactive as we care deeply about what we do & when we see opportunities/problems, we act
• is good on getting on and doing things
• is clear, concise and precise with a lot of documentation
• has an ability to communicate effectively and professionally with clients

You'll fit right in if:

• you really care about nurturing a delightful team environment
• you possess excellent active listening, presentation and communication skills
• you enjoy solving problems
• you have an innate sense of ownership when it comes to work
• you enjoy discourse on people and operations management
• you enjoy close collaboration with cross-functional teams and individuals from different backgrounds
• you are good with people and to people - whether it’s your fellow team leads, or those who help run SimplePlan behind the scenes

You won't fit right in if:

• you default to waiting for instructions rather than figuring things out yourself
• you are disinterested in being on top of everything
• you would rather keep quiet than speak up in a meeting

Your Impact:

•                 Implements Digital Consumer experiences based on a foundation of SFCC (Salesforce commerce cloud) to meet expected quality standards

•                 Ensures functional requirements and high-level solution designs are understood and are translated into detailed technical design

•                 Implement proofs of concept to prove any new technologies, application flows or integration scenarios and identify customizations needed to SFCC platform for meeting client requirements

•                 Guides the performance tuning and scalability of the ecommerce solution

•                 Diagnose and solve technical problems during implementation and support phases

Your Skills & Experience:

•                 1-3 Years with 2+ years of implementing commerce application on any eCommerce platform in last 3 years

•                 If you have not worked in eCommerce platform, we can still discuss with you if you are expert in Java/.Net and understand REST/SOAP webservices.

•                 Demonstrate proficiency in build and release management using CI/CD strategies (leveraging tools like Jenkins and DevOps practices), implement Mocha/Chai unit and functional test cases in order to reduce costs while ensuring quality

•                 Contributes to designing, implementing and documenting the build release process as well as system configuration and deployment characteristics of the applications

•                 Participates in technical walkthroughs/ code reviews of other team members’ components, test plans and results and help them with gaps

•                 Collaborate with architect to define implementation processes and quality gates and standards

•                 Identifies risks and issues, and help monitor them

•                 Guides the development of reference and resource materials

•                 Mentors developers in improving their platform knowledge and development skills

•                 Communicate technical design to the developers and help/guide them in the implementation

•                 Participates in Agile sprints

Set Yourself Apart With:

•                 eCommerce platform certification

GroundTruth is the leading location-based marketing and advertising technology company. Sitting at the convergence of offline and online data, GroundTruth delivers a unique data set called “visitation data,” which allows brands, agencies, SMBs, and nonprofits to drive high-performing business outcomes (ROI).  GroundTruth activates this data through a suite of performance products and services via their self-serve advertising platform, through managed services, or tailored partnerships. GroundTruth has built proprietary cleansing processes that combine their Blueprint’s contextual mapping technology, owned & operated properties, along with 3rd party mobile location data, together yielding over 30 Billion visits annually.

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Position: Senior Software Engineer – C++

Location: Gurgaon/Remote

About the advertising service architecture team:
The advertising service architecture team is responsible for the the federation of services that support our real-time advertising exchange ecosystem. We currently process ~500k transactions per second on AWS infrastructure typically clearing bids in under 25ms. This team focuses on developing and supporting real-time java systems using non-blocking io and event driven architecture to solve problems such as request enrichment, filtering, and general data collection all of which are critical to our operations.

The senior level represents
Expert professionals with significant experience who plan, design, organize, and execute large units of work in collaboration with stakeholders. These employees are subject matter experts in technologies and business practices who coach, mentor, and supervise less experienced staff members.

A bit about you

You will:

• Lead the engineering efforts across multiple software components
• Write excellent production code and tests and help others improve in code-reviews
• Analyze high-level requirements to design, document, estimate, and build systems
• Coordinate across teams to identify, resolve, mitigate, and prevent technical issues
• Coach and mentor engineers within the team to develop their skills and abilities
• Continuously improve the team's practices in code-quality, reliability, performance, testing, automation, logging, monitoring, alerting, and build processes

You have:

• Education and professional experience:
• PHD or Master’s degree in Computer or equivalent with 5+ years’ experience in technology
• The following skills: C++, C++14, Unix, Multithreading and Data structures

.Additional nice to have skills/certifications: Perl, Shell scripting, Python, Awk, Sed, Protocol Buffers, Aerospike, Redis, Kinesis. Good hands experience on AWS.

You are:

• A team player who is organized, flexible and willing to adapt
• Not afraid of new technologies and driven to learn
• A detail-oriented person, who catches problems early and adjusts
• A strong communicator who can collaborate with multiple business and engineering stakeholders and work through conflicting needs
• A problem solver who likes to dive deep into a problem, diagnose root causes and work with multiple teams to come up with a solution

What we offer

At GroundTruth, we want our employees to be comfortable with their benefits so they can focus on doing the work they love.

• Unlimited Paid Time Off
• In Office Daily Catered Lunch
• Fully stocked snacks/beverages
• 401(k) employer match
• Health coverage including medical, dental, vision and option for HSA or FSA
• Generous parental leave
• Company-wide DEIB Committee
• Inclusion Academy Seminars
• Wellness/Gym Reimbursement
• Pet Expense Reimbursement
• Company-wide Volunteer Day
• Education reimbursement program
• Cell phone reimbursement
• Equity Analysis to ensure fair pay

• Supporting the development and execution of product strategies and roadmaps
• Conducting market research and competitive analysis to identify market trends and opportunities
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define product requirements and specifications
• Working closely with Engineering to ensure the timely delivery of product features and enhancements
• Assisting in the planning and execution of product launches and go-to-market strategies
• Analyzing product performance data to inform product decisions and prioritize feature development
• Supporting customer success and sales teams in product-related inquiries and escalations
• Quick Turnaround Time
• Good communication skills,
• ability to work with creative and technical departments
• Self-motivation,
• ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Receptive to constructive criticism
• delivering changes as directed Technical know-how

Call Reception and Ticket Logging: Responsible for:

• Ensuring calls are answered professionally
• Ensuring that the relevant information is collected from a customer
• Ensuring that the correct level of priority is agreed with the customer
• Ensuring that the ticket is assigned to the correct engineer
• Ensuring that the engineer is aware that there is a new ticket assigned to their queue
  
  SLA Management: Responsible for:
• Ensuring that appropriate attention is paid to P1s
• TPMs engaged immediately for engineer dispatch to the site where applicable
• The customer is forwarded to an engineer for a possible remote fix
• Ensuring that all tickets are managed in line with SLAs
  
  Jeopardy Management: Responsible for:
• Ensuring that the ticket is managed in line with Company’s jeopardy management process
  
  Escalation Management: Responsible for:
• Ensuring that the ticket is escalated appropriately in line with Company’s escalation process
• Provide 1st line escalation to customers and channels (referring to Jeopardy and Escalation Manager)
• Provide 1st line escalation into TPM (referring to Jeopardy and Escalation Manager)
• Responsible for advising Service Centre Manager of any missing information in the knowledge database
  
  Communication Responsible for:
• Customer Communication
• Ensuring that the customer is updated regularly throughout the duration of the ticket
• Ensuring the quality of ticket input is of a high standard
• Ensuring that key internal contacts are advised of any issues
• Responsible for reading, understanding, and complying with Company’s Information Security policies.

FORMAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING

• Educated to an A-level minimum, with higher education qualification (degree or equivalent preferred). Alternatively, relevant and proven Industry experience would be accepted
• Industry or relevant business qualifications and accreditations would be desirable
• Proficiency involved in working in the service industry, with particular emphasis placed on customer focus issues.
• Ability to form close working relationships with the customer community, sub-contractors
• Excellent client-facing communications skills
• A Self-motivated team player with excellent interpersonal skills
• An outgoing individual willing to participate as part of a small and flexible team
• in European languages would be an advantage
• ITIL Foundation / ITIL v3 Foundation
• Overall telecommunications knowledge with an appreciation of the Nortel / Avaya / Genesys / AWS Product Sets

Key Competencies

• Customer Focused
• Relationship Building and Maintenance
• Decision-Making Ability
• Inspiring Communicator
• Initiating Action
• Personal Responsibility

Skills:

• Ability to understand complex business goals, product & technical content, and Interaction Design in order to create engaging & effective experiences for our customers
• Thorough understanding of User Experience Design
• Collaboratively evolve the functionality of digital products along with Business & Technology teams
• Develop and manage user mapping as well as, User experience guidelines and acceptance criteria
• Ability to research, create and present product user journey maps, user task flows, interaction models, storyboards
• Can develop new approaches to complex design problems and convey these designs in the form of presentations, prototypes, and design specifications
• Excellent time-management, multi-tasking, and communication skills; and the ability to quickly prioritize tasks
• Must communicate clearly and effectively; strong analytical and oral communication skills; excellent interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the project to on-time and quality delivery as agreed by the client
• Be the part-time project manager
• Raise and negotiate issues and risks with senior management of the client
• Manage profitability of the project
• As the lead designer, he/she needs to guide team members well and facilitate their learning in the organization
• Stay up-to-date with latest achievements, best practices and trends in design
• Candidate should be willing to travel for on-site project executions for short/long durations in India and abroad
• Candidate should be open to temporary/permanent relocation within Think Designs studios in India

Deliverables:

• Due to his/her role as a Project Manager, a Lead UX Designer will be responsible for ensuring on-time and quality delivery of all deliverables for the project even though he/she may not actually work on all of them. Depending on client requirements, as a Lead designer, he/she will be responsible for delivering all or some of the following:
• Design Strategy based on User Mapping, User Stories, Business Needs, Technology inputs
• Wireframes
• Navigation Structures
• Story Boards
• Interactive Guidelines
• Visual Designs
• Prototypes
• PSD Files
• Specification Documentation

What Think Design is offering:

• The diversity & impact of our services and client engagements; and the unique way we’re structured as an organization along with a highly innovative work environment—will add immense value to your experience.
• Be part of an organization that is a unique blend of a highly collaborative teams working closely in studio environment, who’re are part of a Global Group (Havas Global).
• Opportunity to help make & gain experience on meaningful & measurable impact on a fast growing organization.