Business Development Executive

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Director of Growth to lead our company's growth initiatives and drive measurable results across various marketing channels. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in performance marketing. Experience in brand building & influencer marketing is a huge plus.

As the Director of Growth, you will be responsible for developing and executing strategies to acquire paid customers and improve ROAS to maximize revenue growth across multiple channels.

About the product which needs to be sold:

• English proficiency is an aspiration for the majority of the Indian population, yet access to quality English learning resources remains limited. 
• Our spoken English product aims to address this gap by offering a 24/7 AI tutor accessible to anyone with a mobile device at an extremely affordable price.
• This is an affordable offering (<Rs.5000 ticket size) targeting the masses. 
• This product has the potential to transform the lives of hundreds of millions of people by granting them access to a top-notch English tutor.

Desired Previous Experience:

First-principled problem-solving experience across growth functions at fast-paced hyper growth startups.

At Supernova we sell affordable products to the masses, Experience selling to mainstream India and not just the top 5% is preferred.

Ours is also a low LTV product (<10k LTV) so we need our CACs to be at Rs.1000 or so, which is where we are today. So knowing how to target the masses and get conversions at low CACs and good ROAS is preferred.

Experience in handling performance marketing channels - Facebook Ads, Google Ads, etc., preferably in an Edtech startup.

Experience in working with influencers and running high quality influencer marketing campaigns for brand building and acquisition will be preferred, though not mandatory.

Experience in developing content and content marketing strategies to build a brand and get leads via social media channels like Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and others to drive growth.

Experience with brand building: Linked in posts of founders, Product videos to create excitement will be preferred, though not mandatory.

Familiarity with Whatsapp-based growth strategies and funnels will be preferred, though not mandatory.

Experience in offline marketing and working with tier 2 & 3 consumers will be preferred, though not mandatory.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Develop and execute a comprehensive growth strategy:

Collaborate with the executive team to define growth goals and objectives.

Identify key performance marketing channels, including Facebook Ads, Google Ads, and others, to drive customer acquisition and revenue growth.

Create and implement data-driven strategies to optimize campaign performance, conversion rates, and return on investment (ROI).

Performance marketing and advertising:

Oversee and manage all performance marketing channels, including Facebook Ads and Google Ads, to drive targeted traffic, conversions, and revenue growth.

Develop and implement A/B testing strategies to optimize campaign performance and improve key metrics such as click-through rates (CTR), cost per acquisition (CPA), and return on ad spend (ROAS).

Analyse campaign data, generate insights, and provide recommendations for ongoing optimization and improvement.

Brand building and positioning:

Develop and execute brand-building strategies to enhance brand awareness, perception, and customer loyalty.

Work closely with the marketing and creative teams to ensure brand consistency across all touch points, including advertising campaigns, social media channels, and content marketing initiatives.

Monitor industry trends, market competition, and customer preferences to inform brand positioning and differentiation strategies.

Influencer marketing and partnerships:

Identify and collaborate with relevant influencers, bloggers, and industry partners to drive brand awareness, reach new audiences, and generate meaningful engagement.

Develop and manage influencer marketing campaigns, including negotiation, contract management, and performance tracking.

Track and analyse the effectiveness of influencer campaigns and partnerships, making data-driven decisions for future collaborations.

Social media management: (Not mandatory but a good to have)

Oversee the company's social media presence across various platforms, including content strategy, community management, and engagement.

Monitor social media performance, analyze metrics, and generate insights to optimize content strategy and drive engagement and growth.

Stay up-to-date with social media trends, platform updates, and emerging technologies to leverage new opportunities for growth.

KPIs:

Reducing Customer Acquisition Costs

Revenue Growth

User Growth

About Merchandise Operation (Merch Ops): Merchandise Operations (Merch Ops) is a merchandise management system, it is positioned as a host system in the retail solutions, it has ability to maintain the Master/Foundation data, create and manage Purchase Orders, create, and manage Prices & Promotions, perform Replenishment, effective inventory control and financial management. Merc Ops provides Business users with consistent, accurate, and timely data across an enterprise by allowing them to get the:

Right Goods in the...

• Right Silhouettes, Sizes and Colors; at the...

• Right Price; at the...

• Right Location; for the...

• Right Consumer; at the...

• Right Time; at the...

• Right Quantity.

About Team:

• Proven, passionate bunch of disruptors providing solutions that solve real-time supply chain problems.

• Well mixed experienced team with young members and experienced in product, domain, and Industry knowledge.

• Gained Expertise in designing and deploying massively scalable cloud native SaaS products

• The team currently comprises of associates across the globe and is expected to grow rapidly.

Our current technical environment:

• Software: React JS, Node JS, Oracle PL/SQL, GIT, Rest API. Java script.

• Application Architecture: Scalable three tier web application.

• Cloud Architecture: Private cloud, MS Azure (ARM templates, AKS, HD insight, Application gateway, Virtue Networks, Event Hub, Azure AD) • Frameworks/Others: Tomcat Apache, RDBMS, Jenkins, Nginx, Oracle Type ORM, Express.

What you'll be doing:

• As a Staff Engineer you will be responsible for the design of the features in the product roadmap

• Creating and encouraging good software development practices engineering-wide, driving strategic technical improvements, and mentoring other engineers.

• You will write code as we expect our technical leadership to be in the trenches alongside junior engineers, understanding root causes and leading by example

• You will mentor engineers

• You will own relationships with other engineering teams and collaborate with other functions within Blue Yonder

• Drive architecture and designs to become simpler, more robust, and more efficient.

• Lead designs discussion and come up with robust and more efficient designs to achieve features in product roadmap

• Take complete responsibility of the features developed right from coding till deployments

• Introduce new technology and tools for the betterment of the product

• Guides fellow engineers to look beyond the surface and fix the root causes rather than symptoms.

What we are looking for:

• Bachelor’s degree (B.E/B.Tech/M.Tech Computer science or related specialization) and minimum 7 to 10 years of experience in Software development, has been an Architect, within the last 1-2 years minimum. • Strong programming experience and background in Node JS and React JS.

• Hands-on development skills along with architecture/design experience.

• Hands-on experience on designing, building deploying and maintenance of enterprise cloud solutions.

• Demonstrable experience, thorough knowledge, and interests in Cloud native architecture, Distributed micro-services, Multi-tenant SaaS solution and Cloud Scalability, performance, and High availability

• Experience with API management platforms & providing / consuming RESTful APIs

• Experience with varied tools such as REST, Hibernate, RDBMS, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, React.

• Hands-on development experience on Oracle PL/SQL.

• Experience with DevOps and infrastructure automation.

Techwave is a leading global IT services and solutions company revolutionizing digital transformations. We enable clients to maximize their potential and achieve a greater market with a wide array of technology services, including, but not limited to Enterprise Resource Planning, Application Development, Analytics, Digital, and the Internet of things (IoT).  

Organization : TECHWAVE (http://www.techwave.net/)

Requirement : Groovy Grails Developer

Experience :5+ Years

Job type : Permanent

Location : Hyderabad

Job Description Engaged in all phases of the software development lifecycle

Job qualifications and requirements

• 4+yrs experience in software development in Groovy, grails framework,
• Knowledge of mysql, postgresql, RabbitMQ, Linux based development/ deployment.
• Deployment with Jenkins/ maven,
• Good knowledge in Jira.
• Project experience in ecommerce/digital domain is a big plus.
• Strong exp in creating angular2+ (preferably angular 6) custom components
• Having exp with state mgmt. e.g., rxjs, Redux observable, Ngrx, Ngxs.
• Frameworks: Angular 2+/ 5/ 6, Bootstrap, HTML5, CSS3,
• Programming: JavaScript, Nodejs, Typescript, JavaScript (OOP), jQuery, Restwebservices
• Tools: GIT hub, Wireframe e.g., invasion
• Cloud Exposure

About the role:

Associate Product Manager - Growth

As an Associate Product Manager at ForeignAdmits, you'll be responsible for driving the growth of one of the flagship products, owning the product's end-to-end acquisition/ activation/ conversion/ retention funnels. You'll identify users' needs and turn those insights into products that users love. You’ll be closely working with the PMs and CEO in driving the product vision.

Responsibilities:

• Working closely with the Backend Engineering & Front-end Engineering, Design, Operations, and Customer Experience teams to deliver world-class customer-obsessed products and features.
• Be the voice of the customer. Develop a deep understanding of our customers and build the best product user experiences on their behalf through market research, experimentation, user testing, and data analysis.
• Research and translate industry problems into solutions through the use of technology and data. Your solutions should create a measurable "impact" on the lives of consumers.
• Create detailed product requirement documents and user stories with an ability to imagine the user journeys - happy paths, unhappy paths, and edge cases
• Empathize with dozens of personas and use cases, and think user-first.
• Have a data-oriented approach and an eye for numbers, insights, and metrics.
• Define and analyze metrics that inform the success of products.
• Build user insights and recommendations from the data. Create user cohorts and funnels to understand user behavior.
• Ability to think creatively, deal with ambiguity, and manage fast-paced environments and changing priorities.
• And most essentially, a founder's mindset: is to own initiatives & deliver results.

Requirements:

• 0-1 year of relevant product management experience in consumer product organizations
• High energy and high ownership individual with a keen interest in building 0 to 1 systems that have large-scale real-world impact
• Good understanding of UX Design practices in the consumer internet space
• Ability to think granularly and are hungry to learn and evolve in all things.
• Bias for action and experience making things happen in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with a knack for articulating customer challenges clearly.
• Analyze and synthesize data, including writing SQL
• Proficient with data analytics tools like Google Analytics, Mixpanel, Adobe Omniture, etc., or the equivalents.

Good to have:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related fields, or equivalent practical experience with a deep understanding of technology platforms

What do we value?

• High energy and high ownership
• Data-driven decision making
• Ability to constantly experiment.
• Hungry for learning and a bias for action.
• Clearly articulate the user needs and insights & translate them into recommendations.

What does ForeignAdmits bring to the table:

Apart from monetary benefits, we offer

• An informal and self-managed work culture.
• Freedom to experiment with new ideas and technologies.
• A highly motivating work environment where you learn exponentially and grow with the organization.
• An opportunity to create an impact at scale.
• Opportunity to be a part of team to see our next series of funding 

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Combine excellent abstract reasoning ability to document, architect, develop and test software with the commitment to excellence/defect free before being deployed.
• Write and implement low latency applications & software solutions that integrate with different systems.
• Rapidly incorporate new technologies as required & deliver successfully by self.
• Work closely with mentors, team members, team leads, program managers and stakeholders to investigate, fix, optimize, test and deploy high quality solutions.
• Drive the technical design, implementation and maintenance of larger tech initiatives geared toward improving and scaling of products.
• Accurately schedule & and track progress of self & team members. Create end to end Work Breakdown & estimates for modules being implemented.
• Participate in planning & recognizing inconsistencies (e.g., scope, resources, feasibility, usability, customer value, etc.) in product requirements and alert the Project Mentor. Handle independently or assist the Mentor in building, testing, and documenting product releases.
• Support the team in deploying product functionality & assist the TLs in troubleshooting in the production environment.
• Proactively promote Tech Culture by writing blogs, making presentations which will help you learn & grow.
• Effectively communicate one-on-one with on-shore / off-shore product teams / developers; gather and clarify requirements from technical folks / product managers / business teams.
• Proactively assist and serve as a role model for the team members to follow the team software development process; consistently innovate the team processes to improve team productivity and quality.

Skill Set:

• Strong Analytical, Problem Solving Skills and participates in all activities with urgency, a results orientation, and a strong work ethic.
• Must have technical knowledge of Python.
• Must have hands-on experience in developing Restful APIs and Web Services.
• Knowledge of Django (or any other established Python web frameworks) would be a plus.
• Knowledge of Angular or React or similar technologies would be an added advantage.
• Strong experience with relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and/or NoSQL databases.
• Experience with unit testing and test-driven development.
• Experience working with Linux/Unix Operating system & comfortable with command line.
• Experience with modern software engineering workflows and tools (e.g. Agile, JIRA, Git, CI/CD, Amazon Web Services, Observability and Monitoring tools like ELK, Datadog, NewRelic, etc.).
• Experience in all areas of SDLC, including architecture and design, development, and testing.
• Extremely passionate about code reviews, engineering best practices and mentoring/coaching the developers to make them successful.
• Excellent understanding of feature estimation and ability to communicate issues and risks that may impact timelines, budget, or resources.
• Experience with Agile development lifecycle.
• Can gather and clarify requirements from technical folks / product managers / business teams.
• Lead by example & act as a role model for the team.

How will you grow here:

• Work in multiple projects & teams spread across different domains and technologies.
• Work & interact directly with senior directors in an open and flat hierarchical structure.
• You can own all aspects of leading software products and projects.
• You get to work with top-notch engineers and leaders with decades of experience in building and delivering great software.
• Work with CXOs / Senior Directors of various emergent companies in US & India.
• Get involved with the newest products, latest technologies and different methodologies.
• Opportunity to Mentor the Best and Get Mentored by the Best.

• Events, activities and outings aplenty (We really party hard!).
• A stimulating and energetic work environment which encourages creativity.
• Hackathons, Gaming Evenings, Poker Nights and much more!
• Flexible Timings, Flexible Holiday Calendar, Work from Home Option.
• Competitive salary (best in the industry).
• Beverages and snacks throughout the day, on the house!
• Recreation center to let off some steam.
• Office lunch option (fresh and savoury ghar ka khana).
• Medical Insurance (stay healthy, stay happy)

As DevOps Engineer, you are responsible to setup and maintain GIT repository, DevOps tools like Jenkins, UCD, Docker, Kubernetes, Jfrog Artifactory, Cloud monitoring tools, Cloud security.

• Setup, configure, and maintain GIT repos, Jenkins, UCD, etc. for multi hosting cloud environments.
• Architect and maintain the server infrastructure in AWS. Build highly resilient infrastructure following industry best practices.
• Working on Docker images and maintaining Kubernetes clusters.
• Develop and maintain the automation scripts using Ansible or other available tools.
• Maintain and monitor cloud Kubernetes Clusters and patching when necessary.
• Working on Cloud security tools to keep applications secured.
• Participate in software development lifecycle, specifically infra design, execution, and debugging required to achieve successful implementation of integrated solutions within the portfolio.
• Required Technical and Professional Expertise.
• Minimum 4-6 years of experience in IT industry.
• Expertise in implementing and managing Devops CI/CD pipeline.
• Experience in DevOps automation tools. And Very well versed with DevOps Frameworks, Agile.
• Working knowledge of scripting using shell, Python, Terraform, Ansible or puppet or chef.
• Experience and good understanding in any of Cloud like AWS, Azure, Google cloud.
• Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes is required.
• Proficient in troubleshooting skills with proven abilities in resolving complex technical issues.
• Experience with working with ticketing tools.
• Middleware technologies knowledge or database knowledge is desirable.
• Experience and well versed with Jira tool is a plus.

Position: Full Stack developer

Location: Bangalore

Experience:  3 to 5 years, preferably in an agile environment

RESPONSIBILITIES
·     Understanding requirements present in specification documents
·     Knowledge on cloud environment
·     API development for consumption by webapp and mobile apps
·     Database schema design
·     Integration with partner systems based on REST APIs
·     Working with code base across multiple development & staging environments
·     Take part in User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
·     Be part of Production deployment & release activities

TECH SKILLS
·     Must Have:
*       Python and Node Js
*       RDBMS :Postgre SQL/ MongoDB
*       Must have knowledge on AWS or Digital Ocean
*       Good documentation skills
·     Good to have:
*       Javascript
*       RabbitMQ
*       Django
*       Docker
*       Redis
*       Flask
*       nginx
*       graylog