Business Development Executive

ApnaComplex is one of India’s largest and fastest-growing PropTech disruptors within the Society & Apartment Management business.  The SaaS based B2C platform is headquartered out of India’s tech start-up hub, Bangalore, with branches in 6 other cities. It currently empowers 3,600 Societies, managing over 6 Lakh Households in over 80 Indian cities to effortless manage all aspects of running large complexes seamlessly.

If it excites you to - drive innovation, create industry-first solutions, build new capabilities ground-up, and work with multiple new technologies, ApnaComplex is the place for you.

The primary responsibility of this role is to design, develop, and maintain applications individually as well as work in a group. Should work as per the defined project priorities and project schedules and ensure to complete the assigned projects within allotted timelines and develop process improvements to improve system quality and efficiency.

Responsibilities:

• Should design, develop, and maintain applications individually as well as work in a group.
• Should maintain quality and security of the assigned development tasks applying the best design and development guidelines as defined in the project.
• Should work as per the defined project priorities and project schedules and ensure to complete the assigned projects within allotted timelines.
• Must adhere to agile methodologies and the project management followed in the project
• Assist in technical and project risk management and participate in mitigation activities.
• Interact with the team for the day to day development tasks and hurdles.

Must Have:

• Expertise in Objective-C programming language.
• Experience in Swift programming.
• Expertise in Cocoa Touch frameworks.
• Expertise in developing iOS applications.
• Very good experience in designing applications with best suited Design patterns.
• Should have a strong knowledge and experience in using SOLID principles.
• Good knowledge in socket programming, device communication.
• Good knowledge in debugging and optimization tools like Instruments.
• Good knowledge in Push Notifications.
• Good knowledge in generating ipa using different provisioning profiles
• Knowledge in pushing apps to AppStore.
• Knowledge in writing unit test cases.
• Good knowledge in iOS human interface guidelines and coding standards.
• Should have a very good experience in technically mentoring the team and assisting the team when required.
• Very Strong communication Skills and interpersonal skills
• Experience in working in projects run as per Agile Methodology.
• Must have very good analytical abilities and problem solving capabilities.
• 1 year of software development experience

Good to have:

• Good knowledge in Bluetooth programming.
• Good to have knowledge in Audio domain and related frameworks.
• Good to have knowledge in Database tools like Coredata Desired Tools Experiences
• Xcode IDE, Instruments.
• Experience in using client apps for version controlling systems like bitbucket.
• Experience in using UX/UI tools like Figma.
• Experience in Version controlling System (SVN, Github).
• Experience in Bug Tracking System (JIRA, QC etc..)

• Developing new product features
• Working on developing https://www.productmanagerhq.com/2018/10/product-strategies-for-switching-costs/">product strategies
• Problem Solving 
• Communication
• Analytical
• Project Management

• As an APM, you will be reporting to Product Owners. Our product is at a very young age, and hence has a long way to go. As an APM, you get to work on the vision of the product and get direct involvement with the ideation and implementation of product features. The key responsibilities of this position will be:
• Collecting quantitative https://www.productmanagerhq.com/2018/06/data-driven-vs-data-informed/">product data and metrics
• Synthesizing https://www.productmanagerhq.com/2018/08/effective-user-interviews/">customer research
• Gathering product https://www.productmanagerhq.com/2014/10/what-is-a-user-story/">requirements and aligning them with business goals
• Coordinating with https://www.productmanagerhq.com/2015/04/how-to-work-with-stakeholders-as-a-pm/">stakeholders to achieve the product vision

About Us:

We are a group of 110+ techies, data analysts, digital marketers, and operations professionals who have come together to provide next-generation e-commerce solutions. We help brands & private labels to grow their businesses by providing them a scalable and conversion-friendly e-commerce platform using Magento. We love brainstorming ideas on how businesses can utilize technology to achieve their desired goals.

Growisto has expertise of providing the below services:

1)Amazon Marketing: Boost sales, improve visibility, and reduce cost to scale up Amazon business globally by

1) Leveraging machine learning to identify search patterns

2) Creating a data driven marketing strategy to target the right audience

3) Optimizing strategies to adapt to the ever-evolving Amazon algorithm

2)E-Commerce Website Development: Boost direct sales and enhance user experience by

Designing and developing custom e-commerce websites with latest e-commerce technology stack of Magento backend, ReachJs frontend and a PWA

-Create a scalable and conversion-friendly e-commerce platform

- Integrating with multiple third-party systems and migrate from legacy system seamlessly

3)Website Marketing: Drive targeted traffic to website in order to increase sales and reduce customer acquisition cost by

- Optimising the website for search engines to increase organic traffic

-Strategically placing ads on search network

About the role:

Growisto is looking to further increase its business primarily in Western, European and Middle East market. As a sales manager, you will be solving the below key problems:

1) How to close more accounts from North America, European and Middle East markets?

2) How to improve the increase leads to a conversion ratio?

3) How to get accounts with more recurring revenue and higher billing rate?

4) How to get more enterprise accounts?

In order to embark on the next leg of growth, we need committed people managers who would want more than just a job.

Key Responsibilities:

We strongly believe that in order to solve above mentioned problems, the activities/responsibilities will keep changing depending on the need of the hour. We want you to take complete ownership of the sales and then define the activities yourself to meet the goal. Still, to give you a better understanding about the role, here is what we have on the top of our mind:

-Work closely with the department head(s) to understand the sales gap and work backwards to close the same

-In order to close the sales, take complete ownership of providing the right solution to the prospects

-Achieve a high lead to conversion rate

-Be hands-on in taking the calls to qualify the leads and take them to conversion

-Develop the right sales collateral such as service deck, case studies, proposal templates, etc. to improve the conversion rate

-Work with practice head(s) to refine the working model to deliver the next results for the clients

-Work with the marketing team closely to improve the lead conversion ratio

-Stay actively involved in R&D to help in building offerings as well as identifying new markets for expansion

-Strategic partnerships with consulting companies, agencies in other markets

Skills (Must Have):

-Track record of services selling in non-Indian or Indian market

-Experience conducting cold outreach and nurture campaigns to build a sustainable pipeline

-Demonstrable command of consultative selling skills and an ability to manage complex sales cycles end-to-end

-High emotional intelligence and the ability to appeal to the varying needs of multiple stakeholders in the sales process

-Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to persuasively communicate recommendations and effectively champion customer needs

-Excellent use of insights and reliability around data-driven decision making

-Excellent organization, project management, time management skills along with an ability to take initiatives

Why should you consider joining Growisto?

-It will be a challenging role and you will get complete ownership to solve challenging problems.

-If you like challenges and think from a first principle basis, you should definitely take this up

-If you have the aspiration to grow and develop as a leader in parallel to a multifold growth rate of a start-up then you should join us

-If your thought process and personality resonate with our cultural values, then you should join Us.

Why should you not consider joining Growisto?

-If the role description does not excite you, then you should not join us

-We are a startup and things will move fast. If you are not comfortable in a fast-paced environment, then you should not join us

-If we have to choose between culture/team and profits, our obvious choice is culture.

-If you don’t believe in the same philosophy then you should not join us.

• Build fluid, scalable, responsive, and consumer-centric web platforms that target users across a wide array of devices
• Collaborate closely with designers & backend developers and contribute to the full product development life-cycle from design and development to roll out
  Take ownership of work and deliver quality results consistently
• Own the delivery of multiple features in a fast-paced work environment
• Build optimized and modular components to provide performance-oriented solutions
• Work in a dynamic and collaborative culture ensuring good teamwork and communication with remote team members when needed

• 4+ Years of experience in frontend web development (1+ in ReactJS)
• Strong past experience of building, scaling and maintaining feature-rich customer-facing single-page applications
• Ability to translate designs into UI elements with accuracy and an eye for fluidity and responsiveness; strong grasp of any of CSS / sass / less
• Proven ability to implement key concepts of state management, security, and caching practices in enterprise-level web applications used at scale
• Proficient understanding of compatibility issues across different browsers and web and mobile devices and available ways to work around them
• Familiarity with the react ecosystem and popular libraries in that ecosystem
• Strong grasp over core web development concepts like HTML5, JavaScript, CSS3, general Web 2.0 techniques, and working without modern component libraries
• Experience with designing secure web applications with a strong understanding of common security vulnerabilities and best practices
• Understanding of data structures, algorithms and object-oriented programming
• Strong grasp over concepts of performance, optimization, lighthouse, etc
• Strong handle over Git, following best practices to facilitate collaboration

• Hands-on experience with supporting payments and integrating payment gateways
• Experience with progressive web apps, service workers
• Strong grasp over frontend unit and end-to-end testing frameworks

Responsiblitis 

 Assist in the formulation of strategies to build a lasting digital connection with

   consumers

• Plan and monitor the ongoing company presence on social media (Twitter,

   Facebook etc.)

• Launch optimized online adverts through Google AdWords, Facebook etc. to

   increase company and brand awareness

• Be actively involved in SEO efforts (keyword, image optimization etc.)
• Prepare online newsletters and promotional emails and organize their

  distribution through various channels

• Provide creative ideas for content marketing and update website
• Collaborate with designers to improve user experience
• Measure performance of digital marketing efforts using a variety of Web

   analytics tools (Google Analytics, Web Trends etc.)

• Acquire insight in online marketing trends and keep strategies up-to-date
• Maintain partnerships with media agencies and vendors

About the Company:

 It is a Data as a Service company that helps businesses harness the power of data. Our technology fuels some of the most interesting big data projects of the word. We are a small bunch of people working towards shaping the imminent data-driven future by solving some of its fundamental and toughest challenges. 

Role: We are looking for an experienced team lead to drive data acquisition projects end to end. In this role, you will be working in the web scraping team with data engineers, helping them solve complex web problems and mentor them along the way. You’ll be adept at delivering large-scale web crawling projects, breaking down barriers for your team and planning at a higher level, and getting into the detail to make things happen when needed.  

Responsibilities  

•  Interface with clients and sales team to translate functional requirements into technical requirements 
•  Plan and estimate tasks with your team, in collaboration with the delivery managers 
•  Engineer complex data acquisition projects 
•  Guide and mentor your team of engineers 
•  Anticipate issues that might arise and proactively consider those into design 
•  Perform code reviews and suggest design changes 

Prerequisites 

•  Between 5-8 years of relevant experience 
• Fluent programming skills and well-versed with scripting languages like Python or Ruby 
• Solid foundation in data structures and algorithms 
• Excellent tech troubleshooting skills 
• Good understanding of web data landscape 
• Prior exposure to DOM, XPATH and hands on experience with selenium/automated testing is a plus 

Skills and competencies 

• Prior experience with team handling and people management is mandatory 
• Work independently with little to no supervision 
• Extremely high attention to detail  
•  Ability to juggle between multiple projects  

• Creates and executes test plans and clear, concise test scripts for new products or enhancements to existing products
• Defines comprehensive scenarios and variations in data to adequately perform testing
• Schedules and performs functional, integration, regression, and release testing
• Submits defects and issues to development for correction, and retests once defects have been resolved
• Reports test results and status as appropriate
• Tracks defects and causal analysis to closure
• Creates and/or reviews requirements, design, and scope documents
• Helps support and advocates the standard to test design, procedures and may provide input to those procedures
• Coordinates and/or performs testing from initiation through delivery
• Ensures testing is completed on schedule and within budget
• Serves as liaison between technical and non-technical department in order to ensure that all targets and requirements are met
• May create and maintain test libraries, databases, and test environments
• May certify and review test results of other analysts and testers
• May assist with software changes for documentation update or correction
• May assist with automated scripts from team members
• May cross-train and mentor less experienced QA team members
• Prepare Automated Scripts for the Modules
• Prepare reusable methods and Artifacts which helps in improving efficiency and productivity

Skills & Experience:

• Able to meet aggressive deadlines and handle multiple complex projects
• Cross-browser testing (Windows - Firefox, Chrome, IE, Edge)/ (Mac Book - Safari, Chrome, Firefox)
• Involves UI and UX testing. (UI User Interface & UX User Experience)
• Able to handle scripting across different technologies
• Good knowledge of software development lifecycles
• Good knowledge of software testing lifecycles
• Good knowledge of AGILE/SCRUM
• Good Knowledge of testing web-based applications on Mobiles / Desktop
• Able to modify testing development or to suit the environment or product
• Knowledge/experience of testing multiple platforms, browsers, and mobile devices a big plus
• Experience with the use of automated testing tools such as Selenium/Appium
• Good knowledge of Performance testing
• Good knowledge of API Testing (Manual as well as Automation)

Preferred:

• Understanding of and hands-on experience with testing tools; in particular Microsoft Visual Studio/TFS, MS Office, SharePoint, Test Data editors and JIRA
• ISTQB Advanced / QAI Certified / AEM Certifications

• Excellent customer service skills, including maintaining focus on the customer issue in a fastpaced environment
• Ability to empathize with and prioritize customer needs
• Demonstrates interpersonal skills with a diverse customer base
• Demonstrates conflict resolution, negotiation, and de-escalation skills
• Demonstrates ownership to resolve challenging customer issues, escalating when necessary
• Ability to determine customer needs and provide appropriate solutions
• Maintain regular and reliable attendance, including the daily schedule as assigned