Business Development Executive

Job Title: Talent Acquisition Associate

Location: Worli, Mumbai (Hybrid Working)

Experience: 1-2 years

About Qrata

We match top talent with highly competitive career opportunities with leading startups in India

and globally and address hiring challenges, recruitment brand marketing, and innovative and

collaborative strategic consulting.

Position Overview:

As a Talent Acquisition Associate at Qrata, you will be an essential part of our human resources team, responsible for sourcing, attracting, and hiring talented professionals. You will work closely with hiring managers to understand their staffing needs and ensure we bring in the best talent to support our company's growth. This position offers the opportunity for hybrid working, combining both remote and in-office collaboration, with our office located in Worli, Mumbai.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with hiring managers to understand job requirements and create detailed job descriptions.
• Develop and implement effective talent acquisition strategies to attract high-quality candidates.
• Source candidates through various channels, including job boards, social media, and professional networks.
• Screen and evaluate resumes and applications to identify potential candidates.
• Conduct initial interviews to assess candidates qualifications and cultural fit.
• Coordinate and schedule interviews with hiring managers.
• Manage the recruitment process from start to finish, ensuring a smooth and positive candidate experience.
• Extend job offers and negotiate terms with candidates.
• Build and maintain a talent pipeline for future staffing needs.
• Assist with other HR-related tasks and projects as needed.

Qualifications:

• 1-2 years of experience in talent acquisition or recruitment.
• Knowledge of recruitment best practices and sourcing techniques.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Proficiency with applicant tracking systems and HR software.
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a team.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills.
• Familiarity with employment laws and regulations.

UI/UX Designer responsibilities include:

• Gathering and evaluating user requirements, in collaboration with product managers and engineers
• Illustrating design ideas using storyboards, process flows, and sitemaps
• Designing graphic user interface elements, like menus, tabs, and widgets

Job brief

We are looking for a UI/UX Designer to turn our software into easy-to-use products for our clients. UI/UX Designer responsibilities include gathering user requirements, designing graphic elements, and building navigation components. To be successful in this role, you should have experience with design software and wireframe tools. If you also have a portfolio of professional design projects that includes work with web/mobile applications, we’d like to meet you. Ultimately, you’ll create both functional and appealing features that address our clients’ needs and help us grow our customer base.

Responsibilities

• Gather and evaluate user requirements in collaboration with product managers and engineers
• Illustrate design ideas using storyboards, process flows, and sitemaps
• Design graphics user interfaces elements, like menus, tabs, and widgets
• Build page navigation buttons and search fields
• Develop UI mockups and prototypes that clearly illustrate how sites function and look like
• Prepare and present rough drafts to internal teams and key stakeholders
• Identify and troubleshoot UX problems (e.g. responsiveness)
• Conduct layout adjustments based on user feedback
• Adhere to style standards on fonts, colors, and images

Requirements

• Portfolio of design projects (does not matter if the project is not live)
• Knowledge of Designing tools (e.g. Figma )
• Up-to-date knowledge of design software like Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop
• Team spirit; strong communication skills to collaborate with various stakeholders
• Good time-management skills

Responsibilities:

1. Candidate Sourcing:

• Utilize various recruitment channels to source potential candidates, including online job boards, social media, referrals, and professional networks.

• Review resumes and applications to identify qualified candidates who meet the position requirements.

• Conduct initial screening interviews to assess candidate suitability and gather relevant information.

2. Placement Coordination:

• Collaborate with hiring managers to understand their staffing needs and develop job descriptions and specifications.

• Coordinate interview schedules and facilitate communication between candidates and hiring managers.

• Manage the placement process, including conducting background checks, reference checks, and pre-employment assessments.

• Ensure timely feedback to candidates regarding their application status and assist in making job offers.

3. Onboarding Support:

• Assist with new hire onboarding, including collecting and verifying employment documents, conducting orientation sessions, and facilitating the completion of necessary paperwork.

• Coordinate with relevant departments to ensure new employees have the necessary resources and equipment on their first day.

• Serve as a point of contact for new hires during their initial period, addressing their queries and providing support as needed.

4. Recruitment Administration:

• Maintain accurate and up-to-date candidate records in the google sheets or HR database.

• Prepare recruitment-related reports and metrics for HR management and hiring managers.

• Contribute to the continuous improvement of recruitment processes, suggesting and implementing enhancements where appropriate.

• Stay updated on industry trends and recruitment best practices to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the placement process.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

• Previous experience in HR recruitment, placement coordination, or talent acquisition is preferred.

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal.

• Excellent organizational and time management abilities.

• Ability to maintain confidentiality and handle sensitive information.

• Attention to detail and accuracy in handling candidate and employee data.

• Proficiency in MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and HR software applications.

Note: The job description 

1. Answering phones and explaining the services offered by the company.

2. Contacting existing clients as well as prospective clients.

3. Obtaining client information and other relevant data.

4. Asking questions to the client and understanding their specifications.

5. Resolving queries and issues related to the services.

6. Making recordings of all the sales phone calls and sales deals.

7. Maintaining the database of customers on a regular basis.

8. Suggest solutions based on customers’ needs and requirements.

You will join a team of highly skilled engineers who are responsible for delivering Acceldata’s support services. Our Site Reliability Engineers are trained to be active listeners and demonstrate empathy when customers encounter product issues. In our fun and collaborative environment  Site Reliability Engineers develop strong business, interpersonal and technical skills to deliver high-quality service to our valued customers.

When you arrive for your first day, we’ll want you to have:

• Solid skills in troubleshooting to repair failed products or processes on a machine or a system using a logical, systematic search for the source of a problem in order to solve it, and make the product or process operational again
• A strong ability to understand the feelings of our customers as we empathize with them on the issue at hand
• A strong desire to increase your product and technology skillset; increase- your confidence supporting our products so you can help our customers succeed

In this position you will…

• Provide Support Services to our Gold & Enterprise customers using our flagship Acceldata Pulse,Flow & Torch Product suits. This may include assistance provided during the engineering and operations of distributed systems as well as responses for mission-critical systems and production customers.
• Demonstrate the ability to actively listen to customers and show empathy to the customer’s business impact when they experience issues with our products
• Participate in the queue management and coordination process by owning customer escalations, managing the unassigned queue.
• Be involved with and work on other support related activities - Performing POC & assisting Onboarding deployments of Acceldata & Hadoop distribution products.
• Triage, diagnose and escalate customer inquiries when applicable during their engineering and operations efforts.
• Collaborate and share solutions with both customers and the Internal team.
• Investigate product related issues both for particular customers and for common trends that may arise
• Study and understand critical system components and large cluster operations
• Differentiate between issues that arise in operations, user code, or product
• Coordinate enhancement and feature requests with product management and Acceldata engineering team.
• Flexible in working in Shifts.
• Participate in a Rotational weekend on-call roster for critical support needs.
• Participate as a designated or dedicated engineer for specific customers. Aspects of this engagement translates to building long term successful relationships with customers, leading weekly status calls, and occasional visits to customer sites

In this position, you should have…

• A strong desire and aptitude to become a well-rounded support professional. Acceldata Support considers the service we deliver as our core product.
• A positive attitude towards feedback and continual improvement
• A willingness to give direct feedback to and partner with management to improve team operations
• A tenacity to bring calm and order to the often stressful situations of customer cases
• A mental capability to multi-task across many customer situations simultaneously
• Bachelor degree in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent experience. Master’s degree is a plus
• At least 2+ years of experience with at least one of the following cloud platforms: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), experience with managing and supporting a cloud infrastructure on any of the 3 platforms. Also knowledge on Kubernetes, Docker is a must.
• Strong troubleshooting skills (in example, TCP/IP, DNS, File system, Load balancing, database, Java)
• Excellent communication skills in English (written and verbal)
• Prior enterprise support experience in a technical environment strongly preferred

Strong Hands-on Experience Working With Or Supporting The Following

• 8-12 years of Experience with a highly-scalable, distributed, multi-node environment (50+ nodes)
• Hadoop operation including Zookeeper, HDFS, YARN, Hive, and related components like the Hive metastore, Cloudera Manager/Ambari, etc
• Authentication and security configuration and tuning (KNOX, LDAP, Kerberos, SSL/TLS, second priority: SSO/OAuth/OIDC, Ranger/Sentry)
• Java troubleshooting, e.g., collection and evaluation of jstacks, heap dumps

You might also have…

• Linux, NFS, Windows, including application installation, scripting, basic command line
• Docker and Kubernetes configuration and troubleshooting, including Helm charts, storage options, logging, and basic kubectl CLI

• Experience working with scripting languages (Bash, PowerShell, Python)
• Working knowledge of application, server, and network security management concepts
• Familiarity with virtual machine technologies
• Knowledge of databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL,
• Certification on any of the leading Cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP ) and/or Kubernetes is a big plus

The right person in this role has an opportunity to make a huge impact at Acceldata and add value to our future decisions. If this position has piqued your interest and you have what we described - we invite you to apply! An adventure in data awaits.

Learn more at https://www.acceldata.io/about-us">https://www.acceldata.io/about-us