Business Development Executive

• Strong AI/ML OR Software Developer Profile
• Mandatory (Experience 1) - Must have 3+ YOE in Core Software Developement (SDLC)
• Mandatory (Experience 2) - Must have 2+ years of experience in AI/ML, preferably in conversational AI domain (spped to text, text to speech, speech emotional recognition) or agentic AI systems.
• Mandatory (Experience 3) - Must have hands-on experience in fine-tuning LLMs/SLM, model optimization (quantization, distillation) and RAG
• Mandatory (Experience 4) - Hands-on Programming experience in Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch and model APIs (Hugging Face, LangChain, OpenAI, etc

I need a video editor who is well-versed in graphic creation, illustration, and animation as well in order to create videos with more than just stock images.

• Knowledge of Adobe Aftereffects is Mandatory
• Create Video Content for User Acquisition and User Engagement. Marketing Videos, Educational Videos and Training Videos.
• An expert at telling a story through visual design, editing raw video footage, and adding effects/elements to enhance motion graphics
• Ability to fully understand the marketing team's needs and specifications
• Create and follow an editorial calendar and collaborate with other members of the marketing team to ensure timely delivery of the videos
• Ensure strict adherence to the style guides, tone, and voice of the company

BackendDeveloper/PHP Developer

Job Responsibilities:

• Design and build efficient, scalable systems that are used by millions of people,
• Own what you build as you create, test, and refine what’s under the hood of our pages and services,
• Investigate production issues pertaining to customer features to determine root cause and implement solutions,
• Investigate existing queries and write new queries with performance optimization in mind,
• Build well-designed software in a way that is generic, reusable, and easily extensible, as well as solves the business needs and requirements,
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and software engineers to ensure design vision is maintained, the final markup is standards compliant, and UI deliverables are completed on time,
• Work with the real-time feedback from our users (external and internal) to make the products better,
• Discover, design, develop, deploy, debug. Repeat!

Requirements:

• 1-2 years of experience,
• Proficiency in web scripting programming with PHP,
• Experience with MySQL Databases,
• Top-notch programming skills in JavaScript and a strong understanding of web fundamentals,
• Design, build and maintain high performance, scalable and secure code,
• Experience with cloud services like AWS is plus,
• Experience with MVC architecture is a plus,
• Knowledge / experience in building an API,
• Solid understanding of the foundations of security and best practices,
• Good grasp of data structures and algorithms,
• Excellent problem-solving skills,
• Take ownership of the backend services, ensure the best possible performance, quality and responsiveness, as well as maintaining code quality, organisation and testing/deployment,
• Passionate about technology and willing to develop expertise in an emerging field,
• Strong organisational and communication skills, team player.

Perquisites & Benefits:

• A competitive salary,
• Opportunity to be part of a diverse working environment, valuable social sector work experience,
• Fun, casual, relaxed and flexible work environment.

What will we be building together?

1K Kirana Bazaar (1K) is building Bharat's first hyperlocal offline-online distribution platform. Our aim is to provide the benefits of technology and scale to the underserved first time internet users of Bharat. We use the efficiencies of the existing kirana store network and empower them with a full technology stack to fulfill all needs of our consumers.

Over the next 2 years our goal is to transform the lives of millions of new age consumers of Bharat and at the same time make the lives of thousands of retailers more fulfilling! With our end to end integrated supply chain and technology stack, we are already disrupting the traditional supply chain and bringing in innovation and gamification to the traditional shopping and consumption process. The growth process will demand exploration of technologies like Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, IPFS, Distributed Computing, and IOT to name a few to fuel the idealistic model design for the making of an evolved #bharat. We visualise seamless access to every consumer or a mom & pop store in the deepest rooted corners of India.

What will you be driving with the team?

To build full-stack solutions for retail & supply chain from managing purchases to selling products to end consumers. You will work on solving some of the complex problems of the retail industry.

Your core responsibilities:

• Solve complex problems and follow good coding practices and complying with existing quality standards.
• Evaluate existing engineering processes and recommend improvements.
• Setup high-quality standards in production running code by performing diligent code reviews and rigorous unit test coverage.
• Brainstorm (sometimes, even prototype) features with the rest of the team based on your knowledge of the codebase.
• And of course, there's always bugs to fix, based on your personal experience or feedback from the team and the 1K community.

What will help you thrive in this role? 

• A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field is preferred.
• 6 month+ experience in software development.
• Knowledge of programming languages.
• Should possess a solid grasp of object-oriented programming, data structures, and software design.
• Experience with AWS infrastructure and distributed systems is a plus.
• Highly developed attention to detail.
• Ability to work well in a fast-paced environment.

Whom you will be sharing your workday with?

We are a language-agnostic engineering team of independent thinkers who understand the priorities of a rapidly growing startup and excel at choosing high impact projects. Our core beliefs are: 

• We are at the forefront of disrupting the traditional retail & supply chain industry by building distributed systems
• We are hardcore open source lovers and believe in the strength of the open-source community.
• We believe technology can change the way information is consumed.
• We use a data-driven approach to build new products and features.
• Build new tech solutions to improve business processes and enable our various departments to help service our teams better.
• We embrace and enable DevOps culture within the organisation.

And yes! We do have new furry friends coming to our office every day.

Work Perks

• Hybrid work environment with flexibility to work from anywhere. 
• A great salary, commensurate with experience.
• Unlimited vacation policy which means Paid Vacations.
• A relaxed & flexible working atmosphere.
• Weekly parties (Unofficial).
• Paid outings to remote work locations and industry events/conferences.
• Paid Health Insurance for you and your loved ones.

• IT hardware & software services
• Web / App Design & Development
• Digital Marketing & Social Media Services
• Branding & Marketing Services
• Business and Management Consulting
• HR & Recruitment Services
• Graphic Designing
• Interior & Architecture Services
• Content, Photography and Videography.

• Planning & Strategy- Plan and execute a sales strategy that will help the team to get quality business.
• Build Process- Prepare a sales plan and sales performance tracking system to keep track of the process from approaching to acquiring each prospective client.
• Marketing Material- Creates marketing literature and web-based features to promote products and time-sensitive sales
• Networking- Attends trade exhibitions and industry events to learn about cutting-edge products & services, and get new clients and vendors.
• Lead Generation- Generate qualified leads by proper utilization of calls, email, social media, and other means to get in touch with the relevant personnel in the client company
• Lead Management- Document all the meetings through different methods, such as CRM, MS Excel, Minutes of Meeting (Email), etc.

• Learning- Becomes fluent in all products and services offered by us through testing, demonstrations, and research
• Need analysis- Assesses clients’ needs and accordingly make recommendations and solutions.
• Proposals- Prepare presentations to address the client’s problems with relevant solutions in a consultative manner.
• Educate- Demonstrates our offerings to highlight its pros and cons, v/s various competing products or services.
• Deals- Negotiates sales, package discounts, and long-term contracts with clients
• Stay Updated- Gains familiarity with the different industries, and stays updated on trends and innovative products

• Consulting- Provides technical advice, and after-sales.
• Project Management- Coordinate with the internal & external teams to complete projects within the set deadline.
• Client Servicing- Maintain good relationships with clients by taking constant feedback on the systems and services
• Relationship Management- Maintain good relationships with the internal, as well as external stakeholders.

• YEARS OF RELEVANT EXPERIENCE- 3+ Years of proven experience in Sales/ Business Development.
• EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS- We prioritize skills over degrees but Bachelors/ Masters degree/ diploma/ certification in Sales & Marketing, Business Management, Computer Science or other relevant fields.
• SOFTWARE & APPLICATIONS- Tech-savvy with good knowledge of MS Office, CRM Systems, have knowledge and can adapt to other technologies very quickly.

• Excellent communication (verbal & written), interpersonal and consulting skills.
• Knowledge of relevant products and services.
• Motivated, have negotiation skills, attention to detail, and critical thinking under high-pressure
• Sound judgment to recognize prospects’ key pain areas, and understand clients’ requirements.
• Ability to meet targets and deadlines.
• Confident, pleasant personality, ambitious, self-motivated, organized with leadership and management skills.

• Deploy daily campaigns and triggered flows to a combined audience for key channels - email, SMS and push notifications. Execute A/B tests to optimize campaigns for revenue and engagement.
• Oversee and optimize marketing automation strategies to drive customer retention and sales, including lifecycle emails, personalized triggers, and daily campaigns.
• Maintain, publish, and optimize regular (daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly) reports  that track channel and customer-level performance.
• Provide regular reporting and analysis on campaign performance with clear direction to the team on what they can try to do differently to drive increased performance.
• Translate reporting insights into recommendations for the marketing team and cross-functional partners on how to drive sales and increase customer performance and LTV.
• Define and implement the testing agenda for campaigns and automation flows including segmentation, messaging, frequency, send day/time, personalization, etc.
• Manage promotional codes calendar, including sharing promo codes with our affiliate partners, making sure the team is aware of the promotional strategy and that it is implemented across channels.
• Develop new segmentation and targeting strategies based on customer data and business needs.
• Develop customer-facing tests to maximize customer engagement and lifetime value.
• Support project scoping to grow available data and assist with data migration between systems, as well as checking for data quality/integrity.
• Monitor competitive landscape to identify industry trends and best practices
• Analysing customer behaviour and developing aggressive retention strategies.