Business Development Executive

OBJECTIVE :

- The Product Development team within PayMate works with business to establish the overall strategy and priorities for the products and platforms. Based on the business strategy and overall priorities, the Product Development team creates product plan, including high level business requirements, solution designs, benefits definition and aligns with overall go to market rollout plan.

- We are looking to hire Product Managers with Payments background and Supply Chain Finance experience. You will engage existing and potential customers directly, and decide the future of the product based upon a strong understanding of the customer requirements. You will also collaborate with technology, marketing, sales and support to solve for the best customer experience.

- The candidate should be willing to accept a dynamic and multi-faceted role requiring to work across several teams and even geographies, while working with the core management team on the best way forward to help achieve our collective goals.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES :

- Build a scalable Payments Automation System

- Meet regularly with key customer facing teams to collect and analyse user feedback to shape new product ideas and user requirements.

- Implements usage tracking and analyse patterns to validate new feature requirement.

- Have strong solution skills in translating customer needs to product functionalities.

- Convert ideas to prototypes and demonstrate them to the key partners.

- Stay on top of the market and competition.

- Act like an owner for the success of your product.

- Will be responsible for the end to end product roadmap from features creation, prioritization, go live, onboarding process streamlining.

- Responsible for regular running of solutions and products - monitoring success through revenue

- Maintain communication among and between stakeholders - interacting with business managers to ideate the requirements , work with the technology teams to implement the solutions

- Collaborate and work with various internal departments and external vendors in the launch and implementation of the processing platform for specific clients in the specific markets and regions. This involves working with the technical teams for roadmap, feature and release management

- Definition of platform features include creating detailed user and process flows

- technical level designs and algorithms to satisfy the feature requirements

- Working with clients to define business requirements from the high level down to the detailed levels.

- Work with the technical development teams to review the solution and technical designs with an understanding of how the solution impacts the overall platform architecture

- Work with the technical testing teams to review the test cases and testing to ensure newly defined platform features are properly tested

- Some platform features require the development of new APIs for which field level designs are required.

- Collaborate and work closely with our external processing partners and vendors in the launch and implementation of the processing platform for all markets and regions.

- Work with our processing partners to ensure the card processor's platform has features that are needed for the specific markets in question and where there are gaps to draft up the solution in conjunction with our partners and have that delivered in a timely manner

- This role would require the person to work across geographies, time zones, cultures and competencies as well as internal teams who might not be very familiar with global payments & its intricacies

- Be willing to get your hands dirty - from writing feature stories, drawing swim lane diagrams to running sprint meetings, you will do it all

- You would be required to articulate & justify your vision & strategy behind you roadmap to domain experts & leaders again & again in a crowded & evolving payment stage

- Dealing with engineers & architects to design new flows, adapt systems to new market innovations while maintaining integrity & scalability of the platform is vital

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE :

- 5-7 years of experience in product management with 3 or more years in Payments background

- Strong customer centricity

- Ability to think creative and solve problem

- Familiarity in agile development framework will be preferable.

- Prior experience at fast growing fintech / B2B startups will be preferable

- Highly adaptable and aware. Comfortable in an evolving and dynamic environment.

- Good networker: persuasive with excellent interpersonal skills.

- You are comfortable working hands-on in a fast-paced start-up environment

- Problem-solving and detail orientation come naturally to you.

- Worked with banking & payments partners

- An engineering degree (a management degree is a bonus, not mandatory)

- Formal product management training - good to have

- Knowledge of Product Management tools like Trello, JIRA, Figma, MS Projects, Postman, etc.

NOTE: Immediate joiner

Job Description

We are seeking a passionate candidate, who is result orientated, sound knowledge of IT services, with either a proven track record of proposal writing and proposal/bid management in government or commercial proposals. The consultant will be accountable for technical writing for business proposals and managing large and complex proposals as projects.

Key Responsibilities

• To respond to RFP/RFI documents
• Scope analysis and feasibility studies
• To perform bid management, creation of bid plans, schedule, and kick-off packs
• Creation of outlines, storyboarding and win themes
• To create a compliance matrix
• To research and write generic (but technical) content for proposals (for ex: writing a generic solution roadmap for any IT service, but NOT a technical architecture)
• Articulate value proposition and highlight sales messages
• To coordinate with the clients (CXOs) and external stakeholders for inputs required
• Proofread and format documents

Key Requirements

• 6-12 years of experience in proposal writing or bid management
• IT services industry experience is must
• Must have managed large and complex RFPs
• MBA, ITIL is an added advantage
• Ability to work under high-pressure environment and deadlines
• Fundamental knowledge of IT services (web design, web development, cloud, mobility, etc.)
• Experience working with government proposals is an added advantage
• High level of commitment and flexibility
• Strong attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written

Optional (added advantage)

• Knowledge of Microsoft Office, particularly PowerPoint, Excel, and Word
• Knowledge of IT domain (cloud, mobile apps, web, and portals, analytics)
• Pre-sales consulting background in IT services

• 6+ Years of experience in Automaton Testing
• QA Automation Tester (with Selenium and Appium)
• Hands on experience in Selenium
• Hood hands on experience in Java
• 2 Years of Hands on experience in Appium Testing for Android and iOS Native
• The candidate is required to have hands-on experience (2yrs +) with Appium automation for Android and iOS native applications.

Role: Technical Lead

Location: Mumbai/Kolkata

Years of Experience - 9 to 15 years

Qualifications:

• Required person as .net core, team Management,Good communication,Plus Rest API,AWS Lambda,mySql
• AWS API Gateway .
• Bachelor’s degree preferably in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field.
• 9 to 12 yrs years’ experience in technology related roles including relevant work as technical architect.
• Experience working with latest software technologies (.Net core 3.1+, MVC/WCF/Web API, cloud hosted (AWS) , mobile ready software products (Angular 6+/React.js)
• Experience in AWS cloud.
• Experience working with GIT/TFS, CI/CD setups, Application Monitoring, Logging and Analysis tools
• Experience working with Service Oriented Architecture
• Experience working in an Agile-SCRUM environment using tools like Jira or equivalent
• Experience working with international customers (US and UK preferable)
• Experience in customer interaction and ability to present solutions and consult clients on technology solutions.
• Ability to effectively communicate with various levels of employees ranging from entry level to senior leadership.
• Proven strong relationship-building and communication skills with team members and business users. Ability to coach and mentor internal teams and customers.
• Highly motivated with excellent verbal and written communication, presentation, facilitation, negotiation and problem solving skills.
• Self-starter with strong organizational and time management skills, self-directed and able to handle multiple priorities with demanding timeframes.
• Willingness and ability to work flexible hours and with minimal supervision.  
• Willingness and ability to travel domestic and occasional international across US and Europe.
• Proficient using standard software, such as MS Office applications, Google Apps, and communication and diagramming/presentation tools.

Locus is a global decision- making platform in the supply chain that uses deep learning and proprietary algorithms to provide route optimization, real-time tracking, insights and analytics, beat optimization, efficient warehouse management, vehicle allocation and utilization, intuitive 3D packing and measurement of packages. Locus automates human decisions required to transport a package or a person, between any two points on earth, delivering gains along efficiency, consistency, and transparency in operations.

Locus, which has achieved a peak of 1 million orders processed in a day (200,000 orders an hour) and is trained & tested on over 100 million+ order deliveries, works in 75 cities across the globe. Locus works with several large-scale market leaders like Urban Ladder, Tata Group of Companies, Droplet, Licious, Rollick, Lenskart, other global FMCG, pharma, e-commerce, 3PL and logistics conglomerates.

Locus is backed by some of the biggest names in the market and recently raised $22 MN in Series B funding and also $4 Mn in a pre-Series B round. Earlier, In 2016, Locus raised $2.75 Mn (INR 18.3 Cr) in a Series A funding.

Locus was started by Nishith Rastogi and Geet Garg, two ex-Amazon engineers on a mission to democratize logistics intelligence for businesses across industries. Nishith was profiled by Forbes Asia in their ’30 Under 30’ 2018 list. Geet, on the other hand, holds a dual degree (BTech and MTech) in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology. Our team constitutes of engineers from Indian Institute of Technology and Birla Institute of Technology & Science- Pilani, and Data Scientists with PhDs from Carnegie Mellon University and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. Our multifaced product and business team is led by senior members from Barclays, Google & Goldman Sachs with immense operational execution experience.

Job Description

• Design & implement backend APIs at Locus.sh
• Mentor junior developers technically.
• Actively work to reduce tech debt in the Locus backend
• Work towards more stability & scalability of the backend
• Tech stack - Java, AWS, Aurora etc.

Eligibility

• 4-8 years of product company experience
• OOP implementation experience. Programming language does not matter, We use Java internally but have hired folks from non Java background.
• Hands on experience in SQL, Dynamo DB, Postgres etc preferred.
• Prior experience building REST APIs
• Advanced understanding of AWS stack
• Prior knowledge of solving problems at scale.

Perks:

• Healthy catered meals at office
• You decide your own Work From Home (WFH) and Out Of Office (OOO)
• Pet-friendly - bring your pets to the office any day. Locus family already has a Rottweiler and a Beagle