Business Development Executive

📢 We're Hiring: Community Development Manager at Sigma

🚀 Join the heartbeat of the most powerful founders' community!

At Sigma, we’re building something extraordinary—a thriving, high-impact network of 250+ ambitious founders creating category-defining startups. In just the past year, Sigma founders have launched, raised pre-seed capital, joined Y Combinator, and secured multimillion-dollar funding rounds. And we’re just getting started.

We’re looking for a Community Development Manager to own and elevate the Sigma experience—ensuring our founders, investors, and partners are deeply engaged, supported, and continuously benefiting from the network. If you thrive in dynamic environments, love working with visionary entrepreneurs, and want to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of startups, this is the role for you.

What You’ll Do:

• 🎯 Be the backbone of the Sigma community—ensuring founders get the connections, resources, and insights they need to succeed.
• 🤝 Engage top-tier investors & partners—build strong relationships with world-class VCs, angel investors, and operators who want to back the next generation of great startups.
• 🚀 Supercharge founder success—host high-impact events, curate key introductions, and provide direct support to help Sigma startups thrive.
• 🎤 Lead flagship community events—orchestrate our exclusive Demo Days, Investor Summits, AMAs, and intimate founder gatherings.
• 🌍 Expand our network—identify and onboard incredible founders, investors, and mentors who align with Sigma’s mission.
• 🔥 Spot and create opportunities—from partnerships with top accelerators to job placements at breakout startups, you’ll shape initiatives that drive massive impact.

Who You Are:

• You’re a natural community builder—energized by bringing people together and creating meaningful connections.
• You have a deep passion for startups and venture capital—you get what it takes to build from zero to one and love being at the center of the action.
• You’re an exceptional communicator—equally comfortable engaging with first-time founders and seasoned investors.
• You’re a self-starter—proactive, resourceful, and always thinking one step ahead.
• You thrive in fast-paced, high-growth environments—Sigma moves fast, and so do you.
• You have experience in community management, partnerships, or ecosystem development (VC, accelerator, founder communities, or tech organizations are a big plus).

Why Sigma?

✅ Unparalleled access—work closely with the brightest founders and top-tier investors in the startup ecosystem.

✅ Massive career growth—be at the forefront of startup-building and venture investing.

✅ High-impact work—your role directly contributes to the success of groundbreaking startups.

✅ A dynamic, no-bureaucracy culture—move fast, execute big ideas, and make a real difference.

💡 This is more than a job—it’s an opportunity to shape the future of startups and venture capital.

📍 Location: Remote (with opportunities to travel for key events)

💰 Compensation: Competitive salary + upside in the form of other incentives (let’s talk!)

Ready to build something amazing? Apply now and let’s talk! 🚀

Position - Category Head

Location - Mumbai ( Remote for now)

We are looking for a Category Head to manage a group or category of products for our company. You will be the one responsible for the pricing and overall promotion of a product category to maximize consumer appeal. Relationships with vendors and product range management will also be part of your duties.

- An excellent category Head must have extensive experience in understanding consumer needs and the retail environment. They must have a commercial mindset and full comprehension of marketing and sales principles. Exceptional communication skills are also key for category Head.

- The goal is to increase sales and profitability of business to drive sustainable growth.

Role:

- Creating and developing a long-term plan and strategy for development of the category.

- Develop strong working relationships with buying, marketing and merchandising teams.

- End to end management of product i.e. from supplier to customer.

- P&L owner for the group of categories managed.

- Team Management: manage a team of Category Owners, Catalogue, and Vendor Acquisition resources. Develop and coach team.

- Manage Portfolio of Categories: New brand acquisition and pricing strategy, Managing product portfolio and inventory management. Shape long term portfolio expansion built on macro trends.

- Vendor management: vendor sourcing & management, vendor relationship management.

- Customer management: Managing key customer relationships, developing multiple channels, optimizing omni channel sales- through mix of online and offline sales.

- Marketing: Manages and optimizes marketing spends on the category group. Working closely with digital marketing team to optimize spends across different digital channels.

- Category Analytics: proficient in analytics to identify growth areas and execute

We are looking for an enthusiastic Executive Branding Specialist who will be responsible for managing and enhancing the online presence of our CEO. The primary focus will be on developing and implementing strategies to promote the CEO’s personal brand, increase their visibility across digital channels. You will work closely with the marketing team to align the CEO’s online persona with the company’s overall branding and values.

Key Responsibilities

● Develop and execute digital marketing strategies to enhance the CEO's personal brand and reputation.

● Monitor and manage the CEO's online presence across various social media platforms, ensuring a positive and consistent image.

● Research, create and curate engaging and relevant content for the CEO's social media profiles, including posts, articles, blogs, and videos(using Canva/similar)

● Conduct research on industry trends, competitors, and relevant topics to develop content ideas that align with the CEO's expertise and reputation goals.

● Monitor and respond to online feedback, comments, and inquiries directed at the CEO, maintaining a professional and positive image.

● Implement SEO techniques and strategies to optimize the CEO's online visibility and search engine rankings.

● Handle any digital crisis that may occur, including negative reviews or feedback.

● Track and analyze key performance indicators (KPIs) to evaluate the effectiveness of reputation management efforts and make data-driven recommendations for improvement.

● Stay updated on the latest digital marketing trends, tools, and techniques, and propose innovative strategies to enhance the CEO's reputation.

● Support the marketing team with other digital marketing initiatives as required.

Skills Required

● Good understanding of marketing tools/apps, social media platforms, and what works and what doesn't works on social media.

● Ability to assist/drive initiatives like podcasts, reels/shorts and other marketing content.

● Ability to research and learn on own, and come up with good content and strategy.

● Good understanding of the latest marketing trends and techniques.

● Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

● Passion for the marketing industry and its best practices.

● Strong desire to learn along with professional drive. 

You will be responsible for achieving Monthly, Quarterly & Annual targets of Sales Qualified leads and Revenue:

Plan

• Assisting in creating, planning and implementing business development strategy and lead generation initiatives
• Research on global tech market dynamics, competition, and clients
• Identify potential prospects by analyzing markets/domains and track potential prospective clients

Outreach

• Reach out via multiple channels (Cold calling, LinkedIn, email)
• Set up meetings with key decision makers and ensure their shows on the appointment

Discovery

• Understand the needs of the lead to uncover how Thence can aid them
• Showcase Thence’s capabilities in an unobtrusive and consultative manner
• Qualify all leads as per criteria in a professional and creative manner

Prospect

• Ensure that the communications to clients are as per schedule and follow ups are on time
• Develop strong relationships with key prospects during and after the sales lifecycle
• Reconnect with cold leads and continuously build the pipeline

Measure & Improve

• Track, update, analyse and present sales reports to the Management
• Support the Business Development Head in running the BD function efficiently and effectively
• Meet the performance goals defined periodically

Skills Required

• Good storyteller - strong, verbal, and written communication skills
• Highly organized - finding a method to the madness 
• Critical thinking - takes quick and insightful decisions
• Knowledge hungry - an always-on learning mindset
• Team player-  managing multiple stakeholders

Qualifications

• Proven track record in lead generation predominantly via telecalling
• Good working knowledge of lead generation tools
• Prior stints at a B2B /IT/Product business with good understanding of B2B KPIs 
• Experience in the US Sales

•Ensures that products conform to business requirements/company policies, software quality standards, and established procedures

•Confirms that testable systems are specified, designed and implemented

•Designs, documents and implements procedures and techniques that are consistent with departmental SQA Methodology for analyzing, testing, and evaluating the risk (software & business), accuracy, completeness, internal integrity/consistency, testability and overall quality of business systems and SDLC processes

•Creates and maintains SQA deliverables including test plans, test cases, test data, project test progress and release reports, application turnover documents and test schedules

•Recommends and assists in corrective actions taken at all stages of product life

•Submits and tracks production (maintenance) and release issues in their respective systems

This position will play a primary role in planning, implementing, leading, and executing all aspects of Quality and Testing. The role requires hands-on QA expertise, ability to take initiative, develop, and evolve our QA processes. The right candidate will be able to analyze the systems to determine what to test, the priority of those tests and the best way to test.

• Perform impact/test analysis for the new features, feature-enhancements, and bug fixes.
• Conduct test design and test execution for functional/non-functional aspects of features / product.
• Hands-on execution for functional/non-functional aspects of features / product.
• Automate the tests to ensure repeatability of tests.

An enthusiastic individual with the following skills. Please do not hesitate to apply if you do not match all of it. We are open to promising candidates who are passionate about their work and are team players.

• 1 to 4 year's experienced software quality professional.
• Experienced developing and executing test cases, scripts, plans and procedures to support various development methodologies.
• Familiarity with entire software development life cycle and test cycles (Unit, Regression, Functional, Systems, Performance and Volume, User Acceptance).
• Knowledge & experience on java or python, selenium, Appium, etc. to perform the automation of websites and apps on desktop/handheld devices.
• Knowledge & experience on tools like JMeter, Gatling, locust to perform non-functional tests.
• Detailed and effective written communication skills for documenting the features tested and bugs found.
• Highly organized, detail oriented, extremely responsive candidate who would like to take up technical challenges.
• Self-motivated, works well independently and with others.

You will work with a top-notch tech team and report to the engineering head.

A wholesome opportunity in a fast-paced environment will enable you to juggle between concepts yet maintain the quality of content, interact, share your ideas, and have loads of learning while at work. Work with a team of highly talented young professionals and enjoy the benefits

A fast-growing SaaS commerce company based in Bangalore with offices in Delhi, Mumbai, SF, Dubai, Singapore, and Dublin. We have three products in our portfolio: Plum, Empuls, and Compass. Works with over 1000 global clients. We help our clients engage and motivate their employees, sales teams, channel partners, or consumers for better business results.

Toplyne is a global SaaS product built to help revenue teams, at businesses with a self-service motion, and a large user-base, identify which users to spend time on, when and for what outcome. Think self-service or freemium-led companies like Figma, Notion, Freshworks, and Slack. We do this by helping companies recognize signals across their - product engagement, sales, billing, and marketing data.

Founded in June 2021, Toplyne is backed by marquee investors and angels (we'll be happy to tell you how much we've raised, and from whom on call). We are building out our founding team as we speak and we'd love to chat with you!

You taking a lot of pride in writing scalable, readable & maintainable code. You have a product bent of mind. You like working in a fast paced environment and ship code most days of the week. You enjoy working cross functionally in a collaborative environment with designers, PM's to build the best product possible. You don't mind getting on customer calls to understand their perspective to build a better product or help them with issues they might be facing.

You're hungry, ready to hustle, and keen to learn!

As a founding member of the core engineering team, you will:

• Work with the founders in co-creating the product with early believers (read: customers)
• Develop massive, complex software systems that scale globally.
• Build and own a substantial part of the product and help build the culture of engineering within Toplyne

• Strong first principles
• Hustle! We're young, lean, and in our early days. You'd have to set up your own shop, work with design customers to find generalisable use cases, and build them out.
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to build and ship new features
• 2-6 years of experience
• Good understanding and experience working with javascript frameworks such as React.
• Work closely with developers and UX designers to ensure that the presentation layer is implemented in accordance with best above best practices and UX specifications.

• Not looking for a 10x engineer. We are ok if you are 1x but are really good at what you, a good human being & work well in a team.