Business Development Executive

Job Description: Center Manager - Skill Learning Academy

We are looking for an experienced and driven Center Manager to lead our skill learning academy, overseeing operations, marketing, and sales functions in both B2B and B2C segments. This role involves managing teams across marketing, sales, administration, and technical verticals, ensuring the center operates as a profitable entity while meeting targets and deadlines.

Key Responsibilities:

Marketing & Sales: Drive marketing and concept sales in B2C and B2B segments, generating revenue from colleges, corporates, and universities.

Team Management: Oversee and mentor teams across multiple verticals, including marketing, sales, administration, and technical departments.

Profit Center Accountability: Run the center as a profit center, meeting revenue goals and managing operational efficiency.

Operations Oversight: Ensure smooth day-to-day operations and successful execution of all activities within the center.

Target Achievement: Set and achieve center targets, ensuring all deadlines are met.

Leadership: Serve as a leader and mentor, guiding the team to meet objectives and maximize performance.

• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve software and new user-facing features across Novo’s products and services.
• Drive technical decisions on a multi-functional, Agile team alongside product management, product design, and engineering.
• Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability and analyze feedback from customers and internal teams to identify issues and improvement opportunities. 
• Champion a passion for engineering best practices such as code quality, linting, and testing.
• Ensure our software is reliable, extensible, maintainable, debuggable, secure, well-tested and performs well under load.
• Mentor junior engineers in all aspects of planning, development and testing.
• Stay engaged with latest technologies and evaluate strategies to keep the Novo technology stack up to date.

• 5+ years experience in a highly technical role at a hyper-growth startup or fast-paced company.
• Extensive background designing, developing, testing, deploying, maintaining, and improving software.
• Good understanding of Node.js & Javascript.
• Demonstrated ability to translate business goals and initiatives into technical requirements.
• Strong understanding of SQL database.
• Demonstrable experience architecting scalable and cost effective solutions to ensure and support customer growth.
• Experience mentoring junior engineers in all aspects of planning, development and testing.
• Strong understanding of system design and architecture.
• Interest in engaging with latest technologies and evaluating strategies to keep the Novo technology stack up to date.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to collaborate with both technical and non-technical teams effectively.

Expert knowledge of & experience with development language with PHP/Node.JS, Java.

• Create & manage the team.

• Excellent Development Knowledge in Website, web-application, web-tools

• Good in handling both Frontend and backend Development

• An excitement for detail-oriented work and high-quality finishing

• Excellent attention to detail and problem solving capabilities

• Ability to clearly communicate and explain complex concepts effectively

• A passion for app development and a start-up style work environment

• Expert knowledge of latest versions programming language as PHP, Java, JavaScript with respective to Database support.

• Experience in handling API Keys and access controls

• Knowledge of server systems is advantageous.

Additional Advantage Profile:

• Development Experience in Market Research Industry

• Have survey panel knowledge

• Knowledge in APIs, Survey routing or end page redirects

Key Skills

• Web Technologies

• Java script | HTML/CSS

• Application Design

• API

• Web Development

• Expert knowledge in WordPress installation, configuration, Administration, security, and optimization.
• Experience with WordPress Theme, Widgets and Plugin customizing and developing new wordpress themes, Plugin modification/development and widgets development.
• Strong understanding and hands-on in HTML, DHTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery/Prototype and AJAX.
• Develop high performance, highly scalable, custom development and/or plugin development for WordPress sites
• Experience with parent themes, caching systems (WP Super Cache, W3 Total Cache etc.), HyperDB, Yoast SEO.
• Strong PHP background to implement core WP functions, template tags & hooks in the theme.
• Experience in common third-party APIs (Google, Facebook, ebay etc)
• Very strong understanding of database technologies and SQL Optimization.

Programming skills in PHP  Yii / CakePHP / Zend PHP / Codeigniter / Laravel along MySQL
• Strong Knowledge in Responsive Web Design
• Excellent knowledge on HTML5, CSS3 bootstrap, JavaScript , CSS, AJAX, HTML4/5 & JQUERY

Location : Mumbai
Work from office.