Business Development Executive

About Company

Gunpowder Innovations is a technology-first company building high-performance applications in fintech and health tech. Our engineering team is passionate about solving complex problems at scale, delivering seamless user experiences through cutting-edge mobile and web technologies. AllerWell, one of our flagship products, uses Al and advanced tech to revolutionize allergy management, helping users make safer food choices.

About Role

We are looking for an experienced Sales Development Representative (SDR) to drive outbound sales and generate qualified opportunities across international markets. This role focuses primarily on outbound prospecting and lead generation.

The ideal candidate has strong prospecting skills, experience engaging global decision-makers, and is comfortable using AI tools to improve research, outreach personalization, and lead qualification.

You will primarily engage Founders, CTOs, and Product Leaders at startups and technology companies who are building or scaling digital products.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify and research potential clients across international markets.
• Build targeted prospect lists using LinkedIn and sales intelligence tools.
• Engage decision-makers such as Founders, CTOs, and Product Leaders through outbound outreach.
• Use AI tools to support prospect research and personalize outreach messages.
• Qualify leads and schedule discovery calls for the sales team.
• Maintain accurate records of outreach activities in the CRM system.
• Monitor industry signals such as funding announcements, product launches, and hiring trends to identify potential opportunities.

Requirements

• Minimum 3+ years of experience in SDR, BDR, or outbound sales roles.
• Experience prospecting and engaging international clients.
• Experience in technology services, SaaS, or software development sales.
• Strong written communication and outreach skills.
• Familiarity with tools such as:
• LinkedIn Sales Navigator
• Apollo / Clay / ZoomInfo
• CRM platforms (HubSpot, Salesforce, Zoho CRM)
• AI tools such as ChatGPT for prospect research and outreach

Preferred Skills

• Experience engaging startup founders, product teams, and technology leaders.
• Ability to create highly personalized outreach at scale using AI tools.
• Understanding of B2B sales in the technology industry.

Success Metrics

• Qualified meetings booked
• Pipeline generated through outbound campaigns
• Outreach response rate
• Lead-to-opportunity conversion

We are seeking a dynamic and target-driven Academic Counsellor (Sales) to convert student inquiries into enrollments. The role involves counselling prospective students, promoting academic programs, achieving admission targets, and ensuring a high-quality student experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Handle inbound and outbound calls, emails, and walk-ins from prospective students
• Counsel students and parents about courses, curriculum, fees, and career outcomes
• Convert leads into admissions and consistently achieve monthly sales targets
• Follow up with prospects and maintain accurate records in CRM systems
• Explain course benefits, USPs, and value propositions effectively
• Coordinate with marketing and academic teams for lead management
• Participate in admission drives, seminars, webinars, and events
• Handle objections professionally and close sales
• Provide post-enrollment support to ensure student satisfaction

Requirement:

• Bachelor’s degree in any discipline
• Experience:
• 0–1 year (Freshers with sales aptitude can apply)
• 1–4 years experience in education sales, academic counselling, or inside sales preferred

Preferred Attributes

• Experience in ed-tech, coaching institutes, or training organizations
• Willingness to work on weekends or during peak admission periods
• Self-motivated with a positive attitude

Job Description

We are looking for a Full stack PHP Developer responsible for managing back-end services and the interchange of data between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side and user-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements into the application. Therefore, understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well.

  Responsibilities

• User-facing elements developed by front-end developers
• Build efficient, testable, and reusable PHP modules
• Solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges
• Integration of data storage

Experience: 2-5years

Key Skills: PHP, Angular JS, React JS, MySQL

Desired Skills and competencies

• Understanding of MVC design patterns
• Strong knowledge of PHP web frameworks {such as Laravel, Yii, etc depending on your technology stack}, preferably into SaaS Product development
• Understanding the fully synchronous behavior of PHP
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
• Knowledge of object oriented PHP programming
• Strong knowledge of the common PHP or web server exploits and their solutions
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Familiarity with limitations of PHP as a platform and its workarounds
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Strong knowledge of SQL/NoSQL databases and their declarative query languages

Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as GITLab

Preferred Skills

• Knowledge on Linux/Shell commands 
• Demonstrates ability to communicate effectively in both technical and business environments.
• Willingness to learn Perl, NodeJS and new technologies
• Willingness to work in a collaborative, innovative, flexible and team-oriented environment
• Demonstrates ability to communicate effectively in both technical and business environments.

We’re looking for a highly skilled customer service representative to join our team, managing inbound and outbound phone calls, email requests, and face to face interaction with a friendly, helpful approach. The ideal candidate is a quick learner who can think on their feet and resolve any issues that come up with our customer-first business mentality. He or she is also experienced with sales, as the opportunity to promote company products and services may arise. The most successful representatives have the communication and interpersonal skills needed to provide support, answer questions, and resolve issues in an efficient manner. Serving as the voice and face of our company, he or she will be integral to reinforcing our reputation for exceptional customer service.

Objectives of this Role

• Manage a large volume of inbound and outbound calls, emails, and chats with knowledge and efficiency
• Identify and address customer needs with a goal of complete satisfaction
• Provide expert answers to questions about products, pricing, and availability, while presenting the value of our portfolio of products to customers
• Meet customer service department sales targets, generating sales leads when opportunities arise

Skills and Qualifications

• Successful experience in a corporate environment
• Strong communication skills, including active listening and clear articulation
• Ability to solve problems and alleviate conflicts or escalate tactifully
• Ability to multitask, manage time, and prioritize
• Able to work individually and as a team

• Expert software implementation and automated testing
• Promoting development standards, code reviews, mentoring, knowledge sharing
• Improving our Agile methodology maturity
• Product and feature design, scrum story writing
• Build, release, and deployment automation
• Product support & troubleshooting

Who we have in mind: 

• Demonstrated experience as a Java
• Should have a deep understanding of Enterprise/Distributed Architecture patterns and should be able to demonstrate the relevant usage of the same
• Turn high-level project requirements into application-level architecture and collaborate with the team members to implement the solution
• Strong experience and knowledge in Spring boot framework and microservice architecture
• Experience in working with Apache Spark
• Solid demonstrated object-oriented software development experience with Java, SQL, Maven, relational/NoSQL databases and testing frameworks 
• Strong working experience with developing RESTful services
• Should have experience working on Application frameworks such as Spring, Spring Boot, AOP
• Exposure to tools – Jira, Bamboo, Git, Confluence would be an added advantage
• Excellent grasp of the current technology landscape, trends and emerging technologies