Business Development Executive

PlanetSpark is on the lookout for a Business Development Associate at our Gurgaon office! 🏢

🚀 Join us in the dynamic Ed Tech industry and take charge of inside sales. Check out the key details below:

👩‍💼 Job Title: Business Development Associate

🌍 Location: Gurgaon

🏢 Work Setting: Office-Based (WFO)

🎓 Industry: Ed Tech

📊 Functional Area: Inside Sales

🌞 Shift: Day Shift / Night Shift (optional)

📋 Roles & Responsibilities:

As a Business Development Associate, you will:

1️⃣ Help students choose the perfect learning course from our educational offerings.

2️⃣ Kickstart phone conversations with parents who've experienced demo classes for their kids.

3️⃣ Nurture potential customers and seal the deal within the sales cycle.

4️⃣ Effectively communicate with leads through email and calls.

5️⃣ Keep precise digital records of call information.

6️⃣ Achieve monthly sales targets and meet input metrics.

🎯 Hiring Criteria:

💼 Training Period: 21428 (Stipend)

💰 Salary Range (CTC): 6.6 LPA (4.02 LPA fixed + 2.4 LPA variable)

🗣️ Required Skill: Excellent Communication

🕒 Experience Required: 0-3 Years (Freshers welcome!)

🎓 Minimum Education: Graduation

📆 Graduation Years: 2018-2024 passouts

🚨 Important Criteria:

💼 Willingness to work 5 days a week.

🚀 Thrive in a startup environment with high-intensity learning and rapid growth.

📍 Job Location: Gurugram

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

Skills Required :

• Previous Working Experience As A PHP / Laravel Developer For 1-4 Years.
• In-Depth Knowledge Of Object-Oriented PHP And Laravel 5 PHP Framework.
• Hands-On Experience With SQL Schema Design, SOLID Principles, REST API Design, Etc. MySQL Profiling And Query Optimization. Excellent Troubleshooting Skills.
• Good Project Management Skills. Creative And Efficient Problem Solver.

Roles & Responsibilities :

• Build Innovative, State-Of-The-Art Applications And Collaborate With The User Experience (UX) Team. Ensure HTML, CSS, And Shared JavaScript Is Valid And Consistent Across Applications.
• Prepare And Maintain All Applications Utilizing Standard Development Tools.
• Utilize Backend Data Services And Contribute To Increasing Existing Data Services API.
• Coordinate With Co-Developers And Keeps Project Manager Well Informed Of The Status Of Development Effort And Serves As A Liaison Between Development Staff And Project Manager.
• Keep Abreast Of New Trends And Best Practices In Web Development.

React JS Developer | Experience: 1+ Years| Salary Up to 30K|

EDUCATION: B.E./B.Tech./M.E./M.Tech/MCA
DESIRED SKILLS: React.js, JavaScript, Redux, RESTful APIs, Typescript

JOB SUMMARY

Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles
Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux)
Familiarity with newer specifications of EcmaScript
Familiarity with RESTful APIs
Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JWT Web Token
Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools
Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.
Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
A knack for benchmarking and optimization
Familiarity with code versioning tools (such as Git, SVN, and Mercurial)
Familiarity with any ReactJS testing framework is plus

• Work directly with the other Software/Firmware Engineers and Electrical/RF/Systems Test Engineers to write needed software
• Design and implement software platform for firmware on embedded CPUs with multiple OS such as Windows, Linux, FreeRTOS, TI-RTOS and embedded Linux
• Use compliers, debuggers revision control and automated build systems.
• Design/develop components of software platform for use by other developers to extend its capabilities and build custom applications/behavior on top
• Develop build methodologies, debugging tools/utilities
• Develop and release Software using Agile methodology
• Write unit tests and support continuous integration and automated test methodology
• Brainstorm for new ideas and ways to improvement product and processes
• Consult with peers for feedback during debug/testing stages
• Document and maintain design processes

Must-Have’s:

• Hands-on DevOps (Git, Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins, Python/Ruby)  

Job Description:

• Knowledge on what is a DevOps CI/CD Pipeline

• Understanding of version control systems like Git, including branching and merging strategies
• Knowledge of what is continuous delivery and integration tools like Jenkins, Github
• Knowledge developing code using Ruby or Python and Java or PHP 
• Knowledge writing Unix Shell (bash, ksh) scripts

• Knowledge of what is automation/configuration management using Ansible, Terraform, Chef or Puppet

• Experience and willingness to keep learning in a Linux environment
• Ability to provide after-hours support as needed for emergency or urgent situations

Nice to have’s:

• Proficient with container based products like docker and Kubernetes

• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written)

• Able to work in a team and be a team player
• Knowledge of PHP, MySQL, Apache and other open source software
• BA/BS in computer science or similar

We are hiring interns for the product growth role. This is an extensive research project and would require a hustler's attitude and out of the box thinking without much hand-holding. 

Roles and responsibilities: 

- Researching community sign-up questions for various community types

- Researching engagement techniques used by community managers in their respective communities. 

- Researching platforms or standalone communities in peer-to-peer learning/upskilling space

- Working with the product team and ideating growth hacks to better the user onboarding and engagement on the LikeMinds platform. 

The duration of the internship will be a minimum of 2 months and interns will be required to work from home 6 days a week. 

Additional Perks:

1. Letter of recommendation
2. A full-time job offer to exceptional students.
3. Fixed and variable stipend up to Rs 10,000/month based on your performance
4. Networking opportunities across domains