Business Development - Head

Role Description:

Do you like to get people’s attention with visuals? 

At Astra, we're looking for a graphic designer who likes to show off their creative flair and communicate to the world with their designs. This role will be dynamic, including understanding the design needs, developing visual concepts, and revising feedback-based designs.

About us:

Astra Security is a privately held U.S. & India-based company. Backed by Techstars, Astra offers a Pentest Platform, which emulates hacker behavior & helps organizations become proactively secure.

Astra's Pentest Platform helps organizations proactively uncover vulnerabilities in their applications and comply with various security standards. The Pentest Platform has uncovered 100,000+ vulnerabilities in customer applications. Astra's Website Protection suite stops one million+ threats on its customers' web applications daily. To offer a homogenous experience to its customers, Astra Security incorporates cutting-edge solutions that are easy to comprehend and tailor-made to suit any business requirement.

The company has earned several accolades, including ‘The Most Innovative Security Company’ by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Global Conference on Cyber Security, one of the top 50 emerging cybersecurity companies at ‘Emerge 50’ by NASSCOM, the French Tech Ticket under which Astra Security got rewarded by the President of France under the La French Tech program. In 2021, Astra Security was also named as a CyberTech100 company. Astra is a trusted security partner to well-known brands like Vodafone, Lynas, Kotak Securities, Unilever, NIIT, TEDx, Muthoot, Ford, etc.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• ​Work with the marketing team to understand the requirements & conceptualize them into designs.
• Designing landing page wireframes & elements 
• Creating feature banner images & infographics for the blog
• Designing e-books & brochures
• Designing Social Media creatives (Images, GIFs, and carousels) 
• Designing email newsletters & header images
• Designing product mockups & social creatives for product features
• Editing live-action videos (Adding intro, outro, title cards, sections, & animations)
• Creating short, engaging animated videos for social media/YouTube
• Creating mobile responsive designs for landing pages
• Design branded presentation themes for the sales/marketing teams to use
• Work with the marketing and frontend developer on the feedback shared and amend design changes.
• Work & come up with design guidelines for the brand

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Requirements for the role:

• 1-4 years of graphic design experience in B2B SaaS marketing
• Effective communication skills and attention to detail
• Strong understanding of design principles, processes, aesthetics, typography, imagery, and color theory.
• Someone who's friendly, collaborative, comfortable with receiving direction, working autonomously, and eager to learn.
• Willingness to work in a remote setup
• Proficient in design tools such as Figma, Adobe (Photoshop/Illustrator, After Effects, & Premier Pro), Canva, and Spline/Sketch. 
• Project management skills and ability to meet deadlines
• A degree in Design, Fine Arts, or a related field is a plus.

Benefits of joining the Astra squad:

• Adrenalin rush of being a part of a growing company
• Fully remote & agile working environment
• A wholesome opportunity in a fast-paced environment where you get to build things from scratch, and influence product design decisions
• Holistic understanding of SaaS and enterprise cloud security business
• Opportunity to engage and collaborate with
• Annual trips to beaches or mountains
• Open and supportive culture

JOB PURPOSE

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• Develop application using Angular JS (worked on Express JS, JEST), Angular 6 
• This is a hands-on role which involves writing code, testing, and deploying finished web applications and libraries

MAJOR ACCOUNTABILITY

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• Design, rapid prototype, and implement a scalable, reliable and maintainable node based web application
• Enforce code quality through test driven development
• Enhance, refactor, and continuously improve the existing codebase
• Collaborate closely with team to define product requirements
• Aggressively collect, analyse, and act on data about product performance
• Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical people
• Proactive in keeping your skills updated

ESSENTIAL SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

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• Excellent working knowledge of core Java, Node JS, JavaScript, ES6, Micro services
• 4-6 year's overall development experience (At least 2 years of experience in Node JS and Angular JS)
• Good understanding of security in Micro service and Web Applications
• Good understanding of OOP, and design patterns
• Experience in working with databases - SQL and Non-SQL Databases

EDUCATION

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• Minimum education: Any Graduate BE/B.Tech would be desirable
• Languages: Excellent English written & spoken

Responsibilities And Duties:

Connect with our prospective clients both over the phone, email, and chat.

Ask the right questions to ascertain the needs of each unique traveler. Recommend and sell the right trip to the client based on their needs including any extra services that may enhance their experience.

Ensure the use of correct booking processes and procedures to minimize risk and reduce error rates.

Act at all times with the purpose of providing a life-changing experience.

Things you will need to bring to begin your adventure with us: Sales skills - You'll have that edge when it comes to sales and understanding how to provide amazing customer service.

You'll be target-driven, and up for any challenge.

Travel experience - You'll be a globe trotter who has an incurable case of the travel bug.

Academic achievements - You'll have been a high flyer with academic accomplishments.

Career ambition - You'll love the thought of a challenging career that can take you places.

Benefits: Unlimited Earnings - You'll work on a fixed base salary plus uncapped commission; the more you sell, the more you'll earn! First-year average earnings are around 1 Million with the potential for year-upon-year growth as you build your client base.

Training and development at our own in-house Learning Centre - We will provide you with all the tools you need to get up and running, as well as ongoing training to further develop your skills and knowledge.

Career development and advancement opportunities.

Unbeatable company culture

What is expected from you :

● Strong Consultative selling skills including excellent relationship building, networking

and time management skills

● Excellent Conflict Resolution and Negotiation skills

● Strong Team Player

● Excellent in Business communications and email etiquette

● Exposure to LinkedIn and other Job portals

● Ability to generate B2B leads

● Experience in Lead Research and Prospecting

● Experience in cold calling, email campaigns, and using social media to generate leads.

● Knowledge of Recruitment

● Data Maintenance and organization skills

● MBA qualification or Experience in Business development is preferred

What will you be doing?

● Handle end-to-end B2B business Development, right from prospecting to closing

deals

● Acquire new clients through networking, direct contact, or from marketing campaigns

● Establish long-term engagement with clients with multiple products

● Build and nurture client relationships via various channels

● Coordinating with multiple internal stakeholders on a daily basis

● Cross-selling and Upselling to existing clients into other GUVI services

● Develop and implement marketing plans designed to maintain and increase existing

business and capture new opportunities

• Identifying and boosting business opportunities by evaluating the potential segmentation in all business verticals.
• Developing and executing strategic plan to achieve sales targets and expand customer base
• Exploring new business opportunity, developing a business plan, and providing the workflow solutions for customers in different market segments.
• Building and maintaining strong, long-lasting customer relationships
• Sells products by implementing sales plans.
• By providing direction in line with business strategy, lead, motivate and measure the performance of the Sales teams
• Preparation of annual sales budget
• Identify emerging markets and market shifts while being fully aware of new products and competition status
• Present sales, revenue and expenses reports and realistic forecasts to the management team
• Design and implement strategic plans to reach sales targets.
• Develop and promote weekly, monthly and quarterly sales objectives.
• Work with customers to better understand their business needs and goals.
• Provide full visibility into the sales pipeline at every stage of development
• directing and supervising sales operations to ensure profit maximization and realization of sales targets
• Provide motivation and guidance to the sales team to enable them to improve on their sales performance, and to reach the set goals.
• Provide effective after sales support and services to customers.
• Monitor the activities of sales personnel to assess performance and productivity
• Prepare and present to management periodic budgets/sales forecast

This Social Media Executive is suited for someone with an entrepreneurial spirit and wants to get a first-hand experience in various things that happen in a new organization. A candidate that doesn’t mind about living any challenging experience by owning it to self.

Candidate will be given responsibilities of supporting (including but not limited to) social media strategy planning, online advertising, promotions, & Ad-Campaigns. He/she will monitor and create aggressive marketing on Instagram & Facebook and create engaging content for blogs, forums and other social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Quora, Pinterest, etc.

He/she will optimize our website, blogs and social media content for maximum reach and impact (e.g. SEO/SEM) by using keyword analysis and cost/benefit analysis. They will develop a content calendar on a weekly and monthly basis.

Our company’s culture is unique in that we truly live by our values of friends first, integrity and doing the right thing.

• Strong experience in Java Development
• Deep expertise and hands-on experience with Web Applications
• Expertise in Java, Spring Boot is an added advantage.
• Experience in Microservices
• Hands-on design experience with Web Services (REST, SOAP, etc ..).
• Strong grasp of security principles.

Nice to Have

• Spring Zuul
• Kafka
• cryptography and certificates

Abilities:

• Developer with  strong ability to develop web applications using Java
• Should be able to Code, design, and implement
• Maintain code integrity and organization