Business Development Manager

- Identify and prospect potential clients in target industries and markets.

- Conduct extensive market research to identify opportunities for business expansion.

- Build a robust sales pipeline through proactive lead generation and networking. - Develop and maintain a database of prospective clients.

- Build and nurture long-term relationships with clients.

- Conduct regular client meetings to provide updates, gather feedback, and identify new opportunities.

- Collaborate with the content team to ensure client satisfaction and retention.

- Prepare compelling proposals and presentations tailored to client requirements. - Collaborate with strategists to develop innovative and effective solutions.

- Negotiate contracts, pricing, and terms of agreements with clients.

- Provide insights and recommendations for business growth.

- Analysing gaps and developing policies with the core team.

FULL STACK DEVELOPER

Responsibilities

• Develop interactive, user-friendly applications using the latest frameworks

• Deliver across the entire application life cycle in the stages of concept, design, build, deployment, test, and release to app stores and support.

• Collaborate with product owners and designers to translate product requirements and designs into reality

• Own and develop feature sets that involve responsive UIs and restful services to ensure a seamless user experience.

• Interact with the product, engineering, and business teams across geographies to leverage their expertise and contribute efficiently.

• Ensure that all components and the overall application are robust and easy to maintain.

• Continuously optimize and improve the application performance

• Proactively acquire knowledge of the latest industry trends and best practices in mobile technologies to implement them and educate the teams to increase the effectiveness of technology solutions.

Requirements

• B.Tech/ B.S. or M.Tech/ M.S. or equivalent in Computer Science, IT, or related field

• 2-6 years of experience

Mandatory Skills

• 2+ years of experience designing and building production-level web applications including:

• Programming knowledge in JavaScript, NodeJS

• Good knowledge in developing front-end software, with deep experience in one or more relevant

front-end frameworks (ReactJs, Angular, Vue etc.).

• Expertise in Web/mobile app development using React Native

• Experience in product development on mobile platforms using React Native

• Familiar in developing backend (JS/Node/C#).

• Basic understanding of RDBMS databases

• Working knowledge of design patterns, SOLID principles, and development best practices. Ability to

independently write code and unit test cases

• Mastery of standard frontend technologies like modern HTML, CSS, JavaScript (we use React,

Redux, Webpack, NodeJS etc.), REST, and JSON.

Desirable Skills

• ES6/7, Node, package management /webpack/parcel.

• Exposure to data modeling with any of the database technologies.

• Full stack understanding of web/mobile/API/database development concepts and patterns.

• Experience in DevOps would be a plus.

• Experience in TypeScript would be a plus.

• Excitement about the latest trends in application design

- Good understanding of NODE JS back-end development

- Strong understanding of Node.js and frameworks available for it

- Understanding of front-end technologies, such as React/Angular, HTML and CSS3
-Solid understanding of object-oriented development and design patterns.

- Good experience with AJAX, REST and JSON

- Experience with development practices such as Test-Driven Development and Continuous Integration
-Experience in Version Control Systems like GIT, Bitbucket
- Must have good problem solving and analytical skills.

- Must be a team player, having good communication skills, self-starter

- Ability to pick up new technology is needed.

• Meeting with the development team to discuss user interface ideas and applications.
• Reviewing application requirements and interface designs.
• Identifying web-based user interactions.
• Developing and implementing highly responsive user interface components using react concepts.
• Writing application interface codes using JavaScript following react.js workflows.
• Troubleshooting interface software and debugging application codes.
• Developing and implementing front-end architecture to support user interface concepts.
• Monitoring and improving front-end performance.
• Documenting application changes and developing updates.

Senior Product Owner (Digital Transformation)

Executive Summary
Are you looking to level up? The Senior Product Owner (Digital Transformation) role at FirstPrinciples and the partner that you will be staffed with is a multi-million dollar digital transformation initiatives on web and mobile with one of the largest large Luxury Home Builders in the United States.

About FirstPrinciples & The Role

FirstPrinciples is a Tech Holding company with a Venture Studio as part of its holdings. One part of the Venture Studio business at FirstPrinciples is about working with large enterprises on long-term digital transformation initiatives within their organization. The position that we are currently hiring for involves a multi-million dollar digital transformation initiatives for one of the largest Luxury Home Builders in the United States. Our scope involves working as expert consultants to advice and execute on upgrading the IT & Tech different internal and stakeholder facing systems within their organization. We are working on both web and mobile platforms. 

Who is This For

This is for an experienced Product Owner/Manager who is looking to take their career to the next stage by working on a large scale initiative that will challenge and extend their current capacities.

At FirstPrinciples, we truly act as a Tech Strategic Consultant along with having the operational capacity to implement the suggested recommendations. This role is for someone who is able to provide recommendations to the client while having the ownership of the end deliverables. While we have technical leaders also staffed within this partnership, we are looking for someone who can talk the talk with senior engineers and tech architects and understand their recommendations and its implications. 

Requirements

• One of the following certifications (PRINCE2, CSP, CAPM, CBAP (BABOK), Agile, CSP, CSPO, PMPO)
• Experience in independently managing, End-to-End Business Analysis, Product Analysis, Project Management for complex IT Projects and Products / Apps
• Working with Client to understand provide Consulting or Business Solutions, Problem Solving Approach and Skills, Strong Analytical Skills, should be able to read between the lines
• Managing scope via release management and planning and creating User-Stories, Running Sprints Cycle and Experience working with a team of 15-20 resources
• Requirements Gathering, Requirements Analysis, Requirements Management, Requirements Elicitation, Requirements Matrix (RTMs)
• Experience in Developing Low-Level and High-Level Prototyping using Wireframes tools (using any of the latest wireframing tools, such as JustInMind, Adobe XD, MockFlow, etc)
• Ownership of the Product Backlog & Deliverables and developing the User Stories & Release Planning
• Experience in Writing and Maintaining Business Requirement Documents (BRD) or PRDs and Functional Specification Document (FSD), Software Requirements Specification (SRS)
• Should have experience in creating Project Budgeting, Creating Efforts Estimations (EE), Presentation Decks, and Clean Documentation 
• Experience in Writing Test Cases and Managing UAT and Deployment 
• Analysis: GAP, Fish-bone Analysis, RCA (Root Cause Analysis), MoSCOW
• Experience in Consulting clients on Problem Statements V/s Solution Building based on AS-IS and TO-BE
• Experience converting Business Cases to Technology case and Building Products from scratch thus Translating Business Requirements into Software Requirement Specifications
• Interacting with the Technical team to ensure Delivery and Implementation of the Software Solution/Projects
• Client Relationship Management, Excellent at English Speaking, and Written Communication
• Understanding of Change Management, Risk Management and Project Management

Management Skills

1. Excellent Written and Oral Communication Skills and Etiquettes
2. Excellent Presentation Skills 
3. Experience in working with Onshore and Offshore Teams and Experience handling Cross-Functional Projects, Resources and Clients
4. Experience dealing with Pressure and Meeting strict Project Deadlines
5. Leadership and Motivational Skills to ensure the Work is being done by the Resources on time and within the specified budget
6. Conflict and Resolution Management
7. Prior experience in operations management - good to have 
8. Experience working with US Clients

TechStack & Platform

1. MEAN Stack (Web)
2. Native iOS & Android (Mobile)
3. AWS
   
   
   

• Experience of providing technical leadership in the Big Data space (Hadoop Stack like Spark, M/R, HDFS, Pig, Hive, HBase, Flume, Sqoop, etc. Should have contributed to open source Big Data technologies.
• Expert-level proficiency in Python
• Experience in visualizing and evangelizing next-generation infrastructure in Big Data space (Batch, Near Real-time, Real-time technologies).
• Passionate for continuous learning, experimenting, applying, and contributing towards cutting edge open source technologies and software paradigms
• Strong understanding and experience in distributed computing frameworks, particularly Apache Hadoop 2.0 (YARN; MR & HDFS) and associated technologies.
• Hands-on experience with Apache Spark and its components (Streaming, SQL, MLLib)
  Operating knowledge of cloud computing platforms (AWS, especially EMR, EC2, S3, SWF services, and the AWS CLI)
• Experience working within a Linux computing environment, and use of command-line tools including knowledge of shell/Python scripting for automating common tasks
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