Business Development Manager

• Strong UX-focused Product Design Profile
• Mandatory (Experience 1) – Must have 8+ YOE in Product Design, with a focus on UX Research, Designs and Design Operations, primarily in the B2B domain
• Mandatory (Experience 2) - Must have strong experience with Large-scale B2B Enterprise products, and should be leading multiple verticals in the ERP products
• Mandatory (Experience 3) – Must have strong experience in Project Management and Design operations - Like leading Design sprints, team task allocation, delivery planning, estimation and execution.
• Mandatory (Designation) – Must be Manager / Staff or above designation in Current role
• Mandatory (Team Managememt) - Must have atleast recent 2+ YOE as a Team Manager (Not mentoring, should be in a complete Manager role)
• Mandatory (Portfolio) - Must have strong B2B Products Case Studies for Complex B2B Enterprise level applications, with multiple connected modules (Dont want just simple UI screens in portfolio)
• Mandatory (Company) - Large-Scale B2B SaaS / Enterprise-level Products

Preferred

• Preferred (Experience) - Automotive, Retail or Dealerships domain experience
• Preferred (Companies) - Linkedin, Blikit, Intuit, Razorpay, Workday, Octa, Posman, Oracle, Walmart and similar companies

Preferred Companies

Linkedin, Blikit, Intuit, Razorpay, Workday, Octa, Posman, Oracle, Walma

Full Stack Developer – React + Node.js + SQL + Team Lead + Excellent comms

Job Title: Full Stack Developer (React + Node.js + SQL)

Experience: 7+ years

Job Summary:

We are seeking a highly capable full stack developer proficient in React, Node.js, and SQL. The ideal candidate will be responsible for developing scalable web applications and APIs, integrating with relational databases, and delivering high-quality, maintainable code.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and develop front-end interfaces using React with Redux/Context API.
• Build RESTful APIs and backend services using Node.js (Express.js).
• Integrate and optimize SQL queries with PostgreSQL, MySQL, or MS SQL Server.
• Ensure responsive design and cross-browser compatibility.
• Collaborate with UI/UX designers, testers, and backend engineers.
• Write unit and integration tests to ensure code quality and reliability.

Required Skills:

• Strong hands-on experience with React.js and Node.js.
• Proficiency in SQL and experience with relational database systems.
• Knowledge of RESTful API design and microservices architecture.
• Familiarity with version control systems (Git), CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (ES6+).

Good to Have:

• Experience with GraphQL, TypeScript, or NoSQL databases.
• Cloud deployment experience (AWS/Azure).
• Containerization knowledge (Docker/Kubernetes).
• Agile/Scrum project methodology experience.

Key Factors:

1. Proven experience in sales and business development, preferably within the education sector, specifically in selling admission management solutions to CBSE, ICSE, IGCSE, IB, and boarding schools.
2. Strong understanding of the admission processes and challenges faced by educational institutions.
3. Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to effectively engage with school stakeholders at all levels.
4. The proactive and results-driven mindset with a track record of meeting or exceeding sales targets.
5. Ability to build and nurture long-term relationships with customers.
6. Strong negotiation and closing skills, with attention to detail in contract and agreement management.
7. Exceptional organizational and time management skills, with the ability to prioritize tasks effectively.
8. Willingness to travel within the assigned territory as required.
9. Bachelor's or Master’s degree in business, marketing, education, or a related field is preferred.

About Company

With a rich legacy of 40 years in fostering world-class academic excellence and over 100,000 alumni across the globe, our client is one of the premier institutions of higher learning in India offering Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Diploma, and Ph.D. programmes.

Uniquely positioned as one of the first universities across the world that offer the highest standard of professional education ingrained with the postulates of peace studies, the university enables an inclusive culture of dignity, fairness, and respect amongst its students, grooming them into future-ready, responsible citizens of the world.

About the role

• Provide Strategic Vision for University to define medium- and long-term Human Resource direction and priorities.

• Lead on developing, communicating and successfully delivering the University’s HR strategy, including inspiring continuous performance improvement

• Build a dynamic and forward-looking approach to the University’s HR capability development with strong intellectual leadership, understanding and harnessing the University’s comprehensive subject range, in the context of a best HR practices.

• Ensure operational excellence and sustainability.

Roles & responsibilities

Strategic

• Devise HR strategies aligned to University’s vision and mission

• Establish HR roadmap aligned to HR strategies

• Play key role in facilitating the change across organization

• Advice and guide management on strategic alignment require with the growth of University.

• Establish framework which is sustainable, scalable in all areas of HR function

• Designing and executing all the HR policies and procedures of the University.

• Focus on employee capability building through - Conducting the training need analysis (initially nonteaching and later FDP’s for teaching staff).

Research Development

• Create activities around employee engagement and career progression

• Facilitate going forward leadership development, succession planning, High potential development program etc…

• Develop result oriented Performance Management System (Yearly appraisal and competency mapping at each level).

Financial and Budget

• Propose HR Budget and financial strategies focusing employee engagement

• Ensure the budget is used in the best possible way and is adding value as ROI

• Incorporate in the budget provisions leading to “Employer of Choice”

Collaborations

• Be employee advocate & champion within all the institutions under the umbrella of University

• Represent University on professional bodies of repute helpful in further branding university

Operational

• Create activities around employee engagement and career progression

• Conducting HR Audit of all HR processes periodically.

• Create HR dashboard showcasing HR performance to management on monthly basis

• Develop the training calendar and execute the training programs as per the TNA.

• Develop the employee welfare schemes.

• Design employee engagement activities.

• Design HR manual and employee handbook.

• Develop through induction and ensure each new joinee is gone through the induction process.

• Develop result oriented Performance Management System (Yearly appraisal and competency mapping at each level).

• Develop various incentive schemes for the employees.

• Participate and take responsibility during social initiative programs

• Compensation & Benefit Management

• Statutory & Regulatory Compliances Management

• Employee Grievances handling and satisfactory resolution

External Representation

• Represent Institute in various professional bodies, conferences and seminars in order to increase project the image of best employer and the institute’s visibility at the regional and international levels

• Remain abreast of the best practices in the field of Human Resources

Requirements

Minimum Qualification & Experience

• MBA from ISB/institute of repute

• 15 to 20 years of experience in Human Resource, preferable from education sector (Female candidates preferred)

Substantial leadership and management experience

• The personal characteristics to have a substantial experience and a successful record of senior leadership at corporate level in a large and complex organisation.

• Evidence of developing, communicating and executing a vision and strategy in a complex organisation, Proven Transformation Leadership in a sizeable organisation

• Demonstrated personal leadership of creating new benchmark of performance and have proven record of performance improvement and change at an organisational level;

• Financial acumen and experience, and commercial awareness, which demonstrate the ability to strategically manage, optimise and be accountable for the management of resources

• A proven track record of developing leaders and leadership teams, and the ability to work effectively with those teams;

• A commitment to the highest standards of governance, experience of working effectively with governing bodies or boards and external members, and the ability to operate confidently and effectively in an externally regulated environment

Intellectual credibility

• A high level of intellectual credibility, with a strong academic or other intellectual profile, in order to lead, engage with, and gain the respect of staff, demonstrating curiosity and interest in the broad range of HR disciplines.

Personal attributes and style

• A strong commitment to university and its vision, ambitions, and values

• The ability and confidence to lead and work effectively with an experienced and capable senior leadership team, empowering leaders at all levels to deliver the Division’s ambitions;

• The ability to relate to and communicate effectively with staff at all levels in the Division, engaging them with the University’s vision and plans; n

• A personal commitment to and record in effective and respectful partnership working across all staff groups;

• Sound judgement and the ability and courage to make difficult but informed decisions, including on challenging issues;

• Exceptional personal and public communication and relations

Policies, Systems, Processes & Procedures

•  Review and ensure the India information security policies are aligned with group policies and practices.
•  Review and provide recommendations to India policies, standards, guidelines/ processes concerning RBI (Reserve Bank of India) regulatory requirements
•  Coordinate with business units to define SLA for India
• Formulate the security strategy and roadmap for India

Information Security

•  Identify and ensure compliance to unique security requirements for RBI (Reserve Bank of India) related to RBI cyber security framework and RBI Guidelines on Information security.
•  Establish contacts with RBI (Reserve Bank of India) regulators to receive security updates, circulars
•  Coordinate for the group for various regulatory security audits at the Singapore location.
•  Monitor and track all India open issues with IT and concerned international SPOCS
•  Assist the GSO office and BU in attaining information security compliance objectives.
•  Identify issues that could impact the bank and escalate any serious issues/ breaches/ violations; develop/monitor action plans for its closure in liaison with local, and overseas branches, and business groups.
•  With the support of the Head office GSO team, perform risk assessments for locally implemented IT solutions and track open issues to closure
•  Instigate and maintain contact with RBI Regulatory Authorities, Regulatory compliance department, and ensure good & healthy working relationships.
•  Review new regulatory legislations; promptly communicate all regulatory notices/circulars to all concerned areas, provide interpretations if necessary; develop/monitor action plans towards its implementation.
•  Assist Head office during Regulatory Examinations; ensure implementation/regularization of observations linked to compliance while meeting the deadline(s).
• Respond to queries that are sought by local Regulatory Authorities / Law Enforcement Agencies Head Office & Overseas branches, in a timely manner with complete and accurate information.

Job Context

•  Security Compliance requirements at the India location.
•  Highlight security status & concerns to management.
•  Consult with IT and information security staff to ensure that an implementation plan is established.
•  Actively participate and contribute to GSO initiatives
•  Track open Audit issues on information security to closure
•  Risk assessments for local implementations
• Inform HO of any new 3rd party technology vendor for vendor assessment

Our core customer-facing product today is a native Android application. In addition to this, we are building internal tools for customer support, investment management, marketing analytics and business management. In the future, we plan to hugely expand the features in our core product, build iOS and web products, and continuously improve our internal tools to better serve our customers.

For our back-end, we use Node.js / MySQL / AWS. We are currently a 3-member engineering team (1 back-end, 1 Android, 1 full stack) led by our founding engineer and advised by a senior technology executive from a leading fintech company.

Key Responsibilities of the Role

• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve our software applications
• Build reusable libraries and frameworks that support complex web applications
• Set-up our technology infrastructure and integrate with 3rd party applications
• Contribute to internal discussions around product features, roadmap and technologies used
• Mentor & recruit engineers to the team
• Set up processes related to engineering & product

Skills / Required Experience:

• B.Tech / M.Tech in Computer Science or equivalent, with solid foundational knowledge in at least two general programming languages, data structures, algorithms, system architecture, security and networking protocols.
• At least 6 years of back-end development experience in a software product company is required for this role.
• Exposure to modern software development processes, multiple front-end and back-end technologies, and open-source software.
• Proficiency with tools like Gitlab/Jira/Firebase, as well as AWS and commonly used database systems etc. is required
• Experience in an early-stage startup or having founded your own startup would be good to have (but not necessary).