Business Development Manager

Job Title: Product and Research Head – Real Estate

Location: Chennai (Thiruvanmiyur)

Job Summary:

The Product and Research Head in Real Estate will lead the development and execution of innovative real estate products and oversee comprehensive market research and analysis. This role demands a strategic leader with deep industry knowledge who can drive product strategy, identify market opportunities, and provide actionable insights to support business growth. The ideal candidate will bridge product development with data-driven research to deliver competitive and customer-centric real estate solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

Product & Research Head

Position: Head – Product & Research

Experience: 20+ years

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead product conceptualization, positioning, and market strategy for residential, commercial, and retail projects.
• Conduct extensive market, consumer, and competitor research.
• Define product mix, unit sizes, pricing, and specifications in line with market demand and business targets.
• Collaborate with sales, marketing, design, and engineering teams to align product features with customer expectations.
• Track industry trends, customer preferences, and regulatory updates.
• Prepare detailed feasibility studies and business plans for new projects.

Preferred Profile:

• 20-25 years in real estate product management and market research.
• Strong market knowledge, analytical skills, and strategic business acumen.

·      GST, TDS, P&L STATEMENT, BANKING KNOWLEDGE & LOAN DOCUMENT PREPARING MANDATORY SKILLS

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Sustain strong relations with existing clients to ensure their long-term satisfaction and retention.

·      Collaborate with various departments to create and implement sales strategies and meet sales targets.

·      Prepare sales presentations and showcase the benefits of the product to prospective customers.

·      Negotiate favorable contracts and agreements with clients to ensure the satisfaction of both parties.

·      Address client inquiries and resolve their issues promptly, thus enhancing customer service quality.

·      Stay updated on the latest industry trends and the competitive business landscape.

·      Collaborate with internal teams to support overall sales activities and enhance the client experience.

·      Prepare regular sales reports and update the management on departmental activities, progress, and daily challenges.

·      Attend industry events and conferences to build professional networks and prospective client base with product demonstrations.

·      Track market changes and competitor activities to identify growth opportunities.

·      Assist the product development team in making product enchantments based on client feedback.

·      Conduct market audits to identify new business opportunities and prospective clients.

·      Work closely with the marketing department to develop promotional content and campaigns.

·      Manage the entire sales pipeline to ensure that all leads are followed promptly.

·      Stay updated on the market best practices and sales and account management regulations.

Account Executive Qualifications

·      Bachelor’s degree in business administration, marketing, or a related field.

·      Prior experience of 5-12 years as an Account Executive or a similar sales role.

·      Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

·      Ability to build strong rapport with clients and colleagues.

·      Excellent negotiation and persuasion skills.

·      Strong organizational and project management skills.

·      Proficiency with MS Office Suite.

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As a PHP Laravel Backend Developer at Chhayakart, you will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and maintaining the backend infrastructure of our web applications. Your expertise in backend development and API development & integration will be vital in ensuring the seamless operation of our product

Qualification :

 Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field is preferred.

Experience :

  Minimum 1 year experience in PHP, Laravel Also API Integration profile.

Technical Skills Required:

 Laravel , PHP (oops Concept Also), JavaScript, React.js, HTML5, CSS3.

Job Type: Full-time

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate closely with the frontend development team to understand the requirements and design APIs that align with the frontend components developed in React.
• Proven experience as a Backend Developer with a strong focus on PHP Laravel development.
• Strong understanding of database design and management, including SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Experience with unit testing, debugging, and troubleshooting techniques.
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively within a team environment.
• Ability to adapt to changing requirements and priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Design, develop, and maintain efficient and reliable PHP Laravel backend systems that support the functionality of our web applications.
• Build RESTful APIs that enable smooth communication between the frontend and backend, ensuring optimal performance and responsiveness.
• Implement data storage solutions, including databases, caching mechanisms, and other data persistence technologies.
• Write clean, modular, and reusable code while adhering to coding standards and best practices.
• Ensure the security and data protection of the backend systems, implementing necessary authentication and authorization measures.
• Optimize application performance, scalability, and responsiveness through techniques such as caching, query optimization, and load balancing.
• Troubleshoot and resolve backend-related issues and bugs in a timely manner.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and advancements in backend development and technology.

You will be responsible for:

• Developing and maintaining highly scalable websites
• All aspects of the project development cycle using PHP and strong OOPS concepts
• Code review and walkthroughs
• Sprint planning and effort estimations

You have in-depth experience in: 

• Developing complex web-applications
• Frameworks such Laravel, CakePHP , React.js
• RDBMS such as MySQL, SQL

You add value with exposure to:

• Flutter Development
• Cloud hosting & Auto Scaling: AWS, Azure, Google cloud
• Unit testing: PHPUnit, PEST
• Cache / Data structure 
• CI/CD: Bitbucket pipelines, AWS Codepipeline, Jenkins

• Finding creative solutions to product, technical, organisational and resource challenges. 
• Partnering with fellow leaders to build a collaborative design, engineering and product culture. 
• Help lead multiple projects on the International Experience team, defining scope, identifying resourcing needs, and handling stakeholder management. 
• Work cross-functionally to identify workflow issues and integrate procedural improvements. 
• Track and communicate progress across your projects, ensuring the teams are on track - facilitating decision-making, resolving blockers, and surfacing challenges. 
• Enable continuous improvement during projects, ensuring insights are captured, shared, and integrated. 
• Become an evangelist, advocate, and educator on behalf of Design, elevating the team's presence within the organization. 
• Always be acutely aware of the team's needs and provide feedback to our design leads in order to ensure all designers experience an enjoyable and balanced work environment. 
• Help develop process improvements for Design Operations as a whole. 
• Think conceptually – applying a user-centered approach to requirements and interdependencies – to develop engaging interfaces. 
• Think visually – using techniques like storyboards and sketching – to communicate interaction design concepts. 
• Make design decisions based on good judgement, experience, research, and data. 
• Make a real impact at scale through new product launches and interface improvements that effect billions of our customers everyday 
• Be part of a fun, humble team, always learning, collaborating with other designers to deliver a cohesive customer centered experience. 

What You'll Need 

A strong product design portfolio that demonstrates how you design to solve customer needs. 

• Excellent people management Skills 
• Leadership Skills 
• Excellent grasp of the design thinking and prototyping process, including product/interaction/visual, with the know-how to move from pencil on paper to layout to pixel-perfect handoff using tools such as Sketch, Invision, and Zeplin. 
• Stellar interaction & visual skills (track record of deploying user interface standards and conventions, functional communication flows, dynamic engaging interfaces, attention to detail, stay on brand, build new patterns). 
• Deep understanding of design principals and industry trends. 
• Expert communication and presentation skills with ability to clearly present your work; you are articulate and can advocate design rationale. 
• Readily give and receive constructive feedback. 
• Expert partnering with cross functional teams in launching new products and improvements to existing features. 

Added Points 

• Experience working in and navigating a corporate environment independently. 
• Delivered successful design for responsive web, iOS and Android. 
• Experience building efficient scalable systems or in eCommerce. 
• Bachelor’s in Design, User Experience (UX), Human Computer Interaction, Mass Communications or related field. 

Skillset  

• Mock ups : Sketch, Axure, Figma 
• Usability test : Morae, WebEx Remote UTs 
• Image editing & illustration : Photoshop, Expression Design, CorelDraw, Adobe illustrator. 

Resposibilities:

• Candidate will be responsible to work on Magento and Shopify mobile apps.
• Candidate will be responsible to work on custom app per client's requirement
• Candidate will be doing the updates in existing apps.
• They will report directly to the technical head

Requirements:

• Must have 1+ years of experience with Flutter Application Development
• Should able to create complex UI/UX in Flutter
• Strong Knowledge in Push Notifications
• Strong Knowledge in Restful Web Services. Experience in Interacting with Web Services from the Flutter Mobile Platform
• Experience with Offline Storage, Threading, and Performance Tuning will be plus point
• Troubleshooting skills

Benefits:

• Paid Leaves
• Flexibility in working hours
• Yearly Tour
• Performance Bonus
• Learning & Growth Platform
• Weekly & Monthly Celebrations
• Friendly Work Culture
• Alternate Saturday Off

Skills:

• Strong working knowledge of AWS.
• Implements AWS cloud platform.
• Infrastructure as Code, GitLab CI/CD, and DevOps standard methodologies
• scripting in Shell, Python, Ruby or any preferred scripting language

Terraform expertise is a MUST for this role.

a short exercise on terraform to all shortlisted candidates to demonstrate their hands-on skills on terraform before rolling out the offer

Desired Profile

 Providing expertise on all matters related to CI, CD and DevOps.

 Building and maintaining highly available production systems.

 Developing and maintaining release related documents, such as release plan, release notes etc.

 Ensuring quality releases and managing release and configuration change conflicts to resolution.

 Tracking release and publishing release notes.  Investigating and resolving technical issues by deploying updates/ fixes.

 Onboard applications to DevOps process.

 Setup and configure build jobs.

 Create automated deployment scripts.

 Configure JIRA workflow, and integrate with Jenkins / Micro-services.

Qualification

 Degree/Diploma in Computer Science, Engineering or related field and have previous experience as a DevOps Engineer.

 AWS Certification will be a plus.

 Experience of automation and provisioning approaches, using tools such as Terraform & Cloud Formation

Skillset Required

 Solid experience within release management, infra architecture, CI&CD.

 Highly goal driven and work well in fast paced environments.

 Proven experience of using Jenkins, Unix Shell Commands, Container technology (Docker, Kubernetes),

Java Programming, Groovy Script, Git, Code Branching Strategy, Maven, Gradle, JIRA, ECS, OpenShift.