Business Development Manager

LOCATION = MUMBAI, CHENNAI AND BHUBANESHWAR

We are looking for field sales agents with an entrepreneurial mindset, who will play a vital role in acquiring and activating travel agents. This is a very roll-up-your-sleeves role - you will have to knock on doors, pick up the phone, or do whatever it takes to acquire travel agents.

Responsibilities:

• Acquire and activate travel agents through various channels like office visits, telephone, email, social networks, events & meetings.
• Establish, grow, and maintain commercial ties with travel agents both current and potential in the designated territory to attract new partners for our services.
• Create a sales funnel, identify the right leads, define long-term goals, and engage in strategic business planning.
• Align sales activities with the tele-sales team, product, marketing, and customer success team.
• Build an in-depth understanding of our products and give demos or solve product queries to convert agents.
• Attend road shows, trade fairs, and other travel industry events.
• Maintain and analyze data.
• Stay updated on industry insights and opportunities for strategic planning and growth.

Requirements:

• At least 4 years of sales experience in the travel industry
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to build relationships
• Prior experience in acquiring travel agents or in visas or insurance is a big plus
• Proficient with using CRMs and Google Sheets
• Ability to handle pressure

• Should have excellent knowledge of Swift and Objective C
• Good working knowledge in Cocoa Touch
• Experience with performance and memory tuning with tools
• Experience with memory management & caching mechanisms specific to mobile devices
• Experience with third-party libraries and APIs
• Experience working with Core Data, Realm
• Understanding of the full mobile development life cycle
• Experience in publishing apps to the App Store.
• Code version tool – Git, Bitbucket
• Design Pattern - MVC and MVVM, MVP
• Must be able to provide individual or project oversight on rapid prototyping/POC 
• efforts and large scale enterprise wide roll out planning.
• Must be familiar with software development methodologies like Agile, Waterfall, Iterative etc.
• Must have strong analytical skills and should be able to define and build competency assets – estimators, tools, reusable assets, scripts, etc.
• Must have strong communication and customer interfacing skills with particular emphasis on Scope and Requirements Management

Who we are:

Stanza Living is India's largest and fastest-growing tech-enabled, managed accommodation company that delivers a hospitality-led living experience to migrant students and young working professionals across India. We have a full-stack business model that focuses on the design, development, and delivery of daily living solutions tailored to the young consumers' lifestyles.

Today, we are :

- India's largest managed accommodation company with over 75,000 beds under management across 24+ cities

- Most capitalized player in the managed accommodation space, backed by global marquee investors - Falcon Edge, Equity International, Sequoia Capital, Matrix Partners, Accel Partners

- Recognized as the Best Real Estate Tech company across the Globe in 2020 by leading analysis agency, Tracxn

- LinkedIn Top Startup to Work for - 2022

Job Summary :

- We are seeking an exceptional Business Associate who loves solving complex problems to drive analysis and insights to help our teams make meaningful business decisions.

- The selected candidate will be partnering with key stakeholders, analyzing data, discovering, and solving real-world problems, and building metrics and business cases to help unlock insights that take our business to the next level.

Responsibilities :

- Work with different stakeholders and management teams to consult, develop, and implement key strategic growth projects - will be responsible for end-to-end planning and delivery of growth projects

- Single-handedly lead projects in consultation with senior stakeholders and drive on-ground impact

- Develop a roadmap for the product team and scope medium/long-term interventions to enable the development of world-class tools for our sales team

- Understand and assess customer journey; identify pain points and implement interventions

- Participate in strategic and tactical planning discussions

- Own development and maintenance of new and existing reports focused on analysis of requirements, metrics, and dashboards

- Use statistical methods to identify areas for improvement and make suggestions for streamlining processes

Basic Requirements :

- Strong analytical skills

- Ability to partner and work with cross-functional teams

- Ability to draw insights from analysis supported by data and clearly communicate them to the stakeholders and senior management as required

- Be self-driven, and show the ability to deliver on ambiguous projects with incomplete data

- Ability and interest in working in a fast-paced, ambiguous and rapidly changing environment

Additional Plus :

- Strong knowledge of and experience with reporting packages (Business Objects etc.), databases (SQL etc.), and programming (XML, Javascript, or ETL frameworks)

• Proven 4+ years of experience in MEAN or MERN stack frameworks
• In-depth knowledge of NodeJS, React Js Express.JS along with the
• JavaScript Development frameworks on both client and server-side
• Skilled in Web App development (React + Redux) with Frameworks like Bootstrap / Material
• Deep understanding of HTML DOM objects, CSS & JavaScript events, and experience in various build tools like NPM / Webpack.
• Proficiency with both consuming, designing, and integrating APIs (RESTful and SOAP) using redux/thunk
• Designing database for a scalable and secure system using NoSQL (MongoDB) or RDBMS (MySQL or PostgreSQL)
• Thorough understanding and relatable experience of Git, repository management, and related workflows.
• Excellent communication and customer interfacing skills
• Should have problem-solving, prioritizing tasks, multitasking abilities
• Experience with CI/CD, DevOps practices

Seeking passionate and senior software engineers having 5+ years of experience in Ruby on Rails.

You are a full-stack engineer with an innate passion for writing elegant, idiomatic & pragmatic code.

• Excellent verbal & written communication skills. And you enjoy collaborating with others
• 5+ years of experience with Ruby on Rails or other Ruby frameworks
• Sound knowledge of object-oriented programming concepts and design patterns
• Strong knowledge of relational database concepts, PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.
• Working knowledge of Javascript, DOM, CSS, HTML
• Strong experience with Git versioning system, PR review process, and Code quality metrics
• You understand the importance of concepts like "Test Driven Development" and utilize them to bring more stability & predictability in applications. We are a heavy user of RSpec, Unit Testing, Continuous Integration (CI) & Continuous Deployments (CD)

• Experience with modern Javascript libraries, frameworks & its ecosystem will be a huge plus. Example: React.js / Ember.js / Angular.js / Vue.js etc.
• Working knowledge or understanding of the SaaS ecosystem will be a plus
• Experience with Micro-service Architecture, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), GraphQL, and REST APIs will be a huge plus
• Knowledge of Sidekiq, Redis, Solr, Heroku, AWS will be a huge plus
• Experience working with Payment Gateways like Chargify, or Stripe will be a plus
• Contribution to open source projects, have participated in some technical community or meetups or interest group or have written or spoken in public about their technical ideas
• Inclination to develop your own gems or reusable components or libraries
• Exposure to cloud deployment on Amazon or deployment on Heroku or standalone virtual servers etc. (or exposure to PaaS)
• Inclination to develop your own gems or reusable components or libraries

• We're a remote-friendly and calm company
• We use the latest and powerful hardware for software development
• We are heavy on extreme programming and agile methodology. Our DNA is engineering practices like TDD, CI, CD, Code reviews, Pair programming, etc
• We love to collaborate and contribute to open source projects (check: https://www.github.com/kiprosh">Kiprosh Github)
• We encourage and help you to blog about your development experience with the rest of the world. (check: https://blog.kiprosh.com/">Kiprosh Engineering Blogs)
• Our dedicated CoE (Center of Excellence) group ensures that company-wide we all achieve excellence in the area of our interest, learn the latest and greatest, and keep sharing product & technology topics regularly across the organization
• Company-wide, we conduct monthly events to have fun together as a One Kiprosh team.
• We are big on rewards and recognition. We celebrate spotlight awards every quarter. We have yearly award ceremonies and celebrations. (check: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kiprosh">Kiprosh Linkedin Page)
• We have company-wide outings twice a year (but pause for a year since March 2020 due to Covid19 pandemic)
• We are a passionate group of humble, kind, and fun-loving individuals