Business Development Manager

Details:

Role: Sales Development Representative (SDR) – India

Location: Pune (In-office only)

Experience: Minimum 6 months

Type: Full-time

Must have

• Minimum 6 months of experience in sales development, inside sales, or similar outbound sales roles
• Strong resilience and comfort with rejection
• Excellent communication skills – clear, confident, and persuasive
• Coachability and a hunger to learn and iterate
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage outreach pipelines independently
• Willingness to work in-office from Pune

Good to have

• Experience in B2B SaaS or agency sales
• Familiarity with Indian SMBs/startups ecosystem
• Familiarity with consultative selling techniques
• Knowledge of sales automation tools
• Exposure to account-based selling
• Prior experience in content marketing or digital services is a huge plus

What You'll Be Doing

• Researching accounts & decision-makers in India’s B2B space
• Running outbound campaigns across calls, emails, and LinkedIn
• Owning outreach sequences to book qualified discovery calls
• Building and nurturing relationships with potential B2B clients
• Updating CRM with activities and ensuring follow-ups
• Identifying upsell opportunities and setting the stage for long-term account growth
• Meeting monthly quotas for qualified meetings booked

Skills required for the role

• Outbound sales
• Lead generation
• Cold calling
• Cold emailing
• LinkedIn outreach
• Comfortable with CRM tools
• Communication (verbal & written)
• Prospecting & qualification
• Sales Pipeline management
• Sales cadence management

Note: This is an in-office role in Pune, India.

About Us

Wittypen is a managed marketplace for content and we work with some of the best brands like Freshworks, Swiggy, Acko, Paytm, and others to help create content through our pool of 1700+ freelance writers.

Founded in 2015, today Wittypen is one of the most credible content platforms working with customers across 5+ countries and creating thousands of content pieces every month. 

We believe in having a goal-driven culture where our colleagues try to do the best work of their lives in a way that also drives meaning and impact. 

Benefits

• 5-day work week.
• Choose any 8 hours between 10am-8pm.
• Play a crucial role in shaping the brand of Wittypen.
• Opportunities to develop your skills and grow your career in a company that values content marketing.
• Be part of a creative team that encourages innovation and collaboration.
• Make a significant impact on the brand's visibility and growth.
• Join a workplace that values diversity and provides a supportive environment.

• Configure, optimize, document, and support of the infrastructure components of software products (which are hosted in collocated facilities and cloud services such as AWS)
• Design and build tools and frameworks that support deployment and management and platforms
• Design, build, and deliver cloud computing solutions, hosted services, and underlying software infrastructures
• Build core functionality of our cloud-based platform product, deliver secure, reliable services and construct third party integrations
• Assist in coaching application developers on proper DevOps techniques for building scalable applications in the microservices paradigm
• Foster collaboration with software product development and architecture teams to ensure releases are delivered with repeatable and auditable processes
• Support and troubleshoot scalability, high availability, performance, monitoring, backup, and restores of different environments
• Work independently across multiple platforms and applications to understand dependencies
• Evaluate new tools, technologies, and processes to improve speed, efficiency, and scalability of continuous integration environments
• Design and architect solutions for existing client-facing applications as they are moved into cloud environments such as AWS
• Competencies
• Full understanding of scripting and automated process management in languages such as Shell, Ruby and/ or Python
• Working Knowledge SCM tools such as Git, GitHub, Bitbucket, etc.
• Working knowledge of Amazon Web Services and related APIs
• Ability to deliver and manage web or cloud-based services
• General familiarity with monitoring tools
• General familiarity with configuration/provisioning tools such as Terraform
• Experience
• Experience working within an Agile type environment
• 4+ years of experience with cloud-based provisioning (Azure, AWS, Google), monitoring, troubleshooting, and related DevOps technologies
• 4+ years of experience with containerization/orchestration technologies like Rancher, Docker and Kubernetes

Athena is India’s largest institution in the premium undergraduate study abroad space. Founded 9 years ago by two Princeton graduates, Poshak Agrawal and Rahul Subramaniam, Athena is headquartered in Gurgaon, with offices in Mumbai and Bangalore, and caters to students from over 15 countries.

Athena’s vision is to help students become the best version of themselves. Athena’s transformative, holistic life coaching program embraces both depth and breadth, sciences and the humanities. Athena encourages students to deepen their theoretical knowledge and apply it to address practical issues confronting society, both locally and globally.

Through our flagship program, our students have gotten into various , universities including Harvard University, Princeton University, Yale University, Stanford University, University of Cambridge, MIT, Brown, Cornell University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Chicago, among others.

Our legacy as pioneers in the study-abroad process, coupled with a creative, open environment and professional growth opportunities, makes Athena a perfect place for those looking to build a lasting career in education. 

If you are excited to work in a dynamic educational environment and love expanding your horizons of emotional and strategic counseling, we look forward to hearing from you!

Learn more:

https://www.athenaeducation.co.in/article.aspx 

Overview of the role: We are looking for someone who will support Athena's Knowledge center 

• Helping/ mentoring Athena students to build web and mobile applications
• Helping build a state-of-the-art web portal and apps for students and counselors
• Support in building Edtech products for Athena

This is ideal for technology enthusiasts who want to make an impact, who love teaching and mentoring students, and also who love building creative tech products. The ideal person would have a deep, driving desire to make an impact and believes in the power of education.

Key Responsibilities

• Own, innovate and support the students with their technology projects 
• Conceptualize the apps, guiding them on coding and stepping them when needed
• Creation of New Algorithms for solving Real World problems.
• Mobile App Development - Android and iOS
• Hybrid mobile applications (both IOS & Android) using ionic, Flutter and react native (preferred).
• Integrate data from various back-end services and databases
• Gather and refine specifications and requirements based on technical needs
• Guiding students to project completion
• Tuned into the latest developments in the desired area including but not limited to application development, database technologies, devops, robotics, etc.

Key Skills-

• Strong fundamentals and knowledge of web technologies, data structures, algorithms, logical flow, and architecture 
• Good communication skills - Ability to motivate and mentor students
• Extremely hands-on in coding 
• Ability to learn, take feedback, and improve
• Knowledge of programming language and technical terminology
• Able to solve complex problems.

Education and Experience: 

• B.Tech/B.Sc/M.Sc (CS), Engineering, or a related field from a good institute
• Good to have experience in teaching and mentoring students in Computer Science modules
• Experience in Android Development
• Preferred 1 year development experience

Why should you be interested?

Impact

• Working with Athena will provide you with an opportunity to bring about a positive impact in the lives of the best students in the country - the future pioneers of the world.
• Opportunity to mentor budding writers

Team and Culture

• We are a young and daring collection of adventurers dedicated to excellence and growth. We are always efficient and occasionally funny.
• The candidate will get a chance to work in a multicultural environment with ex-pats from different corners of the globe.

Professional Advancement

• We believe in providing opportunities for team members to build their skills and become independent drivers.
• We also offer the opportunity to collaborate across our group organizations- Hora.ai (Tech) and Sitare Foundation (education non-profit)- and learn from like-minded, passionate people who have all come together to create an impact. 

Location & Work Environment

The Vatika Triangle; Gurgaon, India

• We have built creative space in a top corporate building in a prime location in Gurgaon. 
• The office is on M.G. Road, a 2-minute walk from the M.G. Road Metro Station.

Our team comprises of creative and colorful characters, all goal-oriented and hungry for growth (and healthy snacks). The work environment is a mixture of formal and playful, as we all strive to get things done while sipping Italian coffee brewed in-house.

We are looking for a talented Fullstack Developer with 2-5 years of experience to join our engineering team. The ideal candidate will have experience with MongoDB, Express, React, and Node. As a Fullstack Developer, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining our web-based applications and services.

Responsibilities:

• Work collaboratively with the product and engineering teams to develop high-quality web-based applications and services.
• Develop and maintain RESTful APIs using Node.js and Express.
• Design and develop the front-end user interface using React.
• Create and maintain MongoDB databases and related services.
• Develop and maintain automated test cases for both front-end and back-end applications.
• Participate in code reviews and ensure code quality.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging trends and technologies in web development and AI.

Qualifications:

• 2-5 years of experience as a Fullstack Developer with expertise in MongoDB, Express, React, and Node.
• Experience in developing RESTful APIs using Node.js and Express.
• Experience in front-end development using React.
• Experience in database development using MongoDB.
• Strong knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience in automated testing using Jest, Cypress, or other similar frameworks is a plus.
• Experience in AWS or other cloud technologies is a plus.
• Knowledge of AI and machine learning concepts is a plus.

We offer a competitive salary, flexible working hours, and a collaborative work environment. If you are passionate about AI & how teams collaborate, and want to work in a fast-paced, innovative environment, then we want to hear from you.

The ideal candidate will be responsible for developing high-quality WIFI applications. They will also be responsible for designing and implementing testable and scalable code.

Job requirement and Skills

• Embedded development in C/C++ on Linux
• Experience with WiFI chipsets (Atheros / Qualcomm / Broadcom)
• Worked with WiFi drivers and WiFi stack
• Strong debugging skills

Experience

• Minimum 5-10 years of experience
• Educational Qualifications: BE/ME
• Experience developing RRM, SON features in WiFi will be great .

4 - 8 overall experience.

• 1-2 years’ experience in Azure Data Factory - schedule Jobs in Flows and ADF Pipelines, Performance Tuning, Error logging etc..
• 1+ years of experience with Power BI - designing and developing reports, dashboards, metrics and visualizations in Powe BI.
• (Required) Participate in video conferencing calls - daily stand-up meetings and all day working with team members on cloud migration planning, development, and support.
• Proficiency in relational database concepts & design using star, Azure Datawarehouse, and data vault.
• Requires 2-3 years of experience with SQL scripting (merge, joins, and stored procedures) and best practices.
• Knowledge on deploying and run SSIS packages in Azure.
• Knowledge of Azure Data Bricks.
• Ability to write and execute complex SQL queries and stored procedures.

• 6+ months of proven experience as a Data Scientist or Data Analyst
• Understanding of machine-learning and operations research
• Extensive knowledge of R, SQL and Excel
• Analytical mind and business acumen
• Strong Statistical understanding
• Problem-solving aptitude
• BSc/BA in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant field; graduate degree in Data Science or other quantitative field is preferred

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Design and build advanced applications for the Android platform.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features

• Work with outside data sources and APIs

• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability

• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance

• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.

• Strong knowledge of Android SDK.

• Proficient in different versions of Android, and know how to deal with different screen sizes.

• Strong technical expertise on Android device platforms.

• Good exposure to custom UI development.

• Candidate should be responsible for Design applications around natural user interfaces.

• Familiarity with Restful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services.

• Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices.

• Ability to understand business and technical requirements.

• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications.

• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.

• 5-Days a week working

• Regular Refreshments

• Trips and Activities