Business Development Manager (Solar EPC)

Job Description

The incumbent is responsible for driving end-to-end hiring strategy, ensuring a strong talent pipeline across business units, and delivering a superior candidate and stakeholder experience. This role partners closely with business leaders, HR teams, and external partners to fulfil organizational talent needs efficiently and effectively.

Key Responsibilities

· Partner with business heads to understand manpower needs, skills gaps, and future workforce requirements.

· Develop and execute the annual hiring plan aligned with business priorities.

· Own end-to-end hiring across all levels – junior, mid, senior, and niche roles.

· Provide weekly dashboards, hiring status, and leadership insights.

· Manage sourcing, screening, interviews, assessments, salary negotiation, and offer closure.

· Maintain strong candidate pipelines using multiple channels (job portals, social media, referrals, agencies, direct networking).

· Lead campus hiring strategy across engineering & MBA institutes.

· Build and maintain campus relationships.

· Implement best practices in assessments, interviewing, and candidate evaluation.

· Ensure compliance with HR policies, budgeting, and documentation.

Required Skills & Experience

8–12 years of progressive experience in talent acquisition.

Strong experience in hiring for diverse functions (Tech/Non-Tech/Corporate/R&D).

Demonstrated capability in campus hiring and employer branding.

Strong communication, stakeholder management, and negotiation skills.

Education

MBA/PGDM in HR or related field preferred.

Sourcing Guidelines

Must-Haves

8–12 years of progressive experience in Talent Acquisition

• Experience in the Manufacturing domain

• Proven track record in hiring for diverse functions (Tech, Non-Tech, Corporate, R&D)

• Hands-on experience in campus hiring and employer branding initiatives

• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and negotiation skills

• Notice Period: Immediate to 30 days

• Education: MBA/PGDM in HR or a related field preferred

Experience in the Mortgage Industry – Minimum 5+ years of experience in home loans & LAP (Loan Against Property).

At least 2+ years in a sales leadership role.

DSA knowledge is must required.

Candidate should have prior experience in Field sales only in Home loans / LAP / Business Loans.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills for seamless stakeholder interactions.

Candidate should have experience in onboarding new clients.

GradRight is an ed-fin-tech company committed to driving transparency and accountability in the global higher education sector. 

We are the world's first platform that integrates 'Selection' with 'Financing'. and brings students, banks, and universities into a SaaS environment to make smarter decisions. Using data science, technology, and strategic partnerships across the industry, we enable students to find the “Right University” at the “Right Cost”. We are on a mission to aid a million students to find their best-fit universities and financial offerings by 2025.

Our flagship product - FundRight, is the world’s first student loan bidding platform. In just two years, we have enabled students to get the best deals on $ 1 Billion of loan requests and facilitated disbursements of more than $ 120 Million in loans. We are India's largest single pipeline of education loans and are poised to scale up globally.

Our second product, SelectRight, is the world's first MarTech SaaS platform that redefines how students select the right colleges and how colleges find and engage with the right students.

GradRight is a Delaware, USA-registered company with a wholly-owned subsidiary in India.

Brief:

Obsession with customer needs, passionate about customer experience, and thrive on data - if you resonate with these, then we’d love to hear from you. As a product manager, you’ll be the voice of reason for our entire product ecosystem. You’ll join a fast-paced environment and work with cross-functional teams to design and deliver products aligned with the company’s vision and strategy.

Responsibilities:

1. Collect and analyze customer needs, collaborate with key stakeholders to ideate and deliver compelling solutions that create incremental value for customers
2. Create buy-in for product vision across all stakeholders
3. Develop positioning strategies that can drive growth and improve market share
4. Create and maintain detailed product requirements and roadmap
5. Create and track product success metrics and use them to identify problems and opportunities to pursue
6. Work with designers to build wireframes, validate and translate them into full-blown designs
7. Collaborate with engineering teams to drive feasibility analysis and refine product requirements
8. Work closely with engineering teams to deliver the roadmap while optimizing for time-to-market
9. Own the design <> engineering teams hand-off, release timelines, and work with business teams to plan and execute product launches
10. Evaluate marketing and sales strategies to ensure that they are in line with product strategy
11. Standardize the product design process and evangelize the same across all stakeholders

Requirements:

1. At least 6 years experience as a product manager at a B2C startup, with war stories to share
2. Proven track record of managing all aspects of product development lifecycle
3. Strong understanding of software development workflows and ability to work with top-notch engineering teams
4. Strong problem-solving skills and willingness to roll up one’s sleeves to get the job done
5. Excellent written and verbal communication skills
6. Strong presentational and public speaking skills
7. Bias for experimentation and ability to ask the right questions

Good to have:

1. Both B2C and B2B experience, preferably on marketplace-like initiatives
2. Exposure to edTech and/or finTech domains
3. Worked on products that addressed an international audience
4. Worked on products that scaled to millions of users

• Strategic Planning: Develop and implement comprehensive digital marketing strategies to achieve business goals and drive growth.
• Campaign Management: Oversee the creation, execution, and optimization of digital marketing campaigns across various channels, including SEO, SEM, social media, email marketing, and content marketing.
• Team Leadership: Lead, mentor, and manage the digital marketing team, fostering a collaborative and results-driven environment.
• Analytics & Reporting: Monitor and analyze campaign performance using analytics tools. Prepare detailed reports and provide actionable insights to improve performance and ROI.
• Budget Management: Manage the digital marketing budget, allocate resources effectively, and ensure cost-efficient use of marketing funds.
• Market Research: Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends, tools, and best practices. Conduct market research to understand customer needs and competitor activities.
• Content Strategy: Oversee the development of engaging and relevant content for various digital platforms, ensuring alignment with brand messaging and goals.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with other departments, including sales, product development, and design, to ensure cohesive marketing strategies and effective execution.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business Administration, or a related field. Advanced degree or certification in digital marketing is a plus.
• Proven experience (5+ years) in digital marketing, with at least 2 years in a leadership role.
• Demonstrated success in developing and executing digital marketing strategies and campaigns.
• Strong understanding of SEO, SEM, PPC, social media marketing, email marketing, and content marketing.
• Proficiency in digital marketing tools and platforms (e.g., Google Analytics, Google Ads, social media management tools).
• Excellent analytical skills and ability to interpret data to drive decision-making.
• Strong leadership and team management abilities, with a track record of leading successful teams.
• Creative thinking, problem-solving skills, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.

What We Offer:

• Competitive salary and performance-based incentives.
• Comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance and retirement plans.
• Opportunities for professional growth and development.
• A dynamic and collaborative work environment.

• Needs to have clear, concise communication skills, both written and verbally, must speak slowly and clearly

• Needs to be able to answer incoming calls from customers and create tickets, assist with requests, be able to call third party vendors to open tickets and manage from creation to completion

• Needs to be able to follow multiple different processes depending on the circumstances

• Avaya Communication Manager including G650 – Triage alarms, Troubleshooting breakfix issues and simple/complex MAC

• Avaya Media Gateways: G430, G450, G700, G350 – Triage alarms, troubleshooting breakfix issues

• System Manager/Session Manager (SIP) – Triage alarms, Troubleshooting breakfix issues including SIP and simple/complex MAC • AES – Triage alarms, Troubleshooting breakfix issues

• Avaya ACSS certification

• Avaya SBC – Triage alarms, Troubleshooting breakfix issues

• CMS - Triage alarms, Troubleshooting breakfix issues and simple/complex MAC • Avaya One X Agent/Communicator- Troubleshooting breakfix issues

• AVST - Triage alarms, Troubleshooting breakfix issues and simple/complex MAC

• IX messaging - Triage alarms, Troubleshooting breakfix issues and simple/complex MAC

• AAM - Triage alarms, Troubleshooting breakfix issues and simple/complex MAC

• Intuity Audix - Triage alarms, Troubleshooting breakfix issues and simple/complex MAC MM- Triage alarms, Troubleshooting breakfix issues and simple/complex MAC

• CMM- Triage alarms, Troubleshooting breakfix issues and simple/complex MAC

• Utility Servers- Triage alarms, troubleshooting breakfix issues and simple/complex MAC

• Avaya Aura Media Server- Triage alarms, troubleshooting breakfix issues

• To generate lead opportunities.
• Manage, nurture and convert leads into sales opportunities.
• Identify strong potential prospects using initiative and creativity.
• Make outgoing calls to develop new business 
• Research, track, maintain and update leads
• Develop a strong knowledge of the company’s products and services in order to facilitate the sales process

What you need to have:

Role and Responsibilities

• Execute data mining projects, training and deploying models over a typical duration of 2 -12 months.
• The ideal candidate should be able to innovate, analyze the customer requirement, develop a solution in the time box of the project plan, execute and deploy the solution.
• Integrate the data mining projects embedded data mining applications in the FogHorn platform (on Docker or Android).

Core Qualifications
Candidates must meet ALL of the following qualifications:

• Have analyzed, trained and deployed at least three data mining models in the past. If the candidate did not directly deploy their own models, they will have worked with others who have put their models into production. The models should have been validated as robust over at least an initial time period.
• Three years of industry work experience, developing data mining models which were deployed and used.
• Programming experience in Python is core using data mining related libraries like Scikit-Learn. Other relevant Python mining libraries include NumPy, SciPy and Pandas.
• Data mining algorithm experience in at least 3 algorithms across: prediction (statistical regression, neural nets, deep learning, decision trees, SVM, ensembles), clustering (k-means, DBSCAN or other) or Bayesian networks

Bonus Qualifications
Any of the following extra qualifications will make a candidate more competitive:

• Soft Skills
  • Sets expectations, develops project plans and meets expectations.
  • Experience adapting technical dialogue to the right level for the audience (i.e. executives) or specific jargon for a given vertical market and job function.
• Technical skills
  • Commonly, candidates have a MS or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Math, Statistics or an engineering technical discipline. BS candidates with experience are considered.
  • Have managed past models in production over their full life cycle until model replacement is needed. Have developed automated model refreshing on newer data. Have developed frameworks for model automation as a prototype for product.
  • Training or experience in Deep Learning, such as TensorFlow, Keras, convolutional neural networks (CNN) or Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) neural network architectures. If you don’t have deep learning experience, we will train you on the job.
  • Shrinking deep learning models, optimizing to speed up execution time of scoring or inference.
  • OpenCV or other image processing tools or libraries
  • Cloud computing: Google Cloud, Amazon AWS or Microsoft Azure. We have integration with Google Cloud and are working on other integrations.
  • Decision trees like XGBoost or Random Forests is helpful.
  • Complex Event Processing (CEP) or other streaming data as a data source for data mining analysis
  • Time series algorithms from ARIMA to LSTM to Digital Signal Processing (DSP).
  • Bayesian Networks (BN), a.k.a. Bayesian Belief Networks (BBN) or Graphical Belief Networks (GBN)
  • Experience with PMML is of interest (see www.DMG.org).
• Vertical experience in Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) applications:
  • Energy: Oil and Gas, Wind Turbines
  • Manufacturing: Motors, chemical processes, tools, automotive
  • Smart Cities: Elevators, cameras on population or cars, power grid
  • Transportation: Cars, truck fleets, trains

About FogHorn Systems
FogHorn is a leading developer of “edge intelligence” software for industrial and commercial IoT application solutions. FogHorn’s Lightning software platform brings the power of advanced analytics and machine learning to the on-premise edge environment enabling a new class of applications for advanced monitoring and diagnostics, machine performance optimization, proactive maintenance and operational intelligence use cases. FogHorn’s technology is ideally suited for OEMs, systems integrators and end customers in manufacturing, power and water, oil and gas, renewable energy, mining, transportation, healthcare, retail, as well as Smart Grid, Smart City, Smart Building and connected vehicle applications.

Press:  https://www.foghorn.io/press-room/">https://www.foghorn.io/press-room/

Awards: https://www.foghorn.io/awards-and-recognition/">https://www.foghorn.io/awards-and-recognition/

• 2019 Edge Computing Company of the Year – Compass Intelligence
• 2019 Internet of Things 50: 10 Coolest Industrial IoT Companies – CRN
• 2018 IoT Planforms Leadership Award & Edge Computing Excellence – IoT Evolution World Magazine
• 2018 10 Hot IoT Startups to Watch – Network World. (Gartner estimated 20 billion connected things in use worldwide by 2020)
• 2018 Winner in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning – Globe Awards
• 2018 Ten Edge Computing Vendors to Watch – ZDNet & 451 Research
• 2018 The 10 Most Innovative AI Solution Providers – Insights Success
• 2018 The AI 100 – CB Insights
• 2017 Cool Vendor in IoT Edge Computing – Gartner
• 2017 20 Most Promising AI Service Providers – CIO Review

Our Series A round was for $15 million.  Our Series B round was for $30 million October 2017.  Investors include: Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures, Intel Capital, GE, Dell, Bosch, Honeywell and The Hive.

About the Data Science Solutions team
In 2018, our Data Science Solutions team grew from 4 to 9.  We are growing again from 11. We work on revenue generating projects for clients, such as predictive maintenance, time to failure, manufacturing defects.  About half of our projects have been related to vision recognition or deep learning. We are not only working on consulting projects but developing vertical solution applications that run on our Lightning platform, with embedded data mining.

Our data scientists like our team because:

• We care about “best practices”
• Have a direct impact on the company’s revenue
• Give or receive mentoring as part of the collaborative process
• Questions and challenging the status quo with data is safe
• Intellectual curiosity balanced with humility
• Present papers or projects in our “Thought Leadership” meeting series, to support continuous learning