Busniess Development Executive

Founder's Office | Sierra Innovations

At Sierra Innovations, we are building a high-impact Founder’s Office to drive the next phase of growth.

This role sits at the intersection of strategy, execution, and leadership building.

You will work directly with the Founder on critical business problems that shape the company’s future.

This is not a role.

This is a launchpad into leadership.

What You’ll Work On

• Drive high-priority strategic initiatives across the company
• Support fundraising — investor research, financial narratives, deck building, and conversations
• Design and implement key HR policies & org structures
• Lead KMP / leadership hiring across business functions
• Define and track KPIs across teams, ensuring accountability and performance
• Conduct market research & competitive intelligence to guide decision-making
• Work on 0→1 and 1→100 growth projects across categories
• Solve unstructured problems with clarity, speed, and ownership

Key Skills & Experience

• Investment Banking / Fund Analyst Experience
• Strong grounding in financial thinking, investor communication, and structured problem solving
• Fundraising Exposure
• Experience in supporting or leading fundraise processes
• KMP / Leadership Hiring
• Ability to identify and close high-quality leadership talent
• KPI & Performance Management
• Experience in defining, tracking, and improving business metrics
• Project Management
• Proven ability to drive cross-functional projects to completion
• Education / EdTech Exposure (Preferred)
• Understanding of test prep, K-12, or learning ecosystems
• Analytical + Execution Strength
• Ability to think clearly and execute fast

Who This Role Is For

• You have high intellectual horsepower
• You take extreme ownership — outcomes matter more than effort
• You are comfortable with ambiguity and thrive in fast-moving environments
• You can build networks and influence people
• You want to grow beyond a single function into a business leader
• You are hungry to create disproportionate impact

What You’ll Gain

• Direct exposure to founder-level decision making
• Hands-on experience in fundraising, hiring, strategy, and execution
• Opportunity to build a cross-functional business understanding
• Fast-track path into leadership roles within the company

Why Sierra Innovations

We are building a category-defining D2C powerhouse in publishing and beyond — combining content, technology, and distribution at scale.

If you want to be in the room where:

• strategic decisions are made,
• leaders are built, and
• real outcomes are driven,

this is that opportunity.

Final Note

This role is not for everyone.

But if you believe you have the intellect, network-building ability, and execution strength to drive outcomes,

we would love to work with you.

Apply if you’re ready to build — not just participate.

Strong Customer Success Manager / Implementation Manager / Post-Sales Delivery (B2B SaaS – US Customers) Profiles

Mandatory (Experience 1): Must have 3+ years of experience in Customer Success roles within B2B SaaS companies, primarily working with US-based customers.

Mandatory (Experience 2): Must have experience owning end-to-end customer onboarding and implementations, including requirement discovery, onboarding execution, go-live ownership, and early adoption success

Mandatory (Experience 3): Must have strong project management and customer communication skills, owning onboarding timelines, running regular customer check-ins, managing CXO-level stakeholders, and proactively flagging risks or blockers.

Mandatory (Experience 4): Must have worked in post-sales, non-quota-carrying roles focused on customer success, retention, and long-term relationship management (upsell is not mandatory)

Mandatory (Experience 5): Must have a conceptual understanding of SaaS products and APIs, with the ability to understand workflows, follow integration issues, and coordinate effectively with technical teams (hands-on coding not required).

Mandatory (Note): Must be willing to work in US time zones (approx. 4:30 AM IST onwards, Mon–Fri).

Mandatory (Company): B2B SaaS (Technical complex)

Role Objective

Build and manage a reliable, scalable, and cost-efficient supplier ecosystem for customised and premium furniture, while ensuring consistent quality, lead-time adherence, and strong commercial competitiveness across categories.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify, evaluate, and onboard OEM partners across furniture categories including Sofas, Beds, Dining, Storage, and Accent Furniture.
• Build a diversified and balanced supplier portfolio to reduce concentration risk while maintaining quality and delivery consistency.
• Develop long-term strategic partnerships with key vendors, including exclusivity arrangements where relevant.
• Drive supplier capability development across quality, finishing standards, compliance, and scalability.
• Own end-to-end costing, pricing, and commercial negotiations with vendors.
• Deliver cost optimisation through material optimisation, process improvements, volume leverage, and alternate sourcing.
• Lead annual rate negotiations, cost resets, and contract renewals.
• Work closely with Category, Design, and Product teams to enable New Product Development (NPD).
• Ensure sourcing feasibility for design-led, customised, and make-to-order products.
• Define, implement, and enforce supplier SLAs covering quality standards, lead times, and responsiveness.
• Collaborate with Vendor Managers and QC teams to ensure On-Time In-Full (OTIF) delivery performance.
• Review vendor performance regularly and drive corrective actions and improvement plans.
• Identify and mitigate sourcing risks related to capacity constraints, supplier dependency, and raw material volatility.
• Partner with Finance on contracts, payment terms, and commercial governance.

Success Metrics (KPIs)

• Cost savings and margin improvement (CM1 / Gross Margin)
• Supplier OTIF and lead-time adherence
• Quality acceptance rate and defect reduction
• Reduction in supplier concentration and dependency risk
• New supplier onboarding, capability building, and scalability metrics

Ideal Profile

• 6–10 years of experience in furniture sourcing, manufacturing, or category operations.
• Strong understanding of furniture materials, production processes, and finishing standards.
• Proven expertise in vendor negotiations, cost management, and supplier development.
• Experience in customised or make-to-order manufacturing environments preferred.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with a hands-on execution mindset.

What We Offer

• High-impact role influencing margins, supply reliability, and product quality
• Opportunity to build and scale a strategic supplier ecosystem
• Cross-functional exposure across sourcing, design, manufacturing, and finance

BLAZE Madurai looking for JavaScript developers with hands-on web or mobile app development.

Skills required for JS Frontend developer:

• Must have strong experience in AngularJS / React JS / Flutter / Ionic / etc.
• Good understanding of advanced JavaScript concepts like Objects/Closures/Async Events/etc is required
• Good understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git or Hg

Skills required for JS Backend developer:

• Experience with NodeJs or another JavaScript server.
• Experience with WebSocket API’s consumption and creation.
• Experience with a JS Backend framework is important ex: ExpressJS/Meteor/Sail/Koa/etc.
• Experience in other backend programming PHP/Python/Ruby/.NET is an advantage.

Experience: 1 - 3 Years

Job Location: Madurai

Roles and Responsibilities

• Architecting and building server and browser-based systems that integrate with our hardware.
• Creating a great user experience by building both back-end infrastructure and user-facing features.
• Performing code reviews and having your code reviewed by peers.
• Creating technical requirements, software design specifications, and other architectural documentation.
• Work closely with UX/UI designers to translate design concepts into functional user interfaces, ensuring a smooth user experience. 
• Implement security and data protection measures throughout the development process. 
• Troubleshoot and debug issues across the entire application stack, from frontend to backend. 
• Optimize application performance and ensure its responsiveness across various devices and browsers, applications for maximum speed and scalability.
• Producing software solutions that inherently support testing at multiple levels prior to delivery, including the decomposition of functions, interface-based design, dependency injection, unit testing, test-driven design, service level testing, and supporting user interface automation testing.
• Modifying and creating code to enable successful automated builds, deployment, and testing.
• Effectively leveraging tools and best practices to enable continuous integration and frequent, reliable releases.
• Monitoring system performance to ensure efficient operations and results.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams, including designers, product managers, and other developers, to gather and understand project requirements.
• Collaborating with DevOps teams to deploy applications and ensure seamless integration with the production environment.
• Designing and developing high-quality, scalable, and efficient web applications using the MERN stack.
• Developing and implementing front-end components using React.js, ensuring a responsive and user-friendly interface.
• Building RESTful APIs and server-side applications using Node.js and Express.js.
• Creating and maintaining databases using MongoDB, ensuring data integrity and performance.
• Writing efficient and reusable code while adhering to best practices and coding standards.
• Conducting thorough testing and debugging of applications to identify and fix any issues or bugs.
• Mentoring and providing guidance to junior developers, sharing your knowledge and expertise.

Must-Have Skills

• Should have 3-6 years of proven experience as a MEAN/MERN Stack Developer.
• Should have proficient in JavaScript (React/Angular/Vue), with significant experience in Node.js and Express.js.
• Should have extensive experience with React.js and its ecosystem (Redux, React Router, etc.).
• Should have In-depth knowledge of server-side development using Node.js and Express.js.
• Should have experience with MongoDB or other NoSQL databases, including data modeling and querying.
• Should have a solid understanding of RESTful APIs and experience in building them.
• Should be proficient in MERN Full Stack Developer with CSS modules and theme management, with a strong grip on developing custom components. 
• Should be Skilled in building scalable, user-friendly applications using React.js, Node.js, Express.js, and MongoDB.
• Should be proficient in using UI component libraries like MUI and styled-components for efficient and dynamic web design.
• Should be proficient in frontend API caching with React hooks for optimized performance and seamless user experiences.
• Should have familiarity with version control systems (e.g., Git) and agile development methodologies.
• Should have proficiency in Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) principles and design patterns.
• Should have experience with AWS cloud services.
• Should have experience with CI/CD technologies.
• Should have familiarity with newer specifications of ECMAScript (a scripting language specification on which JavaScript is based).
• Should have experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js).
• Should have proficiency with common front-end development tools such as Babel( Which is a JavaScript compiler that is mainly used to convert ECMAScript 2015+ code into backwards-compatible JavaScript code that can be run by older JavaScript engines.), Webpack (to bundle JavaScript files for usage in a browser,), and NPM (Largest Software Registry (Library)).
• Should have ability to understand and translate business requirements into technical specifications.
• Should have familiarity with relational database systems, especially PostgreSQL.
• Should have experience in AWS with lambda functions

Good to Have Skills 

• Should have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to present ideas in user-friendly language.
• Successful experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
• Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Should have excellent relationship and customer handling skills.
• Strategic thinker with strong influencing skills and the ability to build consensus.
• Strong action orientation; ability to make things happen.
• Facilitates team and stakeholder meetings effectively.

Job Description

Introduction

Synapsica is a growth stage HealthTech startup founded by alumni from IIT Kharagpur, AIIMS New Delhi, and IIM Ahmedabad. We believe healthcare needs to be transparent and objective, while being affordable. Every patient has the right to know exactly what is happening in their bodies and they don’t have to rely on cryptic 2 liners given to them as diagnosis. Towards this aim, we are building an artificial intelligence enabled cloud based platform to analyse medical images and create v2.0 of advanced radiology reporting. We are backed by YCombinator and other investors from India, US and Japan. We are proud to have GE, AIIMS, the Spinal Kinetics as our partners.

 Your Roles and Responsibilities

The role involves computer vision tasks including development, customization and training of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs); application of ML techniques (SVM, regression, clustering etc.) and traditional Image Processing (OpenCV etc.). The role is research focused and would involve going through and implementing existing research papers, deep dive of problem analysis, generating new ideas, automating and optimizing key processes.

Requirements:

• 4+ years of relevant experience in solving complex real-world problems at scale via computer vision based deep learning.
• Strong problem-solving ability
• Prior experience with Python, cuDNN, Tensorflow, PyTorch, Keras, Caffe (or similar Deep Learning frameworks). 
• Extensive understanding of computer vision/image processing applications like object classification, segmentation, object detection etc 
• Ability to write custom Convolutional Neural Network Architecture in Pytorch (or similar)
• Experience of GPU/DSP/other Multi-core architecture programming
• Effective communication with other project members and project stakeholders
• Detail-oriented, eager to learn, acquire new skills
• Prior Project Management and Team Leadership experience
• Ability to plan work and meet deadlines

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or related field)
• 5+ years of relevant work experience
• Expertise in React.js, React-native, Python, Android & Database
• Experience with Agile or Scrum software development methodologies
• Ability to multi-task, organize, and prioritize work