Content Writer (Internship)

A BIT ABOUT US

Appknox is one of the top Mobile Application security companies recognized by Gartner and G2. A profitable B2B SaaS startup headquartered in Singapore & working from Bengaluru.

The primary goal of Appknox is to help businesses and mobile developers secure their mobile applications with a focus on delivery speed and high-quality security audits.

Appknox has helped secure mobile apps at Fortune 500 companies with Major brands spread across regions like India, South-East Asia, Middle-East, US, and expanding rapidly. We have secured 300+ Enterprises globally.

We are a 30+ incredibly passionate team working to make an impact and helping some of the biggest companies globally. We work in a highly collaborative, very fast-paced work environment. If you have what it takes to be part of the team, we are excited and let’s speak further.

The Opportunity

The Sales team @ Appknox is one of the most active and agile teams in the organisation. With multiple channels to penetrate the global markets, the team is the right mix of dynamic, aggressive, and experienced professionals with a go-getter attitude. The team interacts with the CXOs and leadership teams of global firms and has closed high value deals including Fortune 500 / 100 Enterprises. This role provides the candidate with an opportunity to own, learn and grow along with the organization scaling new heights in both professional and personal grounds. 

What An Ideal Candidate Would Look Like: 

• The ideal candidate will have worked in a B2B SaaS company building a strong sales pipeline.  
• The candidate will be resourceful enough to set up processes and working methods, strategic enough to provide thought leadership, and execution-oriented enough to build a robust pipeline.

Responsibilities: 

• Develop and qualify lead opportunities, resulting in high-quality lead generation
• Work closely with Account Executives and Marketing leadership to ensure the quality of pipeline and success of campaigns; Providing feedback and recommendations on marketing efforts from real-world interactions with prospects and customers
• Work with Account Executive team to successfully transition over leads
• Proactively engage with potential customers through cold calls. Prior experience and proven success in cold calling is a plus.
• Refine the sales pitch and process to achieve optimum results
• Create best practices for outbound prospecting including how to source, qualify, and transition opportunities as quickly, efficiently, and independently as possible
• Deliver accurate metrics to ensure success against plans and targets; Collaborate cross-functionally to establish reports and dashboards to provide visibility into lead generation activities; Work closely with marketing to define campaign follow-up and reporting
• Document policies and procedures based on expertise in specific job areas; work with the team to document best practices and workflow, including updating internal work instructions
• Maintain effective time management to maximize prospecting time, including pre-call planning and customizing scripts to market segments and prospect types.

Requirements:

• 2-3 years of experience as a high-performing B2B lead generation executive with a fast-growing SaaS organization catering to global markets
• A bachelor’s degree is requested, however, a combination of education and experience may be considered
• Proven experience prospecting via cold calling, email, social selling, digital events/ conferences, and building a successful sales funnel with high conversion rates 
• Consistent track record of achieving 100%+ of quota as an individual contributor
• Experience in campaign execution at multiple levels 
• Superior time management and very organized with excellent interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills; a strong phone/video presence is required
• Fluent in English with excellent verbal and written communication with the ability to clearly and succinctly articulate issues to senior management 
• Ability to identify, build, and enhance key relationships, influencing and challenging as required

Personality traits we really admire:

• Confident and dynamic working persona, which can bring fun to the team, and sense of humor, is an added advantage.
• Ability and experience to contribute thought leadership and best practices to our team
• You are Fearless! You will be calling decision makers at all sizes of companies
• Have a collaborative and consultative work style, the ability to thrive in a high volume, highly dynamic work environment and love being in a customer facing influencing role
• Goal driven, highly motivated and very organized
• You feel at home in a multicultural environment
• You are looking to grow with a company during a multi-year journey 
• Working from home makes you excited, and you are confident you can stick to it in the long run. 
• You feel comfortable in a work environment that requires you to be connected and available outside standard working hours which can include overnight and weekends as needed.

Interview Process 

• Round 1 Interview - Profile Evaluation; HR
• Round 2 Interview – Assignment
• Round 3 Interview – Head of Sales
• Round 4 Interview - CEO

Compensation - CTC 

• As per market standards

Why Join Us:

• Freedom & Responsibility: If you are a person who enjoys challenging work & pushing your boundaries, then this is the right place for you. We appreciate new ideas & ownership as well as flexibility with working hours.
• Great Salary & Equity: We keep up with the market standards & provide pay packages considering updated standards. Also as Appknox continues to grow, you’ll have a great opportunity to earn more & grow with us. Moreover, we also provide equity options for our top performers.
• Holistic Growth: We foster a culture of continuous learning and take a much more holistic approach to training and developing our assets: the employees. We shall also support you all on that journey of yours.
• Transparency: Being a part of a start-up is an amazing experience, one of the reasons being the open communication & transparency at multiple levels. Working with Appknox will allow you to experience it all firsthand.
• Health insurance: We offer health insurance coverage up to 5 Lacs for you and your family including your parents.

About Us:

Atica is the fastest-growing hotel revenue success solution provider in the USA. With clients across the USA & across major brands (Marriott, Hilton, IHG, Hyatt, Choice, Wyndham, Best Western, Sonesta, G6, etc.), Atica has proven expertise in working with hotels helping them grow their annual revenues and stay competitive in a hyper-competitive market. Specifically, Atica offers three major services: sales management, revenue management, and digital channel management. Atica has clients across all major markets including: New York City, Los Angeles, Miami, Atlanta, Dallas, Orlando, St Petersburg, Chicago, Houston, and many more.

Atica is headquartered in Pune and is funded by top investors in India. 

Company Website: www.aticaglobal.com

Please find below the details:

1. Designation                - International Sales Associate
2. Job Location               - Yerwada, Pune
3. Work mode                - Work from office
4. Experience required - Freshers to 1 year
5. Work timings             - US Shift (Monday to Friday)
6. Notice Period             - Immediate  

What you will do?

1. Provide sales support for multi-branded hotels in the USA, develop and execute a sales action plan to meet or exceed revenue goals

2. Activate new accounts in the local market and increase market share from existing accounts

3. Develop and nurture a sales pipeline utilizing CRM to manage accounts and shorten the sales cycle

4. Making sure that the hotel ownership is profitable and finding new ways to add value to each hotel you're responsible for

5. Lead bi-weekly sales strategy calls with each of your designated hotels

6. Collaborate with the sales team to achieve sales targets and contribute to overall team success.

7. Support the development of sales strategies and contribute ideas for improving sales processes.

What makes you a great fit? 

1. Available to work from Pune office (from Monday to Friday) and shift timing will be 6 PM to 4 AM.

2. Self-driven, goal-oriented, and able to work independently with a high level of initiative. Also, manage time effectively, and prioritize tasks to achieve sales goals.

3. Strong communication and interpersonal skills with a knack for building rapport over the phone.

4. Excellent written communication skills general correspondence, proposals, reports

5. Bachelor’s degree or relevant work experience in hotel industry

6. Strong ability to leverage technology and CRM to shorten the sales cycle

7. Collaborative team player eager to contribute and learn from others

8. Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail, especially in maintaining accurate sales records.

Why work with us?

1. We're more than just a workplace – As working with us means you'll have the chance to learn, grow, and lead which helps to shape your career trajectory while making a mark on the industry. 

2. Everyone at ATICA is passion-driven and lets their work speak for itself.

3.Collaborative and supportive work environment.

We will share our workload as a team and we expect you to work on a broad range of tasks. Here’s are some of the things you might have to do on any given day:

• Developing APIs and endpoints for deployments of our product
• Infrastructure Development such as building databases, creating and maintaining automated jobs
• Build out the back-end to deploy and scale our product
• Build POCs for client deployments
• Document your code, write test cases, etc.

Responsibilities:

• Take a lead in product and design ideation, planning and prioritisation. Also be responsible for the creative direction the product should take. 
• Drive user research, create detailed user journeys and take appropriate design decisions backed by user-behaviour and data. 
• Work closely with the Product and the engineering team deliver delightful customer experiences and ship new features
• Take part in creative and holistic thinking across our diverse products and conduct design reviews and status meetings as needed.
• Illustrate design ideas using storyboards, process flows and sitemaps.
• Running user testing of applications, software, websites. Troubleshoot UX DESIGNER problems.
• Communicating scenarios, end to end experiences, interaction models and screen designs to other stakeholders
• Develop UI mock-ups and prototypes 
• Effectively mentor and inspire a team of designers. Help the team in raising the bar, resolving blockers, prioritising and breaking down complex projects into simpler tasks.

We are looking for a Java Developer with experience in building high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications.

You will be part of a talented software team that works on mission-critical applications. Java developer roles and responsibilities include managing Java application development while providing expertise in the full software development lifecycle, from concept and design to testing.

Java developer responsibilities include designing, developing and delivering high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems.

Experience : 2+ years

Location : Mumbai (WFO only) Initial few months work from home

Notice Period : 0 to 30 days ( Immediate joiners are preferred)

Roles & Responsibilities :

(This role encompassing both API engineering using Java stack and web development

Experience in designing, developing, testing and successfully deploying critical and complex projects.)

• Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle
• Write well designed, testable, efficient code
• Ensure designs are in compliance with specifications
• Prepare and produce releases of software components
• Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review

· Build reusable code and libraries for future use

Required Skill set :

· Java background with a minimum of 3+ years experience in Java technologies.

· Experience in designing and developing application backend using frameworks like Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Jersey, JPA, Hibernate, SQL, Linux, JSON, XML, OAuth etc.

· Well & good if has Experience with frontend technologies

· Experience with both SQL and NoSQL database systems and writing SQL queries

· Strong experience building, designing, and consuming Restful web services.

· Exposure of Cloud Infrastructure - AWS and Alibaba Cloud

· Excellent understanding of ORM and Database concepts

· Experience with developing unit test code using JUNIT, Power Mock/EasyMock/Mockito etc.

· Experience with Git, Maven and CI/CD pipelines to deploy on Cloud applications

· Experience & knowledge on Micro services Architecture and API development using Java, spring, Spring Boot

· Experienced in roles conducting requirements gathering, writing user stories, creating application design and using design patterns

· Good knowledge on credentials/secrets management and data encryption techniques

· Good knowledge on coding standards, design patterns, unit testing.

· Good hands-on BitBucket/Github is preferred.

Job description:

Amazon’s Worldwide Consumer Engagement organization brings customers to visit amazon websites, engage them on site and help them purchase from Amazon’s retail sites. This is achieved through highly personalized messages delivered via all available large scale communication channels—both free and paid and offering engaging experience on website. The organization builds, operates, and improves the technology systems that power all marketing channels, and manages prioritization and marketing spend decisions. Consumer Marketing consists of a series of single-threaded technology and business teams, each of which owns the entirety of a channel of communication or customer segment: natural and paid search (i.e. SEO and SEM), affiliate marketing (Associates), display advertising, email, browser integration, and mobile marketing, retail customer experience technology teams.

This position is for a technology leader in Affiliate Marketing Technology group for attribution team. This team owns business critical systems that are responsible for attributing traffic to marketing channels and thrives on innovation to provide rich analytics to its internal and external customers. As a leader on the team, you will be responsible for tier1 critical systems, guide your team through the design, development, testing, and deployment of a range of products involving big data processing and dealing with near real time SLAs. You will have to deal with challenges of high availability (five 9s) guarantee, low latency and high throughput. In addition, you will build and manage roadmaps for software teams, developing cutting edge experiences. You will have sound technical acumen, excellent project management skills, great communication skills, and hire, build, and develop your team. You are a true owner - you are deeply interested in product design, architecture, and you innovate relentlessly on behalf of our customers.

This position offers the opportunity to collaborate with our business teams across the world and other tech teams in Bangalore as we raise the bar in delivering innovation.

Primary responsibilities: 

• Provide technical expertise and leadership throughout product life cycles, influence software engineers best practices for your team and own operational metrics 
• Work with business leaders and product managers to define product requirements. 
• Prioritize, communicate, maintain, and execute roadmaps, project plans, and commitments 
• Work with engineers to define technical requirements and architect and execute best-in-class implementations in agile manner 
• Build and maintain world-class customer experience and operational excellence for your deliverables 
• Hire, manage, mentor and grow a high performance team of Software Engineers

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors/Masters degree in Computer Science or related field
• 10+ years professional experience in software development management
• Proficiency in, at least, one modern programming language such as Java, Scala, C#, C++ etc 
• Ability to solve complex technical problems and design robust, scalable solutions
• Ability to think critically and actively contribute to strategic choices.
• 3+ years experience in managing development teams working on multiple simultaneous projects.
• 3+ years experience in managing large scale software development teams following Agile development processes. 
• Strong skills in project planning & execution, problem solving. Ability to take a project from initial scoping requirements through actual launch and support of the project
• Proven leadership and teamwork skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in both technical and non-technical discussions.

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Deep, hands-on technical expertise in high scale, service-oriented architectures
• Exposure to Elastic Map Reduce and Machine Learning programs. 
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Clear, professional communication skills able to contribute to team discussions, knowing when to contribute, when to listen, and when to ask questions
• Proactively and continually improve their level of knowledge about Amazon’s business and relevant technologies, and use this knowledge to deliver high quality, accurate software deliverables
• Strong business and technical vision
• Good understanding of web services