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Job Title : Kafka Admin

Experience : 5+ Years

Location : Hyderabad / Bangalore / Pune

Work Mode : Hybrid (3 Days Work From Office)

Shift Timings :

• 07:00 AM – 04:00 PM IST
• 02:00 PM – 11:00 PM IST
• 10:30 PM – 07:30 AM IST

Notice Period : Immediate to 15 Days

Job Description :

We are seeking an experienced Kafka Administrator with 8+ years of hands-on experience.

The ideal candidate should have deep expertise in managing Kafka environments, particularly in Confluent Kafka and EEH Kafka, and should be capable of working independently on configuration, integration, and administration.

Key Responsibilities :

• Administer and manage Kafka clusters, brokers, topics, and security configurations
• Design and implement Kafka-based integrations
• Configure, monitor, and troubleshoot Kafka environments
• Collaborate with development and infrastructure teams to ensure high availability and performance
• Work on Confluent Cloud and EEH Kafka environments

Must-Have Skills :

• Kafka Administration
• EEH Kafka
• Confluent Kafka / Confluent Cloud
• Kafka Configuration and Integration
• Strong troubleshooting and monitoring skills

Key Responsibilities

• Generate, qualify, and engage leads using relevant lead generation tools and

social selling techniques.

• Build, maintain, and manage a strong sales pipeline.

• Conduct product demos and respond to sales inquiries effectively.

• Meet or exceed monthly and quarterly revenue and conversion targets.

• Collaborate with the sales and marketing teams to improve lead quality and

conversion processes.

• Maintain updated records of leads, conversations, and outcomes in CRM tools.

• Provide a customer-centric experience and maintain strong relationships with

prospects.

• Demonstrate ownership, self-drive, and a proactive approach to achieving goals.

• Required Skills & Competencies

• Knowledge of lead generation tools and social selling strategies.

• Strong communication and persuasion skills.

• Ability to handle product demos confidently.

• Target-oriented with a high sense of accountability.

• Self-motivated and able to work independently.

• Customer-first mindset.

Head – Sales / Business Development

Objectives of this role

• Represent the company effectively with comprehensive knowledge of our offerings

• Research consumer needs and identify how our solutions address them

• Hire, train, motivate, and advise a team of sales representatives

• Achieve company objectives by planning thoroughly, setting sales goals, analyzing performance data, and making forecasts

• Develop skills continuously for hiring, training, and leading team members, and ensure that they're using effective sales tactics to meet revenue objectives

• Generate leads, and establish and nurture client relationships

Responsibilities

• Create and execute a strategic sales plan that expands our customer base and extends the company's global reach

• Meet with potential clients and grow long-lasting relationships that address their needs

• Recruit sales representatives, set objectives, train and coach them, and monitor their performance 

• Identify knowledge gaps within the team and develop plans for filling them

• Ensure that company quotas are met by holding daily check-ins with sales team to set objectives and monitor progress

• Manage the month-end and year-end close processes

Required skills and qualifications

• 8-10 years of experience in managing sales in a corporate setting

• MBA (Sales) 

• Proven record of success with the entire sales process, from planning to closing and overachieving sales targets

• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills

• Superb leadership ability

• Ability to travel at least 20% of the time

Preferred skills and qualifications

• Motivational speaking experience

• Proven success rate at levels above sales quota

• Job Title - Senior Product Marketing Manager - PC & Console
• Reports Into - Head of PC & Console Marketing
• Location - Bangalore/ Hybrid

A Little Bit about Kwalee….

Kwalee is one of the world’s leading multiplatform game developers and publishers, with well over 1 billion downloads worldwide for mobile hits such as Draw It, Teacher Simulator, Let’s Be Cops 3D, Airport Security and Makeover Studio 3D. We also have a growing PC and Console team of incredible pedigree that is on the hunt for great new titles to join Scathe, Die by the Blade, Robobeat, Space Chef and Wildmender.

What’s In It For You?

• Hybrid working - 3 days in the office, 2 days remote/ WFH is the norm
• Flexible working hours - we trust you to choose how and when you work best
• Profit sharing scheme - we win, you win 
• Private medical cover - delivered through BUPA
• Life Assurance - for long term peace of mind
• On site gym - take care of yourself
• Relocation support - available
• Quarterly Team Building days - we’ve done Paintballing, Go Karting & even Robot Wars
• Pitch and make your own games on Creative Wednesdays! 

Are You Up To The Challenge?

As a Senior PCC Product Marketing Manager, you’ll manage a product marketing manager and be responsible for launching some of our portfolio of Indie tiles across multiple platforms with a significant focus on building brand awareness, advocacy, Wishlists, community and ultimately (and most importantly) game sales.

Reporting into the Head of PCC Marketing you’ll be hugely influential in creating, executing, tracking and optimising integrated campaigns across both paid media (paid social, influencers and events) and organic media (community, social, influencers, ambassadors, SEO and rich content).  

You will work in close collaboration with the Community & Social Media (CSM) team, Influencer & Media (I&M) Team, PCC Creative Team and Digital MArketing (UA & Growth) Team.  

What Does The Job Actually Involve?

Create and execute product marketing plans (PMPs) that deliver against each game’s pre launch awareness and post launch revenue expectations, from initial signing through to retail launch and post launch - including budgets, KPI sets and beat schedules

• Ability to juggle multiple campaigns and projects across numerous media channels and multiple games at the same time and communicate clearly with multiple stakeholders both within and external to your team to ensure challenging deadlines and Wishlist/ sales KPIs are met
• Collaborating with internal and external creative teams to create best-in-class marketing assets to budget
• Determine KPIs for the PMPs and meaningful metrics that allow accurate analysis of each campaign and track commercial performance so you can optimise your plans in near real time
• Working as the key stakeholder and influencer within the PCC team and primary contact point for those outside of the department
• Setting ‘challenging but achievable’ targets for your team for both quality of output, timely delivery of campaigns and above target results and taking responsibility for meeting these target
• International travel as required

Your Hard Skills

• Passion for games and knowledge of industry trends and key players
• Previous experience on PC & Console games including three years in a product/brand management role for an established video games company
• Highly numerate and data fluent you’ll own your budgets and be accountable to them as well as having the ability to interpret research and analysis and use it daily to make good decisions quickly 
• Strong creative and brief writing skills with an understanding of Google Docs
• A creative flair with an eye for detail when briefing and feeding back on marketing artwork, assets and trailers. 
• You have excellent time management skills and understand the importance of hitting deadlines
• Ability to work with other functional teams in the PC and Console Department, as well as with other Marketing teams within and outside of Kwalee.

Your Soft Skills

Kwalee has grown fast in recent years but we’re very much a family of colleagues. We welcome people of all ages, races, colours, beliefs, sexual orientations, genders and circumstances, and all we ask is that you collaborate, work hard, ask questions and have fun with your team and colleagues. 

We don’t like egos or arrogance and we love playing games and celebrating success together. If that sounds like you, then please apply.

Your Team Mates

As a part of the marketing team you will ultimately report to the VP of Marketing whilst having P&L accountability to the Head of PC & Console department.

The PC Console Marketing team is mostly based in Leamington Spa HQ and in Bangalore, India. An open, enthusiastic and engaging personality and communication style is essential. You’re incredibly organised, data astute and fluent in process management so tracking numerous campaigns in several languages across multiple media will be second nature for you.

A Little Bit About Kwalee

Founded in 2011 by David Darling CBE, a key architect of the UK games industry who previously co-founded and led Codemasters, our team also includes legends such as Andrew Graham (creator of Micro Machines series) and Jason Falcus (programmer of classics including NBA Jam) alongside a growing and diverse team of global gaming experts.

Kwalee is one of the world’s leading multiplatform game publishers and developers, with well over 900 million downloads worldwide for mobile hits such as Draw It, Teacher Simulator, Let’s Be Cops 3D, Airport Security and Makeover Studio 3D. We’ve also have a growing PC and Console team of incredible pedigree that is on the hunt for great new titles to join TENS!, Eternal Hope, Die by the Blade and Scathe. 

Everyone contributes creatively to Kwalee’s success, with all employees eligible to pitch their own game ideas on Creative Wednesdays, and we’re proud to have built our success on this inclusive principle.

We have an amazing team of experts collaborating daily between our studios in Leamington Spa, Lisbon, Bangalore and Beijing, or on a remote basis from Turkey, Brazil, Cyprus, the Philippines and many more places around the world. We’ve recently acquired our first external studio, TicTales, which is based in France. 

We have a truly global team making games for a global audience, and it’s paying off: - Kwalee has been voted the Best Large Studio and Best Leadership Team at the TIGA Awards (Independent Game Developers’ Association) and our games have been downloaded in every country on earth - including Antarctica!

• 5-7+ years of commercial Java development experience
• Experience with well known Open Source frameworks/libraries, like Spring Boot
• Work experience with Docker
• Microservice experience
• Experience with AWS like ECS, Lambda, SQS, RDS, Kinesis streams
• Familiar with iterative development
• Upper-intermediate level of English
• Solid understanding of communication and network protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP).
• At ease with Unix/Linux
• Excellent analytical and debugging skills
• Familiar with both SQL and noSQL databases (MySQL, DynamoDB, Memcached, Redis)
• Practical experience with scaling applications to big user numbers is a plus
• Experience with other programming languages is a plus.