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Storytelling Specialist (Freelancer – PowerPoint & Narrative Design)

Role Title:

Storytelling Specialist – Presentation Design (Freelance)

Location: Chennai/Bangalore / Project-based

Engagement Type: Freelancer / Contract

About the Role

We are looking for a creative storyteller who can transform ideas, data, and concepts into compelling PowerPoint presentations. The ideal candidate should be able to craft narratives that engage, simplify, and influence diverse audiences.

Key Responsibilities

• Convert raw content, data, and briefs into structured, impactful presentations
• Build strong storytelling flow (problem → insight → solution → impact)
• Design visually appealing and professional PowerPoint decks
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand messaging and audience
• Simplify complex concepts into easy-to-understand visuals and narratives
• Ensure consistency in branding, tone, and communication

Required Skills & Experience

• Proven experience in presentation design and storytelling
• Strong expertise in Microsoft PowerPoint / Google Slides
• Ability to create narratives for business, social impact, or consulting contexts
• Good understanding of visual design principles (layout, typography, color)
• Strong communication and interpretation skills

Preferred Experience

• Experience working in consulting, startups, or social impact sectors
• Exposure to DEI, accessibility, or inclusion-related storytelling
• Basic knowledge of data visualization

Deliverables

• High-quality PowerPoint decks
• Storyboarding documents (if required)
• Visual templates and reusable formats

Proficiency in Tailwind CSS for development.

Experience in troubleshooting and debugging frontend applications.

Solid understanding and hands-on experience with either Angular or React.

Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively within a team.

A keen eye for detail and a passion for creating seamless user experiences.

As an Event Management Intern, you will be responsible for planning and executing school events, student activities, and special programs. Gain experience in event coordination and logistics.

Benefits:

● Exposure to large-scale event planning

● Skill development in project management

● Hands-on experience in student engagement activities

Key Responsibilities:

✔ Plan and coordinate school events and celebrations

✔ Manage event logistics and student participation

✔ Work with faculty and staff to organize activities

Requirements:

● Strong organizational and multitasking skills

● Interest in event management and public relations

Job Summary:

We are seeking a talented UI/UX Designer with 3D animation and design experience to join our team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing user-friendly interfaces for web and mobile applications, with a focus on 3D animation and design. The successful candidate will work closely with our development team to ensure that the user interface is optimized for usability and the overall user experience.

Responsibilities:

Design and develop user interfaces for web and mobile applications that are visually appealing and easy to use.

Utilize 3D animation and design techniques to create dynamic and engaging user interfaces.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify user requirements and design solutions that meet their needs.

Conduct user research to identify user needs and preferences, and incorporate feedback into design iterations.

Create wireframes, prototypes, and mockups to illustrate design concepts and demonstrate the user flow.

Develop and maintain design standards, templates, and guidelines to ensure consistency and brand recognition across all applications.

Stay up-to-date with the latest UI/UX trends and techniques and incorporate them into design work.

Create high-quality 3D models, textures, and animations for use in applications.

Work closely with the development team to ensure that designs are implemented accurately and efficiently.

Requirements:

Bachelor's degree in a related field such as graphic design, animation, or computer science.

Proven experience in UI/UX design, with a focus on 3D animation and design.

Proficiency in design tools such as Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, and 3D modeling software.

Knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Experience conducting user research and incorporating feedback into design iterations.

Strong portfolio showcasing relevant design work.

Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Ability to work independently and manage multiple projects simultaneously.

• Developing and implementing HR strategies and initiatives aligned with the overall business strategy
• Bridging management and employee relations by addressing demands, grievances or other issues
• Managing the recruitment and selection process

Roles and Responsibilities:

- Understands the value of digital influence or a digital influencer themselves.
- Whether on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook or other platforms, s/he will create relationships with content creators and work with them from negotiation to posting.

- Test new ideas, manage own projects and budgets, always look for new ways to grow the number.

- Identify, on-board, train, track and manage brand influencers across social and digital media platforms.

 -Implement engaging influencer and brand ambassador campaigns using research, competitive analysis, brand standards and social/digital media best practices.

-Develop and execute influencer marketing strategies and creative campaigns

- Keep abreast of emerging trends, technologies, and influencers

- Liaising with the marketing team to create and coordinate marketing strategies that work across different channels

• Do you like the idea of playing Master Shifu for product development teams? Or, what organizations think of it as playing an Engineering Manager.

• Do you live by the mantra of “buck stops with me”. Seriously, we also don’t know who Buck is and we are also looking for him.

• Have you led a product team of 15+ members in the past to successful outcomes? Okay, we would love to talk even if you unfortunately ran into a failure.

• Do you speak both binary and Humanary? Python , dialect, to talk to geeks and the Humanary, English or Hindi dialect, to talk to Clients. 

• Do you practice Agility? No, we don’t mean asanas from Baba Ramdev but things like Scrum or Kanban

• Do you practice Curiosity over Complacency? I..e are you a lean mean learning machine?

• Can you envision a solution architecture after hearing the product's vision and user stories? Do things like scalability, performability, flexibility, maintainability give you goosebumps of joy?

• Do you have an eye for good user experience?

Did you say Yes to all of them? My My! Love you! I’m sure your current team loves you too. But, if for whatever reason, you are looking for a new home then we would love to talk to you. We are a certified Great Place to Work, which means it’s a place where people love working with each other. And, you would too.

Send me an email, will ya?

Who are we?

Centre for Research on Start-ups and Risk Financing (CREST) has been set up by IIT Madras to provide thought leadership and intellectual impact to the start-up and innovation ecosystem. CREST has embarked on an ambitious mission of becoming one of the top global research centres in the area of start-ups and innovation. The core of CREST is the development of an AI-driven Intelligent
Information Platform that would enable cutting edge research as well as influence policy and practice like never before
With the recent exponential growth in the start-up and innovation ecosystem, new data-driven approaches would play a critical part in sustaining the current growth curve. The objective of CREST would be to become the gold standard of information and intelligence on Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Private Equity investments in India

The Opening
We are currently looking for our next passionate, skilled and motivated Python developer, who can join us immediately. The candidate should
● Be excited about building a next-generation intelligence platform
● Have a can-do attitude and ready for challenges
● Value working with a greatteam - confident, creative and thoughtful people who come together to achieve great things
● Be eager to experiment, learn and bring new things, improving the platform
● Be high on self-belief and enthusiasm to work in a startup-like culture - small team, fast-paced work environment If this is you, we're excited to interact!

As the Data Science Engineer in CREST, you will

● Write reusable code and build libraries for future use
● Establish solid data-pipelines and automate routine tasks
● Develop & deploy custom Machine Learning (ML) models using the latest
research in ML and Natural Language Processing (NLP)
● Build performant applications following best practices, maximizing speed and scalability
● Improve upon the existing codebase mitigating technical debt
● Take ownership of all aspects of the application - architecture, quality and efficiency
Requirements
● Proficient understanding of Python language
● Expertise with data-modelling, data-wrangling & data-mining techniques
● Familiar with Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) processes and hands-on experience with packages like Pandas, Numpy etc
● Experience with data visualisation tools and libraries like Plotly, Seaborn etc
● Good understanding of advanced Statistical and ML techniques on
regression, classification, forecasting etc
● Skilled in NLP and specifically ML applications in NLP like information
extraction, feature engineering, classification, building language models etc
● Should provide direction and mentorship to junior team members
● Bachelor’s or Master’s degree from premier educational institutions
● Minimum 2 years of experience (research or professional) in the
above-mentioned areas
Good to have
● Comfortable with using Command Line and Linux systems
● Experience and knowledge in version control systems like git, svn, etc
● Knowledge in developing & deploying web apps & web APIs with an overall understanding of client-server interactions
● Experience with NoSQL databases like MongoDB
Job type
● Full time, on-site
● Immediate joiner
● Initial appointment for 1 year, it would be renewed subsequently based on performance

Work location
Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras campus, Chennai, Tamil Nadu,
India - 600036

Why work with us?
● Get to interact with the best of the minds. IIT Madras has been ranked as the
top university in India for 5 years in a row
● Be at the forefront of the Entrepreneurial ecosystem in India
● Enormous opportunities for learning

The ideal candidate will have experience in all stages of the sales cycle. They should be confident with building new client relationship and maintaining existing ones for B2B. They should have evidence of strong skills and possess good negotiation skills. #hiring

Responsibilities

• Build relationships with prospective clients
• Maintain consistent contact with existing clients
• Manage sales pipeline
• Analyze market and establish competitive advantages
• Track metrics to ensure targets are hit

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree 3+ years in sales industry
• Experience in full sales cycle including deal closing Demonstrated sales success
• Strong negotiation skills
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• B2B Experience Preferred

YARDI Software Developer

The ideal candidate will have an application development background with strong technical skills in MS SQL Server, SSRS, YSR, and experience with Yardi Real Estate Software Modules. The candidate will be an expert multi-tasker with excellent problem-solving skills and a can-do attitude. They tackle tasks head, looking for opportunities to assist teams and create efficiencies. Yardi Technical Developer designs, develops, debugs, tests and implements software enhancements. Responsibilities include correcting defects in existing applications; documenting defect resolutions; planning implementation; solution customizations, configurations and enhancements.

Key Accountabilities & Tasks

§  Designs and develops front-end and back-end web application features

§  Performs maintenance programming for existing versions

§  Analyzes and documents reasons for test failure, and revises/debugs assigned programs and/or procedures as necessary

§  Uses corporate approved sourced control applications to maintain code changes

§  Understands application and uses standards

§  Adheres to department policies, procedures and standards in the development and implementation of software

§  Collaborate with all the key stakeholders to find alternatives and solutions to business challenges. Seek out systems solutions (either internal to client or external 3rd party solutions) that can be leveraged to meet business requirements.

§  Act as primary liaison with Business Solution Manager during the development lifecycle, from needs analysis and bug tracking to UAT and rollout.

§  Develop and manage working relations with Business Solution Manager, and subject matter experts to ensure the business solutions are aligned with their goals and priorities, and how process automation through IT solutions will help them reach their goals.

§  Create and maintain a cohesive, coordinated plan to deliver solutions that meet the stakeholders’ priorities within budgetary and product requirements.

§  Execute on project plans and assist others in executing on project plans across the various groups.

§  Analyze and document requirements and use appropriate techniques to refine, review and validate requirements.

§  Provide pro-active consulting in Technology and Operations Business Process design and re-engineering to uplift Nakheel Malls services to the tenants and end consumers.

§  Provide Yardi client support and technical issue resolution via Ticket System/Portal, E-Mail, phone and other electronic medium.

§  Create and enhance management reports utilizing Yardi

§  Oversee source control for report repository.

Qualifications, Experience, & Skills

§  Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or equivalent.

§  Minimum 3 years of YARDI software development experience in the similar role.

§  Ability to understand and communicate complex business requirements in technical terms.

§  Strong project management skills.

§  Experience in organizing, planning, and executing large scale IT projects from vision through implementation, involving internal personnel, contractors, and vendors.

§  Must be able to research, write and edit content for various projects.

§  Excellent interpersonal skills to relate and communicate to all levels of the IT members.

§  Ability to take initiative and an aptitude for creative problem-solving.

§  Displays a positive attitude and works well with others.

§  Planning & Project Management skills.

§  Prioritization, Organizing & Time management skills

§  Team Player

§  Flexible and adaptability skills

§  Source control management systems, multi-threading and concurrency

§  Debugging, performance profiling and optimization

§  Strong knowledge in Voyager database Schema

§  Able to develop Columnar reports, YSR and correspondence reports 

§  Experience in YARDI international, commercial and residential modules 

§  Knowledge in YARDI AR, AP, GL, ABF and FA

§  Experience in YARDI commercial cafe & Rent Cafe

§  Experience in YARDI Voyager, YARDI commercial cafe and YARDI Rent Cafe Implementation process.

§  Technical Knowledge in YARDI Orion BI Report Writing.