Data Scientist

The client provides a unique platform that aims to revolutionize the way direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands interact with their consumers in the offline & online spaces and grow their sales & profitability. 

The Product Manager will be responsible for the complete product life cycle, from early-stage research and ideation, through implementation & iteration based on business process definition and its key metrics.

We're dedicated to the agile methodology and are believers in lean product development. We are looking for people who are eager to deliver across the entirety of the product development lifecycle and areas. We are keen that you bring experience that you can impart to the rest of us but also are motivated to improve in many other skills and be humble enough to take the initiative to unlearn & learn.

Key Requirements

- Experience as a Business Analyst or as a product manager, preferably from a product development, product-based, or Tech Platform based company.

- Understanding Business Processes, Output, and Input Metrics is essential.

- Experience working closely with design and development teams in an agile software development environment.

- Communication, networking, and stakeholder management skills.

- Creativity in problem-solving combined with an anything is possible attitude.

- Ability to expertly marry qualitative and quantitative inputs to form deep customer insight.

- Ability to think long-term strategically as well as get engaged in the day-to-day execution details.

- Technical knowledge and ability to learn complex, technical topics quickly and articulate & explain them simply.

- Understand the trade-offs of implementation and help dev teams to make the right call.

- Passion for technology trends, emerging architectures, and fundamentals of creating a scalable and user-friendly system.

What You'll Do

- Drive the technical vision and roadmap for your product area with Backlogs assembled to create a world-class technology platform for retail & e-commerce. ( Phygital)

- Process Definition and detailing of requirements, workflow, user interfaces, business logic, and key business metrics (Input and Output).

- Able to map Epics, User Stories from the Business Requirements and Process Flows.

- Design & solidify the software development processes as the development processes are getting defined at this time.

- Use data to derive insights from usage and feature adoption.

- Hire and grow the team, while working alongside them

Preferred Skillsets:

• Understanding of e-commerce & Retail domain

• Expertise in Microsoft applications – Excel, Word, PPT, etc.

• Experience in Agile development tools like Confluence, JIRA, Redmine, etc.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Qualifications:

• B.E/MBA from Tier 1 /2 Institutes

• 4+ years of overall experience Desired, Min – 2 Years.

Kunato is a NY-based IT firm helping to create the first marketplace that monetizes digital content on the internet (i commerce). We are looking for a dynamic Designer to join our Team.

The ideal candidate will have strong creative skills which are self-driven and a portfolio of work that demonstrates their passion for illustrative design and typography. This candidate will have experience in working with numerous different design platforms such as digital and print forms. We seek someone who not just executes but creates ideas.

Responsibilities

* Design promotional banners which make even the aliens want to click on it

* Collaborate with the team to ensure consistency of designs across various media outlets

* Creating and delivering motion graphics for various media

* Create compelling logos, designs, print and digital media

* Working with art and creative teams to select audio, video, colors, animation, etc. for graphic design

* Editing video footage and adding effects/elements to enhance motion graphics

* Maintain awareness of current industry and technology standards, social media, competitive landscape and market trends

Qualifications

* Keen eye for the digital market and audience

* Bachelor's degree in Design or related field

* 2-4 years of experience in graphic design

* Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite

* Strong communication, conceptual thinking, typography skills and design skills

* MUST be able to join immediately (within 1-2 weeks)

Write to us if you believe your creative skills are second to none & feel excited to work in a fast-paced remote environment.

Please respond with your work portfolio & why you are the one for us.

Srijan is hiring for a Scrum Master/Senior Scrum Master role with a permanent WFH option.

A notice period of 30 days or less is preferred.
Remote working option available.


Roles and Responsibility:

 Backlog Maintenance

• Create and Manage Backlog
• Backlog grooming: Manage/Update “sprint-backlog” and “project-backlog” regularly after client calls and demos
• Plans forward-looking technology investigations (spikes / POC)
• After each sprint demo work with the dev team to estimate and re-estimate the backlog
• Facilitate prioritization of backlog first time;
• Facilitate prioritization of backlog during planning n+1 sprint with client
• Creating mock-ups/wireframes/Sketch images to illustrate or to detail for getting clarity from the client, and for communicating the task to the dev team
• Use JIRA for all backlog (no use of Google spreadsheets)

Daily Stand-ups

• Drive daily-stand-ups
• Ask what was done yesterday, what is the plan for today
• Ask probing questions in the stand-ups and outside of it
• Identify potential roadblocks or challenges that may come up
• Consult Group Lead and raise your concerns
• Implement advice by GL
• Ensure that the team is working towards completion of the sprint; each stand-up well did, will suggest if the velocity is enough to complete Sprint or no
• (Maintain and) Update the “information radiator board (with stickies)” for all sprints

Sprint Demos

• Run sprint demos
• Calls must be marked on the client and team’s calendar; no ambiguity in when calls happen
• Every member must be present on calls at least 2-mins before the scheduled time on the calendar; be the first to join the call as moderator
• If you are unable to join, ensure that the session is recorded; if it cannot be recorded, ensure the team has captured all feedback during the demo

Business Analysis

• Understand the business of the client and the project
• This will enable you to question business needs that clients communicate
• Validate and record agreements in stories, acceptance criteria
• Create mock-ups/wireframes/Sketch annotations to illustrate or to detail --  for getting clarity from the client; and for communicating the task to the dev team -- put these in stories in JIRA

Project Management

• The Plan -- Do -- Check -- Act (Complete control on the project)
• Create Physical boards “information radiator board (with stickies)
• Plan deliverables (JIRA/Sprint) along with the team
• Organize the Sprint, get re-estimates done,
• Plan Sprint n+1 with the client -- prepared stories for the n+1 sprint to be taken up by dev team; work with QA in
• Learn to read JIRA Burndown Charts to know if the project is on time or is there likely to be a delay
• If there is likely to be a delay, speak to the Agile Coach / Group Lead to decide the nature of communication to be sent to the client
• Release Planning - define release goals

Quality Assurance

• Detail out stories with acceptance criteria
• Ensure all stories have acceptance criteria
• Work with QA in improving quality of acceptance criteria
• Work towards zero-defect sprints
• Defect triage - accept/reject
• Support the Dev+QA team in testing yourself
• Use JIRA for all these activities
• Drive testing strategy
• Deliver stories piecemeal for testing throughout the sprint
• Validate technical architecture by asking relevant questions

Stakeholder Management

• Send out weekly Status emails to internal and external clients -- must be on SM’s calendar
• Red, Amber, Green status
• Budget consumption
• Key activities this week
• Pre-empt and document roadblocks that you/team foresee
• Raise/Flag issues to clients and work aggressively within the team/org to mitigate this
• Coach clients on agile/scrum, our model, align them on our practices, using Jira, etc

Engineering Practices

• Drive towards Unit Testing
• Drive towards Continuous Integration (CI) using Jenkins; leads to a clear release and deployment strategy/plan
• Piecemeal UAT strategy
• Drive Intrinsic quality like Code, stories written, test scenarios written
• Continuously monitor and improve them. Question people on them
• Use Jira rigorously to track stories, defects, and manage it end to end.

People, Process and Tool Coach

• Coach people to improve in their role
• Challenge and question people on the way they are working to make it better
• Run sprint-retros
• During retros listen for “cause” behind the words; by asking probing questions
• Continuously strive to improve yourself
• Handhold team on Scrum way of doing
• Strategize which tool to use for what purposes.

• 8+ years of experience as a Scrum Master
• Must have experience leading a team of around 15-20 team members in an Agile environment.
• Experience working in multi-geo or offshore environment
• JIRA experience
• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills
• Proven success in delivering projects within budget and specified timeframes, while ensuring customer satisfaction
• Proven problem-solving skills from problem assessment to solution selection
• Ability to identify alternatives and make contingency plans
• Capacity to embrace change and quickly adapt to new situations, changes in direction, and altering priorities
• Proven ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Ability to handle multiple projects and assignments
• Ability to demonstrate critical thinking, providing options and recommendations relating to resolving issues, mitigating risks, and resolving escalated items.
• CSM (Certified) or PMP (Certified) Good to have

We are looking for a full stack Java Developer with an experience of 1+ years. The individual should have good technical knowledge of Core Java, Sql, Spring, Spring Batch, Spring Boot, Apache Spark. Exposure to sql databases like Oracle, Mysql, Microsoft Sql is a must. Any experience / knowledge / certification on Cloud technology preferrably Microsoft Azure is good to have. Exposures to non sql databases like Neo4j or Document database is again good to have.

The individual should have good knowledge of design patterns and also be able to implement them in desired conditions. Finally the individual should be smart and look to provide solutions for problems.

Requirements:

• Experience in Enterprise Java building restful microservices
• Strong Exposure to any of the Java Enterprise frameworks such as Spring, Vert. x, Quarkus or others
• Good exposure to databases such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB etc
• Good analytical and problem-solving capabilities along with excellent communication skills.
• Any exposure to UI programming using REACT JS or AngularJS is a plus
• Preferred candidate who can join in 15 days or max 30 days.