Data Scientist – Machine Learning & AI (GenAI Focus)

Job Objective

The primary objective of the role is to ensure smooth production by addressing Quality issues/problems in production and identifying better solutions and process improvement for operational efficiency. The manager is responsible for Quality Control from the Yarn to Packing Department, including the Lab. A key goal is to ensure 1st Quality Production while maintaining the Overall Rejection for the Plant to be below 5%.

Key Roles & Responsibilities

The responsibilities are categorized into several areas:

Operational

• Responsible for Quality Control for all Production Departments, including Knitting, Seaming, Washing, Boarding, Checking & Packing.

• Managing the Yarn Testing Lab and overseeing all Third Party & Self Inspections.

• Implementing stringent quality control systems and conducting audits to enhance product quality and reduce rejection / wastage.

• Conducting Online Quality Rounds to control quality issues at the online stage.

• Generating and maintaining various monthly/annual reports, such as AOQ (Average Outgoing Quality), Cost of Poor Quality, Quality Trends (All Stages), and Defects wise % reports for Knitting & Finishing.

• Handling and maintaining records of customer queries & complaints, along with corrective actions.

• Adhering to customer-specified Restricted Substance list (RSL) and practicing stringent quality and safety standards on the shop floor.

Strategy & Planning

• Responsible for Quality Compliance.

• Managing all types of Samples (Salesman, Shipment, PP Samples, etc.).

• Handling all Customer Complaints and managing Quality related Customer Coordination.

• Active participation in Quality related reengineering.
• Carrying out various Quality Systems like Quality Circle, 5S, Zero Quality, and TQM.

Additional Responsibility

• Training of New QC's.

• Conducting awareness & training sessions for Quality auditors to build their skill to meet customer quality norms in the process.

• Ensuring Factory Compliance - Technical.

• Supporting improved productivity and efficiency with the budgeted head count.

• Focusing on Cost Saving by striving for 0% reduction in wastage.

People Management

• Ensuring the team understands and adheres to defined clear roles and accountabilities.

• Developing and monitoring Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) of direct reportees and counseling them for development.

• Identifying training and development needs of team members and planning implementation.

• Driving a transparent, performance-driven and result-oriented culture within the team.

• Ensuring succession planning for the manager and critical roles in the team.

1.       Strong knowledge in Front end scripting like EJS, JavaScript, Jquery

2.       Proficiency with fundamental front-end languages such as HTML, CSS.

3.       Familiarity with JavaScript frameworks such as Angular JS, React, and Amber.

4.       Proficiency with server-side languages such as Python / Ruby / Java / PHP/ .Net

5.       Good Understand with database technology such as MySQL, Oracle, and MongoDB.

About Us 

upGrad is an online education platform building the careers of tomorrow by offering the most industry-relevant programs in an immersive learning experience. Our mission is to create a  new digital-first learning experience to deliver tangible career impact to individuals at scale.  upGrad currently offers programs in Data Science, Machine Learning, Product Management,  Digital Marketing, and Entrepreneurship, etc. upGrad is looking for people passionate about management and education to help design learning programs for working professionals to stay sharp and stay relevant and help build careers of tomorrow. 

• upGrad was awarded the Best Tech for Education by IAMAI for 2018-19 • upGrad was also ranked as one of the LinkedIn Top Startups 2018: The 25 most  sought-after startups in India 

• upGrad was earlier selected as one of the top ten most innovative companies in India by FastCompany. 

• We were also covered by the Financial Times along with other disruptors in Ed-Tech • upGrad is the official education partner for the Government of India - Startup India program 

• Our program with IIIT B has been ranked #1 program in the country in the domain of  Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning \

Role Summary 

This role will primarily be responsible for envisioning, defining, and owning the execution of upGrad's product design strategy. As the strategic design leader, team coach, and customer champion you'll galvanize people to solve complex problems, developing strategies, and ensuring product designers have the space to create products that deliver enduring value.  You will also lead change cross-functionally to drive better experiences and influence our company's product, operations, content, and data to unlock the unrealized wants of learners and coaches across new subjects and fields.

You’ll lead your team through the design process, help build a vision, and navigate ambiguity through partnering with research and enabling experimentation, all while mentoring, and growing a hardworking and capable design team.  

You’ll run design critiques, host collaboration & brainstorming sessions, drive design execution excellence, identify areas of process efficiency, and promote a high-output and fast-paced design practice.

Roles & Responsibilities

•  Work closely with your team and other designers in defining, designing, and iterating  on product features across web and mobile platforms 
• Get out of the Office and work with research to observe the impact of your work in the real world, and take that input back to your work as a designer to be constantly improving our products.
• Invest in design standards, documentation, and processes alongside your team members to further our design practice 
•  Shape product strategy and vision together with product managers and have a significant impact across all the product teams
• Bring consistency to all the platforms and products
• Drive and support cross-team initiatives that make the Design practice better at upGrad such as improving our hiring processes, expanding our community presence,  interviewing potential new team members
• Work in the way that works for you and what you're designing, whether that's spending time sketching or jumping straight into pixels and code.
•  Work with other members of the Design team to help them deliver great work and develop their own skills. This could be as a mentor, a coach, or a collaborator. 

Skills Required::

•  7 years of Product Design experience with at least 2 years of experience leading  product design teams
• Consistent track record of leading highly collaborative cross-functional teams thought ambiguity and deliver the best products possible to our customers are an experienced mentor and coachable to give and receive honest, thoughtful,  and direct feedback that removes roadblocks encourages growth, and accelerates delivery
• Are intent on crafting psychologically optimistic spaces where your direct reports and your collaborators are confident in sharing their ideas, opinions, and reservations in order to get to the best customer-focused solution
• Experienced recruiting, hiring, and retaining multi-disciplinary design teams
• Ability to understand complex feature sets and their dependencies while being able  to deliver a design strategy that accounts for capabilities and limitations of the product 
•  Methodology rich, including standard approaches for design deliverables including  user journeys, research plans, mocks, prototypes, documentation, and quality checks 
•  Have the ability to communicate research findings and design decisions openly and  confidently, regardless of the audience  
• Have partnered with research teams or led research experiments to validate and  inform product thinking 
• Have a proven history of partnering with engineering in a continuous delivery environment

Field Sales, Revenue 💵 - PagarBook
( Temporary fulltime )

About Pagarbook:

1. Employee Management at your Fingertips. PagarBook - India's Best Payroll

and Attendance

2. Management tool for Small & Medium Enterprises. Using PagarBook, a

business owner can maintain all the records of their employees digitally

and can get insights around the same.

3. PagarBook is free & easy to use employee management, work & payroll

management software app where you can manage all your staff and

employee’s attendance, record the work done by your staff and employees

and their salary, payments & advances can also be recorded in this app.

4. Sms & WhatsApp notification to employees and staff about payments,

bonuses, daily work, attendance & leaves.

5. The Sales would be done for premium desktop version of the application

6. Benefits of desktop application:

a. Better and Easier accessibility, also available on mobile web

b. Access to rich reports which gives you business knowledge, spend

c. Unlimited free upgrades for a year

About Sales team:

The field sales team at PagarBook is all about solving SME’s customer problems

and ensuring we deliver compelling value propositions.

On a typical day, the sales team:

● drives the adoption of a premium version of Pagarbook, sold at a

subscription fee per annum

● never-say-no attitude, and comes with a win-all attitude

● At the same time, a core ingredient of the DNA is customer empathy

● We should always ensure the customer is well informed of all the benefits of

the solution, before we close the sales.

Responsibilities and Duties of sales associate:

● You will pitch about PagarBook desktop solution on field to customers

● You will explain the benefits of PagarBook desktop solution to customers

○ Better and Easier accessibility, also available on mobile web

○ Access to rich reports which gives you business knowledge, spend

○ Unlimited free upgrades for a year

● The users can register on the desktop for a free trial for 7 days first

● Sales associate would convert the customer into a paid customer

Mandatory requirements:

● Having your own bike is a must

● Field sales experience is a must (telecom, FMCG and financial sales

experience adds more weightage)

● Local language knowledge in the city of operations is a must

● Graduation in any field is sufficient

Benefits:

● Fixed salary (~15-18k a month)

● Targets based incentives (extremely attractive)

● Petrol allowance ~upto INR 3,000 (on actual bills)

● Initial job posting would be for 3 months - based on good performance,

conversion to full time employment would be granted

Key Areas of Responsibility (KRAs):

● Onboarding of Customers

○ Meet 30 new clients a day (tracked)

○ Get free trial enabled for 20 clients a day

○ Get 3 sales (paid customers, 10% conversion) per day -

non-negotiable output

● Retaining customer accounts

○ While we build new businesses, cross-selling would be key

○ Customers should keep using PagarBook desktop beyond 30 days of

activation

● Grow customer basket size

○ Identify key SME clusters in the city and prepare an acquisition plan

○ Go aggressive and acquire

● Business acumen & key skills

○ Strong knowledge on PagarBook sales process, services and product

○ Local Market and competition knowledge and clear articulation of

PagarBook advantages

○ Strong negotiation and influencing skills to create win-win

○ Give continuous feedback to internal teams to improve our

customer service level

Finally, remember, you are the PagarBook brand ambassador on the ground! All

the best.

Requirements for field sales - Phase 1 (50):

Madya Pradesh
Bhopal
Ahmedbad

ob Purpose :

- To lead Design, Development and Maintenance of Frontend Technology for Viacom18's flagship OTT Platform - VOOT, plan & innovate to deliver best-in class product features, ensuring market leadership and future readiness.

- Head the technology team for Viacom18's flagship OTT Platform - VOOT by enhancing and future proofing the technological infrastructure and capabilities to build a world class product.

Key Responsibilities :

Technological Readiness :

- Strengthen VOOT's technological capability

- Evaluate Frontend technology stacks and choose best in class relevant solutions for business

- Build internal capability for technological functions for future readiness

- Drive technical and technological efficiencies to save cost

Technological Innovation :

- Identify avenues for product enhancement

- Convert relevant ideas to POC (Proof of Concept)

- Act as the technical product owner and work with product management team to deliver features and manage releases and enhancement

- Deliver best-in-class product functionality by minimizing crash rate, reducing improving playback time performance and ensuring maximum device coverage

Collaboration and Partner Management :

- Evaluate and finalize new partners for product enhancement from technical perspective

- Developing technological road maps in collaboration with Product team & external technology partners

- Timely and quality delivery of product/features, including outsourced functionalities and services with no downtime

Resource management of external partners to deliver results

Team management

- Work with the HR partner to create a workforce plan

- Review performance on regular basis

- Ensure optimum levels of engagement through appropriate recognition channels

- Provide inputs on hiring and succession planning

- Identify training needs by using TNA method

Key Performance Indicators :

- Develop best in class product functionality

- Ensure technological readiness for product

- Increase in the number of active daily video viewers

- Application Store rating

- Maintaining a crash rate & Maintain playability above 90%

- No. of new & high quality features rolled out on the platform

Skills : Front End, Android, iOS