District Sales Manager

About Kontrah Labs

Kontrah Labs is a performance marketing agency that works with premium D2C and ecommerce brands across India. We help brands scale profitably through data-driven advertising, creative testing, and conversion-focused growth strategies.

We're looking for a Performance Marketing Specialist who can independently manage and optimize Meta and Google Ads accounts while collaborating closely with clients, creatives, and strategy teams. This role is for someone who enjoys solving performance challenges, thrives in fast-paced agency environments, and takes ownership of results.

What You'll Actually Do

This is not a coordination role. You'll be inside ad accounts every day making decisions that directly impact client growth.

Campaign Strategy & Execution

• Build, launch, and manage Meta Ads and Google Ads campaigns end-to-end
• Manage ecommerce, lead generation, and conversion-focused campaigns
• Create scalable account structures across Meta and Google
• Set up audiences, placements, bidding strategies, budgets, and creative testing frameworks
• Plan and execute testing roadmaps for accounts under management

Optimization & Performance Management

• Monitor account performance daily
• Analyze CTR, CPM, CPC, CPA, ROAS, MER, Frequency, Conversion Rate, and other key metrics
• Identify winning opportunities and scale them profitably
• Diagnose performance drops and recommend corrective actions
• Manage budgets efficiently across multiple client accounts
• Continuously improve campaign performance through data-backed experimentation

Creative Strategy Collaboration

• Work closely with designers and content teams to develop high-performing creatives
• Translate performance insights into actionable creative briefs
• Analyze competitor ads, market trends, and consumer behavior
• Identify creative fatigue and recommend fresh testing angles
• Understand what makes winning ad creatives work and how to replicate success

Client Communication

This role is client-facing.

• Join weekly client review calls
• Present campaign performance confidently and clearly
• Explain strategies, results, and recommendations without jargon
• Respond professionally to client communications
• Manage expectations and proactively flag risks or opportunities
• Build trust through transparency and data-driven decision making

AI-First Workflow

At Kontrah Labs, AI is part of how we work.

You'll be expected to:

• Use ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or similar tools daily
• Use AI for research, reporting, copywriting, analysis, and ideation
• Build prompt workflows that improve efficiency and quality
• Use AI creative tools to accelerate testing and production
• Stay updated on emerging AI tools and bring useful ideas to the team

If a task can be completed better and faster with AI, we expect you to know how.

Must-Have Requirements

Experience

• 2–3 years of hands-on paid media experience
• Minimum 2 years of agency-side experience managing multiple client accounts
• Proven experience managing Meta Ads and Google Ads accounts independently
• Experience handling monthly ad spends across multiple accounts

Platform Expertise

• Strong expertise in Meta Ads Manager
• Strong expertise in Google Ads (Search, Shopping, Performance Max)
• Understanding of audience strategy, attribution, bidding, scaling, and conversion optimization
• Familiarity with GA4, Meta Pixel, Conversion API, and tracking fundamentals

Skills

• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Excellent problem-solving mindset
• Strong analytical thinking and decision-making ability
• Understanding of ad creatives and creative testing frameworks
• Comfortable interpreting data and translating it into action
• Good Google Sheets / Excel skills

AI Adoption

• Active daily user of AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Midjourney, Gemini, Perplexity, or similar
• Able to demonstrate real AI workflows used in daily work

Nice to Have

• Experience working with D2C or ecommerce brands
• Experience with Shopify brands
• Familiarity with landing page optimization and CRO principles
• Exposure to creative strategy and copywriting
• Experience managing premium or high-AOV brands

What We Don't Care About

• Marketing degrees
• Big agency names on your resume
• Certifications without practical experience

We're more interested in what you've actually done.

Who You Are

• You take ownership instead of waiting for instructions
• You're curious and naturally investigate problems
• You communicate proactively
• You think in systems, not just tasks
• You care about details and execution quality
• You enjoy learning and improving continuously

What You'll Get

• Direct ownership of real client accounts
• Exposure to premium D2C and ecommerce brands
• Direct mentorship from experienced performance marketers
• Hands-on experience across strategy, creative, reporting, and client management
• Remote-first work environment
• Fast growth opportunities as the agency scales
• Small team with high ownership and zero politics

Our client is looking for a result driven Influencer Marketing Manager with strong exposure to influencers to manage performance-focused global campaigns across India, Middle East, and South East Asia.

Key Responsibilities:

• Identify, shortlist, onboard, and manage finance/crypto/fintech influencers & KOLs
• Source influencers via Instagram, YouTube, and Telegram
• Evaluate creators based on engagement, audience quality, geography, and past collaborations
• Negotiate commercials, deliverables, timelines, and performance expectations
• Execute campaigns (reels, stories, YouTube videos, live sessions, Telegram posts)
• Manage content calendars, tracking links, creatives, and timely deliveries
• Build long-term relationships with high-performing influencers
• Act as the main point of contact and handle coordination/conflict resolution
• Track performance (views, engagement, clicks, conversions, ROI) and optimize campaigns
• Stay updated with influencer, crypto, trading, and Web3 trends
• Ensure influencer content complies with platform policies and financial ad guidelines

Requirements:

• Proven influencer marketing experience
• Strong communication and negotiation skills
• Hands-on experience with Instagram, YouTube, Telegram
• Ability to manage multiple influencers and campaigns
• Comfortable working with global creators
• Performance-driven mindset focused on ROI & KPIs

Good to Have:

• Experience with crypto exchanges, Web3 startups, fintech or trading brands
• Existing network of finance/trading influencers
• Knowledge of influencer tracking tools

Opportunity Summary

We are looking for an enthusiastic engineer with experience building Salesforce AppExchange apps to lead the development of Salesforce connectors for our marketing technology products.

What would you do?

·      Take a lead role with design and implementation of Salesforce connectors for our marketing platforms.

·      Collaborate with stakeholders in establishing application requirements, determining features, creating customer-friendly solutions, and determining support needs and performance requirements. 

·      Plan, design, develop, test, and deploy software to satisfy these requirements. 

·      Work according to the agile programming application development methodology adhered to including test-first, iterative development, and continuous re-prioritization.  

·      Support the maintenance of our hosted technology solutions. 

·      Work with other team members in accomplishing group objectives and participating in code reviews. 

·      Ensure timely and robust implementation of the company’s development plans.

·      Ensure that all relevant parties are kept up to date on progress of projects and give feedback on an ongoing basis. 

·      Contribute to the review, selection, and adoption of proprietary tools and technologies. 

·      Use specialist knowledge and experience of information technology to provide technical advice and vision.

Technical Skills

The following skills are needed for this role.

Experience

·      7+ years’ experience in web application design and development 

·      Bachelor’s Degree in relevant discipline or equivalent experience 

Primary Skills

·      Experience with Salesforce APEX, VisualForce, SOQL, etc. 

·      Experience building and maintaining Salesforce AppExchange apps. 

·      Experience working with databases and/or CRM systems. 

Secondary Skills (nice to have)

·      Strong background in Java 

·      AWS ecosystem and tools, developing for serverless environments. 

·      Front-end expertise: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc. 

·      Other languages such as JavaScript, Typescript, C#, Ruby, Python, PHP, etc. are all valuable. 

Soft Skills

·      Proven ability to lead a team and mentor others. 

·      Thrives collaborating in a team environment with a diverse range of people.

·      Passionate about delivering an amazing customer experience.

·      Able to have a change of mind, and able to change the minds of others.

·      Writes clearly and concisely.

·      Capable of working without a company office, with a fully remote team.

Growth Skills

·      Possesses a good work ethic; a self-starter with a desire to grow.

·      Always looking for better ways to get the job done.

Job Description:

We are looking for a skilled BigCommerce Developer. This role involves leading the development and customization of BigCommerce solutions, ensuring smooth execution and delivering high-quality projects. If you're passionate about eCommerce development and thrive in a dynamic environment, this is the perfect opportunity for you!

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and contribute to the development and customization of BigCommerce and Shopify-based solutions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and deliver eCommerce solutions that meet client requirements.
• Develop, test, and maintain websites using web technologies including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, ReactJS, and NextJS.
• Ensure that all eCommerce projects are delivered on time, within scope, and within budget.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to website functionality, integrations, and performance optimization.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest BigCommerce platform updates and industry trends.
• Mentor and guide junior developers, providing technical direction and support.

Requirements:

• Proven experience as a Team Leader or Senior Developer in eCommerce development, specifically with BigCommerce and Shopify.
• Strong knowledge of eCommerce platforms (BigCommerce, Shopify) and related integrations.
• Proficiency in web development languages such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, ReactJS, and NextJS.
• Experience with project management tools and methodologies, with a successful track record of delivering projects.
• Strong problem-solving abilities and strategic thinking.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to adapt and work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Must be a positive, energetic individual with a winning mentality, curiosity, and creativity.

Desirable Qualities:

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• A collaborative mindset with a focus on fostering a positive team culture.
• Eagerness to contribute to the growth and success of the company by bringing innovative ideas and solutions.

• JAVA Microservices with AWS needed
• Provide solution architecture & design involving Cloud and DevOps
• Develop new microservices in a cloud-native way.
• Ensure the unit testing and code coverage are achieved as per the agreed percentage.
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Optimize application for maximum performance and scalability.
• Collaborate, and coordinate with team members and key stakeholders.
• Communicate effectively with different stakeholders.
• Ensure best practices & standards are followed during SDLC.
• Takes ownership of the whole solution from a technical perspective and ensures adherence to defined Architecture & Design.
• Ensures the latest technology standards, and guidelines are utilized for development.
• Performs consistent & adequate code reviews & feedback to the team.
• Training and induction of new resources on the projects.

Skills and Qualifications

• Deep understanding of OOPs and OOAD.
• Expert and hands-on in Java JEE and Spring framework, Spring Boot.
• Should have experience with RESTful web services and API standards.
• Should know various integration patterns in distributed environments.
• Working knowledge of microservice architecture and different design patterns.
• Hands-on in writing unit tests with Mockito and code coverage tools.
• Hands-on data modeling (Logical physical).
• Knowledge of RDBMS, SQL and any ORM framework (JPA, Hibernate etc.)
• Should know Event-driven and asynchronous programming using message broker.
• Should know about cloud IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and Serverless models of any cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCP), preferably AWS.
• Knowledge of JavaScript frameworks like NodeJS (For the Backend) and Angular React (For Frontend) will be added advantage.
• Good to have DevOps related technologies like Container (Docker), Container Orchestrator (Kubernetes EKS)
• Excellent in communication

• Exercises judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.
• Perform various types of testing like sanity, functional, exploratory, integration, and system testing to ensure that the product delivered is of high quality.
• Support the Planning of test schedules in accordance with project scope/delivery dates and ensure that the timelines are adhered to without fail.
• Have very good knowledge of SDLC and STLC life cycles and working knowledge in agile.
• Work as part of cross-functional, passionate agile project teams to ensure quality is driven into the heart of the development process from requirements definition through to delivery.
• Contributing toward predictable delivery of quality releases.
• Be meticulous about documentation and maintaining a robust log of all test cases and test results.
• Very good at manual testing of web and windows based applications, web services testing, and integration testing of a complex system, iOS and Android applications.
• Defect Tracking and Reporting of bugs to developers so as to fix it and follow-ups.
• Lesson Learnt documents (based on testing inputs from the previous project)
• Suggestion Documents (to improve software quality)
• Leads test processes and delivers results to necessary stakeholders.
• Reviews changes or upgrades to existing tests, tools, and testing protocols.
• Good to have knowledge over Stockbroking applications, financial and capital market domain.

Desired Technical Skills and Experience

• Experience with Web Applications, iOS, and Android Applications.
• Passionate about understanding the application end to end.
• Effective communication skills to interact with internal stakeholders.
• Experience with Agile/Waterfall methodologies.
• Adaptable to the current requirement.
• High-level problem-solving skills, and the ability to project manage Knowledge of defect management process
• Strong understanding of software concepts and ability to quickly grasp new products and technologies.