District Sales Manager

Role Summary

We are looking for a seasoned Python/Django expert with 10–12 years of real-world development experience and a strong background in leading engineering teams. The selected candidate will be responsible for managing complex technical initiatives, mentoring team members, ensuring best coding practices, and partnering closely with cross-functional teams. This position demands deep technical proficiency, strong leadership capability, and exceptional communication skills.

Primary Responsibilities

· Lead, guide, and mentor a team of Python/Django engineers, offering hands-on technical support and direction.

· Architect, design, and deliver secure, scalable, and high-performing web applications.

· Manage the complete software development lifecycle including requirements gathering, system design, development, testing, deployment, and post-launch maintenance.

· Ensure compliance with coding standards, architectural patterns, and established development best practices.

· Collaborate with product teams, QA, UI/UX, and other stakeholders to ensure timely and high-quality product releases.

· Perform detailed code reviews, optimize system performance, and resolve production-level issues.

· Drive engineering improvements such as automation, CI/CD implementation, and modernization of outdated systems.

· Create and maintain technical documentation while providing regular updates to leadership and stakeholders.

Required Skills & Qualifications Negotiable

· 10–14 years of professional experience in software development with strong expertise in Python and Django.

· Solid understanding of key web technologies, including REST APIs, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

· Hands-on experience working with relational and NoSQL databases (such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, or MongoDB).

· Familiarity with major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and container tools like Docker and Kubernetes is a plus.

· Proficient in Git workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing tools.

· Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, especially in designing scalable and high-availability systems.

· Excellent communication skills—both written and verbal.

· Demonstrated leadership experience in mentoring teams and managing technical deliverables.

· Must be available to work on-site in the Hyderabad office; remote work is not allowed.

Preferred Qualifications

· Experience with microservices, asynchronous frameworks (such as FastAPI or Celery), or event-driven architectures.

· Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies.

· Previous background as a technical lead or engineering manager.

• Project Planning and Execution:Develop comprehensive project plans, including scope, objectives, timelines, and budgets.   
• Lead project teams, assigning tasks and responsibilities, and ensuring effective collaboration.
• Monitor project progress, identify potential risks, and implement mitigation strategies.
• Manage project resources, including personnel, equipment, and budgets.
• Ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to the required quality standards.

Stakeholder Management:

• Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders, including clients, team members, and senior management.
• Communicate project status, risks, and issues effectively to stakeholders.
• Manage stakeholder expectations and ensure their needs are met.

Risk Management:

• Identify and assess project risks and develop risk mitigation strategies.
• Proactively address issues and resolve conflicts to minimize project disruptions.
• Implement change management processes to control project scope and ensure alignment with objectives.

•  Perform Build activities (hardware & software configuration) of customer environment and contribute to improve Build process.
•  Coordinate for Service transition activities.

• Initiate change / release requests in line 
• customer change / release management process.

•  Work on the major problem tickets assigned by ITIS Teams
• Hands on experience in hardware asset management.
• experience on ticketing tool like service now or SNOW
• ITIL Certified.

• The Recruitment Lead will be responsible for overall Annalect India recruitment strategy development, implementation and administration of recruitment programs. Execute Recruitment strategy to drive business results of each internal departments and appropriate stakeholders.
• The Recruitment Lead will possess and exercise exceptional skills in: problem solving, strategic thinking, and project/process management, coaching and fostering collaboration. To monitor and constantly reduces the costs of the recruitment process

Functions and Responsibilities:

40% Recruiting Strategy: Provide day to day support on the overall recruiting life cycle and building trusted relationships with hiring managers.

• Overall Recruiting Strategy for Annalect
  • Responsible towards the Annalect senior leadership in planning, developing, executing, and directing hiring strategies, processes, and programs for Annalect
  • Lead sourcing strategies through a variety of sourcing channels across all of Annalect’s recruiting needs.
    • Manage and maintain external search agency relationships, contracts, negotiations and effectiveness.
    • Develop and manage university and external program relationships to build additional sourcing pipelines.
    • Oversight over all Annalect open roles and health of the pipelines.
    • Identifying key industry related events and coordinating participation.
  • Responsible for partnering with Marketing and Design on all recruiting related activities including managing our social media brand related to hiring
  • Partnering effectively with the Annalect Global recruiting team, ensuring alignment on practices, and alignment on use of external agencies.
    • Hiring Manager Relationships
  • Responsible for building an understanding of our hiring needs, conducting a needs analysis and evaluation of job descriptions that best target our talent profiles.
  • Responsible for providing counsel to hiring managers on approaches to recruiting and interviewing practices
  • Act as a relationship manager between hiring managers and candidates, being responsible towards Annalect and balancing our needs and expectations with that of the candidate.
  • Partnering with the Annalect HR team on supporting Annalect Hiring manager needs.
  • Educating and enabling managers through the Annalect interview framework

30% Recruiting

• Manage open job postings and candidate pipeline
• Responsible for managing an active and passive pipeline search through a variety of recruiting channels.
• Responsible for ensuring a positive candidate experience throughout the life cycle of the recruitment process.
• Provide support on building out job descriptions
• Gathering candidate feedback in a timely manner
• Coordinating and scheduling candidates in a timely manner being respectful of the hiring managers’ schedules.
• Ensuring alignment of communications through job postings and candidate experience align with our overall Annalect culture and brand.

20% Recruiting Operations

• Reporting and Metrics:
  • Ensuring the recruiting report is updated on a weekly basis and providing any further metrics or reporting needs analysis.
  • Leadership level communication: Managing the Leadership and as appropriate Managers communications on the overall health of our recruitment.
• Financials:
  • Oversight of the budgets aligned against search agencies, external events, memberships
  • Oversight of referral program partnering with Finance, including processing of any referral payments
• Agency Relationships: Responsible for negotiating and managing any external agency relationships. Fiscally responsible for the costs and management of these relationships.  
• Responsible for the overall recruiting flow and offer approval flow:

• To ensure that the HR Policies & Procedures on recruitment are fully complied throughout the selection process. Strong ability to communicate effectively (verbal and written), at all levels within and outside the organization
• Solid understanding of on-going Technology trends. Past experience in managing and mentoring a team of at least 4-6 recruiters is a must.
• About 10 years of related experience of which a minimum of 6 years should be in a similar position / responsibility, preferably in a similar Industry. HR , Recruitment , Recruitment Manager/Preferably from Analytics or IT domain company
• Hands-on experience on MS Office skills

Ways of Working

• Think and act strategically to resolve issues, problem solve, add business value
• Approach work with a sense of urgency
• Strong organizational/planning, project management, and multi-tasking skills required to deliver on time and within budget
• Work independently with minimal supervision to set priorities and demonstrate excellent program /process and management skills
• Demonstrate a strong attention to detail
• Demonstrated experience in fostering a collaborative working environment between individuals and teams through coaching & personal example
• Exceptional time and priority management skills
• Use excellent communication skills to collaborate and provide transparency on all things
• Be a collaborative, high-energy, proactive self-starter

Experience: 5 - 6 years

• Strong knowledge of OOP, C#, LINQ, SQL Server.
• Proficiency with fundamental front-end languages such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Demonstrable knowledge of any one of the JavaScript frameworks - Angular JS or ReactJS.
• Must be strong in .net MVC.
• Minimum 1 yr experience in .Net Core, Web API.
• Excellent verbal communication skills.
• Good problem-solving skills.
• Ready to work in a challenging environment.
• Professional approach toward work.

Why this Role? 

• Change the way kids learn: ​Because Company is solving a​ unique problem, we have the chance to reimagine education. Be it collaboration or puzzles or video conferencing or interactive videos, there is a huge scope for innovation. How to make it fun? Motivating? Cheerful? You can help us get there. 
• Tackle challenging and impactful problems: ​We believe everything can be brought​ to life when designed beautifully and will challenge you to balance visual aesthetics, minimalism, and usability all while still delivering on time.

So, what will you do as a Visual Designer? 

• As one of the earliest employees, there will be a lot on your plate. All the time! 
• You'll help make our experiences 10x better for kids by bringing your creative flair to the product.
• You'll ensure that the design aligns with our goal of creating a fun and engaging experience for the kids
• You'll work closely with the other teams to contribute to the overall user experience and not just to the tasks you are working on 

This might be for you if... 

• You have worked in a startup and relish the chaos and pressure 
• You are someone who can quickly bring ideas to life
• You understand kids and how their tastes might be different from adults
• You understand priorities and can work with different levels of fidelity based on the priorities
• You are eager to learn and work with the best in the field!

• To creat exclusive distributor or distribution outlets.
• To supervising the sales growth of your team members to obtain profits.
• To build relationships with customer needs,market trends and competitors.