Engineering Manager

🚀 Job Title: Institutional SaaS Sales Manager – Higher Education

Location: Hyderabad (India) | Travel as needed

Company: Ixyle AI – www.ixyle.ai

Industry: AI, SaaS, EdTech

Compensation: ₹25K–₹50K Fixed + ₹50K/deal + 5% Revenue Share + Quarterly Bonus

🧠 About Us

Ixyle AI is a next-gen SaaS platform using Generative AI to transform higher education assessments and student placements. We power real-time, video-based AI interviews, personalized student feedback, and performance analytics for colleges and universities.

We’re already working with government and public sector institutions and scaling fast across the private sector.

🎯 Your Mission

You will own and drive SaaS sales in the higher education sector. This is a high-performance role focused purely on institutional revenue generation and onboarding colleges/universities for our flagship product.

✅ Who You Are

We’re looking for someone who has:

• ✅ 3–7 years experience in SaaS-based B2B or B2I (Business-to-Institution) sales
• ✅ Proven history of closing deals with higher education institutions (minimum 10+ colleges/universities closed)
• ✅ Past role in EdTech/HRTech/SaaS companies like Classplus, CollegeDekho, iON, LeadSquared, Harappa, Leverage Edu, UpGrad Campus, etc.
• ✅ Clear understanding of college buying cycles, stakeholders (TPOs, Directors, Deans), and decision-making processes
• ✅ Demonstrated revenue achievement (attach proof/case studies in application)
• ✅ Strong communication, negotiation, and pipeline closing abilities

💼 Key Responsibilities

• Own the full sales cycle: lead generation → demo → pitch → proposal → contract → closure
• Execute deal-winning pitches to TPOs, HODs, Directors & Management
• Manage pipeline and follow-ups through CRM
• Generate revenue from colleges, universities, and training institutions
• Travel as needed (with expense reimbursement) for campus-level closing

💰 Compensation Structure

🔹 Phase 1 – 30-Day Performance Trial

• Fixed: ₹25,000/month
• Incentive: ₹50,000 per institution closed
• Goal: Close 1 institution in first 30 days

🔹 Phase 2 – Full Role

• Fixed Salary: ₹50,000/month
• Commission: 5% of net revenue on each deal
• Quarterly Performance Bonus: ₹50,000 minimum on target achievement

💸 Top closers can earn ₹12–15L per annum or more

🔍 Must Include in Application

• CV + LinkedIn Profile
• List of colleges/institutions closed
• Deal sizes and revenue outcomes (confidentiality respected)

🚫 Do Not Apply If You:

• Lack experience in institutional SaaS sales
• Have never closed a paid college/university deal
• Are not revenue-obsessed
• Require daily push or micro-management

📩 Apply Now

Subject: “SaaS Sales Manager – [Your name]

Sales executives are responsible for selling a company’s products or services to potential customers. They are often regarded as the face of the company and the primary point of contact for clients.

A sales executive usually performs the following tasks:

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• Find new business opportunities and customers
• Contact potential customers to showcase company products or services
• Develop relationships with existing customers and keep in touch with them
• Negotiate prices and terms with customers
• Prepare sales contracts and keep track of sales activities
• Work with other team members to ensure customer satisfaction

JOB BRIEF:

We are looking for an SEO (Search Engine Optimization) person who will lead our web marketing and analytics activities with content strategy, link building and keyword strategy.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

• Develop a strategy for the improvement of organic search ranking and the maximization of ROI.
• Prioritize keywords to attract target audience.
• Monitor and analyse SEO statistics such as redirects, click rate, bounce rate and others.
• Build systems and best practices to ensure that all content is optimal for SEO.
• Manage relationships with web developers and marketing teams to properly implement SEO best practices in coding and campaigns.
• Communicate the performance of process improvements to the Management team.
• Provide feedback regarding any broken links or other problems through the appropriate channels.
• Watch popular SEO Publications and blogs to stay updated on the latest innovations, tools and techniques.
• Research and analyse competitor advertising links.

WHAT POSITION DEMANDS:

• At least 3 years’ experience within the SEO industry
• Strong working knowledge of the latest SEO and SEM techniques and algorithm updates
• Good knowledge of Google Webmaster Tools, Google Analytics and Adwords
• Strong team management skills
• A proven track record in delivering high performance SEO strategies for a range of clients
• Experience in creating effective outreach strategies
• Excellent communication and client-facing skills
• Excellent presentation and reporting skills
• Knowledge of ranking factors and search engine algorithms

WHAT WE OFFER YOU:

• Stable, consistent work hours.
• Competitive salary & comprehensive benefits.
• A fast-paced & high energy work place.
• 5 days working

About First Principles

We are a Tech Holding Company and our portfolio companies generate millions in revenue. What is unique about FirstPrinciples is that most of our companies remain controlled and majority owned by First Principles and its team members rather than by external investors. We are proud that our design team builds world class products from India. https://firstprinciples.io/">https://firstprinciples.io/

About this Role
We are looking for an experienced UI designer to design functional and appealing web and mobile app designs, focus on user-centric products and experiences. The ideal candidate will have experience working in agile teams, with developers, UX designers, and copywriters.
You will be able to make deliberate design decisions and to translate any given user-experience journey into a smooth and intuitive interaction.

You will be responsible for:

• Creating User Interface Design, components, wireframes, prototypes, and effectively communicate your interaction ideas in all design contexts.
• Continually keeping yourself and your design team updated with the latest changes in industry’s standards.
• Following material design and design system principles.
• Focussing on design contexts, consistency, usability, brand personality, and conversational design.
• Following standard of quality design, communicate with stackholders, manage time and tasks, create original and own design.

• 3 years of experience in user interface and graphic design
• Hands-on experience creating wireframes, prototypes, logo and branding design, user interface design, visual illustrations, infographics, flyers/newsletters, and components design.
• Knowledge of gif animation, UI style guidelines, branding design
  Good understanding of design visualization i.e. color theory, visual weight, typography, iconography, patterns, grid system, responsive design etc.
  Experience using tools such as Figma, Photoshop, Sketch, Illustrator, InVision, Aftereffects.
• Knowledge of responsive grid systems.
• Creative ideas with a problem-solving mindset and are open to receiving objective criticism and improving upon it.
• Excellent communication with internal & external stakeholders

• BackEnd Technologies:

• Technical knowledge:

• It is important to adapt to changing requirements
• Have the ability to integrate external systems

How many hours are they expected to work? 

• - Full time position ( 40+ hours a week) 
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What hours should they work?

•  - Prefer 9-5 EST but there is wiggle room
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Will there be nights and weekends? 

• - Nights and weekends are not scheduled, however we are looking for someone that takes pride in their work and will lean in to hit a deadline or to fix a bug if it has a significant impact on the platform.
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Should they be expected to lead?

• - Yes, you should be expected to lead and to communicate/ cooperate with other devs as a team. Some coding might be alone but the hope of the app is that it all works seamlessly together and to ensure that there needs to be communication among all devs front end and back end. 
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Who will they report to?

• - They will report to Product OwnerRob and Product ManagerJulietta daily for standups and well as pushing tasks through the appropriate structure of review, QA, and production. 
• They will also report and check in with Client SuccessCourtney as we look to make the app have a seamless customer experience and customer value. The goal of Attribute should be to try and give as much value as quickly and easily as possible.

Will they work alone or in a team?

• In some spots they might be expected to work alone and on a separate sprint from others, however, everything needs to tie in and work together, because of that the developer must be team oriented in both development and problem solving.
• Additionally, there will be times that they should expect to work with people who are not particularly tech savvy ( ie. sales, marketing, customer success etc.) to collaborate on a specific feature to produce the best thing for the product.

Accountability

• The developer is both accountable for their code and the code of the team. They should take care and responsibility in the work that is done and if there are problems with the code in QA or production work as diligently as possible to fix that problem ( whether it is their code directly or not).
• As part of this all code will be attached from Github to Jira for developers to constantly upload their commits to Jira tasks
• A mistake is completely fine and expected, bugs are to be expected. What is asked is that you report it as soon as possible and are honest about it so that we can move forward in resolving it as soon as possible.

Customer, Usability, and Value Focused

• The end user of our product will be marketing professionals/head of marketing. At all times the developers need to take this into account and spend time thinking of the ease and the use cases that people will utilize their code or features in real life versus what is a way to make something work but in a vacuum. 

Quality focused

• Pushing out code is awesome, but if the code has a ton of bugs and does not do the required action that is practical for the user then it does not matter. We want a developer who is Quality focused and also hold their other developers accountable.

Focused on the whole 

• When producing a feature it is easy to sometime get sucked into how that features works in a vacuum. The developers need to be able to work together and understand the software architecture as a whole in order to make whatever feature they are working on be able to work with the other features that are built within the app ( and will be built or are on the roadmap for the future).

Creativity and Experimentation

• Developers are expected to work within structures, however, they are always encouraged to take time to think of creative solutions and to collaborate on new features or ways of making the product better.

Unfeathered, Honest, Respectful Communication

• Every developer should feel free to speak their mind in a respectful manner to other developers as well as anyone else in the entirety of the company. Any opinion, thought, or perspective will be listened to and valued. 

Next Man or Woman Up Mentality

• Never should anyone on the team defer a problem and say “ thats not my fault or problem”. We are one unit and one company. One problem is everyone's problem and should lean in to the “next man up philosophy” if you have the time and can help to fix the problem and bring it to a solution you should be willing to.

Upward Mobility and Vesting Opportunity

• This position will allow for upward mobility, increased responsibility, and for people who constantly go above and beyond an opportunity to vest into and own equity in the company

Job Description

• Planning with the product advancement group to finish item thoughts 
• Utilizing different programming to plan the items. Has hands on coding experience across different technology stacks. Willing to experiment & explore across technologies and identify the best suited
• Performing constant market analysis of competing products
• Testing item models to control configuration blemishes 
• Talking with delivery team to work out financially savvy producing methodology and solutions. 
• Ability to ideate, code, setup a prototype and on approval design the entire application as per business requirements.
• Complete knowledge of Full stack development. .
• As a product engineer, our Super Hero is expected to participate in all parts of development life cycle. Create user friendly, cost effective product design.
• Ability to research w.r.t features, UX, functionalities and finally testing before being rolled out.

Job Requirements

• Familiarity with all stages of product development life cycle.
• Extensive experience in writing codes, deep understanding of platform architecture, ability to design & develop solutions & knack towards problem solving.
• Deep engineering skills in various technology stacks, ability to handle big data concepts, keen to work in IIOT & machine data domain.  
• Ability to effectively present ideas & communicate with team members within & outside organization, ability to write routine reports and correspondence and ability to speak confidently & effectively before groups of customers or other Donaldson colleagues.
• We are happy to have a technology geek take this position as long as s/he is able to align the product roadmap to organization’s growth roadmap.
• Good communication and presentation skills
• Effective written and verbal skills in English Language are mandatory.
• This is a global role and the candidate may be required to travel to Smart Ship Hub’s different delivery centres.

Experience Requirements & Educational Qualification

• Atleast 5 years of proven product engineering experience. Must have: managed product life cycle, knowledge of product roadmap, extensive coding experience.
• Should be open to working in Disruptive Application Design domain, IIOT, Smart Sensors, Big data