Engineering Manager

● The individual will have the vision and drive necessary to develop and lead our design team, both creatively and commercially.

● The role demands regular interaction & management of internal teams (Designers Developers, Business Development), external stakeholders (Clients & Vendors), and direct reporting to Management (Directors).

● With experience in managing people, he/she will enjoy being involved in the day to day whilst maintaining the ability to consider the bigger picture.

Responsibilities:

● Work with principal stakeholders & decision makers in client organizations to understand their Business/Organization Goals, User/Customer Behavior, and create Design Roadmaps & Strategies

for their Services & Products.

● Collect & analyze Business Requirements, create Design briefs & proposals, convert sales inquiries into projects.

● Lead prioritization discussions with leadership teams, defining scope, budget, timelines and resource allocation.

● Lead the Design Studio & projects to on-time and quality delivery as agreed by the client.

● Guide excellent design delivery, with thorough understanding of UX & UI Design.

● Work closely with Frontend & backend development, Content & Communication, Digital

Marketing and other teams to ensure the success of the projects.

● Raise and negotiate issues and risks with senior management of the client.

● Manage profitability of the projects & design studio.

● He/she needs to guide team members well and facilitate their constant learning in the organization.

● Stay up-to-date with latest achievements, best practices and trends in design.

● Establish best practices and design-thinking processes across the organization.

Expectations:

● Minimum 10+ years of core UX & UI Design experience.

● At least 3 years of experience leading and managing a small to medium design team (20 to 40 Members).

● Should have led at least 12 product design client projects hand-on, involving UX & UI Design teams, Front end development teams.

● Should have led & delivered at least 3 client projects in CX or Service Design.

● Experience in UX & UI Design for web, mobile & TV.

• Understand the business and the potential to promote the business and brand.
• Analyzing market and sales information
• Identification of prospective clients.
• Preparing a go-to-market strategy on digital, social media and print media
• Set up a Brand identification strategy and execution plan
• Research competitive products by identifying and evaluating product characteristics, market share, and pricing, and maintaining research databases.
• Tracks product line sales and costs by analyzing data and reviewing the competitor's reach
• Supports sales staff by pre-sales tasks, providing sales data, market trends, forecasts, account analysis, and new product information; relaying customer services requests
• Follow up with Clients through the CEO's contacts
• Website maintenance and press releases
• Marketing collateral – creation and maintenance and presentations
• E – campaign coordination
• Setting up tracking systems for marketing campaigns and online activities
• Reporting to management on marketing and sales activities

• 3-5yrs of practical DS experience working with varied data sets. Working with retail banking is preferred but not necessary.
• Need to be strong in concepts of statistical modelling – particularly looking for practical knowledge learnt from work experience (should be able to give "rule of thumb" answers)
• Strong problem solving skills and the ability to articulate really well.
• Ideally, the data scientist should have interfaced with data engineering and model deployment teams to bring models / solutions to "live" in production.
• Strong working knowledge of python ML stack is very important here.
• Willing to work on diverse range of tasks in building ML related capability on the Corridor Platform as well as client work.
• Someone with strong interest in data engineering aspect of ML is highly preferred, i.e. can play dual role of Data Scientist as well as someone who can code a module on our Corridor Platform writing robust code.

Structured ML techniques for candidates:

1. GBM
2. XgBoost
3. Random Forest
4. Neural Net
5. Logistic Regression

1. About the Job

Upside Digital is looking for a brilliant mind to help build its portfolio FinTech Startup, https://www.instaval.co/">InstaVal. The role of the FS Developer is ideal for smart coders who have the technical expertise and passion to turn our vision into a living product.

1. You will 

• Work with product lines to implement functional & non-functional business requirements into working software, including APIs, web services, etc.
• Enhance existing web solutions to ensure scalability across customer's new business requirements. 

1. You have

• Good Communication Skills. 
• Good personal work ethics and a well-rounded team player. 
• Ability to own and start projects with the team and manage to deliver in timely manner. 

1. You’re skilled at

• Microsoft .NET Framework (C#).
• Web development (http://asp.net/">ASP.NET, web services, WCF, JavaScript, NodeJS, AngularJS, HTML5, CSS).
• MongoDB or Microsoft SQL, MySQL, NoSQL.
• Staying on top of technology trend and contribute to technical design throughout project.

• Experience or familiar with a SaaS business.
• Past startup experience.

• InstaVal is a tech-enabled Business Valuation and Deal Discovery Platform made to promote equity investments in early stage business.
• Our vision is (i) to empower founders and (ii) enable ecosystem stakeholders to efficiently deliver their set of investment advisory & support services.
• An opportunity for you to be part of a global disruptive startup in the corporate finance space.
• We encourage creative thinking, independent responsibilities for business results & team collaboration.
• We have lives outside of work.

• Airtime: Full-time basis - five days a We’re not civil service officials neither.
• Compensation structure: Salary, Bonus, Equity.
• Location: Dubai,
• Unlimited paid time off as long as you get **** done.
• Start Period: November 2019