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Job Description:

As a QA Associate at Binocs, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the highest quality standards for our software products. With a direct reporting line to the QA Lead, you will be involved in designing, implementing, and executing test plans to identify software issues. This role is ideal for someone with a strong technical background in engineering, experience in fintech or finance software companies, and a passion for quality assurance and detail-oriented testing.

Key Responsibilities:

• Test Plan Development: Create comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases based on product specifications.
• Quality Assurance: Execute test cases (manual or automated) and analyze results to ensure software quality.
• Issue Documentation: Document and track bugs, as well as collaborate with the development team to ensure timely resolution.
• Process Improvement: Identify, recommend, and implement improvements in testing processes to enhance efficiency and quality.
• Software Validation: Validate that product features meet requirement specifications and are free of defects.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with the product management and development teams to understand product vision and deliver software that aligns with customer and market needs.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• 2+ years of experience in quality assurance, preferably within fintech or finance software companies.
• Familiarity with software QA methodologies, tools, and processes.
• Experience in writing clear, concise, and comprehensive test plans and test cases.
• Hands-on experience with both white box and black box testing.
• Strong knowledge of software QA metrics, including bug tracking and reporting tools.
• Excellent analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Effective communication skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

Benefits:

Joining Binocs means being part of a passionate team dedicated to transforming the loan management landscape. We offer a dynamic, innovative environment where your work directly contributes to our vision of efficient, transparent, and data-driven loan management. Our competitive compensation package, including equity, reflects our commitment to attracting and retaining top talent.

About Us:

Binocs.co empowers institutional lenders with next-generation loan management software, streamlining the entire loan lifecycle and facilitating seamless interaction among stakeholders.

Team: Binocs.co is led by a passionate team with extensive experience in financial technology, lending, AI, and software development.

Investors: Our journey is backed by renowned investors who share our vision for transforming the loan management landscape: Beenext, Arkam Ventures, Accel, Saison Capital, Blume Ventures, Premji Invest, and Better Capital.

About us

We are building new-age billing and pricing infrastructure for SaaS companies. As SaaS pricing evolves from vanilla subscription-based models to more granular usage-based models, billing and pricing infrastructure needs to be completely reimagined.

Founders who sold their previous startups to Snapdeal and Gaana respectively. They have experience at organizations such as Google, Basepair, Elevation Capital, IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi and Harvard Business School. We are funded by marquee global investors, including Bessemer Venture Partners.

We are building our founding team, and are looking for:

1. engineers who can optimize for quick iteration, fast deployment and having a great developer experience.
2. sales, marketing and growth folks who are excited to push the envelope on GTM (go-to-market) innovation

You should be excited about learning and meaningfully shaping the trajectory of an early-stage startup from Day 0 in its journey.

What you can expect

• Ownership and autonomy: As a founding team member, you have immense responsibility. You own and drive the execution.
• Learning: You will work on challenging problems and engage in some of the most meaningful work of your life.
• You will have to figure out our Go-To-Market playbook from scratch - channels, messaging, discovery, demos, sales cycle, personas, nurturing, partnerships etc. Expect a whole lot of iteration and first principles thinking.
• Culture:
• We don’t take ourselves too seriously, and know how to have fun
• The health of our team is most important to us. Balance work with life - be productive, not busy.
• Being remote first, we thrive via async communication.
• Flexibility: Remote - work from wherever you are in the world; If you prefer coming to the office in person, we have a physical space in Indiranagar, Bangalore 
• Compensation: We offer competitive salaries with generous ESOPs
• Benefits (for full-time roles):
• Health insurance
• Generous vacation policy
• Learning and development budget
• Team events and company offsites
• Maternity and Paternity benefits
• Company laptop

About this role

We are building our founding team and are looking for folks who are excited to get their hands dirty in a 0 to 1 journey. If you are expecting a working playbook that you can execute, we are probably not the right fit for you at this point. However, if you are excited about creating the playbook from scratch, we would love to hear from you 

You will directly work with the founders.

Outbound sales are critical to generating meetings with qualified prospects. You will lay the foundation for and execute our outbound sales strategy.

The primary objective is to generate meetings with qualified prospects by optimizing our outbound sales machinery - iterating on channels, messaging, ICP (ideal customer profile), tooling etc.

• Outbound prospecting
• Find leads from databases (Apollo, ZoomInfo, etc.)
• Reach out to them (manual + automated) via different channels (email, LinkedIn, cold calling, etc.) to generate new sales opportunities
• Identify the needs of prospects, and build long-term, trusting relationships with to qualify leads as sales opportunities
• Iterate to maximize qualified meetings set up
• Experiment with different databases
• Experiment with messaging, level of personalization, length of sequences etc.
• Experiment with channels (email, LinkedIn, cold calls etc.)
• Experiment with different types of collateral
• Experiment with the recipient being targeted - industry, persona, intent signals etc.
• Loop in feedback from prospect responses to emails and cold calls to refine messaging further
• Inbound follow-ups - Respond to inbound leads and automate follow-up communication; iterate on messaging/channels to maximize conversion rate
• Run custom campaigns e.g., writing to VCs for intros to their portfolio companies, writing to conference attendees, scraping forums and job descriptions for relevant leads etc.
• Set up in-house tooling to ensure email deliverability, monitor open rate/reply rate, track domain reputation etc.
• Owning the CRM: Create and update leads, set up pipelines, email templates, and automation. Fully utilize CRM capabilities to nurture leads and deliver timely and relevant content

Key Qualifications

• 1-2 years of experience working as a sales development representative at a B2B SaaS company
• The solid hustle and entrepreneurial mindset; Thrive under the uncertainty that comes with an early-stage setup
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Experience working with lead databases, sales engagement tools etc
• Familiarity with CRM systems and proficiency in managing leads, pipelines, and automation
• Willingness to get your hands dirty and do the grunt work in the early days
• Strong first principles understanding of business fundamentals; Ability to empathize with the end user, and understand their pain points; Ability to understand the product at a granular level
• Adaptable to work across time zones to cater to a global customer base
• Self-driven individual with high ownership and a strong work ethic
• Ability to build, manage and motivate a team
• Previous entrepreneurial experience is a huge plus
• Experience catering to the CFO persona is a plus
• Familiarity with billing systems, CPQ and accounting systems is a plus
• Not taking yourself too seriously :)

Job Description: Design Consultant

As a Design Consultant for the Ligne Roset French Luxury Furniture brand, you will be responsible for working with a team at the Boutique in understanding customer requirements and crafting solutions using the Company’s product portfolio. This role requires experience in retail of luxury furniture.

Job Requirements:

Delivering an outstanding customer experience:

• Engaging with customers to understand their furniture needs and providing recommendations that meet their requirements.
• Attending to walk in customers’ inquiries.
• Promoting sales of high-end furniture and lifestyle accessories.
• Guiding customers through the purchasing process, including explaining product features and benefits, pricing, warranties, and delivery options.
• Responding to customer inquiries, complaints, and feedback promptly, ensuring resolution to their satisfaction.
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with customers to foster loyalty and repeat business.

Sales and Business Development:

• Meeting and exceeding sales targets and KPIs set by the management.
• Proactively engaging with customers to drive sales, building customer loyalty, and increasing market share.
• Building a robust pipeline of potential customers and maintaining an accurate customer database.
• Identifying opportunities to cross-sell and up-sell products and services to customers.
• Maintaining an up-to-date understanding of market trends, competitor activity, and industry developments to identify new opportunities for growth.

Store Operations:

• Ensuring that the store is well presented, and the products are displayed attractively and prominently.
• Maintaining accurate inventory records and ensuring the store is adequately stocked.
• Ensuring that the store is clean, tidy, and meets health and safety standards.
• Providing feedback to the management on customer preferences, product demand, and store operations to continuously improve the business.

Candidate Qualifications & Skill Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture or Interior Designing
• 2+ years of experience in retail sales, preferably in luxury furniture industry.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong sales and negotiation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain strong customer relationships.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail for tracking information in MIS.

Location: Prabhadevi, Mumbai

Reporting To: Boutique Manager

About us:

Burgundy Brand Collective is one of India's fastest-growing specialty retail companies with stores in 9 cities. The company partners with best-in-class international luxury brands to offer Indians a window to the finest food and lifestyle themes from across the world. Our brand portfolio includes Royce’ Chocolate- a premium Japanese confectionery brand, Onitsuka Tiger - a leading Japanese fashion and lifestyle brand, Provenance Gifts – a marketplace for curated gourmet gift and Ligne Roset – a luxury French contemporary furniture brand. The plan is to aggressively (yet astutely) scale out a portfolio of international brands pan-India.

About the role 

We are looking for strong experience in understanding HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Core PHP, MySQL. Must have outstanding coding skills, Strong understanding of business logic and has a good learning curve. 

Responsibilities

• Basic Knowledge in PHP Frameworks like CodeIgniter, Core PHP, Laravel, Symphony etc. 

• Hands-on experience in Apache, Xampp, and Wamp Servers. 

• Basic CMS Knowledge if any (Joomla/WordPress/Drupal).

• Strong Knowledge if OOPS Concepts in PHP. 

• Implementing Payment Gateways as per project requirements like (E.g.: PayUMoney, PayPal, Paytm, Razor Pay)Capturing values to database, email notifications for pending/Failed and success payments. 

• Knowledge of different Project Lifecycles.  

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science or software engineering. 

• Minimum 2+ year of experience developing projects/applications using PHP. 

• Good communication verbal skills along with Process oriented. 

• Strong debugging skills and the ability to easily and quickly read and modify existing code. 

Location & Commitments 

Permanent full-time role based at our Ahmedabad, Gujarat office Monday – Friday. 

Salary Package 

No bar for the right candidate.