Executive Operations

Key responsibilities

• Managing organizational sales by developing a business plan that covers sales, revenue, and expense controls.
• Meeting planned sales goals.
• Setting individual sales targets with the sales team.
• Tracking sales goals and reporting results as necessary.
• Overseeing the activities and performance of the sales team.
• Coordinating with marketing on lead generation.
• Developing your sales team through motivation, counselling, and product knowledge education.
• Build and promote strong, long-lasting customer relationships by partnering with them and understanding their needs
• Identify emerging markets and market shifts while being fully aware of new products and competition status

Key skills and experience required

• Bachelor’s / Master’s Degree in relevant field.
• Freshers with Good communication and Interest in sales are welcome.
• Experience in planning and implementing sales strategies.
• Experience in Lead generation, email marketing, excel would be preferred.
• Experience managing and directing a sales team.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong business sense and industry expertise
• Excellent mentoring, coaching and people management skills

• Angular.JS experience
• MongoDB query and aggregation experience (not a database administrator)
• GraphQL experience
• Node.JS and Typescript experience
• CSS and SCSS experience
• CI/CD experience with GitHub actions

• Software development experience, one of Python (preferred) or Node.JS/Typescript)
• Experience with Messaging architectures - RabbitMQ (preference) or Kafka
• Experience with docker-containers 
• Experience with Apache NiFi (valued but not necessary)
• Experience with designing or implementing horizontally scalable solutions
• Experience working with RESTful APIs
• CI/CD experience with GitHub actions
• Experience with Azure cloud

• Delivering a high-quality application
• Integrating with front-end developers 
• Ensuring a required level of performance
• Writing test-backed server-side code
• Analyzing requirements and designing new functionality
• Supporting and fixing existing functionality
• Selecting and using the most appropriate and efficient technologies for a particular application
• Designing and building application layers

• Proficiency in ( C# | Visual Basic, depending on the specific project )
• Experience using .NET ( 4.5+ | Core )
• Experience in developing ( ASP.NET MVC | ASP.NET Core MVC ) applications
• Senior knowledge of ( Entity Framework 6.* | EF Core | NHibernate | ADO.NET )
• Proficient knowledge in ( MSSQL | MySQL | Oracle | other RDBMS )
• Database design including indexes and data integrity ( if RDBMS is required )
• Dependency injection pattern and IoC containers using at least one of: Autofac, Unity, Ninject, and/or SimpleIoc
• Writing tests with ( NUnit | XUnit | MSTest )
• Implementing enterprise application patterns ( if senior developer is required )
• Understanding of HTML, JS, and CSS
• Familiarity with the client side framework ( jQuery | Angular 1.* | Angular 2.*+ | React | other )
• Familiarity with ( Kendo UI | DevExpress | Syncfusion ) 
• Integrating web analytics tools ( particularly Google Analytics )
• Familiarity with ( Azure Web Apps | AWS Cloud )

• upGrad was awarded the Best Tech for Education by IAMAI for 2018-19,
• upGrad was also ranked as one of the LinkedIn Top Startups 2018: The 25 most sought-after startups in India.
• upGrad was earlier selected as one of the top ten most innovative companies in India by FastCompany.
• We were also covered by the Financial Times along with other disruptors in Ed-Tech.
• upGrad is the official education partner for Government of India - Startup India program.
• Our program with IIIT B has been ranked #1 program in the country in the domain of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

• Work with Product Managers and Business to understand business/product requirements and vision.
• Provide a clear architectural vision in line with business and product vision.
• Lead a team of architects, developers, and data engineers to provide platform services to other engineering teams.
• Provide architectural oversight to engineering teams across the organization.
• Hands on design and development of platform services and features owned by self - this is a hands-on coding role.
• Define guidelines for best practices covering design, unit testing, secure coding etc.
• Ensure quality by reviewing design, code, test plans, load test plans etc. as appropriate.
• Work closely with the QA and Support teams to track quality and proactively identify improvement opportunities.
• Work closely with DevOps and IT to ensure highly secure and cost optimized operations in the cloud.
• Grow technical skills in the team - identify skill gaps with plans to address them, participate in hiring, mentor other architects and engineers.
• Support other engineers in resolving complex technical issues as a go-to person.

• 12+ years of experience in design and development of ecommerce scale systems and highly scalable SaaS or enterprise products.
• Extensive experience in developing extensible and scalable web applications with
  • Java, Spring Boot, Go
  • Web Services - REST, OAuth, OData
  • Database/Caching - MySQL, Cassandra, MongoDB, Memcached/Redis
  • Queue/Broker services - RabbitMQ/Kafka
  • Microservices architecture via Docker on AWS or Azure.
  • Experience with web front end technologies - HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript libraries and frameworks such as jQuery, AngularJS, React, Vue.js, Bootstrap etc.

• Extensive experience with cloud based architectures and how to optimize design for cost.
• Expert level understanding of secure application design practices and a working understanding of cloud infrastructure security.
• Experience with CI/CD processes and design for testability.
• Experience working with big data technologies such as Spark/Storm/Hadoop/Data Lake Architectures is a big plus.
• Action and result-oriented problem-solver who works well both independently and as part of a team; able to foster and develop others' ideas as well as his/her own.
• Ability to organize, prioritize and schedule a high workload and multiple parallel projects efficiently.
• Excellent verbal and written communication with stakeholders in a matrixed environment.
• Long term experience with at least one product from inception to completion and evolution of the product over multiple years.

• Provide the team with a vision and objectives; manage key performance indicators
• Set the monthly, weekly, daily targets for the team and ensure that the targets are achieved
• Maintain the sales report of the team
• Needs to own hiring, firing and deliverables of at least 10 education counselors
• Motivating & mentoring team to achieve & exceed targets
• Design & develop business models
• Conducting weekly reviews for performance & training
• Identifying the areas of improvements & KPI’s
• Involved in a lot of calling on phone for negotiation and objection handling
• Are dynamic professionals who drive their team to exceed business targets
• Possess sound knowledge and understanding of consumer (students and parents) behavior
• Thrive in a fast paced ambiguous work environment
• Have excellent communication skills in English and the regional language
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