Franchise Manager

REVIEW CRITERIA:

MANDATORY:

• Strong Customer Success, Large account management Profile
• Must have 5+ YOE in Customer Success, Account Management, or Client Relationship in a SaaS environment.
• Must have 3+ YOE in Team management
• Must have expertise in managing and ensuring long-term satisfaction and growth with the enterprise-level customers,
• Must be proficient in CRM and customer success tools
• Candidate for Hyderabad should know 1 more South Indian language (Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam) other than Telugu

PREFERRED:

• Retail, Manufacturing or FMCG
• Candidates for Hyderabad knowing any other south Indian language apart from Telegu

ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders within assigned high ticket accounts.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for strategic customers, ensuring their needs are met and expectations are exceeded.
• Develop and execute customer success plans, including onboarding, training, and ongoing support.
• Proactively identify and address customer challenges, providing solutions and recommendations to drive customer success.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Sales, Product, and Support, to ensure a seamless customer experience.
• Conduct regular business reviews with customers to review performance, identify areas for improvement, and present new opportunities.
• Monitor customer health metrics and proactively address any red flags to prevent churn.
• Act as a customer advocate, providing feedback and insights to internal teams to drive product enhancements and improvements.
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends and best practices in customer success management.

IDEAL CANDIDATE:

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Accounts, or a related field.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in a customer success role, preferably in a SaaS company.
• Proven track record of managing and retaining high-value customers.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build strong relationships with customers.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to identify and address customer challenges.
• Self-motivated and results-oriented, with the ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Proficient in CRM software and other customer success tools.
• Ability to travel as needed to meet with customers.

We're seeking passionate, next-gen minded engineers who are excited about solving complex technical challenges and building innovative, first-of-its-kind products which make a tangible difference for our customers. As a Backend SDE-1, you will play a key role in driving strategic initiatives, collaborating with cross-functional teams across business, product, and operations to solve exciting problems. This role demands strong technical acumen, leadership capabilities, and a mindset focused on innovation and operational excellence.

We value individuals who think independently, challenge the status quo, and bring creativity and curiosity to the table—not those who simply follow instructions. If you're passionate about solving problems and making an impact, we'd love to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Planning: Work closely with senior leadership to develop and implement engineering strategies that support business objectives. Understand broader organization goals and constantly prioritise your own work.
• Technical Excellence: Understand the onground problems, explore and design various possible solutions to conclude and implement scalable, extensible and secure software systems. Implement and learn best practices in technical architecture, coding standards, and software testing to ensure product delivery with highest speed AND quality.
• Project and Program Management: Setting up aggressive as well as realistic timelines with all the stakeholders, ensure the successful delivery of engineering projects as per the defined timelines with best quality standards ensuring budget constraints are met. Use agile methodologies to manage the development process and resolve bottlenecks.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Collaborate with Product Managers, Design, Business, and Operations teams to define project requirements and deliverables. Ensure the smooth integration of engineering efforts across the organization.
• Risk Management: Anticipate and mitigate technical risks and roadblocks. Proactively identify areas of technical debt and drive initiatives to reduce it.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 1+ years of experience in software engineering
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex technical challenges.
• Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns.
• Hands on with multiple programming languages and modern development frameworks.
• Understanding of relational and non-relational databases.
• Experience with Redis, ElasticSearch.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and inspire teams and stakeholders at all levels.

Skills:- MySQL, Python, Django, AWS, NoSQL, Kafka, Redis, ElasticSearch

Job Opening: Business Development Executive (BDE)

Location: Old Vadaj, Ahmedabad (Work from office only)

Experience: 0.6 months to 3 years in an IT company

Salary: as per experience and industrial norms

Key Responsibilities:

• Generate leads through LinkedIn and other platforms.
• Schedule and conduct meetings with potential clients.
• Maintain accurate records of all sales activities, including calls, presentations, and closed deals.
• Execute lead-generation campaigns to drive business growth.
• Collaborate with team members to enhance sales strategies.

Skills Required:

• Experience in lead generation, particularly using LinkedIn.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Proficiency in data mining for sales purposes.
• Familiarity with LinkedIn Sales Navigator and other sales tools.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail

Benefits:

•  5 Working Days a Week
•  Training Sessions & Monthly Events
•  Employee First Policy
•  Dedicated Pantry Area
•  Unparalleled Career Growth Opportunity
•  Birthday & Work Anniversary Celebrations

About KAFQA

At Kafqa, we are building an online global performing arts academy. For our students, we offer live classes conducted by experienced & expert artists. For our artists, we offer a bouquet of opportunities to monetize their skills including being an instructor at Kafqa. Our mission is to serve artists in their journey from their first steps in the art to success on the largest stages in the world.

Founder

The founder is Shariq Plasticwala. He is a graduate of IIT Bombay & Stanford GSB. He was part of the founding team of Amazon India where he played a key role for over 8 years. Among his roles at Amazon, he was the CEO of Amazon’s first joint venture in India and a Board Member of Amazon’s payments business.

Role

The role is a unique opportunity to be a part of the core team at KAFQA. The responsibilities of the role are per the below:

• Understand the needs of employees across different segments across their lifecycle (discovery of Kafqa opportunities, application experience, interview experience, decision experience, onboarding, settling down, scaling with the organization, attrition & separation) & design best in class experiences always thinking technology first
• Understand the needs of instructors separately and design best in class experiences for them in partnership with head of departments and other teams.
• Meet compliances mandated by central & state governments.

The role is based in Bangalore, India and reports directly to the Founder, CEO of KAFQA.

Experience, Qualifications & Person Type

The ideal candidate is someone who –

• Has 5+ years of experience preferably in a HR role
• Thinks first principle to re-imagine experiences for employees & challenge status quo
• Thinks technology first
• Is comfortable prioritizing
• Is creative and can innovate
• Interested in the performing arts & preferably is a performer themselves
• Is willing to fulfil all responsibilities above & go beyond as needed
• Is a self-starter, operates with autonomy & can deal with ambiguity while being innovative & frugal

• Having 6+ experience as a QA/SDET
• Having good knowledge on iOS/Android App based apps testing.
• Having good exposure on mobile based application testing and testing process.
• Good knowledge on backend API testing
• Good in writing manual test cases with all possible scenarios.
• Good exposure on JIRA, Zypher and QC.
• Good in debugging skills and ELK stack.
• Good to have experience in Java and automation technologies 

• Designing and building advanced applications for the Android platform
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define, design and ship new features
• Unit-testing code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
• Working on bug fixing and improving application performance
• Continuously discovering, evaluating and implementing new technologies to maximize development efficiency

What you need to have:

• 3 to 6 years Android app development experience
• Hands on experience in developing high performance mobile applications
• Strong knowledge of Java,Kotlin,Android SDK, different versions of Android, and how to deal with different screen sizes
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services
• Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices
• Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning
• Ability to design applications around natural user interfaces, such as touch
• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications
• Familiarity with the use of additional sensors, such as gyroscopes and accelerometer
• Must have experience in BLE and BT
• Good understanding of unit, system and end to end testing and automation of mobile applications/ Android applications
• Familiarity with the MVC and MVVM design patterns
• Knowledge of the open-source ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks
• Experience building, testing and distributing native apps that consume RESTful services
• Hands-on coding, systems analysis, design and delivery of projects assigned
• At least three native applications deployed in the play-store
• Proficiency in code versioning tools such as GIT

JD -

Given our business model, where our customers pay us over time, Customer experience is absolutely vital to our long-term profitability. We will not be successful unless our customers are receiving massive value from our service. As such, we need a leader to own driving success for our customers. This role includes responsibilities for Customer experience, retention and Customer Success (e.g., onboarding, support, services, adoption, advocacy, retention, etc.)

• Drive Customer Experience Outcomes
• Define and Optimize Customer Lifecycle
• Manage Customer Experience Activities
• Measure the Effectiveness of Customer Experience processes
• Build a World-class Team
• Inspire Customer Success Across Company

Requirements -

• 1-4 years experience in leading customer-facing organizations
• Ability to manage influence through persuasion, negotiation, and consensus building
• Ideally combined background in E-commerce or Saas industries
• Strong empathy for customers AND passion for revenue and growth
• Deep understanding of value drivers in recurring revenue business models
• Analytical and process-oriented mindset
• Demonstrated desire for continuous learning and improvement
• Enthusiastic and creative personality with the ability to inspire others
• Excellent communication and presentation skills