Freelancer / Contractor - Kubernetes

Job responsibilities: 

• Partner closely with Product Design, Engineering, and Product Management to understand requirements and deliver product features and roadmap as envisioned by stakeholders.
• Own end-to-end user journey and all aspects of design execution from ideation, to prototyping, to user acceptance testing of product design tasks assigned.
• Conduct user interviews, user testing sessions, card sorting, and affinity mapping, conduct both qualitative and quantitative tests, and analyze the data.
• Design high-impact, functional responsive interfaces for web and mobile
• Collaborate with other designers and participate in our design critique process, to receive and provide feedback on design work

Skills you bring to the table:

• Experience in designing SaaS products with large customer bases
• Deep expertise using Figma/Xd/Sketch, and familiarity with design systems
• Knowledge of Carbon - IBM's Design system or experience building a design system from scratch is a plus.
• Fundamental understanding of the end-to-end iterative UX design process — research, ideation, information architecture, prototyping, validation, and refining solutions into pixel-perfect deliverables.
• Ability to articulate design decisions throughout the user-centered design process.
• Ability to update and engage with stakeholders like product managers and engineers.
• Relevant fundamental knowledge of front-end technologies to collaborate with UI engineering teams will be an advantage.

If you are interested in working for a fast-growing SaaS company operating in an exciting new space, this one is for you!

Job Description

Job Description

Payroll Lead - APAC EMEA and North America Region JD:

Experience: 4-6 yrs of Exp.

Shift : 4 pm to 1 am

Oversee the payroll operations in EMEA & APAC and North America (Exp in Countries - Germany, France, UK and Spain)

Provide direct support and governance to third party payroll vendor. Implement, direct, and maintain procedures to ensure accurate and timely processing of payroll outside the U.S., in conjuncture with HR.

Work with Legal, Finance, Accounting and HR to ensure payroll compliance in all regions. Be the point of contact for day-to-day international payroll operations. Ensure service delivery is accurate, timely and aligned with service level agreements.

Manage the ongoing relationship with the payroll vendor across the regions, coordinating with HR, Finance, Accounting, and local teams where needed. Track and report on the global payroll vendor's performance (i.e., open tickets, SLAs, etc.). Work with the vendor to effectively address employee inquiries.

Act as point of contact regarding the update of international payroll data to

Qualifications

Mandates : 

•Strong history of payroll coordination across multiple international countries including APAC,EMEA and North America

•Experience of working with projects, making process improvements or new vendor implementations would be advantageous.

•Experience managing a third-party payroll vendor.

•Experience of dealing with key stakeholders (HR, IT, Finance)

•Significant progressively responsible experience in a similar role within a fast-paced environment

•Excellent analytical and problem solving with confidence to make decisions and manage escalations

•Must be highly engaging, confident communicator and detail orientated.

•Experience on ADP SPM, ADP workforce and Ceridian Dayforce 

•B. Com / M.Com with 4-6 years relevant experience.

•Strong verbal and written communication skill.

•Team player and ability to work with strict timeline.

•Flexible to work in US shifts.

•Good in Microsoft Office.

•Ability to take ownership of the work.

•Ability to manage the stakeholders independently.

Additional information

Skills

payroll

We are looking for a kickass MERN Stack developer to work on the next big thing. We are a team of innovators, creators, and believers working hard to digitize the $100Bn traditional industry & make it smart using advanced technologies like AI, AR, and Web3.0 (NFTs, Metaverse).

Come and Join the future.

This is an opportunity to work directly with Industry experts having 20+ years of experience in Technology and product development.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Developing front end website architecture.
• Designing user interactions on web pages.
• Developing back end website applications.
• Creating servers and databases for functionality.
• Ensuring cross-platform optimization for mobile phones.
• Ensuring responsiveness of applications.
• Working alongside graphic designers for web design features.
• Seeing through a project from conception to finished product.
• Designing and developing APIs.
• Meeting both technical and consumer needs.
• Staying abreast of developments in web applications

Desired Candidate Profile

• Strong organizational and project management skills.
• Proficiency with fundamental front end languages such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
• Familiarity with JavaScript frameworks such as Angular JS, and React JS.
• Proficiency with server-side languages like Nodejs, and Expressjs.
• Familiarity with database technology such as MySQL, Postgresql or MongoDB.
• Excellent verbal communication skills.
• Good problem-solving skills.
• Attention to detail.

Who are we?

Centre for Research on Start-ups and Risk Financing (CREST) has been set up by IIT Madras to provide thought leadership and intellectual impact to the start-up and innovation ecosystem. CREST has embarked on an ambitious mission of becoming one of the top global research centres in the area of start-ups and innovation. The core of CREST is the development of an AI-driven Intelligent
Information Platform that would enable cutting edge research as well as influence policy and practice like never before
With the recent exponential growth in the start-up and innovation ecosystem, new data-driven approaches would play a critical part in sustaining the current growth curve. The objective of CREST would be to become the gold standard of information and intelligence on Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Private Equity investments in India

The Opening
We are currently looking for our next passionate, skilled and motivated Python developer, who can join us immediately. The candidate should
● Be excited about building a next-generation intelligence platform
● Have a can-do attitude and ready for challenges
● Value working with a greatteam - confident, creative and thoughtful people who come together to achieve great things
● Be eager to experiment, learn and bring new things, improving the platform
● Be high on self-belief and enthusiasm to work in a startup-like culture - small team, fast-paced work environment If this is you, we're excited to interact!

As the Data Science Engineer in CREST, you will

● Write reusable code and build libraries for future use
● Establish solid data-pipelines and automate routine tasks
● Develop & deploy custom Machine Learning (ML) models using the latest
research in ML and Natural Language Processing (NLP)
● Build performant applications following best practices, maximizing speed and scalability
● Improve upon the existing codebase mitigating technical debt
● Take ownership of all aspects of the application - architecture, quality and efficiency
Requirements
● Proficient understanding of Python language
● Expertise with data-modelling, data-wrangling & data-mining techniques
● Familiar with Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) processes and hands-on experience with packages like Pandas, Numpy etc
● Experience with data visualisation tools and libraries like Plotly, Seaborn etc
● Good understanding of advanced Statistical and ML techniques on
regression, classification, forecasting etc
● Skilled in NLP and specifically ML applications in NLP like information
extraction, feature engineering, classification, building language models etc
● Should provide direction and mentorship to junior team members
● Bachelor’s or Master’s degree from premier educational institutions
● Minimum 2 years of experience (research or professional) in the
above-mentioned areas
Good to have
● Comfortable with using Command Line and Linux systems
● Experience and knowledge in version control systems like git, svn, etc
● Knowledge in developing & deploying web apps & web APIs with an overall understanding of client-server interactions
● Experience with NoSQL databases like MongoDB
Job type
● Full time, on-site
● Immediate joiner
● Initial appointment for 1 year, it would be renewed subsequently based on performance

Work location
Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras campus, Chennai, Tamil Nadu,
India - 600036

Why work with us?
● Get to interact with the best of the minds. IIT Madras has been ranked as the
top university in India for 5 years in a row
● Be at the forefront of the Entrepreneurial ecosystem in India
● Enormous opportunities for learning

• Implementing various development, testing, automation tools, and IT infrastructure

• Monitoring the processes during the entire lifecycle for its adherence and updating or creating new processes for improvement and minimizing the wastage

• Incidence management and root cause analysis

• Selecting and deploying appropriate CI/CD tools

• Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline)

• Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management