Graphic Designer Intern

About the Company

STAC Fine Jewellery is a young start up that launched in April 2018 with the vision of creating fine jewellery in 18kt gold that can be worn everyday. You can read more about us at www.stacfinejewellery.com. We are looking for someone with a creative mind and experience in the space of graphic design and content creation. This candidate will have experience in working with numerous different design platforms such as digital and print forms. 

Requirements 

• Proficiency in Adobe CC Suite - Canva, Photoshop and Illustrator 
• Video editing skills is a bonus 
• Practical understanding and experience in printing collaterals
• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience in the graphic design field
• A work portfolio of graphic design experience so far
• Good communication skills and the ability to work methodically and meet deadlines
• Written and oral English proficiency
• Interest in the fashion and lifestyle industry
• Up to date and informed on the latest social media trends
• Highly motivated and a self-starter 
• Strong work ethic, initiative, positive attitude and high-energy
• Candidate should be based in Mumbai

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the team to understand their vision for various projects
• Day-to-Day content development for all marketing initiatives: Stories, Posts, emails, paid ads, website content, blogs, Whatsapp communication
• Translate marketing briefs into meaningful and impactful content
• Work with the marketing team to produce the final design.
• Understand the brand design language and use the appropriate colors and layouts.
• Design packaging collaterals 
• Develop reels and gifs 
• Conceptualize and Design marketing collateral for campaigns and events 
• Maintain awareness of current industry and technology standards, social media, competitive landscape and market trends

Start date: as soon as possible

Location: Tardeo, Mumbai

Experience: 0-6 months

Other perks: Certificate, letter of recommendation, flexible work hours, opportunity to interact with top fashion stylists, informal dress code, 5 days a week

Responsibilities

• Plan, develop and implement large-scale projects from conception to completion.
• Interface with clients and gather business requirements and objectives.
• Translate clients’ business requirements and objectives into technical applications and solutions.
• Understand and evaluate complex data models.
• Design, develop and implement new integration.
• Execute system development and maintenance activities.
• Develop solutions to improvise performance and scalability of systems.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers.

Minimum Requirements

• 3-5 years of relevant experience, working in Java related technologies.
• A Good Engineering or Masters degree from a reputed university
• Should have strong technical skills with a good grasp of OO concepts and design patterns

• Good knowledge of SQL database ( MySQL, Oracle, etc )
• Good understanding of frameworks like Spring, Hibernate, etc.
• Good understanding of spring boot and microservices.
• Exposure to AWS services - S3, SQS, Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, etc.

Good to have

• Knowledge of No-SQL DBs like mongo, dynamoDB, etc.
• Knowledge of message brokers/queuing services like SQL, rabbitMQ, Kafka, etc.

We are a nascent quantitative hedge fund led by an MIT PhD and Math Olympiad medallist, offering opportunities to grow with us as we build out the team. Our fund has  world class investors and big data experts as part of the GP,  top-notch ML experts as advisers to the fund, plus has equity funding to grow the team, license data and scale the data processing.

We are interested in researching and taking in live a variety of quantitative strategies based on historic and live market data, alternative datasets, social media data (both audio and video) and stock fundamental data.

You would join, and, if qualified, lead a growing team of data scientists and researchers, and be responsible for a complete lifecycle of quantitative strategy implementation and trading.

Requirements:

• Atleast 3 years of relevant ML experience
• Graduation date : 2018 and earlier
•   3-5 years of experience in high level Python programming.
• Master Degree (or Phd) in quantitative disciplines such as Statistics, Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science in top universities.
•   Good knowledge of applied and theoretical statistics, linear algebra and machine learning techniques. 
•   Ability to leverage financial and statistical insights to research, explore and harness a large collection of quantitative strategies and financial datasets in order to build strong predictive models.
• Should take ownership for the research, design, development and implementation of the strategy development and effectively communicate with other team mates
•   Prior experience and good knowledge of lifecycle and pitfalls of algorithmic strategy development and modelling. 
•   Good practical knowledge in understanding financial statements, value investing, portfolio and risk management techniques.
•   A proven ability to lead and drive innovation to solve challenges and road blocks in project completion.
• A valid Github profile with some activity in it

Bonus to have:

•   Experience in storing and retrieving data from large and complex time series databases
•   Very good practical knowledge on time-series modelling and forecasting (ARIMA, ARCH and Stochastic modelling)
•   Prior experience in optimizing and back testing quantitative strategies, doing return and risk attribution, feature/factor evaluation. 
•   Knowledge of AWS/Cloud ecosystem is an added plus (EC2s, Lambda, EKS, Sagemaker etc.) 
•   Knowledge of REST APIs and data extracting and cleaning techniques 
•   Good to have experience in Pyspark or any other big data programming/parallel computing
•   Familiarity with derivatives, knowledge in multiple asset classes along with Equities.
•   Any progress towards CFA or FRM is a bonus
• Average tenure of atleast 1.5 years in a company