Inside Sales Executive

Director – Fundraising & Partnerships

Location: Pune / Mumbai / Delhi NCR / Bangalore / Hyderabad / Remote (Hybrid Flexibility)

Experience: 10 – 15 years

Reports to: CEO

Type: Full-time

Working days: 5.5 Days

Timings: 9:30 AM to 6:30 PM

The Role

We are seeking a mission-driven, results-oriented leader to join as Director – Fundraising & Partnerships.

In this high-impact leadership role, you will:

• Report directly to the Co-Founders

• Scale fundraising capacity 3x in the next 2 years

• Secure long-term, outcome-linked funding from CSR, HNIs, philanthropic foundations, and global development partners

• Represent organisation in key donor forums and build a high-performing fundraising team

Key Responsibilities

1. Fundraising Strategy & Leadership

• Lead execution of our's 2–3 year fundraising strategy aligned with growth goals

• Own annual fundraising targets, set KPIs, and ensure transparent reporting

• Drive donor lifecycle: prospecting, proposals, grant reporting, and relationship management

• Act as external face in funder interactions with CSR leaders, philanthropies, and impact investors

• Build systems for agility, compliance, and long-term donor trust

2. Partnership Development & Network Building

• Develop pipeline of 50+ CSR leads, philanthropists, and ecosystem enablers

• Mobilize donor and champion networks to unlock opportunities

• Represent firm at sector forums and donor convenings

3. Communications & Collateral Oversight

• Oversee donor-facing communications: proposals, pitch decks, reports, and campaigns

• Ensure clarity and alignment with brand and impact narrative

• Use storytelling, data, and design for compelling funder engagement

4. Team Leadership & Systems Building

• Build and mentor a high-performing fundraising team

• Establish robust systems for donor CRM, compliance, reporting, and audits

• Work with internal teams to develop tailored grant materials

5. Relationship Management

• Shape trust-based donor journeys for long-term investment

• Design engagement pathways for new, existing, and repeat funders

6. Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with Programs, Finance, and Impact teams to align fundraising with program needs

• Work with M&E/Data teams to define outcomes and deliver performance-linked commitments

Who You Are

• Fundraising is more than a function for you; it’s a lever for systemic change.

• Strategic executor: equally comfortable with vision decks and complex donor conversations.

• 12–15 years’ experience in fundraising, partnerships, or business development in nonprofit, CSR, or impact investing.

• Proven success in multi-crore, multi-year partnerships (₹12Cr+).

• Strong storyteller and sharp writer.

• Deep knowledge of India’s social impact ecosystem and funder motivations.

• Thrives in high-autonomy, high-accountability environments.

• Bonus: experience in growth-stage nonprofits or multi-state fundraising.

Why Join Us?

Here you won’t inherit a stale pipeline — you’ll build the engine that helps lakhs of children unlock their future.

• Lead with vision: Own strategy, partnerships, and growth

• Scale with purpose: Fund one of India’s most scalable, tech-forward education models

• Learn with peers: Collaborate with co-founders, donors, and sector leaders

• Work from anywhere: Flexible hybrid work model

• Grow fast, grow real: Clear path to Chief Growth Officer

What You Can Expect

• Ownership & trust: Lead strategy and fundraising, not just execute

• Flexibility: Hybrid work from Pune, Mumbai, Delhi NCR, or remote

• Learning & visibility: Represent at national forums

• Supportive culture: Startup-fast, values-first, prioritizing well-being

• Competitive salary: Sector-leading pay with transparency on growth paths

Industry: Leading Paint Industry

Job Type: Full-Time (On-Roll)

Work Location: Multiple Locations Across India

• States: Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Odisha, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Noida, Haryana, and West Bengal

Eligibility Criteria:

• Education: BTech / BE (Mechanical, Electrical, Civil) or any relevant degree
• Graduation Year: 2022, 2023, 2024 pass-outs only
• Experience: Freshers & experienced candidates welcome
• Mandatory Requirement: Candidate must own a two-wheeler with a valid driving license

Job Responsibilities:

✅ Sales Target Achievement: Meet and exceed sales targets for assigned locations.

✅ Business Development: Identify and explore new business opportunities to drive revenue growth.

✅ Channel & Influencer Engagement: Build and maintain strong relationships with distributors, contractors, and dealers.

✅ Customer Service: Provide excellent service by addressing client queries and ensuring customer satisfaction.

✅ Market & Competitor Analysis: Stay updated on market trends, competitor activities, and industry developments.

✅ Product Promotion & Network Expansion: Promote company products and expand the sales network in assigned areas.

✅ Commercial Transactions: Ensure smooth financial transactions with channel partners and clients.

Key Skills Required:

✔ Strong communication and negotiation skills

✔ Willingness to work in a field sales role

✔ Ability to build long-term customer relationships

✔ Self-motivated with a result-oriented approach

✔ Basic understanding of sales and marketing principles

Why Join Us?

🌟 Opportunity to work with a leading brand in the paint industry

🌟 Fast career growth with training & development support

🌟 Attractive incentives and performance-based rewards

🌟 Exposure to business development & client management

🌐 Visit our website: www.corporatestalwarts.com

• Design and build applications/systems based on wireframes and product requirements documents
• Work on back-end & front-end development of core scripts using NodeJS/ MongoDB/React.js/Angular/Express /Redux.
• Unit test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability and general reliability
• Write reusable, easy to maintain, versioned code using DRY principles
• Integrate existing tools and business systems (in-house tools)
• Good exposure in creating dynamic web pages
• Familiarity with Server-Oriented Architecture and RESTful Web Services
• Mentor junior team members on system architecture, coding styles and inculcate an attitude of continuous improvement in the team members

Key Responsibilities:

• Writing clean and efficient codes for Android applications
• Identifying and resolving bottlenecks, rectifying bugs and enhancing application performance.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define and design new feature.
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.
• Ability to brainstorm and come up with solutions to open ended problems.
• Ability to take ownership and drive initiatives end to end.
• Desire to learn and dive deep into new technologies on the job.
• Solid understanding of CS fundamentals-Operating Systems, Databases and Data Structure.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Prior experience as an Android Developer using Java, Kotlin, Android SDK, Android NDK
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to effectively integrate Android applications
• Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle.
• Passion for products and aspiration to make a big impact.
• Solid engineering principles and clear understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Expertise in implementation of custom UI components along with fabulous animations and write/understand Rest APIs
• Experience working with Google Maps, Social APIs, Geo-locations, Media permissions, SMS fetch, etc.

You will:

• Write excellent production code and tests and help others improve in code-reviews
• Analyze high-level requirements to design, document, estimate, and build systems
• Coordinate across teams to identify, resolve, mitigate and prevent technical issues
• Coach and mentor engineers within the team to develop their skills and abilities
• Continuously improve the team's practices in code-quality, reliability, performance, testing, automation, logging, monitoring, alerting, and build processes

You have:

For (Fullstack):

• 2 - 10 Years of experience
• Strong with DS & Algorithms
• Hands on Experience in the Programming languages: JavaScript (React or Angular), Python, SQL.
• Experience with AWS.

For (Geo Team):

• 4 - 10 years of experience
• Experience with Big Data technologies like Hadoop, Spark, Map Reduce, Kafka, etc
• Experience using object-oriented languages (Java, Python)
• Experience in working with different AWS technologies.
• Experience in software design, architecture and development.
• Excellent competencies in data structures & algorithms.

For (Backend):

• 2 - 10 years of experience
• Hands on product development experience using Java/ C++/Python
• Experience with AWS,SQL,GIT
• Strong with Data structures and Algorithms

Additional nice to have skills/certifications:

For Java skill set:

Mockito, Grizzly, Netty, VertX, Jersey / JAX-RS, Swagger / Open API, Nginx, Protocol Buffers, Thrift, Aerospike, Redis, Kinesis, Sed, Awk, Perl

For Python skill set: Data Engineering experience, Athena, Lambda, EMR, Spark, Glue, Step Functions, Hadoop, Kinesis, Orc, Parquet, Perl, Awk, Redshift

For (Data Engineering):

• 2 - 10 years of experience
• Experience with object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Python.
• Experience with AWS cloud services: EC2, RDS, Redshift,S3,Athena, Glue
• Must be proficient in GIT, Jenkins, CICD (Continuous Integration Continuous Deployment)
• Experience in big data technologies like Hadoop, Map Reduce, Spark, etc
• Experience with Amazon Web Services and Dockers

• Own our user interfaces with an eye to lightning-fast performance and a great user experience
• Implement compelling and intuitive UIs, shaping the design and feel of the product alongside our founders
• Write a significant amount of code for new and existing features
• Ship high-quality code and architecture
• Mentor engineers on the team, developing their skills and helping advance their careers
• Help shape the future of our engineering organization

Requirements

• You have been building production web applications for 5+ years and know the systems from top to bottom
• You know SQL and have significant programming experience on the frontend with React
• You have a BS/MS/Ph.D. in a scientific field or equivalent experience
• You want to work in a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment that respects its engineers and customers
• Comfortable working with a 100% distributed engineering team, collaborating on GitHub, Slack, Zoom, etc. in the open and as a self-starter.

Bonus points

• You have backend experience building microservices
• You’ve contributed to open-source libraries and actively participate in the development community (blogging, meetups, tweeting, etc.)
• You have experience building interactive data visualizations
• You have worked in TypeScript, Java, Go

1. Experience: 3-5 Years
2. Scripting: PowerShell and either of ( JavaScript, Python)
3. Kubernetes and docker Hands-On   
4. Good to have either (Azure / AWS ) 
5. Any of DB technologies Hands-ON: No SQL - Admin, COSMOS DB, MONGO DB, Maria DBA  
6. Good to have Analytics knowledge