Manager - Business Development

Total Experience: Minimum 7 years, with recent experience in SaaS sales, with a track record of exceeding quotas.

SaaS Technology Sales Experience: At least 3 years of experience (recent) in a tech-driven B2B SaaS sales role.

Candidate should have Proven expertise in selling tech tools, integrations, and workflow automation solutions to enterprise customers.

Educational Qualification: B.Tech (CS/IT) preferred, or B.Tech (any stream) + MBA.

Startup Experience: Preferred but not mandatory.

Salary Hike Expectation: Maximum 20-30%.

Employment Gap: Candidates unemployed for more than 30 days will not be considered.

Job Stability: No more than two job changes in the last three years.

Notice Period: Should not exceed 30 days.

Looking for a Product Head who will have full ownership for multiple areas of the product, including product roadmap and release planning. Responsibilities include listening to customers, creating business requirements, defining user stories, building prototypes, collaborating with the engineering team for product development, and ensuring the launch and adoption of these solutions. The detailed list of responsibilities are captured below:

• Own the strategy and roadmap for designated product areas. Be an advocate for the customer and keep a close eye on the competition and industry to build the roadmap in alignment with the long-term product vision.
• Plan and manage all stages of the product life cycle, from ideation to launch, adoption/growth, and sunsetting.
• Develop business cases for each product initiative to demonstrate customer need, feasibility, pricing, addressable and realizable revenues, competitive positioning, implementation plan, and support costs, etc.
• Work with the product design team to iteratively develop highly usable, intuitive, and pixel-perfect designs and prototypes.
• Collaborate with the sales and marketing teams to build a strong GTM strategy and be the spokesperson for the product within the industry by hosting webinars, events, etc.
• Mentor other junior product managers and product designers on the team.
• Lastly, but most importantly, work closely with the engineering team to build a repeatable and efficient process for product delivery including but not limited to backlog grooming, prioritization, and sprint planning.

• Who is a good fit for this role?

  Consider yourself a good fit for this role if you have these characteristics. Don’t worry if you don’t check every item on the list below. If you have the attitude to constantly challenge and upskill yourself, you might still be a good fit.

  • Full product funnel ownership - You have 8+ years of product management experience for a consumer or B2B SaaS service, with multiple launches under your belt.
  • Deep empathy for user needs - You love talking to users, and you have multiple approaches for understanding what matters to them and why.
  • Ability to communicate effectively - You can clearly communicate with different internal stakeholders and external stakeholders. You are comfortable speaking the language of engineers on one end and customers, executives, or other business stakeholders on the other end. You thrive on ambiguity. You are as comfortable articulating vision and strategy as you are writing detailed product requirements.
  • Attention to detail - You obsess about the smallest product details, from color to positioning and tone of language. You benchmark yourself against the best in the industry and aim to build the best. You are able to build systems that enable the team to maintain a high bar for quality.
  • You ask and answer the right questions - You develop smart hypotheses and have a knack for designing research and experiments to prove them. You love data, and the know-how to interpret and think critically about results.
  • Understanding of technology frameworks and concepts - You can work closely with the engineering team, to understand tradeoffs and make decisions around prioritization and scope.
  • Team orientation - You go above and beyond to make your product and team successful, whether it’s filing bugs or organizing team offsite. You believe and understand that strong products are built by closely-knit teams. You are naturally inclined towards owning criticism and deflecting praise to the team.

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  What can you look for?

  The opportunity to shape and build a product through its very early stages, a wide breadth of responsibilities, and an opportunity to challenge yourself every day. The product is one of the prominent solutions in the Indian geography and witnessing rapid adoption and growth across multiple world geographies including the US and Europe. You get the chance to collaborate with a highly skilled team with a good mix of experience and a can-do attitude.

  We are

  A fast-growing SaaS commerce company based in Bangalore with offices in Delhi, Mumbai, SF, Dubai, Singapore, and Dublin. Empuls works with over 1000 global clients. We help our clients in engaging and motivating their employees, sales teams, channel partners, or consumers for better business results.

  Way forward

  We look forward to connecting with you. As you may take time to review this opportunity, we will wait for a reasonable time of around 3-5 days before we screen the collected applications and start lining up job discussions with the hiring manager. We however assure you that we will attempt to maintain a reasonable time window for successfully closing this requirement. The candidates will be kept informed and updated on the feedback and application status.

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Your Opportunity

• Own and drive business features into tech requirements
• Design & develop large scale real time server side systems
• Quickly create quality prototypes
• Staying updated on emerging technologies
• Ensuring that all deliverables adhere to our world class standards
• Promote coding best practices
• Mentor and develop junior developers in the team

Required Experience:

• 4+ years of relevant experience as described below
• Excellent grasp of Core Java, Multi Threading and OO design patterns
• Experience with Scala, functional, reactive programming and Akka/Play is a plus
• Excellent understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Solid grasp of large scale distributed real time systems
• Prior experience on building a scalable and resilient micro service
• Solid understanding of relational databases, NoSQL databases and Caching systems
• Good understanding of Big Data technologies such as Spark, Hadoop is a plus
• Experience on one of AWS, Azure or GCP

Who you are :

• You have excellent and effective communication and collaborative skills
• You love problem solving
• You stay up to date with the latest technologies and then apply them in real life
• You love paying attention to detail
• You thrive in meeting tight deadlines and prioritising workloads
• Ability to collaborate across multiple functions

Education:

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or equivalent experience within the field

Job roles and responsibilities

• Needed only those candidate who have prior working experience with IT /Software organization.

The role of a Business Development Executive is to assist the organisations sales and growth efforts by contributing to new customer acquisition. He/she should be able to provide ideas to attract new clients and keep the senior management updated about marketplace and competitor activity. The primary role and responsibilities of a Business Development Executive include:

1. Build contacts with potential clients to create new business opportunities
2. Experience in the IT company will be preferred
3. Keep prospective client database updated
4. Make cold calls for new business leads
5. Support in writing new business Proposals and Workflows
6. Maintain knowledge of all product and service offerings of the company
7. Arrange meetings for senior management with prospective clients
8. Follow company guidelines and procedures for acquisition of customers, submission of tenders etc.

Competencies and Skills Required

1. Must possess strong customer service skills
2. Excellent written and verbal communication
3. Must have good negotiation skills
4. Must be able to create good presentations
5. Must have excellent interpersonal skills
6. Must be detail oriented and an active listener
7. Ability to work under pressure