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Founder's Office | Sierra Innovations

At Sierra Innovations, we are building a high-impact Founder’s Office to drive the next phase of growth.

This role sits at the intersection of strategy, execution, and leadership building.

You will work directly with the Founder on critical business problems that shape the company’s future.

This is not a role.

This is a launchpad into leadership.

What You’ll Work On

• Drive high-priority strategic initiatives across the company
• Support fundraising — investor research, financial narratives, deck building, and conversations
• Design and implement key HR policies & org structures
• Lead KMP / leadership hiring across business functions
• Define and track KPIs across teams, ensuring accountability and performance
• Conduct market research & competitive intelligence to guide decision-making
• Work on 0→1 and 1→100 growth projects across categories
• Solve unstructured problems with clarity, speed, and ownership

Key Skills & Experience

• Investment Banking / Fund Analyst Experience
• Strong grounding in financial thinking, investor communication, and structured problem solving
• Fundraising Exposure
• Experience in supporting or leading fundraise processes
• KMP / Leadership Hiring
• Ability to identify and close high-quality leadership talent
• KPI & Performance Management
• Experience in defining, tracking, and improving business metrics
• Project Management
• Proven ability to drive cross-functional projects to completion
• Education / EdTech Exposure (Preferred)
• Understanding of test prep, K-12, or learning ecosystems
• Analytical + Execution Strength
• Ability to think clearly and execute fast

Who This Role Is For

• You have high intellectual horsepower
• You take extreme ownership — outcomes matter more than effort
• You are comfortable with ambiguity and thrive in fast-moving environments
• You can build networks and influence people
• You want to grow beyond a single function into a business leader
• You are hungry to create disproportionate impact

What You’ll Gain

• Direct exposure to founder-level decision making
• Hands-on experience in fundraising, hiring, strategy, and execution
• Opportunity to build a cross-functional business understanding
• Fast-track path into leadership roles within the company

Why Sierra Innovations

We are building a category-defining D2C powerhouse in publishing and beyond — combining content, technology, and distribution at scale.

If you want to be in the room where:

• strategic decisions are made,
• leaders are built, and
• real outcomes are driven,

this is that opportunity.

Final Note

This role is not for everyone.

But if you believe you have the intellect, network-building ability, and execution strength to drive outcomes,

we would love to work with you.

Apply if you’re ready to build — not just participate.

Role: Senior Platform Engineer (GCP Cloud)

Experience Level: 3 to 6 Years

Work location: Mumbai

Mode : Hybrid

Role & Responsibilities:

• Build automation software for cloud platforms and applications
• Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC) adoption
• Design self-service, self-healing monitoring and alerting tools
• Automate CI/CD pipelines (Git, Jenkins, SonarQube, Docker)
• Build Kubernetes container platforms
• Introduce new cloud technologies for business innovation

Requirements:

• Hands-on experience with GCP Cloud
• Knowledge of cloud services (compute, storage, network, messaging)
• IaC tools experience (Terraform/CloudFormation)
• SQL & NoSQL databases (Postgres, Cassandra)
• Automation tools (Puppet/Chef/Ansible)
• Strong Linux administration skills
• Programming: Bash/Python/Java/Scala
• CI/CD pipeline expertise (Jenkins, Git, Maven)
• Multi-region deployment experience
• Agile/Scrum/DevOps methodology

• Strong experience in Core Java, Multi-Threading, data structures (List/Map/Set) and unit testing with (Junit, Mockito)
• Strong experience with Spring Framework (Spring MVC, Spring REST, Spring Data), ORM frameworks (JPA, Hibernate) and RDBMS (Oracle/MySQL/Postgres)
• Strong experience in applying Object-Oriented design principles and Design Patterns
• Good knowledge of Multi-Tier architecture, Micro Services architecture and Service Oriented Architecture 
• Exposure to AWS Cloud, NoSQL Database (Mongo, Cassandra), Message Broker (Active
• MQ/RabbitMQ/Apache Kafka) and Big Data Technologies (Hadoop/Hive/Spark)
• Additionally, must possess capability to review code, produce technical specification document
• and knowledge of code quality tools (PMD/FindBugs/Sonar)

Job Description for QA Engineer:

• 6-10 years of experience in ETL Testing, Snowflake, DWH Concepts.
• Strong SQL knowledge & debugging skills are a must.
• Experience in Azure and Snowflake Testing is plus
• Experience with Qlik Replicate and Compose tools (Change Data Capture) tools is considered a plus
• Strong Data warehousing Concepts, ETL tools like Talend Cloud Data Integration, Pentaho/Kettle tool
• Experience in JIRA, Xray defect management toolis good to have.
• Exposure to the financial domain knowledge is considered a plus.
• Testing the data-readiness (data quality) address code or data issues
• Demonstrated ability to rationalize problems and use judgment and innovation to define clear and concise solutions
• Demonstrate strong collaborative experience across regions (APAC, EMEA and NA) to effectively and efficiently identify root cause of code/data issues and come up with a permanent solution
• Prior experience with State Street and Charles River Development (CRD) considered a plus
• Experience in tools such as PowerPoint, Excel, SQL
• Exposure to Third party data providers such as Bloomberg, Reuters, MSCI and other Rating agencies is a plus

Key Attributes include:

• Team player with professional and positive approach
• Creative, innovative and able to think outside of the box
• Strong attention to detail during root cause analysis and defect issue resolution
• Self-motivated & self-sufficient
• Effective communicator both written and verbal
• Brings a high level of energy with enthusiasm to generate excitement and motivate the team
• Able to work under pressure with tight deadlines and/or multiple projects
• Experience in negotiation and conflict resolution

•  1-3 years of experience in application/web development
• Good experience in working with programming languages Golang.
• Good understanding of REST APIs and the web in general
• Working knowledge of AWS and Kubernetes is a plus
• Understand end user requirements, formulate use cases and come up with effective solutions

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Responsibilities Implementing business development activities, attending to all relevant business opportunities in International Market for IT Software Industry.

· It would be involved in Business Development Life Cycle, mainly focusing on areas like Cold Calling, Client Interaction International Business Development.

· Generate lead and achieve monthly target.

· Maintain and develop relationships with customers.

· Act as a contact between a company and its existing and potential clients.

· Negotiate the terms of an agreement and close sales.

· Conducting market research to identify new business opportunities.

Requirements:-

· Minimum Qualifications Any Graduate

· 2 to 4 years of Proven experience working as a business development in Offshore IT Services.

· Excellent English Communication Presentation Skills with pleasing personality.

· The ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

· Exceptional negotiation and decision-making skills.

Desired Skills and Experience

· Bid On freelancer, guru, UpWork.

· Lead generation LinkedIn, Xing, AnglList and from other platforms.

· Intermediate in between client and developer.

· Make SRS report for requirement.

· International business development

· Mentor the junior business development executive

· Take ownership for the business growth