Marketing Executive

Background

Praan (Praan, Inc.) is an impact focused deep-tech startup democratising clean air using breakthrough filterless technology. The company is backed by top tier VCs and CXOs globally and currently operates between the United States and India. Our team puts extreme attention to detail and loves building technology that's aspirational. Praan's team and culture is positioned to empower people to solve large global problems at an accelerated pace. 

Why

Everyone worries about the dooms-day in climate change which is expected to occur in the 2050s. However, there's one doom's day which is the reality for millions of people around the world today. Air pollution takes more than 7 Million lives globally every single year. Over 5% of premature children death occur due to air pollution in developing countries. Everyone has relied on governments or experts to solve the problem, but most solutions up until today have either been too expensive or too ineffective. Praan is an attempt at making the future cleaner, healthier, and safer for the generations to come. 

Job Description

• Lead the technical sales efforts for Praan's filterless purification systems, targeting industrial clients for the MK II platform, and commercial clients for the HIVE platform
• Identify potential customers, establish and nurture relationships, and conduct product demonstrations to showcase the features and advantages of our product portfolio
• Collaborate closely with the engineering and product teams to understand technical details, product capabilities, and competitive advantages, enabling you to effectively communicate the value proposition to potential customers
• Understand customer requirements and tailor product solutions to meet their specific needs, providing technical recommendations and guidance throughout the sales process
• Develop and deliver persuasive sales presentations, proposals, and product demonstrations to key decision-makers, highlighting the benefits and ROI of our products
• Actively track and manage sales opportunities through the entire sales cycle, from lead generation to deal closure, ensuring timely follow-ups and effective communication to meet sales targets
• Provide feedback from the market to the product development teams, helping to shape future product enhancements and new offerings based on customer needs and market trends

Skill Requirements

• Past academic education in Engineering + MBA or equivallent 
• Proven track record working on engineering projects and have sold products like vibro sifters
• Past experience of 7 years to 10 years in the relevant industry
• Proven track record of successful technical sales, preferably in the B2B environment, with a focus on complex products or solutions
• Proven track record of achieving monthly/quarterly and yearly targets
• Strong leadership skills - will be managing a team of 4-5 Inside sales representatives
• Strong technical acumen and the ability to understand and explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate complex ideas clearly and concisely
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain strong relationships with customers, understanding their needs and providing effective solutions
• Self-motivated, results-oriented, and able to work independently as well as collaboratively within a cross-functional team environment
• Willingness to travel as required to meet with clients, attend trade shows, and participate in industry events.

About the company:

We are an IT & Consulting organization helping Enterprises with their Analytics and Planning needs. Their Rockstar team has built multiple products and solutions to cater to our clients across sectors such as Retail & E-commerce, Consumer Goods, Pharmaceuticals & Life Sciences, Real Estate, Hi-tech, Manufacturing, and Automotive.

We have a geographic presence in the United States (Dallas) & India (Delhi-NCR, Mumbai, Bangalore & Kolkata) and have 600+ people, a strong world-class team. We are growing at a rapid pace and plan to double our growth each year. This provides immense growth and learning opportunities to those who are choosing to work with Polestar. We are serving customers across 20+ countries. Our expertise and deep passion for what we do has brought us many accolades. 

Profile Summary

We are looking for individuals with a leadership mindset in sales, who comes with strong consultative sales experience.

• Create a systematic, process-driven approach to partner outreach and relationship management.

• Keep a great ongoing relationship with Microsoft and offer new ways to grow the partnership.

• Can-do attitude individual who enjoys networking and establishing relationships.

• Manage high-value corporate partnerships and develop long-term strategies to secure multi-year strategic partnerships.

• Analyse and identify opportunities to secure new business by partnering with Microsoft.
• Drive the team towards sales targets, has visibility of all opportunities and risk, and ensures the team has a healthy pipeline and proposal tracking systems.
• Identify new markets to widen the market base for enhanced revenue and profit generation.
• Administer the entire sales process as per plan.
• Manage Microsoft engagements to design strategies to acquire more business deals through OEMs.
• Manage pricing and other sales proposal activities and provide support to the marketing department.
• Owns the business plan: financial target/proposal submission/revenue on hand/pipeline. Overall business planning and forecasting.
• Collaborate with Microsoft for conducting events for enhancing business growth.
• Negotiates with clients and uses the right levers in doing so. Clearly links the value of Polestar Solutions offerings with the price.

• Takes overall accountability for business planning and implementation.

• You have the resilience to bounce back after minor setbacks.
• You have the achievement orientation to achieve the target and do what it takes.
• You have the interpersonal skills to develop & sustain meaningful relationships.

• Excellent problem-solving skills, solution-oriented, and good analytical skills.
  ● Very good client-facing and communication/presentation skills.
  ● Excellent at consultative selling and building case studies.
  ● Ability to speak at external forums.
  ● Strong Collaboration and Networking skills.

Research industry-related topics (combining online sources and studies)

Write clear marketing copy to promote our products/services

Prepare well-structured drafts using Content Management Systems

Proofread and edit blog posts before publication

Coordinate with marketing and design teams to illustrate articles

Conduct simple keyword research and use SEO guidelines to increase web traffic

Promote content on social media

Identify customers’ needs and gaps in our content and recommend new topics

Ensure all-around consistency (style, fonts, images, and tone)

Should be able to write content in Tamil and English 

Immediate joiners

Responsibilities and Duties

• Must have 3+ years’ experience in ASP .NET with C# and VB.NET
• Must have at least 2 years’ experience in SQL Server
• Must have experience working with SOAP and REST Web Services
• Must have experience with SSRS and SSIS
• Must have some experience with MVC framework and Angular JS
• Must be able to work with basic CSS and HTML
• Must be able to work with jQuery and JavaScript
• Experience with Reporting Services, WCF, etc. would be a strong positive

Quoality- A Modern Operating Infrastructure for Hospitality Businesses to help them improve the guest experience and generate additional revenue.

Launched in 2021, Quoality is a Hospitality Tech company backed by a US-based Newchip Accelerator. Our mission is to equip businesses with the tools they need to grow. 

By providing tools, insights, and education with minimal effort on the business's part, the barrier to making actionable business decisions is lowered dramatically. Everything we do is driven by this mission. Everything we do needs to positively answer the question, "Does this help businesses grow?"

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Oh, this is our favorite part. We’ve seen companies that write 'templatized' BS for this section; stuff that’s never followed in reality.

Not us. Here are some of our core values to give you a sense of who we are as a team:

• First and foremost, we’re super transparent. We all know what everyone’s working on, how’s the company doing, and the whole shebang.
• We’re all super chill. 
• Work time ain’t playtime. We take our work very seriously. We’re a small bunch on a mission to change the guest experience in the hospitality industry, once and for all.
• Deadlines are a thing for us. We are super punctual.
• We know what we are working on and aren’t clueless.
• We’re more friends than colleagues.
• Monthly 1:1s with the founders where you can directly share & receive feedback.

Not convinced yet? Okay, here’s the fun stuff:

• Flexible leave policy. Yeah, it’s truly flexible. We trust you.
• We have a flexible remote work policy in India.  Work from the beautiful beaches of Goa or the stunning mountains of Manali, we’re all good.
• Annual workstations at exotic destinations. Subject to change and hitting milestones.
• Allowances to choose your coworking space (if you want), courses & any tool that you think is beneficial to succeed in this role.

• Research Travel & Hospitality industry-related topics (combining online sources, interviews and studies)
• Write clear marketing copy to promote our products/services
• Prepare well-structured drafts using Content Management Systems
• Proofread and edit blog posts before publication
• Coordinate with marketing and design teams to illustrate articles
• Conduct extensive keyword research and use SEO guidelines to increase web traffic
• Promote content on social media
• Identify customers’ needs and gaps in our content and recommend new topics
• Ensure all-around consistency (style, fonts, images and tone)
• Update website content as needed depending on segment demand and change in keywords
• Streamline and manage content calendar
• Like the work you do, enjoy collaborating with your coworkers, communicate as much as you can, and have fun. 

• 2 to 4 years of relevant work experience. Experience in travel industry will be a BONUS
• Portfolio of published articles
• Experience doing research using multiple sources
• Familiarity with web publications
• Excellent writing and editing skills in English
• Hands-on experience with Content Management Systems (e.g. WordPress)
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Attention to detail
• You are open to learning new stuff and avoid internal politics.(super important).
• You are humble, kind, and are open to feedback.(super duper important).

• Entrepreneurial spirit, Product Thinker, and ‘Can-Do' attitude.
• Passionate about leveraging technology for supporting product delivery in the Hospitality space.
• Operating style suited to working in a startup environment, where teamwork and resourcefulness are highly valued.
• Excellent leadership skills, including the ability to manage multiple assignments at a time.

Yes, we do have a process, and it’s simple.

• Step 1: You apply for the job.
• Step 2: Quick intro call with the founders.
• Step 3: Solve an assignment.
• Step 4: A round where we evaluate your assignment along with you.
• Step 5: One round of interviews to gauge if you are a good culture fit.
• Step 6: Job Offer (contingent on the above steps).
• Step 7: Welcome to the Quoality! 🙂

• Handle end to end recruitment activities - starting from job posting, talent sourcing, prescreening, assessment, interview, offer management and onboarding process for the assigned hiring requisition alongside ensuring best in class candidate and Hiring Leader experience.
• Working with members of the senior leadership team, management and candidates to identify and attract talent.
• Handle stakeholder relationships and drive the recruitment processes, which includes talent branding, sourcing strategies and overall recruitment related responsibilities.
• Manage relationships with external resources such as recruiting agencies as needed.
• Regular communication with hiring managers to discuss candidates and drive the recruitment process
• Understand business, hiring leaders’ needs and delivering value by crafting right solutions.
• Execute sourcing strategy and talent pipelining for hiring across all levels to source top talent through social media, job boards, Internet sourcing, and Employee Referral Program & Internal job posts.

Role: Business Development Executive

Experience: 1-4 years

Location: Hyderabad (Initially remote)

Technovert, it’s not a typical IT services firm. We love solving problems by harnessing the power of technology. We must credit our two successful products generating $2M+ in licensing/SaaS revenues which is rare in the industry.

This role is open with Saketa – a Technovert company. Our customers run their businesses on our cloud. Our mission is to provide them with best-in-class content management, collaboration, enterprise data security, and an ever-expanding set of foundational cloud-based services. 

This role requires overseeing sales in the assigned region and working to grow the customer base. We need individuals with innate leadership qualities & someone who can maintain good client & vendor relationships.

Core Functions:

Understanding & Validation: Understand Saketa offerings clearly in order to effectively communicate with prospects, know and understand the assigned territory, validate and Manage assigned Target Accounts on CRM

Prospection & Qualification of lead: Effective Prospecting (via cold calling, inbound calls, emailing, and networking), to map an account and understand Microsoft footprint within through engaging IT teams/LOB and others at different levels (CXO to Admin), Profiling - Tech Influencer, Recommendation/ Middleman and Decision maker, tailor pitch according to account/contact profile and effectively engage a prospect (at various stages of sales cycle cold call/follow-up/presentation), qualify by BNTD (Budget – Need – Timelines – Decision Makers)

Handling the entire sales cycle: Present Saketa value prop over telecon and web sessions to CXO, VP/Director, LOB Managers as per the account profiling, Engage Sales team / Support Team as and when needed. Working with internal teams to get SOW/Proposals in line with client discussions. Negotiation/Closure, Work closely with Sales Manager and support in engaging with Key Accounts by qualifying prospects and driving new opportunities.

Must-Have:

• 1-4 years of work experience in inside sales and cold calling.
• Clear, concise, and effective written and oral communication skills.
• Empathy towards customers and understanding their needs.
• Interest, curiosity, and openness to learning new technologies.
• Prior exposure to tools like LinkedIn Sales Navigator, DiscoverOrg, ZoomInfo, etc.
• Good interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate with internal stakeholders as well as end customers.
• A learning mindset and the right attitude will help you thrive and adapt in a fast-paced, performance-driven environment.
• Ability to handle rejections and stay focused and driven.
• Ability to multi-task and manage your tasks effectively.
• Flexibility working in different shifts/regions. This is mandatory. 

Nice to have:

• Prior work experience in SaaS product companies in domains relevant to Microsoft.
• A proven track record of consistency in overachieving targets.

Qualification:

• Graduate degree in any stream
• 1-4 years of experience in IT / Inside Sales in North America
• Excellent communication skills and ability to drive prospect calls
• Organized, disciplined, and a Hunter attitude
• Open to work in different shifts/regions.