Pre Sales Manager

JOB SUMMARY

Great Manager Institute® (“Company”) is a global digital platform for personalized development and certification of people managers, having the vision of creating a world where every individual gets the opportunity to work with a Great People Manager.

Our vision is to ensure that everyone gets an opportunity to work with a great people manager. Our mission is to ensure that anyone can be a great people manager who delivers sustained results by building high-trust relationships.

We take pride in saying that our short-term plan is for 1000 years!

We need amazing Software Developers to evolve our solutions into world-class products and become a part of a journey that is setting off a movement on people management. Imagine the impact of creating a product that helps evolve human behavior in a scalable manner.

OUR DNA

• Customer Obsession: We believe in the concept of understanding customers deeply by putting ourselves in their shoes and gather and use relevant data to take decisions.
• Speed: Speed is paramount to become a global start-up.
• Global Outlook: We are creating a product for the world, and it can be possible only if we combine personalized and localized offerings with global outlook.

OUR VALUES

• Be Transparent
• Bring the Best
• Have Faith
• Care
• Respect Individuality

This is a unique opportunity at the high growth start-up. The Technology Head will be a part of the core executive group at the Company.

ROLE DESCRIPTION

• Development of features and modules of Great Manager Certification product
• Engagement in new innovations within the core products and various extensions of the core product
• Solving coding-related problems of the junior software developers in the team
• Mentoring and supporting new techies, helping create a team of rockstar developers

Who will this role report to?

This role will report to the Technology Head of the Company.

Growth Opportunities for You

• This role is a great opportunity for contributing to the growth of a global company
• This is a critical role that will shape the technology roadmap of the Company and gives an opportunity to lead from the front
• Become an entrepreneur. We operate in a highly entrepreneurial culture. Almost all roles at the Company are constructed to operate with an entrepreneurial mindset.
• The role prepares you to become Lead/Head of Technology while establishing your brand value as a rockstar developer

Who Should Apply?

• Candidates with 5+ years overall experience in full-stack software development
• Hands-on MEAN Stack is required
• Strong understanding of latest full-stack technologies and their strengths, shortcomings, and applicability to the Company’s context
• Excellent analytical skills with an attention to detail
• Integrity, with an ability to handle sensitive information
• Drive to build something. The role is not for those seeking comfort, stability and a strict 9-5 schedule. Building market leadership is not an easy path. Motivation and speed are essential qualifying criteria

Purpose of the role

The UX Architect will be directly involved in designing a user and will be responsible for a meaningful presentation of information and organizational structure on the website from the user’s perspective. The candidate will conceptualise the layout and functionality contained within interactive interfaces of websites and will be responsible for optimizing the usability of the website applications to allow various user roles to accomplish their objectives in a manner that results in the best possible user experience.

Profile – Roles and Responsibilities

 Areas of Responsibility & brief description

Responsibility Level

1. Demonstrate effective management of shifting priorities, delivering thorough work products and meeting project deadlines.
2. Working on information visualization, including information architecture, user flow/interaction modelling, node-based and tagged taxonomy development and other information-related frameworks and methodologies.
3. Developing low to medium-fidelity wireframes and interactive prototypes, augmented as necessary with clear annotations of UI control behaviour, to hand off to front and back-end development and quality assurance teams.
4. Develop, extend and apply detailed user interface specifications, UI pattern libraries, reusable GUI components, content inventories, and design guidelines for ecommerce websites, delivered in Agile software development cycles.
5. Employ a variety of user-centered iterative design methodologies and objective evaluation techniques. 
6. Work with a variety of rapid prototyping and visualization tools including HTML, CSS and JavaScript. 
7. As needed, lead the translation of business requirements into simple, highly usable, and compelling interface layouts; defining how the user interacts with site functionality
8. Articulate the research findings and UX strategy in clear and actionable design artifacts, including personas, user journeys, screen flows, wireframes and prototypes. 
9. Judicious use of natural resources
10. Shall adhere to the environment health and safety policy/objectives and guidelines of the organization.

Full

Indicative KRA’s/Budgetary and Revenue Responsibilities

1. Common KRAs – Finance goal, Employee and Customer satisfaction
2. Assisting with research and introduction of value-added services
3. Ensure successful implementation of projects
4. Ensure compliance with Bourntec

Key Interactions within and outside of Bourntec

External

Internal

1. Customers
2. Senior stakeholders and managers
3. Product team  
4. Operations

Qualification & Experience (Education, Experience, specific knowledge, skills, understanding, attitude)

     Bourntec operations

Education: As per comp requirements

Experience:   

• 8+ years related work experience. UX research experience must include an established, heavily trafficked, consumer facing website or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Possesses broad expertise in end-user data collection involving complex web and mobile software applications.
• Strong user experience research foundation and flexible approach
• Proven ability to be a contributing member of a cross-functional team and inspire team confidence in and respect for the contributions of research and focused design to enhance user experience.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively partner with and communicate to stakeholders, designers, product managers and engineering development team members.

Knowledge & Key Skills:

• Extensive portfolio that includes examples of leading strategic research and design with significant business outcomes, creation of long-term research plans, and a demonstrated proficiency with interaction design.

Competencies/Personal Attributes

Behavioural Competencies

Entrepreneurship

Functional Competencies

1. Quality & Service Orientation
2. Enterprise Architecture
3. Teamwork & Collaboration
4. Service Management
5. Diversity Sensitivity
6. System Integration
7. Personal & Professional Development
8. Solutioning
9. Delivering Results
10. Communication
11. Networking
12. Leadership

 Additional Requirements 

• Ability to travel 20-30% of the time.
• Ability to communicate with team members, partners, stakeholders, and the internal and external technical community.

Ability to create output artifacts in the form of documentation, slide decks, and programming code.  

Our Company:

Bourntec Solutions, Inc. is a trusted company across four continents as a Global IT Consulting and Technology partner for its clients. Bourntec offers exceptional customer outcomes and collaborative knowledge and experience of over 400 employees worldwide. Bourntec helps its clients to solve toughest challenges in their markets by harnessing the power of emerging technologies; or deliver outstanding business value through cloud adoptions, digital transformations, or technology innovations.

Bourntec prepares its talent for the next wave of technologies, providing access to industry expertise across the full suite of applications. Our technology towers portfolio includes Digital Practice viz. standard opensource technologies, MS dotnet, blockchain, Devops etc., Enterprise Applications viz. Oracle, MS Dynamics, Salesforce and Cloud Migration and modernisation solutions in AWS, Azure etc., Data, Analytics & Applied AI, solution expertise. 

Headquartered in Schaumburg, Illinois, we operate in North America, Middle East, Europe and Indian subcontinent. India operations are headquartered in Hyderabad, and we have two offshore delivery centres in Kochi & Bhubaneswar. Diversity & Inclusivity is imbibed in Bourntec’s value system of “Respecting each other” and we practise Equal Opportunity Employment.

Share your view on the below questions, It will be easy for us to understand their thinking process

1. Which UX Framework you use in your design process?
2. How you design the Information Architecture for project ?
3. Describe your design process?
4. Do you think UX architect should know basics of coding? why?25

• 3+ years of Experience majoring in applying AI/ML/ NLP / deep learning / data-driven statistical analysis & modelling solutions.
• Programming skills in Python, knowledge in Statistics.
• Hands-on experience developing supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms (regression, decision trees/random forest, neural networks, feature selection/reduction, clustering, parameter tuning, etc.). Familiarity with reinforcement learning is highly desirable.
• Experience in the financial domain and familiarity with financial models are highly desirable.
• Experience in image processing and computer vision.
• Experience working with building data pipelines.
• Good understanding of Data preparation, Model planning, Model training, Model validation, Model deployment and performance tuning.
• Should have hands on experience with some of these methods: Regression, Decision Trees,CART, Random Forest, Boosting, Evolutionary Programming, Neural Networks, Support Vector Machines, Ensemble Methods, Association Rules, Principal Component Analysis, Clustering, ArtificiAl Intelligence
• Should have experience in using larger data sets using Postgres Database.