Product Director

Job Description: Senior Designer

Position Overview:

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Designer to join our dynamic team. The Senior Designer will be responsible for leading design projects, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality design solutions. The ideal candidate should have a strong portfolio showcasing their design expertise, excellent communication skills, and a passion for innovation.

Responsibilities:

1) Lead Design Projects: Take ownership of design projects from concept to completion, ensuring adherence to project timelines and quality standards.

2 ) Collaborate with Cross-Functional Teams: Work closely with stakeholders, including product managers, engineers, and marketing teams, to understand project requirements and translate them into effective design solutions.

3) Creative Direction: Provide creative direction and mentorship to junior designers, guiding them in the development of their skills and the execution of design projects.

4) Conceptualize and Design: Generate innovative design concepts and develop them into polished visual designs across various mediums, including digital and print.

5) User-Centric Design: Advocate for user-centered design principles, conducting user research and incorporating feedback to improve the usability and effectiveness of designs.

6) Brand Consistency: Ensure consistency and alignment with brand guidelines across all design assets and communication channels.

7) Stay Updated: Keep abreast of industry trends, design tools, and emerging technologies, integrating them into design processes as appropriate.

8) Quality Assurance: Conduct thorough quality assurance checks on design deliverables to ensure accuracy, functionality, and alignment with project requirements.

9) Presentation Skills: Present design concepts and solutions to stakeholders in a clear and compelling manner, incorporating feedback and iterating on designs as necessary.

10) Project Management: Manage multiple projects simultaneously, prioritizing tasks effectively and communicating project status updates to relevant stakeholders.

Qualifications:

*Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communication, or a related field.

*Minimum of 4 years of experience in a design role, with a strong portfolio demonstrating proficiency in graphic design, typography, and layout.

*Expertise in design software such as Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign), Sketch, or similar tools.

*Solid understanding of user interface (UI) design principles and best practices.

*Strong conceptual thinking and problem-solving abilities.

*Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate design concepts and rationale effectively.

*Proven track record of delivering high-quality design solutions in a fast-paced environment.

*Ability to work collaboratively in a cross-functional team setting.

*Experience with motion graphics, animation, or prototyping tools is a plus.

*A passion for design and a desire to push the boundaries of creativity.

Additional Information:

This is a full-time position based in Bangalore

Please include a link to your portfolio showcasing relevant design work with your application.

Salary and benefits package will be commensurate with experience and qualifications.

Job Summary:

The Department of Computer Science at Ace Engineering College is seeking qualified candidates for a faculty position in Computer Science at the Assistant Professor level. The successful candidate will be expected to engage in high-quality teaching, research, and service activities within the department and contribute to the academic community.

Responsibilities:

• As a faculty member of ACE, you will be responsible for the success of the students in your cohort. Therefore, you will be expected to understand the strengths and weaknesses of your cohort and adjust the pace of teaching accordingly.
• Timely delivery of lectures / conducting tutorials/training sessions by the program schedule
• Need to take the classes based on the schedule and should involve in all the academic operations.(Labs, Exams, Question paper creation).
• Provide mentorship and guidance to students, fostering a positive and inclusive learning environment.
• Contribute to curriculum development and enhancement of educational programs.
• Serve on departmental and university committees.
• Contribute to the academic and professional community through participation in conferences, workshops, and seminars.
• Provide academic advising and support to students.
• Engage in outreach activities to promote computer science education and awareness.

Qualification -

B. Tech - CSE, M. Tech - CSE (both are >60% Mandatory)

As Conviva is expanding, we are building products providing deep insights into end-user experience for our customers.

Platform and TLB Team

The vision for the TLB team is to build data processing software that works on terabytes of streaming data in real-time. Engineer the next-gen Spark-like system for in-memory computation of large time-series datasets – both Spark-like backend infra and library-based programming model. Build a horizontally and vertically scalable system that analyses trillions of events per day within sub-second latencies. Utilize the latest and greatest big data technologies to build solutions for use cases across multiple verticals. Lead technology innovation and advancement that will have a big business impact for years to come. Be part of a worldwide team building software using the latest technologies and the best of software development tools and processes.

What You’ll Do

This is an individual contributor position. Expectations will be on the below lines:

• Design, build and maintain the stream processing, and time-series analysis system which is at the heart of Conviva’s products
• Responsible for the architecture of the Conviva platform
• Build features, enhancements, new services, and bug fixing in Scala and Java on a Jenkins-based pipeline to be deployed as Docker containers on Kubernetes
• Own the entire lifecycle of your microservice including early specs, design, technology choice, development, unit-testing, integration-testing, documentation, deployment, troubleshooting, enhancements, etc.
• Lead a team to develop a feature or parts of a product
• Adhere to the Agile model of software development to plan, estimate, and ship per business priority

What you need to succeed

• 5+ years of work experience in software development of data processing products.
• Engineering degree in software or equivalent from a premier institute.
• Excellent knowledge of fundamentals of Computer Science like algorithms and data structures. Hands-on with functional programming and know-how of its concepts
• Excellent programming and debugging skills on the JVM. Proficient in writing code in Scala/Java/Rust/Haskell/Erlang that is reliable, maintainable, secure, and performant
• Experience with big data technologies like Spark, Flink, Kafka, Druid, HDFS, etc.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts and scalability challenges including multi-threading, concurrency, sharding, partitioning, etc.
• Experience/knowledge of Akka/Lagom framework and/or stream processing technologies like RxJava or Project Reactor will be a big plus. Knowledge of design patterns like event-streaming, CQRS and DDD to build large microservice architectures will be a big plus
• Excellent communication skills. Willingness to work under pressure. Hunger to learn and succeed. Comfortable with ambiguity. Comfortable with complexity

Underpinning the Conviva platform is a rich history of innovation. More than 60 patents represent award-winning technologies and standards, including first-of-its kind-innovations like time-state analytics and AI-automated data modeling, that surfaces actionable insights. By understanding real-world human experiences and having the ability to act within seconds of observation, our customers can solve business-critical issues and focus on growing their business ahead of the competition. Examples of the brands Conviva has helped fuel streaming growth for include: DAZN, Disney+, HBO, Hulu, NBCUniversal, Paramount+, Peacock, Sky, Sling TV, Univision and Warner Bros Discovery.  

Privately held, Conviva is headquartered in Silicon Valley, California with offices and people around the globe. For more information, visit us at www.conviva.com. Join us to help extend our leadership position in big data streaming analytics to new audiences and markets! 

What you need to have:

• Must be either a Finance graduate / ICWA / MBA Finance / CA Inter.
• 5-7 years of relevant work experience in payroll function.
• Handled in and out payroll inputs, variance analysis and also understands drivers to payroll cost.
• Excellent communication skills and also with an excellent analytical mind.    

About Client : Our client is an American company that develops, manufactures and sells solar micro-inverters, energy generation monitoring software and battery energy storage products

The Back-End engineer will develop, maintain, architect & expand cloud microservices. Codebase uses Java, Spring Boot, Mongo, REST APIs, MySQL. Applications are dockerized and hosted in AWS using plethora of AWS services.

Key Responsibilities and Outcomes

• Programming in Java + Spring Boot
• REST API with JSON, XML etc. for data transfer
• Multiple database proficiency including SQL and NoSQL (Cassandra, MongoDB)
• Ability to develop both internal facing and external facing APIs using JWT and OAuth2.0
• Familiar with HA/DR, scalability, performance, code optimizations
• Experience with working with highly performance and throughput systems
• Ability to define, track and deliver items to ones own schedule
• Good organizational skills and the ability to work on more than one project at a time
• Exceptional attention to detail and good communication skills

Minimum Qualifications

• B.E/B.Tech in Computer Science from top tier college and >70% marks
• 70% or 7 CGPA throughout in education.
• Top 100 Engineering colleges only (NIRF ranking)
• Stability in job.
• Experience with SQL + NoSQL (Preferably MongoDB)
• Experience with Amazon Web Services, JIRA, Confluence, GIT, Bitbucket
• Ability to work independently and as part of a project team
• Strong organizational skills, proactive, and accountable.
• Excellent critical thinking and analytical problem-solving skills
• Ability to establish priorities and proceed with objectives without supervision
• Ability to communicate effectively and accurately
• Clear concise written project status update throughout the project lifecycle
• Highly skilled at facilitating and documenting requirements

• B.Tech/B.E (preferably in Computer Science Engineering) 
• 7+ years of hands-on programming experience in building data-driven REST APIs, services & platforms using advanced Java frameworks like Spring, Redis, Node.js etc. with deep focus on integration & scale.
• We also look for hands-on experience with Mysql, Elasticsearch (or Solr) and Nosql stores.
• Our evaluation starts with focus on computer science fundamentals, data structures & algorithms.
• You will have been learning new technologies every week and prefer folks who can use golang/rust for backend development and are familiar with equivalent data stores, index stores and pub-sub technologies.

• Identify & document the Scope of Work (SOW), objectives and any assumptions.
• Prepare cost estimates for manpower + materials, and ensure we are charging accurately for our projects.
• Develop a detailed project plan, and monitor progress using appropriate systems, tools and techniques.
• Establish and maintain relationships with third parties/vendors.
• Seek opportunities for improvement and suggest new projects.

• Ensure availability of all the tools and resources before initiating a project.
• Prepare and maintain timelines for the effective tracking and completion of the project.
• Delegate to internal resources and vendors effectively, and track progress ensuring the project runs on schedule.
• Coordinate with all the internal and external stakeholders for information, approvals, resolving issues, status updates, answering queries etc. While maintaining transparent communication.

• Maintain timesheet logs for all the resources.
• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation, plans and reports.
• Ensure standards and requirements are met through conducting quality assurance tests.
• Analyze and Highlight potential risks or malfunctions and act proactively to resolve issues ensuring the project stays on time and on budget.

• YEARS OF RELEVANT EXPERIENCE- 5+ Years of relevant experience managing Digital / IT Projects.
• EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS** - We prioritize skills over degrees but Bachelors/ Masters degree/ diploma/ certification in Business, Digital Marketing, Computer Science or other relevant fields is a plus. Additional Project Management certifications like PMP/ PMI / PRINCE2 are highly desired.
• SOFTWARE AND APPLICATIONS- Tech-savvy with good knowledge of MS Office, and strong experience with project management software like Jira, MS Projects, Click Up, Asana, Wrike, Basecamp etc.

• Excellent communication (verbal & written), interpersonal and consulting skills
• Ability to manage multiple teams and projects simultaneously
• Excellent organization and time management skills
• Ability to meet targets and deadlines.
• Quick thinking, problem solving skills
• Detail-oriented
• Budget management
• Confident, pleasant personality, ambitious, self-motivated.