Product Manager Ad tech / AdOPs Experienced

Responsibilities

• Develop, deploy, and maintain scalable products
• Participate in code reviews, and design discussions to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge
• Pair with team members for functional and non-functional requirements to write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, and maintainable code.
• Help to define roadmap and architecture based on technology and business needs
• Understand business requirements and work closely with the business to provide solutions

Eligibility

• Strong expertise in Backend Python Development with skills to create APIs, integrate the functions into UI, and store and retrieve data from a variety of databases.
• Strong experience with Django/Flask.
• Strong experience in writing unit tests.
• B.Tech/B.E (Preferred CSE)

Sizzle.gg is an exciting new startup that’s changing the world of gaming.  At Sizzle, we’re building AI to automate gaming highlights, directly from Twitch and YouTube streams. We’re looking for a superstar front-end engineer that can work closely with UI/UX designers and continuously improve our site.  

You will:

• Work closely with UI/UX designers and the management team to make iterative enhancements to the website, using React, HTML & CSS
• Keep iterating and improving our client video player in React and Meteor.js
• Run numerous A/B tests on the website design, layout, color scheme, button placement, images/videos, and other objects to optimize time on site and conversion
• Create other online assets in similar style, such as HTML emails, ad landing pages, and more
• Work closely with marketing and management team to ensure successful adoption of the app, and make iterative changes to make them more user-friendly
• Work with the rest of the engineering team (back-end engineers, AI engineers) to optimize the user experience across both the site and the apps

You should have the following qualities:

• Must be an expert in React.js, HTML5, HTML, CSS, and related web technologies.  Ideally also have expertise in Meteor.js.
• Must have expertise in Bootstrap and have built responsive websites with high polish
• Familiarity with AWS environments
• Excited about working in a fast-changing startup environment
• Have a point of view on designs, usability, and delivering what the user wants
• Willingness to learn rapidly on the job, try different things, and deliver results
• Ideally a gamer or someone interested in watching gaming content online
• Looking for someone in Bangalore or willing to relocate

What we look for:

We have a unique opportunity as we are looking for a Sales Manager at Epixel Solutions. You have the opportunity to build the sales process from the ground up. This position will be responsible for developing a sales team, coordinating sales operations, and implementing sales techniques that allow the business to meet and surpass its sales targets consistently. You will work with high-profile customers, evaluate budgets, and determine ways to simplify and improve the sales process.

Your tasks often include assigning sales territories, mentoring members of the sales team, setting quotas, assigning sales training, hiring salespeople, and building sales plans. You will also set goals, identify priorities and eliminate redundant activities to increase sales.

Additional duties could find you traveling to client sites, and attending conferences, conventions, and small workshops representing Epixel Solutions.

This position will report to the Chief Growth officer who heads up the Go To Market (GTM) team.

Responsibilities:

The duties and responsibilities of our ideal Sales Manager include:

• Developing and implementing strategic sales plans that expand a company’s customer base and solidify its presence.
• Achieving growth and hitting sales targets by successfully managing sales teams and by assessing the teams' strengths and weaknesses.
• Establishing productive and professional relationships with key personnel in assigned customer accounts.
• Building and promoting healthy, long-lasting customer relations by partnering with them.
• Developing and implementing new sales initiatives, strategies, and programs to capture key demographics.
• Providing daily/weekly/monthly and quarterly reports of field sales success and communicating the Voice of the Customer (VOC) to the reporting manager.

Skills and qualifications:

A successful Sales Manager candidate with Epixel will be the driving force behind our competent sales team and will have a variety of skills and qualifications that include:

• Ability to communicate, inspire and motivate
• Proven ability to drive the sales process from plan to close
• Excellent mentoring, coaching, and people management skills
• Excellent time management skills to maximize their ability to reach goals
• Ability to identify, recruit and hire talented sales reps

Requirements:

Prospective Sales Manager candidates should have a minimum of 5-10 years of experience working in the sales field, preferably in a fast-moving SaaS organization or startup. They should also have a successful and verified track record in leading a sales department to achieve its goals.

The right candidate should be able to identify opportunities in sales and profits and possess knowledge about allocating Sales Representatives to achieve or exceed set sales performance targets. The candidate must be skilled in data analysis and managing customers using customer relationship management (CRM) as this position involves working with a lot of data and prospects.

Familiarity with our tech stack would be a plus (Zoho, Calendly, Google Apps, Redmine)

The Epixel sales team is war-ready to support our international clients and prospects around the clock. Hence, candidates should be flexible working in three different shifts on and off according to business needs.

Candidate should have overall exposure of accounts and finance (Including GST, TDS, Financial reporting, Monthly & Annually closing, MIS, payroll & Accounts payable)

Must be familiar with e-commerce business and have a good understanding of Marketplace & inventory-based business models, COD & Courier Freight Reconciliations. 

Eager to explore new areas and excited to work with business teams for problem-solving. 

Must be able to own his work and manage the timelines 

Should have a long term mindset not looking for short term salary hike. 

Good team player, hard-working, should have the ability to manage the cross-functional stakeholders 

Should have a good understanding of Excel, ERP & Tally and able to work with large data sets in excel knowledge of SQL will be an added advantage. 

Desired Candidate Profile

Key Skills: Java, Node.js, React js, PHP , JSON, Mongo DB, Rest APIs, Word Press, Web Services, Mern Stack, Mean Stack, Express Framework, Bootstrap with Angularjs.

1. Overall 3 to 4+ years of experience is required with the following skills.
2. Strong knowledge of JavaScript, Nodejs, Angular. Expresses, Reactjs, AJAX, and jQuery
3. Good working knowledge of working database platforms like dynamo DB MYSQL and Mongo DB Experience
4. working on wasp user interface technologies HTML and JavaScript, Knowledge of web servers and app servers AWS and MongoDB.
5. You need to work in an agile cross-functional team to create a customer experience and implement high-quality code into production.
6. Work on bug fixes and improvement of application performance.
7. Hands on experience with a framework with Angular JS and Node JS
8. Hands on experience with utility library with jQuery lib, bootstrap.js, Angularjs, Bootstrap, Date Picker, canvasjs.min.js, Socket.io, Moment timezone.js
9. Good Knowledge of AWS Amazon web services.
10. Should be Proficient in Linux
11. Experience on Node.js and Json rest APIs developments and web services knowledge are highly preferred.
12. Knowledge of cross-browser platform issues and implementation is highly preferred.

Job description

The role requires you to design development pipelines from the ground up, Creation of Docker Files,  design and operate highly available systems in AWS Cloud environments. Also involves Configuration Management, Web Services Architectures, DevOps Implementation, Database management, Backups, and Monitoring.

Key responsibility area
- Ensure reliable operation of CI/CD pipelines
- Orchestrate the provisioning, load balancing, configuration, monitoring and billing of resources in the cloud environment in a highly automated manner
- Logging, metrics and alerting management.
- Creation of Bash/Python scripts for automation
- Performing root cause analysis for production errors.Requirement
- Proficient in Linux Commands line and troubleshooting.
- Proficient in AWS Services. Deployment, Monitoring and troubleshooting applications in AWS.
- Hands-on experience with CI tooling preferably with Jenkins. 
- Proficient in deployment using Ansible.
- Knowledge of infrastructure management tools (Infrastructure as cloud) such as terraform, AWS cloudformation etc.
- Proficient in deployment of applications behind load balancers and proxy servers such as nginx, apache. 
- Scripting languages: Bash, Python, Groovy.
- Experience with Logging, Monitoring, and Alerting tools like ELK(Elastic-search, Logstash, Kibana), Nagios. Graylog, splunk Prometheus, Grafana is a plus.

Must Have:
Linux, CI/CD(Jenkin), AWS, Scripting(Bash,shell Python, Go), Ngnix, Docker.

Good to have
Configuration Management(Ansible or similar tool), Logging tool( ELK or similar), Monitoring tool(Ngios or similar), IaC(Terraform, cloudformation).

Founded by an IIT alum and Investment Banker, Pepkidz Learning is an Ed-Tech platform for imparting essential skills like E.Q. (emotional quotient) and Personality development to enable students to fuel their success and make them realize their full potential. We are a team of 30 and rapidly expanding with multiple roles open for hire. 

We’re looking for a creative, multi-disciplinary, and high-producing Graphic Designer to join PepKidz’s growing Team. This role will start out as work-from-home and then be based out of our office in Bangalore, India (post-restrictions). You’ll use your experience to create visually appealing designs that span multiple mediums. Primarily focused on creating the brand guidelines, establishing the brand aesthetic, building and managing a team, this role requires a self-starter who understands the scope of working in an early-stage startup and will also ensure a unified output from the whole team. This role spans marketing and curriculum.  

As someone who is joining to lead the design team of an early-stage startup, you will have the reign and freedom to scale and build your team as you see fit. With a rapidly growing company and team, you will evolve as a leader and will get an opportunity to work with people at the top of their fields.

• Create compelling graphics that follow PepKidz’s brand guidelines for traditional and digital mediums, including but not limited to, PepKidz’s curriculum, websites, social media channels, email campaigns, marketing programs, knowledgebase, training platform, presentations, videos, print material, and events

• Hire, Manage and scale the design team under your guidance and ensure the brand’s aesthetic is followed and maintained throughout different channels

• Respond quickly and work efficiently to manage incoming day-to-day graphic requests to support marketing programs including small illustrations, email headers, email body graphics, social media posts, WhatsApp posts, blog headers, handouts/flyers, print work, etc.

• Work with other Designers to ensure the PepKidz’s brand is consistently represented across all designs

• Utilize strong communication skills to engage with cross-functional team members to effectively collaborate and solicit feedback

• Incorporate constructive feedback from stakeholders into designs

• Apply industry best practices and stay on-top-of trends to keep the brand fresh and forward-facing

• 6+ years of design experience in a fast-paced environment of a startup, specifically Ed-Tech will be preferred

• A college degree or  diploma in graphic design, integrated marketing communications, or a related field

• Strong understanding of design principles and marketing design fundamentals

• Proficient in a Mac/Windows environment with advanced experience using the Adobe Creative Suite/Cloud including Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop

• 2-D Animation experience

• Extensive experience creating graphics for social media

• Strong illustration background with demonstrated examples. 2D Animation.

• Experience in EdTech/Consumer-facing startups

• Candidates must provide a portfolio that showcases their best work

• Show us how you can adapt your illustration style by creating an Instagram post if you qualify for the first round

Requirements:

• Experience of managing Engineering teams in an Agile environment.
• Expert knowledge of delivering solutions in Azure cloud within a large-scale enterprise environment.
• Great understanding of DevOps principles and how they assist in taking products to market in an effective manner.
• Experience of Automation/Configuration management tools as well as working in a continuous delivery environment, monitoring and tooling.
• Knowledge and experience in Azure, Kubernetes, Containerisation, Azure DevOps pipelines.
• Experience in managing permissions in Azure DevOps.
• Working experience in Application Gateways, App Services, Front-Door, Azure Service Bus, etc.
• Troubleshooting experience in virtual/cloud infrastructures.
• Experience in delivery of projects using IAC (Infrastructure as Code).

• Develop test plans alongside product designers and product engineers.
• Drive improvements to test framework architecture and test coverage.
• Drive adoption of best practices in code health, testing, testability, and maintainability (clean code, test pyramid).
• Track test gaps, quality, and productivity metrics. Work with other engineering teams to improve gaps from this data.
• Recommend improvements into overall best practices, design, testability and quality, and productivity.

Requirements

• 8+ years' experience of working in the Quality Engineering field
• 3+ Years of experience with UI & API test automation tools, (Selenium and etc.)
• 4+ years of experience in leading a team
• Proficient in TypeScript, Go, or a related programming language
• Experience with Continuous Integration systems (e.g., GitLab)
• Experience with AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes

About You

• A+ character. We are team-first here at the company.
• A hard-working mentality. It’s early and there is still a lot to build.
• An excellent communicator.
• A fun attitude. Life’s too short. We can have fun while we work hard on cool things.
• Smarts. We need people that are smart enough to make decisions on their own and also smart enough to know when they need input from others.

Perks & Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits
• Group Medical insurance
• Life and long-term disability insurance
• Collaborative workspace
• The opportunity to join the fastest growing start-up alongside a team of motivated and driven individuals