Product Manager

Requirements
● Good understanding of how the web works
● Experience with at least one language like Java, Python etc
● Good with Shell scripting
● Experience with *Nix based operating systems
● Experience with k8s, containers
● Fairly good understanding of AWS/GCP/Azure
● Troubleshoot and fix outages and performance issues in infrastructure stack
● Identify gap and design automation tools for all feasible functions in infrastructure
● Good verbal and written communication skills
● Drive SLA/SLO of team
Benefits
This is an opportunity to work on a fairly complex set of systems and improve
them. You will get a chance to learn things like “how to think about code
simplicity”, “how to write for maintainability” and several other things.
● Comprehensive health insurance policy.
● Flexible working hours and a very friendly work environment.
● Flexibility to work either in the office (post Covid) or remotely.

About Merito :

Merito is a curated talent platform where we identify, assess, and connect candidates for matching job opportunities. We are working with the mission to change the way hiring is done. The company is founded by a team consisting of alumni from IIM Ahmedabad, McKinsey with more than 2 decades of experience in recruitment, training, and coaching.

About our Client :

Our client is an Indian retail conglomerate which is setting up a tech driven brand co-creation platform that transforms powerful ideas into authentic, profitable and experience-led brands that will define the future of brands in fashion, beauty, food and home decor space.

Role: Brand Entrepreneur (EIR)

This opportunity is for new brands that are in stealth mode & backed by Future Group promoters. It's a house of Personal care D2C brands in the space of haircare, skin care & kids personal care.

In 2020, CoVid 19 affected every business, few positively and many negatively. However, E-commerce adoption has gone through the roof and we have seen consumer's e-commerce spends grow. India's fast growing e-commerce market is seen growing by 30 percent a year to $200 billion (roughly Rs. 14,68,640 core) by 2026.

On the back of strong product-market fit and a change in human behaviour due to CoVid that buoyed ecommerce, we are currently building D2C personal care brands. The overall D2C market in India is expected to reach $100 billion in the next 7-8 years. We will be building a digital first content led approach to target this community of consumers. We aim to win shoppers at the moment of purchase by algorithmically managing demand forecasting, promotions and advertising spend, supply chain, content optimization and other aspects that help shoppers make online purchase decisions, all backed by Data Science.

As the Brand Entrepreneur, you will be part of the founding team conceptualizing the brand proposition, brand identity, and working with formulation experts to build the product pipeline.

Key Responsibilities :

- Creating Brand positioning and differentiation strategies, generating brand anticipation and planning Brand launch keeping in mind the key insights gained from customer and competitor analysis

- Analyzing and researching consumer markets, monitoring market trends and identifying potential areas in which to invest, based upon consumer needs and spending habits

- Looking at the pricing of products and analyzing the potential profitability

- Executing strategies of expansion for existing products and services

- Supervising, managing and executing the manufacturing and supply chain for the brand life cycle

- Monitoring product distribution and consumer reactions through focus groups and market research

- Driving Marketing, Digital Marketing and Performance Marketing

- Coordinating the launch program

- Analyze how our brand is positioned in the market and crystalize targeted consumers insights

- Take brand ownership and provide the direction in executing the vision, mission, goals and strategies

- Translate brand strategies into brand plans, brand positioning and go-to-market execution plans

- Driving creative development and create motivating stimulus to get targeted population to "take action" through on-the ground plans

- Establish performance specifications, cost and price parameters, market applications and sales estimates

- Monitor market trends, research consumer markets and competitors' activities to highlight opportunities and key issues

- Liaison with marketing team to ensure consistency with product line strategy

- Monitor product distribution and consumer reactions

- Anticipate bottlenecks throughout the product life-cycle starting from manufacturing to product launch

- Align the company around the brand's direction, choices and tactics

- Coordinate with New Product Development role for product composition, packaging and quality control.

Competencies :

- Comes with a brand led thinking along with sales orientation

- Execution of strategies/future plan for establishing the brands

- Have good analytical skills

- Good listener, able to respond to results and consumer research

- Ability to work well with multiple teams

- Ability to manage different projects at the same time

- Understanding & appreciation of the new age consumer's needs

Critical Personality :

- Works with an owner's mindset, can embrace entrepreneurial culture

- Extensive PnL knowledge

- Flexible & Adaptable

- Speed in Execution

- Ability to work well under pressure

- Have good presentation skills

- Ability to Influence People

- Excellent Communication Skills

- High Business Acumen and Result Oriented

- Analytical & Data Oriented

- Realtime solution oriented

The ideal candidate will have :

1. An MBA from a top tier B School preferred. (Not Mandatory)

2. At least 3-5 years work experience overall, with a minimum 2 years in brand/category management

3. Experience in running multi-functional teams

4. Early experience in strategy consulting or in top tier FMCG companies is preferred

5. Experience in D2C brands is preferred The ideal candidate is ambitious, looking for an entrepreneurial stint, has tremendous ownership, and combines sharp consumer insight with sound business judgment

To build the relationship with customers and explain about product
It's an Ed. Tech company authorized by the government of India and knowledge partner of NSDC

 

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MySQL - DBA L3 Support

 

# 7 -10  years of experience in MySQL, handled multiple versions & flavors of MySQL servers both for standalone & enterprise version, Data center and VM/Cloud setup.

# Strong database Configuration and troubleshooting / problem solving skills.

# Strong knowledge of database backup and recovery concepts and practices.

# Enabling disabling scheduled Jobs on MySQL Server

# Work with Dev and DevOps engineers to ensure that all needed data is gathered and provided to them for any performance issues

# Experience in managing both on-prem DB as well as VM / cloud based DBs

# Maintenance of backups (perform backups, monitor backup, report obsolete backups)

# Maintenance of user access (creating user accounts, dropping user accounts, granting privileges)

# Maintenance of log and trace files (remove, initialize, archive them)

# Knowledge on SQL scripts

# Managing Database administration includes Daily health checks, Database tuning, Query optimization & Backup & Replication

# Experience in alert configurations using existing alerting tools or scripts

 

1.       Strong knowledge in Front end scripting like EJS, JavaScript, Jquery

 

2.       Proficiency with fundamental front-end languages such as HTML, CSS.

 

3.       Familiarity with JavaScript frameworks such as Angular JS, React, and Amber.

 

4.       Proficiency with server-side languages such as Python / Ruby / Java / PHP/ .Net

 

5.       Good Understand with database technology such as MySQL, Oracle, and MongoDB.

Frontend Developer Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a similar field.

Previous experience working as a React.js Developer.

In-depth knowledge of JavaScript, CSS, HTML and front-end languages.

Knowledge of REACT tools including React.js, Webpack, Enzyme, Redux, and Flux.

Experience with user interface design.

Knowledge of performance testing frameworks including Mocha and Jest.

Experience with browser-based debugging and performance testing software.

Excellent troubleshooting skills.

Good project management skills.

While we try to best communicate role & responsibilities, we are more inclined to work with individuals and teams who demonstrate the will get it done or do it myself' attitude, willingness to take initiatives & ability to hustle and own it. Role Summary: Work with a team which oozes quality work, puts effort and learning over results. A chance to work in an open culture, with the best in the industry. Where you are challenged to do your best, inspired to think beyond the possible, and grow professionally and personally. We are looking for developers who want to help us design cutting edge scalable products to meet our rapidly growing business. Responsibilities: • Build an app from scratch by dictating the right modular architecture • Complete ownership of problem-free execution of owned modules and solutions. • Focus on code optimization, code quality, maintainability etc. Experience and Qualifications: • Hands on experience in writing iOS applications using Objective C and Swift Mandatory Skills: • OOPS concept • Excellent data structure & algorithm and problem solving skills. • Expertise in Swift's core concepts of memory management and concurrency • Experience building iOS app from scratch with a strong focus on architecture. Familiar with MVVM, VIPER, etc • Experience building, releasing and maintaining a large scale iOS application • Expertise in nuances of CoreData, CoreAnimation and other Apple frameworks • Obsessed about performance and writing clean modular code. • Creating adaptive UI using Storyboards with strong expertise in Autolayout • Experience writing production code with RxSwift Good to have: • Experience writing Unit and UI Tests • Familiarity with iOS Frameworks & Swift Package Manager alongside other dependency managers • An active contributor to developer communities like Stackoverflow, Topcoder, Github, Google Developer Groups (GDGs). • Proficiency in multiple programming language, both dynamic (JavaScript, Python, etc.) and strongly typed object oriented language. • Proficient in System Design

Adcount Technologies Private Limited (Adurcup) aims to fulfil all the backend needs of Restaurants. Founded by four students from IIT Kanpur, Adurcup is funded twice, and is currently serving services in domains of food packaging, pest control and social wifi.