QA Manager

Job Summary:

The Creative Head will lead and oversee the creative strategy, vision, and execution across all brand communication, campaigns, and design initiatives. This role requires a highly imaginative leader who can inspire creative teams, conceptualize innovative ideas, and ensure brand consistency across all channels. The Creative Head will collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive compelling storytelling, engaging content, and impactful campaigns that elevate the brand identity and business objectives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and drive the overall creative vision and strategy aligned with brand objectives.
• Lead the creative team (designers, copywriters, video editors, content creators, etc.) in delivering innovative campaigns.
• Conceptualize and execute integrated marketing campaigns (digital, print, social, experiential, ATL/BTL).
• Ensure brand consistency across all customer touchpoints and communications.
• Collaborate with marketing, product, and business teams to translate briefs into impactful creative solutions.
• Provide clear direction, constructive feedback, and mentorship to creative team members.
• Oversee production of content, graphics, videos, photography, and other creative assets.
• Stay updated with global design, digital, and branding trends to inspire innovation.
• Manage multiple projects, timelines, and stakeholders effectively.
• Evaluate creative performance and iterate strategies for continuous improvement.

Qualifications & Skills:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Fine Arts, Design, Advertising, Marketing, Mass Communication, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in creative roles, with at least 3–5 years in a leadership position.
• Strong portfolio showcasing expertise in branding, design, advertising campaigns, and digital platforms.
• Exceptional leadership and team management skills.
• Proficiency in creative/design tools (Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, etc.).
• Excellent communication, storytelling, and presentation skills.
• Strong understanding of market trends, consumer insights, and creative innovations.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple priorities.

Responsibilities:

• As a designer on our team, you'll be responsible for delivering design and innovation across the team to help bring best-in-class digital experiences to life that empower partner brands, warehouse managers, and fellow employees.
• Run tight sprints and control the design planning for your projects, you'll drive team motivation to achieve individual and company goals.
• Deep empathy for the user and a desire to learn as much as possible about customers
• Find new ways of improving user experience by collaborating with others
• Model Design values in Design Teams & encourage others to be opinionated
• Develop the process/approach for tackling a design problem using known methods; anticipate problems; facilitate skills to engage cross-functional teams
• Use an understanding of impact and success metrics to focus and reprioritize their own and the team's efforts

Requirements:

• 5+ years' experience designing compelling user experiences
• Experience working in an agile/scrum environment and working collaboratively with product managers and developers, from concept to implementation
• Systems thinking; ability to step back and see a project's larger ecosystem, with a focus on solutions that improve not just one feature but the entire user flow
• Ability to lead and deliver projects end to end while effectively managing the stakeholder requirements.
• Ability to explore ideas, persuade others, and build consensus on fast-moving projects with varying degrees of ambiguity
• Have a keen understanding of the technological, business, and user opportunities and constraints
• Ability to distill and reframe problems, then define a framework for resolution, generating clear, elegant solutions for complex challenges
• Experience working in Ecommerce setup is a plus.
• Proficiency in working with design and prototyping tools like Figma, Miro, etc.
• Students from Bachelor's/Master's Degree courses in Design, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Human Factors International (HFI), or related fields of study can apply

WHY JOIN QRATA

• Work with the best: Learn from leaders who have built Qrata from the ground up. Work with down-to-earth, highly experienced, and insanely ambitious colleagues.
• As the business grows, you grow: We want Qrata to be built from within. We look at you as a business leader with the potential to make an impact in the talent space for the Indian startup.
• Great Culture and Work life Balance: Wins are celebrated: We have clear and frequent processes in place for recognizing the achievements of their employees. Leadership and management style that encourages teamwork, frequent engagement, fun activities and transparent communication which is vital to creating a positive feeling in the workplace.

WHAT WE DO AND WHO WE ARE

• We started Qrata in 2016. We are a 40+ person team based out of Mumbai and Bangalore.
• We have our own platform and framework that includes pre vetting talent for accelerated hiring as well as building a composite talent profile including community references to create predictable hiring outcomes/structured learning for our talent community.
• We are building an ecosystem that connects untapped talent in India irrespective of location to realize their full potential through careers in the fastest growing start-ups around the globe from India.

WHAT WILL BE YOUR MISSION AT QRATA?

This staff member will join our diverse and passionate team, whose primary role is to ensure the digital traction needed to fuel our organization, build fierce momentum around our product through creative and effective branding, and build win-win partnerships with multiple aligned organizations. Within this team, the Content and Marketing Partner will primarily own the Communications and Digital Marketing work, while also collaborating actively on other team projects. We are looking for a passionate storyteller who can identify, curate, and amplify our impact, through stories and statistics, across various mediums.

WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO AT QRATA?

• Design approaches to establish and amplify Qrata’s brand presence on social channels
• Develop metrics to measure the Content and Marketing team’s reach and depth of impact
• Collaborate with design and writing teams to produce high quality content
• Provide engaging text, image and video content for social media accounts
• Be the voice between Qrata & the community, able to relay Qrata’s POV forward as well as collect actionable information from the community (+ social listening) for the organization
• Establish meaningful relationships across our communities; leverage selected influencers within the community or community leaders to trigger conversations
• Edit, proofread, and improve the content.
• Optimize content considering SEO and Google Analytics.
• Analyze web traffic metrics.
• Ensure a strong web presence on various channels.
• Generate ideas to increase customer engagement from 0 - 100. 
• Drive growth in our talent community via our product.
• Respond to comments and client queries in a timely manner

MUST HAVE’S

• Bachelor's degree in Media or Communications or Journalism or Humanities, or a related field.
• Project management skills and attention to detail
• Excellent communication and writing skills in English
• Proficiency in LinkedIn,Instagram, and other social media platforms.

GOOD TO HAVE’S

• 1-2 years of relevant experience in startups or Media Houses(Digital)
• Previous experience working in early stage start-ups.

LOCATION

402 Pharma Search House, -, BG Kher Rd, Vasi Naka, Siddharth Nagar, Worli, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400018

1. Conceptualizing visuals that bring simplicity and user friendliness to complex user flows
2. Designing the visual identity of digital products.
3. Implementing strategy of typography, iconography, colors, layout
4. Creating responsive design comps on the basis of wireframes
5. Asking smart questions, taking risks and championing new ideas
6. Bringing expert opinion on best-practices, patterns and trends
7. Translating high-level explicit and latent requirements into functional user interfaces
8. Presenting designs and articulating design decisions
9. Communicating design rationale and maintaining consistency throughout the project
10. Executing designs as a part of software development teams

• Strive to make your work intuitive, compelling and a delight to see.
• Be a self-motivated team player with a positive, solution-oriented attitude
• Be dynamic and open to working in fast-paced, ambiguous and quickly changing environments
• Be open to receiving feedback and constructive criticism.
• Excellent verbal, written, and visual communication skills
• Expertise in standard UI/UX software such as Adobe XD, Photoshop, and Illustrator.
• A solid grasp of user-centered design (UCD), planning and researching, A/B testing, rapid prototyping, heuristic analysis, usability and accessibility concerns.
• Experience in Education Technology would be great

We are looking for an enthusiastic marketing intern to join our marketing department and provide creative ideas to help achieve our goals. You will have administrative duties in developing and implementing marketing strategies.

As a marketing intern, you will collaborate with our marketing and advertising team in all stages of marketing campaigns. Your insightful contribution will help develop, expand and maintain our marketing channels. This internship will help you acquire marketing skills and provide you with knowledge of various marketing strategies. Ultimately, you will gain broad experience in marketing and should be prepared to enter any fast-paced work environment.

Responsibilities:

• Collect quantitative and qualitative data from marketing campaigns

• Perform market analysis and research on the competition

• Support the marketing team in daily administrative tasks

• Assist in marketing and advertising promotional activities (e.g. social media, direct mail, and web)

• Prepares promotional presentations

• Help distribute marketing materials

• Manage and update company database and customer relationship management systems (CRM)

• Help organize marketing events

• Architect, develop and maintain core products and services of the company.
• Create database architecture and best practises for optimization in speed and product operating costs.
• Design client-side and server-side architecture
• Build the front-end of applications through appealing visual design
• Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications
• Write effective APIs with high-volume large scale transaction processing capabilities.
• Collaborate with design teams to ensure flawless UI and UX is achieved 
• Build features and applications with a mobile responsive design
• Write technical documentation
• Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency
• Work with customers in evaluating technical requirements.
• Work closely with the product managers to achieve product vision and goals
• Review work of other developers and contractors, provide feedback and mentoring.
• Assist in the hiring of technical talent.

• Proven experience as a Full Stack Developer or similar role for atleast 3 years 
• In depth knowledge of Ruby on Rails, NodeJS, ExpressJS or Restify
• Experience implementing applications using Angular 1 or React
• Experience creating front end applications using HTML5, Angular, LESS/SASS
• Hands on experience with JavaScript Development on both client and server-side
• Automating the building and deploying of code along with continuous integration (Jenkins/Hudson) and version control (SVN, Git)
• Strong experience is deploying and managing application in AWS and Google Cloud
• Creating secure RESTful-based web services in XML and JSON, Javascript, JQuery
• Experience with modern frameworks and design patterns, minimum 2 years experience with MEAN Fullstack paradigm

• Know how to create apis and applications
• Know how to architect and scale databases
• Know how to build front end for applications
• Know how to deploy applications on the cloud

Roles and Responsibilities

The Ideal Candidate with his Bachelor's Degree in Marine Engineering, Electrical / Instrumentation Engineering, Automation, or an adjacent field with experience in Maritime Systems is also welcome. Alternatively experienced electrical officers with maritime experience/ Naval experience with exposure to the above areas are welcome

Prior work experience in the Maritime Industry preferably with strong competence in some or all of the below is desirable :

• Marine Automation, Marine Electrical Systems
• Communication Systems, NAVCOM systems
• Experience in working with PLCs, RTU, Gateway, Edge Devices/ Data Loggers
• Systems operation and maintenance
• In-Depth knowledge of maintenance, commissioning of Marine Electrical and NAVCOM Systems Ability to carry out in-depth troubleshooting and guide vessels for effective case resolutions
• Work Experience as an Electrical/ Technical Superintendent will be a Plus
• Prior experience in the review of the vessel's drawings and machinery specification a must
• Carry out vessel inspection visits as required, Supervise retrofit installations during digital automation & Smart Ship Platform implementation.

A challenging role with one of the fastest-growing maritime digital automation startup.

• The candidate will be driving global delivery, conducting ship inspection to identify vessel machinery from which data signals can be fetched.
• The candidate must have past experience in data telemetry from various machinery such as Main Engine, DG Sets, Boiler, Flowmeters, Emission, Emissions, Ballast, etc.
• Candidate must have experience of working with data signals RS485 NMEA, 4..20 mA, 0..10 V, etc.
• The candidate will work in close coordination with technology specialists, data scientists, and chief engineers with experience in vessel and voyage performance management.
• Prior experience with various control systems, especially for: data telemetry, gateway configuration, working with different PLCs such as Siemens, Alan Bradley, etc.
• Candidates with experience in only navigation & communication systems are also welcome.
• Candidates will be working on cutting edge technology & new age maritime business practices to come up with solutions for the global maritime industry.
• Any experience across electrical systems of the vessels and awareness of various machinery parameters are welcome.
• Awareness & knowledge of power generation, automation systems, reefer container monitoring

, experience in PMS is an added advantage.

Candidates will get tremendous learning experience of innovative solutions & emerging business models in the maritime vertical.

• Consulting & Advisory positions are also available in addition to full-time positions.
• Work from home also available.