Reservation Manager

Job Profile: Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) at Founders Office

Location: Chembur, Mumbai

Experience: 2- 4 yrs

Reports to: Founders

Job Type: Full-Time

Job Description

Position Overview: AXS Solutions is seeking a dynamic and driven Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) to join the Founders Office. The ideal candidate will work closely with the founders to drive the growth and expansion of AXS in various dimensions, including business development, strategic partnerships, innovation, and operational efficiency. This role offers a unique opportunity to be at the heart of AXS's growth strategy, working on high-impact projects and initiatives.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Growth Initiatives:

- Identify and develop new business opportunities and markets for expansion.

- Collaborate with the founders to define and implement strategic growth initiatives.

- Conduct market research and analysis to inform strategic decision-making.

Business Development:

- Lead efforts to establish and maintain strategic partnerships and alliances.

- Explore new revenue streams and develop plans to capitalize on them.

- Assist in negotiations and closing deals with key partners and clients.

Innovation and Product Development:

- Work with cross-functional teams to drive innovation and product development.

- Identify emerging trends and technologies that could impact AXS's business.

- Develop and oversee pilot projects to test new ideas and concepts.

Operational Efficiency:

- Analyze and improve existing business processes to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.

- Develop and implement operational strategies to support growth objectives.

- Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics to track progress and identify areas for improvement.

Leadership and Mentorship:

- Mentor and support junior team members and emerging leaders within the organization.

- Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Key Skills and Qualifications:

- Education: Bachelor's degree in Business, Economics, Engineering, or a related field; MBA or advanced degree preferred.

- Experience: Minimum of 3-7 years of experience in business development, strategy, consulting, or a related field; experience in a startup environment is a plus.

- Entrepreneurial Mindset: Proven track record of entrepreneurial success, either as a founder or in a leadership role in a high-growth company.

- Strategic Thinking: Strong strategic and analytical thinking skills, with the ability to identify and capitalize on growth opportunities.

- Business Acumen: Deep understanding of business operations, financial planning, and market dynamics.

- Leadership: Strong leadership and mentoring skills, with the ability to inspire and motivate teams.

- Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively present ideas and influence stakeholders.

- Adaptability: Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple priorities.

Personal Attributes:

- Proactive and Results-Driven: Takes initiative and is focused on achieving tangible results.

- Innovative: Creative thinker who is always looking for new ways to solve problems and create value.

- Collaborative: Team player who works well with others and fosters a collaborative work environment.

- Resilient: Able to handle setbacks and challenges with a positive attitude and persistence.

ICL Immigration is a pioneering educational consultancy dedicated to unlocking study-abroad opportunities for students worldwide. With a focus on students from India aspiring to pursue their education in New Zealand, we provide tailored advice and support throughout their application and enrollment journey.

Our deep understanding of the educational landscapes in both India and New Zealand, as well as our expertise in navigating the visa process, enables us to connect students with programs that align with both their academic ambitions and personal growth objectives.

The Role

We seek an enthusiastic and proactive Sales Representative to manage and convert leads of prospective Indian students interested in studying in New Zealand. You will serve as the primary liaison, guiding students through the initial stages of considering studying abroad and assisting them in navigating the path to realizing their educational goals.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and nurture relationships with prospective students via email, phone calls, and video chats, offering detailed information about New Zealand's study options, application procedures, visa requirements, and lifestyle.
• Assist students in identifying educational opportunities that align with their career aspirations, providing clear, logical, and persuasive advice.
• Diligently follow up on leads, utilizing our CRM to track interactions and progress with prospective students.
• Work closely with our marketing team to enhance lead generation strategies using a data-driven approach.
• Engage in promotional activities such as educational fairs, webinars, and seminars to advocate for our services and New Zealand as a prime study destination.
• Achieve and exceed sales targets on a monthly and quarterly basis.

Requirements

• Demonstrable sales experience, preferably within the education sector or similar fields.
• Exceptional communication skills, characterized by the ability to convey information clearly, logically, and persuasively without relying on complex vocabulary or specific accents.
• Proficiency in using smart sales automation tools and a data-driven methodology to increase customer satisfaction and conversion rates.
• Comprehensive knowledge of the Indian educational system and the unique needs of students looking to study abroad.
• Familiarity with New Zealand’s educational system and visa regulations is preferred.
• Fluent in English and at least one major Indian language (e.g., Hindi, Punjabi).
• Capable of working autonomously in a remote environment.

What We Offer

• A competitive salary complemented by performance incentives.
• The flexibility of remote work.
• Career development opportunities within a growing company.
• A chance to be part of a passionate team dedicated to significantly impacting students' futures.

How to Apply

Interested candidates are invited to submit their resume along with a cover letter detailing their suitability for the role, including examples of past successes in sales, particularly those involving smart automation and a data-driven sales approach. Please highlight your ability to communicate effectively and persuade prospective students in your interactions.

Key Responsibilities:

● Develop and implement HR policies and procedures to ensure compliance with all applicable employment laws and regulations.

● Manage the recruitment process, including developing job descriptions, posting job openings, screening resumes, and conducting interviews.

● Develop and implement employee training and development programs to ensure that employees have the necessary skills to perform their jobs effectively.

● Manage employee relations issues, including grievances, conflicts, and disciplinary actions.

● Oversee the performance management process, including setting performance goals and providing feedback and coaching to employees. ● Manage the compensation and benefits program, including developing and implementing competitive compensation and benefits packages.

● Maintain HR records and ensure that employee files are up-to-date and accurate.

● Develop and implement HR metrics to measure the effectiveness of HR programs and initiatives.

● Partner with senior leaders to develop and implement HR strategies that support the overall goals of the organization.

Requirements:

● Bachelor's degree in Human Resources or related field.

● Minimum of 5 years of experience in recruitment, team management, and employee relations.

● Strong knowledge of employment laws and regulations.

● Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

● Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

● Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills.

● Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information.

● Strong organizational and time management skills.

Interns day to day responsibilities include:

• Do the quality check for the catalogue images as per Image guidelines, to review product catalogues based on category guidelines and ensure that delivered data is 100% accurate and complete with a positive impact on customer experience.

• Do frequent checks on existing processes to help the Catalogue team achieve more consistent results with high quality and to own new projects which will aim at achieving high productivity of an individual/team.

• Populate 100% accurate content from various sources (Brand Websites, E commerce Portals, Product info Pages, Seller’s, Consumers, Companies, Subject Matter Experts) for specific as well as general information about the product through various channels (Verbal & Written communication, through on ground activities as well as through various online search techniques).

• Collaborating with the front-end developers and other team members to establish objectives and design more functional, cohesive codes to enhance the user experience.
• Own code for the products with responsibilities including but not limited to designing, developing, testing, maintenance of products.
• Building RESTful services and do DevOps.
• Talking to customers and business teams to suggest improvement areas in product flows.
• Create peer learnings for team members and build context for new teammates
• Help with building the company's tech team and iterating on the hiring framework.
• Provide regular feedback to your team (peers and managers) to ensure continuous improvement.
• Keeping abreast with the latest technologies and working on your skills regularly.

Skills & Requirements

• Good knowledge and experience of working with backend systems; designing server-side architecture, including production maintenance experience are must-haves.
• At least 1-8 years of experience in any programming languages like Java, Ruby, PHP, Python, and Node.js(Node.js preferred).
• Understanding of micro-services-oriented architecture.
• Experience with Databases design (SQL, NoSQL) and analytics
• Experience in driving and delivering complex features/software modules from technical design to launch.
• Expertise with unit testing & Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Have empathy for the users you build for

Good to have

• Experience in the fintech industry
• Experience leading design and implementation of robust and secure web services

We are looking for a seasoned Recruiter to support our staffing division. The right candidate must be able to successfully manage, prioritize and close searches against a timeline and have experience setting benchmarks, metrics, and understand how to prioritize to hit all client SLAs. They thrive in an innovative, fast-paced environment, can roll up their sleeves, work hard, have fun, and get the job done.  

Responsibilities

• Manage the full-cycle recruitment process -sourcing, interviewing & closing candidates
• Conduct phone interviews to screen and qualify candidates in a timely manner while always providing a positive candidate experience
• Help to maintain various recruitment tracking reports, and enhance existing reports where applicable
• Successful track-record of delivering on aggressive hiring goals and managing a high requisition count with multiple clients
• Proven experience and knowledge of sourcing and attracting top tier passive talent
• A drive to excel in a fast-paced, autonomous environment.

 Experience Required

•        1+ years of relevant recruiting experience 
• Experience in hiring technical profiles on a permanent / C2H basis
• Self-starter who can operate effectively in a fast-paced environment and navigate ambiguity independently
• Strong attention to detail and the ability to prioritize competing demands
• Strong problem-solving, data analytics, and reporting skills
• Excellent communication (both written and verbal, listening and questioning skills), organization and interpersonal skill, ability to work with diverse personalities

1. Extensive experience in Javascript / NodeJS in the back end
2. Front end frameworks such as Bootstrap, Pug, Jquery
3. Experience in web frameworks like ExpressJS, Webpack
4. Experience in Nginx, Redis, Apache Kafka and MQTT
5. Experience with MongoDB
6. Experience with Version Control Systems like Git / Mercurial
7. Sound knowledge in Software engineering best practices
8. Sound knowledge in RestFul API Design
9. Working knowledge of Automated testing tools
10. Experience in maintaining production servers (Optional)
11. Experience with Azure DevOps (Optional)

1. Experience in digital payments or financial services industry is a plus.
2. Participation in the processes of strategic project-planning meetings.
3. Be involved and participate in the overall application lifecycle.
4. Collaborate with External Development Teams.
5. Define and communicate technical and design requirements, understanding workflows and write code as per requirements.
6. Develop functional and sustainable web applications with clean codes.
7. Focus on coding and debugging.

Key Responsibilities:

• Participate in full project life cycle (including requirement analysis, system design, development, and support if required).
• Partner with Project Managers, Business Analysts, and other developers to plan project work by providing estimates, risk analysis, technical options.
• Support and work collaboratively with teams across areas of design, development, quality assurance, and operations.
• Help define the vision for a product, identify dead ends and routes with untapped potential.
• Attend meetings to discuss and demonstrate solutions at both a technical and business level.

Required Skills

• 5+ years of web application development experience using at least one of the following: Javascript, Web Components, Angular, Polymer, ReactJS, Redux, LitElement, Svelte, VueJS, or knockout.js. Web Components is used and preferred.
• Experience with SPA (Single Page Application) design and implementation
• Experience with HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript/ and AJAX
• Experience working with a variety of APIs and RESTful interfaces
• Experience with performance optimization
• Experience integrating security best practices into the SDLC
• Experience with Git
• 1+ years of Agile development experience
• Experience manipulating and working with data in a variety of forms: csv, xml, json, structured and unstructured
• Intellectual curiosity and drive; self-starters will thrive in this position
• Passion for Technology: excitement for new technology, bleeding edge applications, and a positive attitude towards solving real world challenges

Desirable Skills

• SQL experience. PostGreSQL a plus.
• Knowledge of AWS or other cloud environments is a plus.
• Knowledge JIRA, Bamboo, Confluence, or BitBucket a plus.
• Experience with CI/CD is a plus.
• Experience working with databases and web applications in analytics, reporting or Business Intelligence is a plus.

1. Proven experience with deploying and tuning Open Source components into enterprise ready production tooling Experience with datacentre (Metal as a Service – MAAS) and cloud deployment technologies (AWS or GCP Architect certificates required)
2. Deep understanding of Linux from kernel mechanisms through user space management
3. Experience on CI/CD (Continuous Integrations and Deployment) system solutions (Jenkins).
4. Using Monitoring tools (local and on public cloud platforms) Nagios, Prometheus, Sensu, ELK, Cloud Watch, Splunk, New Relic etc. to trigger instant alerts, reports and dashboards.  Work closely with the development and infrastructure teams to analyze and design solutions with four nines (99.99%) up-time, globally distributed, clustered, production and non-production virtualized infrastructure. 
5. Wide understanding of IP networking as well as data centre infrastructure

1. Expert with software development tools and sourcecode management, understanding, managing issues, code changes and grouping them into deployment releases in a stable and measurable way to maximize production Must be expert at developing and using ansible roles and configuring deployment templates with jinja2.
2. Solid understanding of data collection tools like Flume, Filebeat, Metricbeat, JMX Exporter agents.
3. Extensive experience operating and tuning the kafka streaming data platform, specifically as a message queue for big data processing
4. Strong understanding and must have experience:
5. Apache spark framework, specifically spark core and spark streaming, 
6. Orchestration platforms, mesos and kubernetes, 
7. Data storage platforms, elasticstack, carbon, clickhouse, cassandra, ceph, hdfs
8. Core presentation technologies kibana, and grafana.
9. Excellent scripting and programming skills (bash, python, java, go, rust). Must have previous experience with “rust” in order to support, improve in house developed products

Red Hat Certified Architect certificate or equivalent required CCNA certificate required 3-5 years of experience running open source big data platforms