Sales Executive (Edtech)

About us

We are building new-age billing and pricing infrastructure for SaaS companies. As SaaS pricing evolves from vanilla subscription-based models to more granular usage-based models, billing and pricing infrastructure needs to be completely reimagined.

Founders who sold their previous startups to Snapdeal and Gaana respectively. They have experience at organizations such as Google, Basepair, Elevation Capital, IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi and Harvard Business School. We are funded by marquee global investors, including Bessemer Venture Partners.

We are building our founding team, and are looking for:

1. engineers who can optimize for quick iteration, fast deployment and having a great developer experience.
2. sales, marketing and growth folks who are excited to push the envelope on GTM (go-to-market) innovation

You should be excited about learning and meaningfully shaping the trajectory of an early-stage startup from Day 0 in its journey.

What you can expect

• Ownership and autonomy: As a founding team member, you have immense responsibility. You own and drive the execution.
• Learning: You will work on challenging problems and engage in some of the most meaningful work of your life.
• You will have to figure out our Go-To-Market playbook from scratch - channels, messaging, discovery, demos, sales cycle, personas, nurturing, partnerships etc. Expect a whole lot of iteration and first principles thinking.
• Culture:
• We don’t take ourselves too seriously, and know how to have fun
• The health of our team is most important to us. Balance work with life - be productive, not busy.
• Being remote first, we thrive via async communication.
• Flexibility: Remote - work from wherever you are in the world; If you prefer coming to the office in person, we have a physical space in Indiranagar, Bangalore 
• Compensation: We offer competitive salaries with generous ESOPs
• Benefits (for full-time roles):
• Health insurance
• Generous vacation policy
• Learning and development budget
• Team events and company offsites
• Maternity and Paternity benefits
• Company laptop

About this role

We are building our founding team and are looking for folks who are excited to get their hands dirty in a 0 to 1 journey. If you are expecting a working playbook that you can execute, we are probably not the right fit for you at this point. However, if you are excited about creating the playbook from scratch, we would love to hear from you 

You will directly work with the founders.

Outbound sales are critical to generating meetings with qualified prospects. You will lay the foundation for and execute our outbound sales strategy.

The primary objective is to generate meetings with qualified prospects by optimizing our outbound sales machinery - iterating on channels, messaging, ICP (ideal customer profile), tooling etc.

• Outbound prospecting
• Find leads from databases (Apollo, ZoomInfo, etc.)
• Reach out to them (manual + automated) via different channels (email, LinkedIn, cold calling, etc.) to generate new sales opportunities
• Identify the needs of prospects, and build long-term, trusting relationships with to qualify leads as sales opportunities
• Iterate to maximize qualified meetings set up
• Experiment with different databases
• Experiment with messaging, level of personalization, length of sequences etc.
• Experiment with channels (email, LinkedIn, cold calls etc.)
• Experiment with different types of collateral
• Experiment with the recipient being targeted - industry, persona, intent signals etc.
• Loop in feedback from prospect responses to emails and cold calls to refine messaging further
• Inbound follow-ups - Respond to inbound leads and automate follow-up communication; iterate on messaging/channels to maximize conversion rate
• Run custom campaigns e.g., writing to VCs for intros to their portfolio companies, writing to conference attendees, scraping forums and job descriptions for relevant leads etc.
• Set up in-house tooling to ensure email deliverability, monitor open rate/reply rate, track domain reputation etc.
• Owning the CRM: Create and update leads, set up pipelines, email templates, and automation. Fully utilize CRM capabilities to nurture leads and deliver timely and relevant content

Key Qualifications

• 1-2 years of experience working as a sales development representative at a B2B SaaS company
• The solid hustle and entrepreneurial mindset; Thrive under the uncertainty that comes with an early-stage setup
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Experience working with lead databases, sales engagement tools etc
• Familiarity with CRM systems and proficiency in managing leads, pipelines, and automation
• Willingness to get your hands dirty and do the grunt work in the early days
• Strong first principles understanding of business fundamentals; Ability to empathize with the end user, and understand their pain points; Ability to understand the product at a granular level
• Adaptable to work across time zones to cater to a global customer base
• Self-driven individual with high ownership and a strong work ethic
• Ability to build, manage and motivate a team
• Previous entrepreneurial experience is a huge plus
• Experience catering to the CFO persona is a plus
• Familiarity with billing systems, CPQ and accounting systems is a plus
• Not taking yourself too seriously :)

Primary Skills:

.Net/.Net Core, C#, OOPS and SQL Server as a key technology, which covers frontend and backend work. Knowledge of DevOps (building and deployment) and the Cloud is nice to have.

Roles & Responsibilities

Participate in requirements analysis.

Collaborate with internal teams to produce software design and architecture.

Write clean, scalable code using .NET programming languages.

Test and deploy applications and systems.

Revise, update, refactor and debug code.

Improve existing software.

Eligibility

3+ years of experience in building web applications. Passion for building and delivering great software with a strong sense of ownership

Advanced proficiency in C#, very clear OOPS concepts, In-depth knowledge of the .NET framework, ASP.NET, MVC, Web API, REST APIs, OAuth 2.0/ Authentication/ Authorization

Strong expertise in SQL programming, with experience of writing & optimizing queries that access/process millions of records

Good to have any scripting(powershell) knowledge, JS based UI Frameworks

Outstanding analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills

Experienced in complex logic designing and implementation

Should have worked in Agile development environment and best practices

Good to have experience in secure development practices

• Conceive and implement concepts, guidelines and strategies in various creative projects and oversee them to completion
• Collaborate with account executives to obtain knowledge of the clients’ requirements
• Direct and motivate teams of art directors, illustrators, copywriters etc. to help them use their talents effectively
• Lead brainstorming/creative sessions to generate ideas
• Write and design unique and well-crafted copy that meet clients’ needs as well as our own
• Revise content and presentations, approve/reject ideas, provide feedback to the team
• Train and guide subordinates into accomplished professionals
• Monitor results of team efforts and propose actions for the future

• Expertise in React tools including React.js, Webpack, Babel, Redux/Flux, React router.
• In-depth knowledge of JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and front-end languages.
• Practised in any one CSS frameworks like material UI, Semantic UI, Bootstrap, ANT design.
• Experient working on web API like RESTful Web services, • Proficiency in using Graphql, WebSocket, webhooks.
• Should be able to design and build modern user interfaces to enhance application performance.
• Hands-on experience in browser-based debugging, performance testing software and deployment, with an attention to detail that supports the software development cycle.
• Experience with automated testing suites, like Jest or Mocha
• Experience in an Agile environment