Sales Executive

Your Roles and Responsibilities:

Business Development is a critical aspect of our platform business.

1. Actively seeking out new sales opportunities through cold calling, networking, and social media.

2. Calling 65-70 leads every day

3. Setting up meetings with potential clients (parents)

4. Generating Trial Classes - Pitch Parents to take PlanetSpark Trial Classes

5. Negotiate/close deals and handle complaints or objections

6. Follow and achieve the department’s sales goals on a monthly, quarterly, and yearly basis (3L revenue per month)

7. “Go the extra mile” to drive sales

• We use cutting edge technologies to build our products which means you get to be updated on the latest tech stack.
• You don’t need to have experience in any of our specific technologies;we are good at teaching our Engineers. Our diverse group of Engineers are a great team to work with and to learn.

• We deploy changes to production multiple times a day.
• Blameless culture and a continuous learning mindset

• Making a global platform with the scale of millions of users.
• Working directly with designers and PMs to make a world class test taking experience.
• Building a platform for companies and writing an ML based algorithm to match candidates and companies.
• Building an Ed-Tech product for the upskilling of candidates.

• Strong understanding of JS fundamentals and going deep into it coupled with experience in modern frameworks like ReactJs, Vuejs etc.
• The ideal person has worked with product teams in startups and taken features (or entire product modules) to production deployment which was then consumed by real users.
• Proficiency in building a highly scalable frontend.
• Ownership mindset- Taking end to end ownership of frontend initiatives and being part of the core team in driving the overall growth of the organisation in achieving its vision.

• Bachelors degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology or related
• Previous work experience as a Manual Testing in OTT Platform - MUST
• Complete understanding of STB, Set up box (MUST)
• Understanding of testing protocols
• Good analytical and troubleshooting skills
• Attention to detail
• Strong communication skills

Primary/Essential Duties and Key Responsibilities:

• Proactively manage a portfolio of  customers once the implementation phase is completed
• Develop and build strong relationships with key customer stakeholders 
• Understand customers’ needs and priorities to optimize the use of the platform
• Identify new opportunities: up-sell, cross-sell, additional training
• Effectively communicate application features and product information for new releases and facilitate their adoption
• Be the voice of the customer and provide internal feedback on how we can better serve our customers
• Collaborate closely with various cross-functional teams (Product Management, R&D, Marketing and Sales) to drive better results
• Resolve billing and Support inquiries in a timely and productive manner
• Coordinate small customer projects

Required Qualifications: 

• Well-organized and excellent time management abilities
• Proven ability to collaborate and build strong relationships with customers especially at the Executive level
• Exceptional oral and written communication skills and attention to detail
• Minimum 4-5 years experience 

Travel Requirements:

• Full-Cycle Recruitment Process
• New Client References for the company

• Management- Manage full-cycle recruitment for a host of assigned searches.
• Gather Information- Understand the company and candidate requirements thoroughly.
• Process- Create and suggest the hiring process and strategies on the basis of the job description.
• Timeline- Mention the timelines for the end-to-end recruitment process to hire the right-fit candidate.
• Job Marketing- Advertise the job through different channels to get more attraction.
• Sourcing- Source candidates through different job portals and social media platforms.
• Initial Screening- Screen the candidates via phone call or video call.
• Interviews- Conduct rounds of interviews before shortlisting and submitting candidates to the clients.
• Assessments- Create and submit assessments based on each candidate’s interview.
• Co-ordination- Follow up with the client and candidates to schedule final interviews on a timely basis.
• Negotiation- Based on the client’s shortlisting, initiate negotiations with candidates and close the deal.
• Candidate Management- Once the deal is closed, follow up and maintain a good relationship with the candidates till the transition is complete.
• Client Management- keep in touch with the client for more vacancies.

• Excellent communication (verbal & written), interpersonal and consulting skills
• Sound judgment to recognize and strive to meet client's hiring needs.
• Ability to meet targets and deadlines.
• Confident, pleasant personality, ambitious, self-motivated, organized with leadership and management skills.