Sales Manager

Sales Associate

Experience : 5 to 10 years

Location : Hyderabad (initially remote)

Shift : 7:00 PM to 4:00 AM(IST)

Job type : Full-time

Skills:

sales and business development

b2b sales

ai products sales

hrtech

talent hiring landscape

acv

sales target planning

software product sales

Role :

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Sales Lead to join our growing team and drive the adoption of our AI Talent platform. As a foundational member of our sales organization, you will be responsible for building and executing a sales strategy that targets founders, hiring managers, and talent acquisition leaders at high-growth technology companies. This is a unique opportunity to represent a cutting-edge product and play a pivotal role in our company’s growth story. The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker with a hands-on approach, capable of both closing deals and building the framework for a scalable sales function.

Key Responsibilities :

• Develop and execute a comprehensive sales strategy to achieve and exceed revenue targets.
• Identify, engage, and cultivate relationships with key decision-makers, primarily within the tech and startup ecosystem.
• Manage the full sales cycle, from prospecting and lead generation to product demonstrations, negotiation, and closing deals.
• Articulate The Cohort’s value proposition clearly, demonstrating how our AI-driven solution solves critical hiring challenges.
• Build and maintain a robust sales pipeline, providing accurate forecasting and reporting.
• Collaborate with the marketing team to align on lead generation campaigns and sales enablement materials.
• Gather customer feedback and market intelligence to inform product development and sales strategy.
• As the team grows, mentor and lead junior sales representatives to foster a high-performance culture.

Qualifications :

• 5+ years of experience in a B2B SaaS sales role, with a proven track record of exceeding sales quotas.
• Experience in the HR technology, recruiting, or talent acquisition industry is strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated success in selling to founders, C-level executives, and hiring managers.
• Exceptional communication, presentation, and negotiation skills.
• A deep understanding of the challenges and dynamics of technical recruiting.
• Self-starter with an entrepreneurial spirit, comfortable working in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment.
• Proficiency with modern CRM and sales engagement platforms.

What We Offer :

• A competitive salary and commission structure.
• Comprehensive benefits package.
• The opportunity to be an early and impactful member of a rapidly growing AI startup.
• A collaborative and innovative work culture.
• The chance to work with a cutting-edge product that is transforming an industry.

FactWise is a fully funded, early-stage startup building b2b SaaS for a global SMB client base. Our team has alumni from MIT, Stanford, GeorgiaTech, UCL, the IITs, VJTI, Amazon and McKinsey, and currently comprises frontend, backend, full stack developers, UI/UX engineers, product managers, data scientist, and Ops, HR, Marketing. We'd love to get to know you better!

As a member of the development group, you will be primarily responsible for the design, development, and maintenance of the product:  

• Help define and create full stack architecture and deployment using React- Django-AWS in an agile environment with lots of ownership and active mentoring. 
• Work with the Product and Design teams to build new features to solve business problems and fill business needs 
• Participate in code reviews to create robust and maintainable code 
• Work in an agile environment where quick iterations and good feedback are a way of life 
• Interact with other stakeholders for requirement, design discussions and for adoption of new features 
• Communicate and coordinate with our support and professional services teams to solve customer issues. 
• Help scale our platform as we expand our product across various markets and verticals globally. 

As a young startup, we are hoping to be joined by self-starting, hardworking, passionate individuals who are committed to delivering their best, who can grow into future leaders of FactWise. 

As a part of Design Team, we work on products that empower Recruiters to increase their productivity. We own these projects from start to finish and collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of developers, product managers, content strategists, and researchers to deliver the best possible experience.

Responsibilities:

• Create and communicate end to end user interface design specs, including high priority and high visibility complex interaction and dialog flows, wireframes, interactive prototypes

• Single handedly drive designs and oversee the strategic and tactical deliverables related to that project

• Coordinate and plan with other functions, including identifying the appropriate UX methods and tools to use depending on project constraints. Manage stakeholder expectations

• Understand both the user behavior and the technology components (speech, natural language) that make for a natural, efficient, and reliable machine-to-human conversation

• Support and contribute to the voice talent and persona definition process for different design situations

• Conduct usability tests using prototypes and incorporate findings and usage data to refine the design

• Develop design principles and style guides to be followed in a voice-first environment to create a consistent user experience

• Work in a highly iterative and nimble environment with product managers, engineers, and recruiters to get your design shipped

Requirements:

• Bachelors/Masters in Design, HCI, Cognitive Psychology, or any other related field

• 4+ years of experience as an experience designer for web/mobile or voice applications

• Hands on experience with XD, Illustrator, Photoshop (or equivalent programs)

• Deep knowledge of UX design, user research, visual design, and Service design

• Experience working cross-team while taking feedback from product management, engineering, business and marketing

• Excellent problem solving skills along with deep empathy for users

• Good experience in designing mobile interfaces and responsive desktop sites

• Excellent written and communication skills

• Fluency in English and Hindi. Added bonus if you know other Indian languages

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with conversational product design

• Creativity, logical thinking, solid design process and detailed design presentations

• Familiarity with speech and natural language processing technologies

• Expertise in motion design or prototyping

• As a lead engineer, you will be expected to execute and deliver large and complex projects end-to-end, with or without the involvement of other team members.
• Participate in code reviews, app architecture, and design discussions.
• Ensuring timely delivery of all product deliverables.
• Be the go-to person for the team for guidance and troubleshooting. 
• Mentoring junior developers and set best practices for coding, reviews, etc.
• Ensuring performance and scalability in all new product features being developed. 

• Overall of 5+ years of expertise in at least one dynamic programming language like Python and one MVC web framework, preferably Django.
• Experience in at least one frontend framework, preferably React.js
• Expertise in database modeling, preferably relational DB, spotting DB bottlenecks, and writing optimized DB queries.
• Expertise in all common AWS cloud technologies, knowledge of CI/CD tools, and workflows.

The key skills and expertise needed are:

1. eCommerce/Retail experience can be optional but needs to have experience with any high volume customer facing web/mobile site

2. Web Development, Front End Development, AND In the browser performance profiling

3. Java, Spring Boot, React, Node, Redux, Webpack, Microservices, AND experience with AWS technologies to make the overall application stack more resilient

4. Performance Profiling of web/mobile experiences and experience with working in CICD environment

5. Experience working with Web based and mobile ecommerce sites or similar public facing websites with high customer volume

6. Needs to be able to work at the code level doing performance profile to evaluate how the website and associated digital platform is built to find performance improvement opportunities