Sales Manager-Female

GradRight is an ed-fin-tech company committed to driving transparency and accountability in the global higher education sector.

We are the world's first platform that integrates 'Selection' with 'Financing'. and brings students, banks, and universities into a SaaS environment to make smarter decisions. Using data science, technology, and strategic partnerships across the industry, we enable students to find the “Right University” at the “Right Cost”. We are on a mission to aid a million students to find their best-fit universities and financial offerings by 2025.

Our flagship product - FundRight, is the world’s first student loan bidding platform. In just two years, we have enabled students to get the best deals on $ 1 Billion of loan requests and facilitated disbursements of more than $ 120 Million in loans. We are India's largest single pipeline of education loans and are poised to scale up globally.

Our second product, SelectRight, is the world's first MarTech SaaS platform that redefines how students select the right colleges and how colleges find and engage with the right students.

GradRight is a Delaware, USA-registered company with a wholly-owned subsidiary in India.

Brief:

Obsession with customer needs, passionate about customer experience, and thrive on data - if you resonate with these, then we’d love to hear from you. As a product manager, you’ll be the voice of reason for our entire product ecosystem. You’ll join a fast-paced environment and work with cross-functional teams to design and deliver products aligned with the company’s vision and strategy.

Responsibilities:

1. Collect and analyze customer needs, collaborate with key stakeholders to ideate and deliver compelling solutions that create incremental value for customers
2. Create buy-in for product vision across all stakeholders
3. Develop positioning strategies that can drive growth and improve market share
4. Create and maintain detailed product requirements and roadmap
5. Create and track product success metrics and use them to identify problems and opportunities to pursue
6. Work with designers to build wireframes, validate and translate them into full-blown designs
7. Collaborate with engineering teams to drive feasibility analysis and refine product requirements
8. Work closely with engineering teams to deliver the roadmap while optimizing for time-to-market
9. Own the design <> engineering teams hand-off, release timelines, and work with business teams to plan and execute product launches
10. Evaluate marketing and sales strategies to ensure that they are in line with product strategy
11. Standardize the product design process and evangelize the same across all stakeholders

Requirements:

1. At least 6 years experience as a product manager at a B2C startup, with war stories to share
2. Proven track record of managing all aspects of product development lifecycle
3. Strong understanding of software development workflows and ability to work with top-notch engineering teams
4. Strong problem-solving skills and willingness to roll up one’s sleeves to get the job done
5. Excellent written and verbal communication skills
6. Strong presentational and public speaking skills
7. Bias for experimentation and ability to ask the right questions

Good to have:

1. Both B2C and B2B experience, preferably on marketplace-like initiatives
2. Exposure to edTech and/or finTech domains
3. Worked on products that addressed an international audience
4. Worked on products that scaled to millions of users

Location: Hyderabad

Additional resources:

1. Our team - https://gradright.com/team.html
2. Customer Testimonials - https://gradright.com/testimonials.html

GradRight on social media - LinkedIn, Instagram

We are looking for an HR Manager with outstanding people skills to manage our personnel and ensure that our human resources programs and initiatives are effective, efficient, and aligned with overall business objectives. The ideal candidate for this role should possess a high work ethic, excellent communication skills, knowledge of labour regulations and HR practices, strategic thinking abilities, strong organisational skills, and excellent interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities:

Provide professional leadership, support, and development to HR staff, in order to increase knowledge, share best practices, and ensure that relevant professional standards are met.

Advice and strategies on the development of effective employment policies across the company.

Take a lead role in transforming and strengthening the organisational culture, ensuring that the company values and approach are displayed.

Ability to handle Employee Relations issues end to end.

Coordinate playbooks for annual HR activities such as compensation planning and open enrolment.

Handle a team of recruiters and end-to-end IT recruitment.

Parse specialised skills and qualifications to screen IT resumes

Perform pre-screening calls to analyse applicants’ abilities

Interview candidates combining various methods (e.g., structured interviews, technical assessments and behavioural questions)

Coordinate with IT team leaders to forecast department goals and hiring needs

Craft and send personalised recruiting emails with current job openings to passive candidates

Participate in tech conferences and meetups to network with IT professionals.

Required Skills:

Good knowledge of employment regulations.

Proven work experience as a Technical Manager or Manager 

Hands-on experience with various interview formats (e.g., phone, Skype and structured)

Technical expertise with an ability to understand and explain job requirements for IT roles

Familiarity with Applicant Tracking Systems and resume databases

Solid knowledge of sourcing techniques (e.g., Job portals and Boolean search)

Excellent verbal and written communication skills, Solid understanding of HR practices and labour legislation.

What does the core role include?

• Designing and developing high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems and delivering high-availability and performance
• Designing stateless components in React Native
• Contributing in all phases of the development lifecycle
• Working with the developers to create and maintain a robust framework to support the apps
• Working with the developers to build the interface with a focus on usability features

What else can you expect in the role?

• Prepare and produce releases of software components
• Optimizing performance for the apps
• Problem-solving skills, analytical mind, and positive attitude
• Ability to think from end  users perspective and focused on improving the overall product experience.
• Deliver across the entire app life cycle concept, design, build, deploy, test, release to app stores and support

What can fetch you brownie points?

• Hands  on experience with React Native is required
• Hands-on experience in React Native APIs, ReactJS, Javascript, ECMAScript (OOJS) and JSX.
• Strong understanding of Java Script ecosystem
• Hands  on experience on Android in creating Hybrid / Native applications
• Demonstrable UI/UX experience on a large-scale app.
• Thorough understanding of React Native development tools like IDEs (Nuclide, Atom, Sublime Text, or Visual
• Good knowledge of JS frameworks like ReactJS is a plus.

ROLE REQUIREMENTS :

- Good knowledge of Teamcenter Data Model & BMIDE configuration

- Strong experience in Configuration and Administration of one or many Teamcenter modules like Access Manager, Organization, Query Builder, Workflow Designer, Structure Manager, Change Management, Preferences, Stylesheets and Classification

- Configuring CAD Managers

- Experience in SAP/ERP Integration using T4S or T4EA configuration experience preferred

- Import/Export Administration (Like PLMXML) preferred

- Good knowledge of Teamcenter & AWC Architecture. Hands-on installation experience on 4 tier, AWC & Dispatcher preferred

- Configure & Build solutions on Teamcenter to meet business process and customer requirements.

- Responsible for delivery of technical solution that spans Teamcenter and integrations with Teamcenter.

- Good understanding of Product Life Cycle Management concepts and their application in the area of Mechanical Design, Manufacturing process management, Bill of Materials, Document Management, Product change/configuration management and collaborative product development

- Experience of performing deployment in non-production & production environments preferred

- Able to prepare deployment & user document

- Provide training on Teamcenter to users

- Good Communication

- Strong Analytical capability

- Team Player

- Should be able to mentor Juniors