Sales Manager

About Sun King

Sun King is the world’s leading off-grid solar energy company, delivering energy access to 1.8 billion people without reliable grid connections through innovative product design, fintech solutions, and field operations.

Key highlights:

• Connected over 20 million homes to solar power across Africa and Asia, adding 200,000 homes monthly.
• Affordable ‘pay-as-you-go’ financing model; after 1-2 years, customers own their solar equipment.
• Saved customers over $4 billion to date.
• Collect 650,000 daily payments via 28,000 field agents using mobile money systems.
• Products range from home lighting to high-energy appliances, with expansion into clean cooking, electric mobility, and entertainment.

With 2,800 staff across 12 countries, our team includes experts in various fields, all passionate about serving off-grid communities.

Diversity Commitment:

44% of our workforce are women, reflecting our commitment to gender diversity.

About the role:

Sun King is looking for a self-driven Infrastructure engineer, who is comfortable working in a fast-paced startup environment and balancing the needs of multiple development teams and systems. You will work on improving our current IAC, observability stack, and incident response processes. You will work with the data science, analytics, and engineering teams to build optimized CI/CD pipelines, scalable AWS infrastructure, and Kubernetes deployments.

What you would be expected to do:

• Work with engineering, automation, and data teams to work on various infrastructure requirements.
• Designing modular and efficient GitOps CI/CD pipelines, agnostic to the underlying platform.
• Managing AWS services for multiple teams.
• Managing custom data store deployments like sharded MongoDB clusters, Elasticsearch clusters, and upcoming services.
• Deployment and management of Kubernetes resources.
• Deployment and management of custom metrics exporters, trace data, custom application metrics, and designing dashboards, querying metrics from multiple resources, as an end-to-end observability stack solution.
• Set up incident response services and design effective processes.
• Deployment and management of critical platform services like OPA and Keycloak for IAM.
• Advocate best practices for high availability and scalability when designing AWS infrastructure, observability dashboards, implementing IAC, deploying to Kubernetes, and designing GitOps CI/CD pipelines.

You might be a strong candidate if you have/are:

• Hands-on experience with Docker or any other container runtime environment and Linux with the ability to perform basic administrative tasks.
• Experience working with web servers (nginx, apache) and cloud providers (preferably AWS).
• Hands-on scripting and automation experience (Python, Bash), experience debugging and troubleshooting Linux environments and cloud-native deployments.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines, with familiarity with monitoring & alerting systems (Grafana, Prometheus, and exporters).
• Knowledge of web architecture, distributed systems, and single points of failure.
• Familiarity with cloud-native deployments and concepts like high availability, scalability, and bottleneck.
• Good networking fundamentals — SSH, DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP, SSL, load balancing, reverse proxies, and firewalls.

Good to have:

• Experience with backend development and setting up databases and performance tuning using parameter groups.
• Working experience in Kubernetes cluster administration and Kubernetes deployments.
• Experience working alongside sec ops engineers.
• Basic knowledge of Envoy, service mesh (Istio), and SRE concepts like distributed tracing.
• Setup and usage of open telemetry, central logging, and monitoring systems.

What Sun King offers:

• Professional growth in a dynamic, rapidly expanding, high-social-impact industry.
• An open-minded, collaborative culture made up of enthusiastic colleagues who are driven by the challenge of innovation towards profound impact on people and the planet.
• A truly multicultural experience: you will have the chance to work with and learn from people from different geographies, nationalities, and backgrounds.
• Structured, tailored learning and development programs that help you become a better leader, manager, and professional through the Sun King Center for Leadership.

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.

Oversee the sales process to attract new clients.

Work with senior team members to identify and manage risks.

Maintain fruitful relationships with clients and address their needs effectively.

Prepare and deliver pitches to potential investors.

Foster a collaborative environment within the organization.

Transfer call to the supervisor after initial explanation.

SKILLS:

Excellent spoken English.

Both Graduate/Undergraduate may apply.

Ability to develop good relationships with current and potential clients.

Excellent communication skills.

Knowledge of productivity tools and software.

Ready to work in Nightshift.

Our client in Education startup is looking for an experienced and resourceful Business Development Executive to develop and implement growth opportunities in existing and new markets.

* Create awareness of various programs conducted by the company to teachers from various schools, colleges, University

* Drive participation for various paid or unpaid Webinar programs

* Advise potential participants on our Executive and Certificate Programs

* Maintain market and competitor awareness, developing and presenting ideas for new opportunities.

* Follow-up on warm and hot leads via calls, emails, WhatsApp messages, SMS etc.

* Lead Generation

* Responsible for the entire Sales Cycle which includes engaging customers via phone calls, product demonstration, sales closing, and post-sales relationship management.

* Help customers understand and imagine the possibilities and potential that our platform provides to them

* Taking up revenue responsibility. 

• 3+ years of experience in native android app development.
• Strong programming experience in Core Java, Android SDK
• Experience working with Kotlin is a plus
• Experience working with Media player
• Experience working with offline app & content security, Encryption and Decryption  
• Experience working with FCM 
• Experience with web services integration, REST API framework, social media and other third party integrations
• Write good quality code, unit tests, automation and performing code reviews.
• Should have Experience of Social Integration.
• Ready to take complete ownership of multiple products, work alone on project if required  
• Good knowledge in Android services/Framework layer and its debugging
• Experience with version control systems, preferably Git.
• Shipped multiple Android Applications that are currently available in the Google Play Store
• Good knowledge of data structures, algorithms and time/space complexity analysis.

• Good problem solving abilities.

• Ability to communicate well with Product and Engineering Team

• Experience with a start-up would be added advantage.