
Job Overview
Ikwat is an AI-powered event creation and ticketing platform designed for India's micro-event hosts—yoga instructors, supper club chefs, workshop facilitators, and community organizers. We're pre-seed stage, currently raising and looking for a driven sales person to help onboard our first host partnerships.
You'll be the first person on the sales team, building direct relationships with potential hosts, understanding their pain points, and demonstrating how Ikwat saves them time and increases revenue. This is a hands-on role reporting directly to the founder.
What You'll Do
• Identify and outreach to potential hosts across yoga, wellness, food, workshops, and community event spaces (LinkedIn, direct email, Instagram and referral networks).
• Conduct product demos and discovery calls to understand host requirements and pain points.
• Close partnerships: Onboard hosts onto the platform, and support early activation.
• Track pipeline, forecast, and report weekly progress to founder (Google Sheets, basic CRM).
• Provide feedback on product gaps and user feedback from real hosts to inform roadmap.
Who You Are
• 0–5 years of B2B sales or business development experience (SaaS, SMB products, or marketplaces preferred, but not required if you have sales hunger).
• Comfortable with cold outreach—LinkedIn, email, Instagram and phone calls—and converting interest into meetings.
• Direct, honest communication; pushback on ideas is expected and valued. Comfortable in ambiguity and wearing multiple hats in an early-stage start-up.

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REVIEW CRITERIA:
MANDATORY:
- Strong Design / Tech / Marketing Project Manager Profiles (Design is preferred)
- Must have 6+ years of experience in project management, handled design / Tech / marketing projects (Design Project is preferred, If Tech Projects, look for some design aspects in the project)
- Must have 3+ YOE in Client Management role dealing with founders, CMOs, VCs and Government
- Must have expertise in taking project briefs, scope/proposal creation and execution
- Must have experience in drafting project scope, budgets and timelines
- Must have experience in Team Management, managing timeline and work allocation
- Design studio, Design agencies, Web Development Agencies, Marketing studio or agencies, Advertising agencies or studios
- Design Project is preferred. If Tech Projects, look for some design aspects in the project.
ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES:
The ideal candidate will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and implementing projects within the decided-upon budget, timeline, and scope. They will also effectively monitor and present project updates to relevant stakeholders, clients, or project team members.
JOB DESCRIPTION-
Your job will entail the following broad deliverables:
- Project management
- Business Development
- Support services
You will work under and report directly to the Business Manager at Company Design
Project Management-
- Schedule and manage the project with the client team regularly.
- Gather creative briefs from the client and supervise as well as oversee their execution by the design team.
- Deliver project through strategy and design team assigned to the project.
- Managing project planning to completion and client communication for a wide variety of projects - both simple and complex and large and small - independently or as part of a team.
- Participate and assist the team in creating presentations
- Coordinate between all teams to work seamlessly
- Bring a fresh point of view to our client’s challenges and ensure the brand image is always ahead of the curve in terms of knowledge, expertise and insight
- Participate and contribute towards Strategy and concept directions and creativity to meet the end goal of a successful project delivered in time at high company Design standards.
- Create weekly reports with your Business manager to the CEO of company Design.
- Gather project status, develop mitigation strategy and hold weekly meetings with the team with the Business manager.
- With high client satisfaction and good relationship management, increase scope and billing or acquire additional projects.
- Ensure billing and payment cycles are maintained as per schedule. Work closely with the Accounts Department to deliver the same.
Business Development-
- Marketing: A large part of Business Development at company Design happens through marketing. This function will require you to strategize on how to market company Design to get the maximum impact. Besides overall strategy, the task will involve making a quarter-wise calendar programme, breaking it down into how each vertical at company Design gets promoted to designing the communication and delivering it across various channels.
- Solicitation of new businesses: with the business manager. Being a key driver behind the process of winning new work, creating opportunities and organising and making pitch meetings. This would broadly involve handling new business communication, creating opportunities, designing and creating strategy of approach, planning bespoke proposal and process making, and sales initiatives for different verticals of company design.
- Client acquisition: This will involve interacting with a client prospect, understanding the brief or requirement, business development with strategy pitches, creating a scope of work and timesheet and creating a detailed proposal. Interact with client prospects and bag the project.
- Newsletter: The task will also involve strategizing the newsletter structure, and planning and delivering the same on a monthly basis.
- Company Design website: Coordinate and manage content
- Awards: Shortlist relevant national and international awards company Design should participate in, prepare budgets, design, and deliver the entries.
- Anthony Brand: Promote Anthony as a brand ambassador and principal of company Design. Create a strategy and plan in fructifying the same. This will include, Jury members, Talks, Lectures, workshops, etc.
- For the work above, you will work along with the Business Manager. Also, report to her for planning, progress reporting and delivery. You will also work with the company Design strategy, content and design team to deliver various aspects required. You will assist the Business Manager in creating formal weekly reports to the CEO of company Design.
Support Services-
- Support HR: As part of your involvement with teams and clients, you will be called upon to conduct interviews and coordinate on induction-related support and manage programmes around it.
- Support Administration as and when required in context to projects, facilitating teams, organising transport/tickets, and meeting clients.
- Company Design from time to time organises FORUM and mini-conferences at the studio or online. You will need to organise and manage such events along with the Business Manager with support from the rest of the team.
IDEAL CANDIDATE:
- Strong human relations skills
- Strong business acumen in project planning and management
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience + post-graduation/master's degree is a plus
- Strong verbal, written, and organizational skills
- 6-12 years of Project management experience in similar organizations/similar fields
- Should have managed 4-5 designers directly under them, reporting to them.
- Client-facing experience for design and creative projects is essential, with the ability to take creative briefs from clients and manage delivery with designers.
- Should have worked in design studios or agencies managing design projects.
The candidate must have at least 5+ years of experience in B2B SaaS or enterprise technology sales from overall experience.
* US enterprise sales experience is preferred, with strong exposure to US enterprise sales cycles.
* The candidate must have deep experience in enterprise sales, handling large, complex, multi-stakeholder deals.
* The candidate must have driven $5M+ in annual enterprise revenue (preferably $10M+).
* The candidate must have 2+ years of people leadership experience.
* The candidate must have managed a sales team of 10+ members, including AEs and SDRs.
* The candidate must have hands-on experience building, executing, and scaling sales strategies.
* The candidate must have experience managing both inbound and outbound sales motions.
* Background in cybersecurity, deep tech, or complex technical products is preferred.
* Experience with VAR, multi-product, or consultative enterprise sales is a plus.
* The candidate must be comfortable leading revenue across global regions, with the US as the primary focus.
* The candidate must be based in Bangalore or willing to relocate.
What You’ll Do:
- Setting up formal data practices for the company.
- Building and running super stable and scalable data architectures.
- Making it easy for folks to add and use new data with self-service pipelines.
- Getting DataOps practices in place.
- Designing, developing, and running data pipelines to help out Products, Analytics, data scientists and machine learning engineers.
- Creating simple, reliable data storage, ingestion, and transformation solutions that are a breeze to deploy and manage.
- Writing and Managing reporting API for different products.
- Implementing different methodologies for different reporting needs.
- Teaming up with all sorts of people – business folks, other software engineers, machine learning engineers, and analysts.
Who You Are:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering (CS / IT) or equivalent degree from a well-known Institute / University.
- 3.5+ years of experience in building and running data pipelines for tons of data.
- Experience with public clouds like GCP or AWS.
- Experience with Apache open-source projects like Spark, Druid, Airflow, and big data databases like BigQuery, Clickhouse.
- Experience making data architectures that are optimised for both performance and cost.
- Good grasp of software engineering, DataOps, data architecture, Agile, and DevOps.
- Proficient in SQL, Java, Spring Boot, Python, and Bash.
- Good communication skills for working with technical and non-technical people.
- Someone who thinks big, takes chances, innovates, dives deep, gets things done, hires and develops the best, and is always learning and curious.
We are hiring Graduate Apprentice Trainees under the NATS (National Apprenticeship Training Scheme) program. This is a great opportunity for fresh graduates to gain practical industry experience while working in a professional corporate environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Assist in developing and implementing digital marketing strategies to boost online presence.
- Support SEO activities, including keyword research, on-page optimization, and content updates.
- Help create and publish engaging content (blogs, social media posts, and website updates).
- Contribute to managing social media platforms to increase reach and engagement.
- Assist in monitoring website and campaign performance using analytics tools.
- Support email marketing campaigns by preparing content and tracking results.
- Research digital marketing trends and provide fresh ideas for improvement.
- Collaborate with the design and content teams to ensure consistent branding across channels.
Requirements:
- Basic knowledge of SEO, social media, and digital marketing concepts.
- Familiarity with tools like Google Analytics, Google Ads, or social media platforms (a plus).
- Strong communication and writing skills.
- Creative mindset with attention to detail.
- Eagerness to learn and take initiative.
- Ability to work independently and in a team environment.
- Education: Pursuing or recently completed a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, Communications, or related field.
Internship Details:
- Duration: 6 Months
- Location: Bhayander (On-site)
- Timings: Full-time, 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Preference: Mumbai-based candidates only
- Stipend: Total Stipend: ₹9,000 per month (50% stipend will be paid by the company and 50% stipend will be reimbursed by the Government under NATS scheme)
What We Offer:
- Hands-on experience in real-world digital marketing projects.
- Mentorship and training from experienced professionals.
- Exposure to multiple areas of digital marketing (SEO, social media, content, email, paid campaigns).
- Internship certificate and potential career opportunities upon successful completion.
Experience: 2-5 Years experience
Skills:
Core PHP (Knowledge of functions, Methods, PHP OOPS Concept, Ajax, MySQL, Jquery), Javascript, Basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, MVC Structure
Knowledge about socketOnly Male Candidate
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LOCATION : AHMEDABAD
- 1.5+ Years of experience in .net, asp.net and C#, WCF/API and REST services.
- Hands on experience with CSS, Javascript and JQuery.
- Strong knowledge in OOPS concepts.
- Knowledge of T SQL with Sql server 2008 R2/2012 including Stored Procedures, Triggers & User Defined Functions.
- Good to have CSS3 and HTML5 knowledge.
- Good communication Skills are required.
Location: Kurla (Mumbai)
B2C sales/Inside Sales
Experience: 2-4 years into B2C/Inside sales (Mandatory)
Excellent communication is must
Compensation: Upto 6LPA
Immediate Joining
Max Age: 30











