Sales manager

We are seeking a highly motivated and results-oriented Business Development Executive to join our growing team. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of success in IT sales, specifically in cloud solutions and software sales. This role requires a strong understanding of the IT landscape, excellent communication skills, and the ability to generate leads and close deals. The successful candidate will be responsible for achieving monthly sales targets.

Responsibilities

- Lead Generation:

• Proactively identify and qualify leads through various channels, including online portals, social media, networking events, and industry publications.
• Utilize online lead generation tools and platforms to identify potential clients.
• Develop and execute targeted outreach campaigns to generate new business opportunities.

- Sales Process:

• Manage the entire sales cycle, from initial contact to closing deals.
• Conduct product demonstrations and presentations to potential clients.
• Prepare and deliver compelling sales proposals and quotations.
• Negotiate contracts and close deals, ensuring profitability.
• Maintain accurate records of sales activities and customer interactions in CRM.

- Relationship Management:

• Build and maintain strong relationships with clients and partners.
• Understand client needs and provide tailored solutions.
• Provide excellent customer service and support.
• Identify opportunities for up-selling and cross-selling.

- Market Knowledge:

• Stay up-to-date with the latest IT trends, technologies, and competitor offerings.
• Understand the competitive landscape and identify opportunities for differentiation.

- Target Achievement:

• Achieve monthly sales targets consistently.
• Develop and implement sales strategies to meet and exceed targets.
• Provide regular sales reports and updates to management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, or a related field preferred.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience in IT sales, with a focus on cloud and software sales.
• Proven track record of lead generation and sales target achievement.
• Strong understanding of the IT industry and cloud computing concepts.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to build rapport and establish trust with clients.
• Strong negotiation and closing skills.
• Self-motivated, results-oriented, and able to work independently.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.

Marketing Associate – GIGL Summaries Private Limited

Location: Remote / Hybrid / Office (Mohali, Chandigarh, India)

About Us:

GIGL Summaries Private Limited is one of the leading audiobook platforms with over 5M+ downloads across iOS, Android, and Web, a 4.8-star rating from more than 165k reviews, and a massive 10M+ social media following. Remarkably, we’ve achieved all this while being bootstrapped without any investor funding.

At GIGL, we’re driven by passion, perseverance, and a deep love for storytelling. Our team of dedicated creators seeks like-minded individuals who share our zeal for content creation and storytelling. If you have the vision and creativity to craft narratives that resonate and inspire, you’ll feel right at home here!

Job Title: Marketing Manager

Who We’re Looking For:

We’re on the hunt for a dynamic and innovative Marketing Associate to lead and execute end-to-end marketing strategies. This position is tailor-made for someone who thrives in a startup environment, embraces building systems from scratch, and has a strategic mindset to scale marketing initiatives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute comprehensive marketing strategies spanning both organic and paid marketing campaigns.
• Drive engagement through content marketing, blog strategies, and WhatsApp marketing initiatives.
• Lead app marketing efforts to enhance downloads and improve user retention.
• Build and optimize marketing funnels, email marketing workflows, and performance tracking systems to maximize impact.
• Craft compelling copy and design effective marketing materials aligned with target audience insights.
• Utilize analytics tools to track, optimize, and report on campaign performance and ROI.
• Manage and optimize paid advertising campaigns across platforms like Google, Meta, and LinkedIn.
• Establish scalable systems and workflows for efficient marketing operations.

Skills and Qualifications:

• 3–5 years of experience in organic and paid marketing, preferably within a startup environment.
• Expertise in blog marketing, WhatsApp marketing, and app promotion strategies.
• Strong proficiency in copywriting, SEO optimization, and content creation.
• Experience with performance marketing tools such as Google Analytics, Facebook Ads Manager, and CRM platforms.
• Proven ability to build processes independently and achieve measurable results.
• A passion for storytelling and a deep understanding of audience engagement.
• Exceptional project management and execution skills with a self-starter attitude.

Why Join Us?

• Be a Marketing Leader – Define and shape marketing strategies for a fast-growing, bootstrapped startup with a thriving 10M+ community.
• Work with Passionate Creators – Collaborate with a team that prioritizes storytelling and creativity.
• Flexible Work Environment – Experiment, innovate, and grow in a culture that values collaboration and adaptability.
• Exciting Growth Potential – Develop scalable marketing systems and drive impactful results.

Compensation: Competitive package of ₹5–7 LPA.

• Work closely with product managers and engineers to design, implement, test and continually improve scalable frontend and backend services.
• Develop products using agile methods and tools.
• Develop commercial grade software that is user friendly and suitable for a global audience.
• Plan, create and execute (manual and automated) tests.
• Be involved and participate in the overall application lifecycle.
• Building reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Staying up to date with current technologies and providing insights on cutting edge software approaches, architectures, and vendors.

• Fluency in any one of JavaScript, TypeScript or Python.
• Strong problem solving skills. 
• Should have built large scalable enterprise applications from scratch.
• Strong experience in architectural patterns, High level designs.
• Experience in Nosql and SQL DBs.
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About Company:

• Senior Engineer with a strong background and experience in cloud related technologies and architectures.
• Can design target cloud architectures to transform existing architectures together with the in-house team.
• Can actively hands-on configure and build cloud architectures and guide others.

• 3-5+ years of experience in AWS/GCP or Azure technologies
• Is likely certified on one or more of the major cloud platforms
• Strong experience from hands-on work with technologies such as Terraform, K8S, Docker and orchestration of containers.
• Ability to guide and lead internal agile teams on cloud technology
• Background from the financial services industry or similar critical operational experience
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• Cloud and virtualization-based technologies (Amazon Web Services (AWS), VMWare).
• Java Application Server Administration (Weblogic, WidlFfy, JBoss, Tomcat).
• Docker and Kubernetes (EKS)
• Linux/UNIX Administration (Amazon Linux and RedHat).
• Developing and supporting cloud infrastructure designs and implementations and guiding application development teams.
• Configuration Management tools (Chef or Puppet or ansible).
• Log aggregations tools such as Elastic and/or Splunk.
• Automate infrastructure and application deployment-related tasks using terraform.
• Automate repetitive tasks required to maintain a secure and up-to-date operational environment.

Responsibilities

• Build and support always-available private/public cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications.
• Build AWS or other public cloud infrastructure using Terraform.
• Deploy and manage Kubernetes (EKS) based docker applications in AWS.
• Create custom OS images using Packer.
• Create and revise infrastructure and architectural designs and implementation plans and guide the implementation with operations.
• Liaison between application development, infrastructure support, and tools (IT Services) teams.
• Development and documentation of Chef recipes and/or ansible scripts. Support throughout the entire deployment lifecycle (development, quality assurance, and production).
• Help developers leverage infrastructure, application, and cloud platform features and functionality participate in code and design reviews, and support developers by building CI/CD pipelines using Bamboo, Jenkins, or Spinnaker.
• Create knowledge-sharing presentations and documentation to help developers and operations teams understand and leverage the system's capabilities.
• Learn on the job and explore new technologies with little supervision.
• Leverage scripting (BASH, Perl, Ruby, Python) to build required automation and tools on an ad-hoc basis.

Who we have in mind:

• Solid experience in building a solution on AWS or other public cloud services using Terraform.
• Excellent problem-solving skills with a desire to take on responsibility.
• Extensive knowledge in containerized application and deployment in Kubernetes
• Extensive knowledge of the Linux operating system, RHEL preferred.
• Proficiency with shell scripting.
• Experience with Java application servers.
• Experience with GiT and Subversion.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate technical issues to non-technical and technical audiences.
• Experience working in a large-scale operational environment.
• Internet and operating system security fundamentals.
• Extensive knowledge of massively scalable systems. Linux operating system/application development desirable.
• Programming in scripting languages such as Python. Other object-oriented languages (C++, Java) are a plus.
• Experience with Configuration Management Automation tools (chef or puppet).
• Experience with virtualization, preferably on multiple hypervisors.
• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Excellent written and verbal skills.

Education or Equivalent Experience:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent education in related fields
• Certificates of training in associated fields/equipment’s

• Join a team of great technical professionals that work hard but have fun and enjoy developing state of the art product-based applications and websites. 
• Use best practice coding standards and implement each deliverable.
• Write and manage program and Bug Fixes
• Construct and support integrations that are easy to manage, maintain, customize and configure; ensure overall reliability, availability, and high-performance code.
• Analyze system issues and problems and implement solutions rapidly.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously varying in sizes and scope
• Work in a fast-paced cross-functional team environment. Effectively handle time-critical issue and appropriately escalate at-risk items.

• Laravel/ Zend/ CakePHP/ CodeIgniter/ Symfony, or equivalent.
• Strong knowledge of OOPs Concepts.
• Computer Science/Software Engineering Bachelor’s degree or higher education.
• Experience in writing high performance and high scalable code using best practice and coding standards. 
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills. 
• Excellent organizational and attention to detail. 
• Good to have familiarity with NoSql DB, web servers (e.g. Apache), caching (Memcache / Redis), Cloud, NodeJs, Microservices architecture Familiar with agile software development methodologies (e.g. SCRUM / Agile / Kanban)
• Must have knowledge of MVC design patterns, XHTML/HTML5, PHP, CSS3, XML, MySQL/MSSQL, JavaScript jQuery, json objects, API, AJAX functionality and client-side validation.
• Understanding accessibility and security compliance.
• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Knowledge of using version control software such as SVN or GIT will be preferable.
• Experience in either Mobile application or Data Integration with other apps would be preferred.

• 2-4 years of demonstrable hands-on work in web-based application development experiences in a professional environment, including interaction design for dynamic, data-driven applications (not HTML based website) delivered via the web, or the equivalent.

• Manage sales operations in assigned district to achieve revenue goals.
• Supervise sales team members; the BSMs, on daily basis and provide guidance whenever needed.
• Identify skill gaps and conduct trainings to sales team.
• Work with team to implement new sales techniques to obtain profits.
• Assist in employee recruitment, promotion, retention and termination activities.
• Conduct employee performance evaluation and provide feedback for improvements.
• Contact potential customers and identify new business opportunities.
• Stay abreast with customer needs, market trends and competitors.
• Maintain clear and complete sales reports for management review.
• Build strong relationships with customers for business growth.
• Analyze sales performances and recommend improvements.
• Ensure that sales team follows company policies and procedures at all times.
• Develop promotional programs to increase sales and revenue.
• Plan and coordinate sales activities for assigned projects.