Salesforce Technical Lead

About the role:

We’re seeking a qualified Sales Manager to sell Whitehat Jr’s product that our customers have grown to rely on. The Sales Manager will utilise their skills to generate high quality leads, build a strong relationship with customers and close deals. The ideal candidate will be a quick learner with strong negotiating skills, and demonstrate the ability to showcase our offerings in a compelling way.

Role details:

Scope: Exceed targets for New Sales, Referrals or Renewals, in an individual contributor role

Work Location: Remote online work until offices reopen, candidate may be based anywhere in India

Working days: 6 working days with 1 day-off which may be during week

Shifts (subject to change): shift start hour will be after 6 AM and shift end hour before 12 midnight (For day shifts), shift start hour will be after 7 PM and shift end hour before 10 AM (For night shift)

Mandatory Language Fluency: English, Hindi

Laptop/Wi-fi: candidates to use their own laptops, wi-fi will be reimbursed

Qualifications:

• Proven B2C Sales track record of exceeding targets, >2 years of Sales experience
• Fluency in English and Hindi, ability and willingness to deliver in a high pressure environment
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, problem-solving, presentation, and organisational skills.
• Ability to counsel a parent for the child's future
• Comfortable with changing shift timings so that we may serve our customers better
• Graduation is not mandatory for candidates with 3+ years of experience
• Working knowledge of Salesforce, spreadsheets (Excel, Google Sheets ) and powerpoint

Role

Being a part of Products Engineering team, this member is expected to work with existing

development team. Key responsibilities of this role include design and development of PHP based applications as per the product roadmap. Coordinate with co-developers and contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle.

Experience

Around 4 years of experience in creating and implementing Web-based products using PHP,

MySQL, Ajax, and JavaScript.

Ability to work in an Agile, fast-paced environment, and learn rapidly.

Bachelor degree in computer science, computer engineering or similar.

Expert in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, JSON.

Experience in any PHP framework Laravel, CodeIgniter or Zend.

Writing clean, readable, and easily maintainable code.

Must have knowledge of project/task management tools like Jira,

Familiarity with Version Control Tortoise Bitbucket, Git etc.

Understanding of UI, cross-browser compatibility and web standards.

Good English communication skills, written and spoken.

Able to work with minimum supervision as well as perform under pressure and meet

Deadlines.

Desirable

Experience in working with Agile projects.

LINUX experience would be an added advantage.

Athena is India’s largest institution in the premium undergraduate study abroad space. Founded 10 years ago by two Princeton graduates, Poshak Agrawal and Rahul Subramaniam, Athena is headquartered in Gurgaon, with offices in Mumbai and Bangalore, and caters to students from over 15 countries.

Athena’s vision is to help students become the best version of themselves. Athena’s transformative, holistic life coaching program embraces both depth and breadth, sciences and the humanities. Athena encourages students to deepen their theoretical knowledge and apply it to address practical issues confronting society, both locally and globally.

Through our flagship program, our students have gotten into various, universities including Harvard University, Princeton University, Yale University, Stanford University, University of Cambridge, MIT, Brown, Cornell University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Chicago, among others.

Our legacy as pioneers in the study-abroad process, coupled with a creative, open environment and professional growth opportunities, makes Athena a perfect place for those looking to build a lasting career in education. 

If you are excited to work in a dynamic educational environment and love expanding your horizons of emotional and strategic counseling, we look forward to hearing from you!

Learn more:

https://www.athenaeducation.co.in/article.aspx 

Overview of the role: We are looking for someone who will support Athena's Knowledge center 

• Helping/ mentoring Athena students to build mobile applications
• Helping build a state-of-the-art web portal and apps for students and counselors
• Support in building Edtech products for Athena

This is ideal for technology enthusiasts who want to make an impact, broaden their skills to learn about project management, client management; who love teaching and mentoring students, and also who love building creative tech products. The ideal person would have a deep, driving desire to make an impact and believes in the power of education.

Key Responsibilities

As a Technology Mentor and Developer, you will play a crucial role in guiding Athena students to build mobile applications

• Mentoring and Guiding Students:
• Provide personalized guidance and mentorship to students interested in mobile application development.
• Foster a positive and collaborative learning environment to enhance students' understanding and skills in technology.
• Collaborate with students on real-world projects, offering technical expertise and guidance throughout the development process.
• Collaboration and Communication:
• Collaborate with consulting teams internally to learn about students, conceptualize projects & take them to fruition 
• Communicate effectively with students, counselors, and other stakeholders to gather feedback and continuously improve technology solutions.
• Own, innovate and support the students with their technology projects 
• Conceptualize the apps, guiding them on coding and stepping them when needed
• Creation of New Algorithms for solving Real World problems.
• Mobile App Development - Android and iOS
• Hybrid mobile applications (both IOS & Android) using ionic, Flutter and react native (preferred).
• Integrate data from various back-end services and databases
• Gather and refine specifications and requirements based on technical needs
• Guiding students to project completion
• Tuned into the latest developments in the desired area including but not limited to application development, database technologies, devops, robotics, etc.

Key Skills-

• Strong fundamentals and knowledge of hyrbid mobile application (both IOS & Andriod), data structures, algorithms, logical flow, and architecture 
• Good communication skills - Ability to motivate and mentor students
• Extremely hands-on in coding 
• Ability to learn, take feedback, and improve
• Knowledge of programming language and technical terminology
• Able to solve complex problems.

Education and Experience: 

• B.Tech/B.Sc/M.Sc (CS), Engineering, or a related field from a good institute
• Good to have experience in teaching and mentoring students in Computer Science modules
• Experience in Android Development
• Preferred 1 year development experience

Why should you be interested?

Impact

• Working with Athena will provide you with an opportunity to bring about a positive impact in the lives of the best students in the country - the future pioneers of the world.
• Opportunity to mentor budding writers

Team and Culture

• We are a young and daring collection of adventurers dedicated to excellence and growth. We are always efficient and occasionally funny.
• The candidate will get a chance to work in a multicultural environment with ex-pats from different corners of the globe.

Professional Advancement

• We believe in providing opportunities for team members to build their skills and become independent drivers.
• We also offer the opportunity to collaborate across our group organizations- Hora.ai (Tech) and Sitare Foundation (education non-profit)- and learn from like-minded, passionate people who have all come together to create an impact. 

Location & Work Environment

The Vatika Triangle; Gurgaon, India

• We have built creative space in a top corporate building in a prime location in Gurgaon. 
• The office is on M.G. Road, a 2-minute walk from the M.G. Road Metro Station.

Our team comprises of creative and colorful characters, all goal-oriented and hungry for growth (and healthy snacks). The work environment is a mixture of formal and playful, as we all strive to get things done while sipping Italian coffee brewed in-house.

•  Good communication skills in English (Written and Oral)
•  Strong knowledge of RDBMS concepts
•  Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
•  Experience in performance tuning
•  Experience in interaction with the customer
• Mandatory technical skills Java 8+, Angular 2+, HTML, CSS, TypeScript
• Preferred Tools (SVN, GIT, Maven, Jenkins Jira Confluence) 
•  Ability to explore the application by himself/herself from the training provided

• New feature development or enhancement or change request activities (Requirement analysis, Requirement documentation, Design, Coding, Review, Testing and Release process)
•  Defect Fixing (Defect analysis, route cause identification, Code change, testing, obtaining user confirmation and release process)
• Support tasks (Ticket analysis, data uploading, performance tuning, job monitoring, any analysis task, ReportGeneration and etc.,)
• Level 2 and Level 3 support (Support process adherence)
• Functional and technical or solution documentation preparation
• Execution will either be Waterfall or Agile
• The process needs to be followed as defined by RBEI or RBEI’s Customer
• Preparation & participation in the project status and review meeting