Senior Architect

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

The ideal candidate should be a proactive individual with strong communication skills and a team player. He or she should have an experience of at least 1-2 years in Java development.

1. Hands on experience in designing and developing applications using Java EE platforms and at least 1-2 years’ experience on the same.
2. Should have excellent in-depth knowledge on Core Java
3. Experience in multi-threaded server-side Java programming
4. Working knowledge on web services.
5. Working knowledge on hibernate and springs framework.
6. Added advantage if worked in any of the BPM tools
7. Should have worked in SDLC environment.
8. Good communication skills.
9. Experience in working effectively within a team.

Job Description 

Experience : 3+ years in end to end US Technical Hiring 

Location : Pune 

Notice Period : Immediate Preferred 

To be eligible you must be: 

• Excellent in sourcing through Job Portals, Social Media, x ray Search-Booleans, etc.
• Responsible for full-cycle recruiting: Sourcing the candidates, screening them, Interview coordination, rate negotiation and hand-holding all the way till closure 
• Exceptional communication, interpersonal, and decision-making skills
• Able to analyze resumes and determine appropriate matches for vacancies
• Understanding of impact to business and metrics 
• Technical expertise with an ability to understand and explain job requirements for IT roles
• Hands on experience with Applicant tracking systems 
• Ability to listen, understand, convey, and relate ideas, concepts and issues clearly and confidently through all channels while having an awareness of environmental cues
• Understanding of various visa status and Tax Terms (C2C, C2H, W2, 1099, Permanent).
• Willing to work in Night Shift (USA TIME ZONE) 

Roles & Responsibilities: 

• Effectively sourcing right fit and getting closures on time
• Coordinate with multiple Vendors and onsite teams to gather exact requirements and schedule Interviews
• Maintain and develop pipeline of eligible candidates for future open positions
• Qualify or reject candidates based on interview feedback and resume reviews
• Serve as contact person for questions from candidates
• Understand hiring leaders needs and deliver value by crafting best solutions for them
• Work on different recruitment metrics and share with business/team as and when required

• A graphic design qualification or similar.
• Portfolio with design projects.
• Proven work experience as a graphic designer.
• Working experience with image design tools (e.g. Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator, corel draw).
• A keen eye for visual details.
• Aesthetic skills.
• Ability to meet deadlines and collaborate with team members.

• Designing and developing high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems and delivering high-availability and performance.
• Contributing in all phases of the development lifecycle.
• Writing well designed, testable, efficient code.