Senior Product Designer (Candidates from MUMBAI only)

TL;DR version

Who: People passionate about planning and implementing projects & processes, while focusing on users' needs & experiences.

What: Supporting Kraftshala students with their learning journeys by creating delightful and impactful experiences.

Why: If you draw energy and satisfaction by helping people become a better version of themselves and have a knack for problem-solving, this is the role for you.

About us: Kraftshala is on a mission to help a million students launch their careers in marketing, sales, and more. We’ve already helped thousands of students launch their marketing careers in companies like Performics, Sokrati, GroupM, Nykaa, Tata Cliq, Coursera and are looking to add hundreds of thousands more in the coming decade.

Kraftshala is backed by a number of eminent investors including ex-unicorn startup founders and CXOs of global giants. 

Role Description 

As part of the Associate - Program Management profile, you will be responsible for student experience and taking them through an epic journey of growth and discovery! Your goal would be to lead and execute various activities that lead to a gold-standard experience for students. Please read below to know more about the role :

Program Management

• Take charge of the entire learning expedition, ensuring every student achieves their learning goals while enjoying a delightful learning experience.
• Be the friendly face that students turn to first, eagerly solving their questions and fostering positive relationships with them.
• Manage all aspects of Program Management, from arranging online sessions to coordinating evaluations and presentations. You'll get to interact with a diverse range of stakeholders, from senior managers and team leads to brilliant industry experts.
• Monitor each participant's progress closely, using program trackers to craft personalized support.

Process Optimization

While working with a large set of students, student experience becomes a function of the processes designed to deliver it and so, you’ll be:

• Discovering ways to improve efficiency in our daily processes in order to enhance student experience.
• Utilizing an array of tools, softwares, and platforms to automate processes in order to minimize human intervention and ensuring a flawless and effortless delivery of our programs.

Must-Have Skills

• Ability to clearly and crisply communicate ideas, both verbally and in writing
• High accountability and responsibility to ensure flawless execution on a day-to-day basis
• Working knowledge of MS Office (Excel and Powerpoint)
• Empathy and a high Emotional Quotient to actively engage with students, understand & solve their queries
• Demonstrated ability to take ownership and drive results to independently manage a set of programs
• Attention to detail - Spotting issues that could cause errors and delays, and affect quality, preferably before they snowball
• A structured approach to problem-solving, that involves struggling with the problem until you are able to isolate the Why before coming to a solution

Recruitment Process

As a small team, it’s imperative that we get to know each other before taking the leap. We want to ensure you succeed in your role within our team. Each conversation with us will last about 30-60 minutes. Typically the whole process takes between 8 - 15 business days depending on your and our schedules, and will be a mix of online and in-person interactions.

• Skill Assessment Task: This will be a task that assesses you on some of the core skills you’ll need to succeed in this role.
• Technical conversations: These will be calls with our current Program Management team wherein you can expect to be evaluated on the competencies needed for the job (mentioned above).
• Culture fit conversation: This will be a conversation with one of our founders to ensure that there is a fit with the Kraftshala Kode.
• Extending an offer: If all goes well, we will extend an offer that will mention the relevant details.

Location

Delhi

More about the company

We are Kraftshala. We are an online skilling institution committed to playing the long game of building a transformative educational experience for the masses. We call this ‘Scaling with Soul’.

Scaling with Soul, to us, means we always prioritise student outcomes– specifically our Placement Rate (percentage of students placed)- over other metrics, such as number of enrolments or company valuation in the coming year.

This is, of course, easier said than done. There are painful choices to be made at every stage, from admissions to training to placements, that wouldn’t have been needed were we willing to give up on either of high quality or scale.

But in the long run, we believe that our obsession over these student outcomes will earn Kraftshala the trust of Indian students, their families, recruiters and the broader ecosystem.

That’s why we make each of our Placement Reports public, capturing how many students are placed in each batch, in what companies, at what salaries etc.

We don’t need to. None of our competitors do (though we’d be happy to be proven wrong and have more educators join us!). Simply put, we have tasted the benefits of an education model grounded in high quality paired with the transparency of student outcomes and now cannot imagine doing it any other way.

We are not the largest in terms of enrollments. Nowhere close, actually. Not yet.

However, we are proud to be one of the largest, if not the largest already, in terms of actual, verifiable placements.

And in terms of Placement Rate, the metric that matters most to us, we are the absolute best in edtech. In the last 2 years, we have placed more than 1800+ students with a Placement Rate of 94% (and improving).

This is our long game- to Scale with Soul. We invite you to join us for the play. 

Funding

Kraftshala is backed by a number of eminent investors, including:

• Phanindra Sama and Sudhakar Pasupunuri, co-founders at Redbus and early investors in unicorns like Unacademy
• Amit Kumar Agarwal, Saurabh Garg and Akhil Gupta, co-founders at Nobroker.com (the world’s largest NoBrokerage Property Site and India’s first realty startup unicorn)
• Sujayathi Ali, Co-founder at ShopUp and Voonik
• Doreswamy Nandkishore (Former Fortune 100 CEO, Head of Asia, Oceania, Africa for Nestlé S.A. and Professor, ISB)
• Pallav Jain and Sarfaraz Khimani (co-CEOs of Performics, India's largest SEO/ performance marketing agencies)

What do we value (the Kraftshala Kode)

Kraftshala is on a mission to become the largest career launchpad in the world.

This is why Team Kraftshala is for the ambitious, the forever-learners, and most of all, for those who live to add value to others. In a world where education companies often lose sight of their core, we aim to Scale with Soul, to offer greater value to each stakeholder (including our team) everyday we get bigger. Joining Kraftshala now means becoming part of a story still in its early chapters- one you’ll help shape with your ideas, actions, and leadership.

Here are things we care for: 

• We seek a value-adding mindset in prospective team mates. Folks who demonstrate a capacity to understand their users' needs and combine it with a willingness to go the extra mile to deliver, fit right in.  
• We value problem-solving skills. We look at problems objectively, work backwards from the user, solve for root causes, and make decisions for long-term good instead of short-term gain. We don’t let processes or hierarchies get in the way of adding value.
• We believe speed matters enormously in business. We value people who move with urgency, have a bias for action, and are willing to take calculated risks in the face of uncertainty.
• We look for people with high learning agility, the truth seekers who pursue the best data, ideas, and solutions with rigour and open-mindedness, and are constantly working to become better today than yesterday.
• We admire people with ambition & courage to take on large goals. We are seeking to build a team of self-starters who demonstrate high ownership.
• We aim for consistency and reliability and expect the same from others. Predictability just makes everyone’s life a lot smoother.
• We believe people who demonstrate candour with care are the most effective: real, open and direct in communication, while still being highly empathetic. 
• We are practical optimists. Our team strongly believes in a better future and takes joy and pride in the fact that we are playing our part to make that future a reality.

Why This Role Matters

• We are looking for a Staff Engineer to lead the technical direction and hands-on development of our next-generation, agentic AI-first marketing platforms. This is a high-impact role to architect, build, and ship products that change how marketers interact with data, plan campaigns, and make decisions.

What You'll Do

• Build Gen-AI native products: Architect, build, and ship platforms powered by LLMs, agents, and predictive AI
• Stay hands-on: Design systems, write code, debug, and drive product excellence
• Lead with depth: Mentor a high-caliber team of full stack engineers.
• Speed to market: Rapidly ship and iterate on MVPs to maximize learning and feedback.
• Own the full stack: From backend data pipelines to intuitive UIs—from Airflow to React - from BigQuery to embeddings.
• Scale what works: Ensure scalability, security, and performance in multi-tenant, cloud-native environments (GCP).
• Collaborate deeply: Work closely with product, growth, and leadership to align tech with business priorities.

What You Bring

• 8+ years of experience building and scaling full-stack, data-driven products
• Proficiency in backend (Node.js, Python) and frontend (React), with solid GCP experience
• Strong grasp of data pipelines, analytics, and real-time data processing
• Familiarity with Gen-AI frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, OpenAI APIs, vector databases)
• Proven architectural leadership and technical ownership
• Product mindset with a bias for execution and iteration

Our Tech Stack

• Cloud: Google Cloud Platform
• Backend: Node.js, Python, Airflow
• Data: BigQuery, Cloud SQL
• AI/ML: TensorFlow, OpenAI APIs, custom agents
• Frontend: React.js

What You Get

• Meaningful equity in a high-growth startup
• The chance to build global products from India
• A culture that values clarity, ownership, learning, humility, and candor
• A rare opportunity to build with Gen-AI from the ground up

Who You Are

• You’re initiative-driven, not interruption-driven.
• You code because you love building things that matter.
• You enjoy ambiguity and solve problems from first principles.
• You believe true leadership is contextual, hands-on, and grounded.
• You’re here to build — not just maintain.
• You care deeply about seeing your products empower real users, run reliably at scale, and adapt intelligently with minimal manual effort.
• You know that elegant code is just 30% of the job — the real craft lies in the engineering rigour, edge-case handling, and production resilience that make great products truly dependable.

**Responsibilities:**

- Lead the backend development team, providing mentorship and guidance to junior developers.

- Design, develop, and maintain robust backend systems using Node.js and NestJS with TypeScript.

- Implement event sourcing and message queue solutions using technologies such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.

- Utilize strong PostgreSQL knowledge to design, optimize, and manage databases effectively.

- Implement DevOps practices and tools to ensure continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), containerization with Docker, and orchestration with Kubernetes.

- Collaborate closely with frontend developers to integrate backend services with user interfaces seamlessly.

- Lead and contribute to architectural discussions and decisions to ensure scalability, reliability, and performance of our systems.

- Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues promptly, demonstrating strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

**Requirements:**

- Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

- 5+ years of experience in software development, with a significant focus on backend technologies.

- Proven leadership experience as a team lead or senior developer, with a track record of mentoring junior developers and leading successful projects.

- Profound expertise in Node.js and NestJS with TypeScript.

- Experience with event sourcing and message queues (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ).

- Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL, including database design, optimization, and management.

- Solid understanding of DevOps practices and tools (CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP/Azure).

- Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including frontend developers.

- Strong analytical skills and problem-solving abilities.

- Excellent communication and leadership skills.

About Company

With a rich legacy of 40 years in fostering world-class academic excellence and over 100,000 alumni across the globe, our client is one of the premier institutions of higher learning in India offering Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Diploma, and Ph.D. programmes.

Uniquely positioned as one of the first universities across the world that offer the highest standard of professional education ingrained with the postulates of peace studies, the university enables an inclusive culture of dignity, fairness, and respect amongst its students, grooming them into future-ready, responsible citizens of the world.

About the role

• Provide Strategic Vision for University to define medium- and long-term Human Resource direction and priorities.

• Lead on developing, communicating and successfully delivering the University’s HR strategy, including inspiring continuous performance improvement

• Build a dynamic and forward-looking approach to the University’s HR capability development with strong intellectual leadership, understanding and harnessing the University’s comprehensive subject range, in the context of a best HR practices.

• Ensure operational excellence and sustainability.

Roles & responsibilities

Strategic

• Devise HR strategies aligned to University’s vision and mission

• Establish HR roadmap aligned to HR strategies

• Play key role in facilitating the change across organization

• Advice and guide management on strategic alignment require with the growth of University.

• Establish framework which is sustainable, scalable in all areas of HR function

• Designing and executing all the HR policies and procedures of the University.

• Focus on employee capability building through - Conducting the training need analysis (initially nonteaching and later FDP’s for teaching staff).

Research Development

• Create activities around employee engagement and career progression

• Facilitate going forward leadership development, succession planning, High potential development program etc…

• Develop result oriented Performance Management System (Yearly appraisal and competency mapping at each level).

Financial and Budget

• Propose HR Budget and financial strategies focusing employee engagement

• Ensure the budget is used in the best possible way and is adding value as ROI

• Incorporate in the budget provisions leading to “Employer of Choice”

Collaborations

• Be employee advocate & champion within all the institutions under the umbrella of University

• Represent University on professional bodies of repute helpful in further branding university

Operational

• Create activities around employee engagement and career progression

• Conducting HR Audit of all HR processes periodically.

• Create HR dashboard showcasing HR performance to management on monthly basis

• Develop the training calendar and execute the training programs as per the TNA.

• Develop the employee welfare schemes.

• Design employee engagement activities.

• Design HR manual and employee handbook.

• Develop through induction and ensure each new joinee is gone through the induction process.

• Develop result oriented Performance Management System (Yearly appraisal and competency mapping at each level).

• Develop various incentive schemes for the employees.

• Participate and take responsibility during social initiative programs

• Compensation & Benefit Management

• Statutory & Regulatory Compliances Management

• Employee Grievances handling and satisfactory resolution

External Representation

• Represent Institute in various professional bodies, conferences and seminars in order to increase project the image of best employer and the institute’s visibility at the regional and international levels

• Remain abreast of the best practices in the field of Human Resources

Requirements

Minimum Qualification & Experience

• MBA from ISB/institute of repute

• 15 to 20 years of experience in Human Resource, preferable from education sector (Female candidates preferred)

Substantial leadership and management experience

• The personal characteristics to have a substantial experience and a successful record of senior leadership at corporate level in a large and complex organisation.

• Evidence of developing, communicating and executing a vision and strategy in a complex organisation, Proven Transformation Leadership in a sizeable organisation

• Demonstrated personal leadership of creating new benchmark of performance and have proven record of performance improvement and change at an organisational level;

• Financial acumen and experience, and commercial awareness, which demonstrate the ability to strategically manage, optimise and be accountable for the management of resources

• A proven track record of developing leaders and leadership teams, and the ability to work effectively with those teams;

• A commitment to the highest standards of governance, experience of working effectively with governing bodies or boards and external members, and the ability to operate confidently and effectively in an externally regulated environment

Intellectual credibility

• A high level of intellectual credibility, with a strong academic or other intellectual profile, in order to lead, engage with, and gain the respect of staff, demonstrating curiosity and interest in the broad range of HR disciplines.

Personal attributes and style

• A strong commitment to university and its vision, ambitions, and values

• The ability and confidence to lead and work effectively with an experienced and capable senior leadership team, empowering leaders at all levels to deliver the Division’s ambitions;

• The ability to relate to and communicate effectively with staff at all levels in the Division, engaging them with the University’s vision and plans; n

• A personal commitment to and record in effective and respectful partnership working across all staff groups;

• Sound judgement and the ability and courage to make difficult but informed decisions, including on challenging issues;

• Exceptional personal and public communication and relations

1. Development of new web applications.
2. Maintenance of existing web applications.
3. Writing server-side web application logic in Ruby.
4. Create back-end components.
5. Connect the application with the other web services.
6. Extending and maintaining JSON and Liquid-based APIs.

About PoshVine: 

PoshVine aspires to become the world's leading transaction-driven loyalty and engagement platform by providing a mutually beneficial ecosystem for people, banks and retailers. Our products around programmatic offers, rewards, and loyalty help retailers increase contextual engagement and financial institutions increase share of spends, while end-users maximize their rewards and savings. PoshVine works with all the global payment networks and many marquee financial institutions, including 7 of the top 10 banks in India. 

Backend Development at PoshVine:

We are building payment-linked real-time engagement tools embedded within banking and payment journeys. Our core engineering team strives to build solid backend foundations, infrastructure and a solid network of microservices. Apart from regular work, you can expect:

• Freedom to evaluate and introduce new tools, libraries and coding standards.
• Work on developer productivity and platform tooling.
• Evangelise tech and share knowledge in internal and external forums.
• Contribute to Product and Design ideas and implement them like it’s your own product. 

Roles & Responsibilities: 

1. Be involved in product and design decisions, and drive implementations. 
2. Help us scale the payment-linked loyalty infrastructure to every payment product used in India. Develop platform features for/with reusable code.
3. Work with IT/tech SPOCs from Banks and Fintechs to achieve seamless API integrations, resolve concerns, and move forward with program delivery and implementation. 
4. Tag team with internal and external stakeholders to problem solve and work with banks to test out UAT/Production and create a rollout plan for the same. 
5. Perform in-depth research and identify sources off production issues surrounding the application. 
6. Make architectural decisions (microservices, choice of development frameworks and tools, database optimisations, load handling)
7. Proficient in Full stack development skills spanning the entire spectrum from:

1. Database: MySQL, PostgreSQL
2. Backend: Ruby on Rails
3. Front End: Web Development frameworks  (Angular / React / Vue JS)
4. Deployment: Capistrano, Chef, AWS, EC2, Git

You’ll be a good fit if you possess: 

1. A strong product design sense.
2. Good experience in working with Ruby on Rails, Postgres, Python.
3. Proven ability to understand end user requirements, formulate use cases and come up with effective solutions.
4. Good understanding of REST APIs and the web in general.
5. Ability to build a feature from scratch & drive it to completion.
6. A willingness to learn new technology, whatever lets you deliver the best product.
7. Possess excellent data management skills: 
1. How to structure databases that can scale
2. How to optimise database queries
3. Complying with the latest regulations around data for each geography
4. Managing the infrastructure that the data resides on to ensure 99.9% uptime across geographies
8. You are comfortable working on CI/CD toolchain, Kubernetes, etc.
9. 3+ years of experience. 

• Manpower Planning
• Sourcing as per profile requirements
• Conducting Interviews
• Creating assessment mechanisms
• Joining and onboarding of employees
• Creating the induction module
• Streamlining exit process and formalities
• Maintaining employee data
• Remaining updated with current trends, policies and benefits
• Effectively introducing and executing policies and processes
• Creating the engagement calendar
• Organizing employee engagement programs independently
• Rolling out initiatives to strengthen core values
• Grievances handling and Employee counselling
• Handling queries around compensation and benefits
• Ensuring timely updation of HRMS Software for attendance for the smooth and timely running of payroll
• Creating job descriptions
• Creating a performance review mechanism
• Staying updated with new tools and ideologies related to performance

• Masters in HR
• Min 4 years of experience
• Analytical skills understanding of HR metrics
• Keeps updated with latest trends and market knowledge
• Ability to work under pressure
• Knowledge of various labor laws like PF, ESIC, PT, Minimum wages Act, Bonus Act , Maternity Benefit Act, Delhi Shops and Establishments Act etc .

About the role:

We are a team of talented independent game developers building the future of indie games. We are a fully remote team working on a wide range of genres and platforms. https://www.hopscotchgames.org/

We are looking for an experienced game developer and designer for a new suite of 2D/3D mobile video games. You should be able to lead both the technical and design effort for the creation of a game concept. You should be very skilled with Unity3D and C#. You should also

have the ability to generate and refine fun game mechanics that fit the company’s

product requirements.

You’ll be joining a fast-paced and dynamic game studio where you will have the opportunity

to expand your knowledge

to develop games across a wide variety of genres. You’ll be working closely with game development veterans who have shipped award winning games.

Key responsibilities:

• Code and develop new & existing games and features such as gameplay, APIs, prototypes, implementation of SDKs, etc.
• Inspire technical solutions while spearheading multiple 2D/3D games.
• Review code and design decisions with teammates and propose changes and improvements to promote scalable, reliable and maintainable technologies for our 2D/3D gaming platforms.
• Provide feedback to help shape the final product of our games in terms of gameplay and user experience.
• Monitor the technical performance of 2D/3D games including server code performance, server-client communication issues, bugs, and crashes.
• Demonstrated ability to work well with Art, Marketing, Production, and Engineering staff to efficiently deliver the best games while meeting the goals and requirements of each of those teams.
• Ability to generate and refine fun filled
• 2D/3D game mechanics and themes.
• Commitment to quality on time execution.
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills.
• Write clear and concise game design documents.
• Drive prototyping, mechanics, pacing, tuning, tutorial, usability, level ramp, story, meta-structure, aesthetics, and creative vision of projects assigned to you.
• Use a metrics-driven approach to game design, learning from users, as you drive retention, virality and monetization into the game’s design.

Does this sound like you?

Must-haves:

• A degree or certification in computer science or a related field preferred
• 3+ years of experience working as 2D/3D Game Developer and/or Designer
• Enjoys working on all types of game designs
• Create and articulate innovative design concepts and game flow
• Strong understanding of player experience and design fundamentals

• Making systems more efficient, more reliable and more secure
• Communicating across internal and external organizations

What you need to have:

• Minimum 12 years of experience
• Experience in IT Infra, IT Ops, Hardware and network connectivity
• Knowledge on VM ware, AWS cloud
• Experience in Monitoring tools
• Working knowledge on Unix /Linux
• Experience in security, network and compliance frameworks
• Hands-on experience with VMware, AWS Cloud/Multi Cloud, infrastructure automation and monitoring tools
• Understanding of security, risk and compliance frameworks, disaster recovery, high availability architectures, hardware, operating systems and networking connectivity 

We are building for the future of work by changing the way the world looks at information and data paradigms. The Meaning Engine by India-based Needle Innovision enables building solutions by processing meaningful data out of anything stored anywhere - structured, unstructured data types, distributed, at scale and more. 

In our quest to do more, we are looking for a fantastic Talent Acquisition Specialist to join us in a hybrid setting. Below are some (seriously important) green flags that we are looking for from you: 

🟢 Ability to build and repeat the vision, not just work on tasks in the new phase of your career

🟢 Empathy for people and ability to connect with diverse individuals

🟢 Be a transparent and communicative person 

🟢 Champion Diversity and Inclusion initiatives and incorporate them in the hiring process

This could be an awesome launching pad for someone who believes in our mantra of "find them, grow them, keep them,". Our teams are sustained on values of care and we offer a generous number of vacation days, the opportunity to craft your calendar with flexible schedules and very soon an insurance plan for you and your loved ones.

What you will do: 

• Coordinate with the functional and technical team leads to identify staffing needs
• Determine selection criteria and standardize the selection process across tech and non-tech roles
• Source potential candidates through online channels (e.g. social platforms and professional networks)
• Plan interview and selection procedures, including screening calls, assessments and in-person/virtual interviews
• Assess candidate information, including resumes and contact details, and maintain an updated pipeline
• Design compelling job descriptions and interview questions that reflect each position’s requirements
• Lead employer branding initiatives and collaborate with the Marketing and Communications team, when needed
• Foster long-term relationships with past applicants and potential candidates

What you will bring: 

• 2-4 years experience in talent acquisition (preferably in a start-up environment) and hands-on experience with full-cycle recruiting using various interview techniques and evaluation methods
• Proficiency in maintaining the hiring pipeline for multiple roles, at the junior - mid-level roles (experience in hiring for leadership roles can be a bonus)
• Familiarity with social media, resume databases, and professional networks (e.g. Stack Overflow and Github) 
• Ability to devise innovative sourcing strategies for potential applicants
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to work closely with others across different teams.
• A keen understanding of the requirements for each role in the company
• Proficiency in documenting processes and keeping up with industry trends

If you are excited by the prospect of helping us build a team that works to build digital transformation solutions, and if you have an eye for spotting talent in the fast-paced start-up environment, we think you could be the one to help build the impact we are looking for.