Sr. Azure Developer

Founder's Office | Sierra Innovations

At Sierra Innovations, we are building a high-impact Founder’s Office to drive the next phase of growth.

This role sits at the intersection of strategy, execution, and leadership building.

You will work directly with the Founder on critical business problems that shape the company’s future.

This is not a role.

This is a launchpad into leadership.

What You’ll Work On

• Drive high-priority strategic initiatives across the company
• Support fundraising — investor research, financial narratives, deck building, and conversations
• Design and implement key HR policies & org structures
• Lead KMP / leadership hiring across business functions
• Define and track KPIs across teams, ensuring accountability and performance
• Conduct market research & competitive intelligence to guide decision-making
• Work on 0→1 and 1→100 growth projects across categories
• Solve unstructured problems with clarity, speed, and ownership

Key Skills & Experience

• Investment Banking / Fund Analyst Experience
• Strong grounding in financial thinking, investor communication, and structured problem solving
• Fundraising Exposure
• Experience in supporting or leading fundraise processes
• KMP / Leadership Hiring
• Ability to identify and close high-quality leadership talent
• KPI & Performance Management
• Experience in defining, tracking, and improving business metrics
• Project Management
• Proven ability to drive cross-functional projects to completion
• Education / EdTech Exposure (Preferred)
• Understanding of test prep, K-12, or learning ecosystems
• Analytical + Execution Strength
• Ability to think clearly and execute fast

Who This Role Is For

• You have high intellectual horsepower
• You take extreme ownership — outcomes matter more than effort
• You are comfortable with ambiguity and thrive in fast-moving environments
• You can build networks and influence people
• You want to grow beyond a single function into a business leader
• You are hungry to create disproportionate impact

What You’ll Gain

• Direct exposure to founder-level decision making
• Hands-on experience in fundraising, hiring, strategy, and execution
• Opportunity to build a cross-functional business understanding
• Fast-track path into leadership roles within the company

Why Sierra Innovations

We are building a category-defining D2C powerhouse in publishing and beyond — combining content, technology, and distribution at scale.

If you want to be in the room where:

• strategic decisions are made,
• leaders are built, and
• real outcomes are driven,

this is that opportunity.

Final Note

This role is not for everyone.

But if you believe you have the intellect, network-building ability, and execution strength to drive outcomes,

we would love to work with you.

Apply if you’re ready to build — not just participate.

• Act as a key point of contact to the Business Transformation Services, Business Analysis, and Functional Architecture and Solution Architecture groups throughout the implementation
• Interface with business stakeholders to determine key design/process decisions, and contribute to overall delivery plan.
• Deliver assigned tasks complete and on time as designated by the Programme Office to ensure smooth progress of the implementation.
• Contribute and take ownership for various project related tasks / planning activities as the programme evolves

• Knowledge and Practical experience of Project Management methodologies – ability to configure delivery work stream frameworks to progress timelines and delivery milestones
• Demonstrate ability in planning consulting/functional work & ownership of project outcomes

• Deep knowledge in designing and developing C# .NET based Web applications (MVC, Web APIs).
• Design, develop, update and maintain product
• Proficiency in managing SQL Databases and writing optimised queries.
• Should be able to work independently on a project
• Experience in at least one of the frond-end frameworks - jQuery / Angular / VueJS / Etc..

• Knowledge on AWS or Azure or similar cloud environment knowledge is nice to have
• SaaS based Product development experience is an advantage
• Knowledge in Azure Functions or AWS Lambda is good to have

• Communicate with clients via phone / e-mail for requirement discussions, implementations & support.
• Very friendly and a challenging environment, where you get to work with the BEST of North American and UK clients with the latest technologies

Company is looking for a candidate who has a strong background to guide the Scrum Team on using agile practices and principles to deliver high quality products and contributing to the advancement and improvement of agile practices within the organization.

Scrum Framework and agile frameworks like Kanban, JIRA/Confluence. 

• Managing project scope and timelines
• Facilitating daily scrum, sprint planning and retrospective meeting
• Ensuring the team adheres to Scrum theory, practice, and guidelines
• Ensure each person is working on the right tasks to ensure timely and high-quality delivery
• Enabling collaborative processes and removing impediments for the scrum team
• 3+ years of experience in Jira, Scrum management, product delivery and project management
• A scrum master certification (CSM) would be a strong plus

• Ability to join a small and growing team, and work with some of the coolest people you've ever met
• Opportunity to make an impact, and leave your mark on this organization.
• Competitive compensation, with the ability to shape your own career trajectory
• Go Extra Mile with Learning and Development

A wholesome opportunity in a fast-paced environment that will enable you to juggle between concepts, yet maintain the quality of content, interact and share your ideas and have loads of learning while at work. Work with a team of highly talented young professionals and enjoy the benefits of being at this company.

A fast-growing SaaS commerce company based in Bangalore with offices in Delhi, Mumbai, SF, Dubai, Singapore and Dublin. We have three products in our portfolio: Plum, Empuls and Compass. Company works with over 1000 global clients. We help our clients in engaging and motivating their employees, sales teams, channel partners or consumers for better business results.

We look forward to connecting with you. As you may take time to review this opportunity, we will wait for a reasonable time of around 3-5 days before we screen the collected applications and start lining up job discussions with the hiring manager. We however assure you that we will attempt to maintain a reasonable time window for successfully closing this requirement. The candidates will be kept informed and updated on the feedback and application status.

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Desired Candidate Profile

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in IT
• 5+ years as Technical Project Manager
• Experience with Agile development (Scrum/Kanban) is must
• Experience with task tracking systems like Jira, VSTS is must
• Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multitasking skills
• Experience with project management tools like MS Project is a plus
• Project Management Professional (PMP)/ PRINCE II certification is a plus
• Good knowledge of software life cycle and processes and various methodologies
• Resource planning, performance management and team motivational skills are must
• Previous development experience as Business Analyst, development or data science is a plus    

What you need to have:

• 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.