Sr. Business Devlopment Associate

About us

We are building new-age billing and pricing infrastructure for SaaS companies. As SaaS pricing evolves from vanilla subscription-based models to more granular usage-based models, billing and pricing infrastructure needs to be completely reimagined.

Founders who sold their previous startups to Snapdeal and Gaana respectively. They have experience at organizations such as Google, Basepair, Elevation Capital, IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi and Harvard Business School. We are funded by marquee global investors, including Bessemer Venture Partners.

We are building our founding team, and are looking for:

1. engineers who can optimize for quick iteration, fast deployment and having a great developer experience.
2. sales, marketing and growth folks who are excited to push the envelope on GTM (go-to-market) innovation

You should be excited about learning and meaningfully shaping the trajectory of an early-stage startup from Day 0 in its journey.

What you can expect

• Ownership and autonomy: As a founding team member, you have immense responsibility. You own and drive the execution.
• Learning: You will work on challenging problems and engage in some of the most meaningful work of your life.
• You will have to figure out our Go-To-Market playbook from scratch - channels, messaging, discovery, demos, sales cycle, personas, nurturing, partnerships etc. Expect a whole lot of iteration and first principles thinking.
• Culture:
• We don’t take ourselves too seriously, and know how to have fun
• The health of our team is most important to us. Balance work with life - be productive, not busy.
• Being remote first, we thrive via async communication.
• Flexibility: Remote - work from wherever you are in the world; If you prefer coming to the office in person, we have a physical space in Indiranagar, Bangalore 
• Compensation: We offer competitive salaries with generous ESOPs
• Benefits (for full-time roles):
• Health insurance
• Generous vacation policy
• Learning and development budget
• Team events and company offsites
• Maternity and Paternity benefits
• Company laptop

About this role

We are building our founding team and are looking for folks who are excited to get their hands dirty in a 0 to 1 journey. If you are expecting a working playbook that you can execute, we are probably not the right fit for you at this point. However, if you are excited about creating the playbook from scratch, we would love to hear from you 

You will directly work with the founders.

Outbound sales are critical to generating meetings with qualified prospects. You will lay the foundation for and execute our outbound sales strategy.

The primary objective is to generate meetings with qualified prospects by optimizing our outbound sales machinery - iterating on channels, messaging, ICP (ideal customer profile), tooling etc.

• Outbound prospecting
• Find leads from databases (Apollo, ZoomInfo, etc.)
• Reach out to them (manual + automated) via different channels (email, LinkedIn, cold calling, etc.) to generate new sales opportunities
• Identify the needs of prospects, and build long-term, trusting relationships with to qualify leads as sales opportunities
• Iterate to maximize qualified meetings set up
• Experiment with different databases
• Experiment with messaging, level of personalization, length of sequences etc.
• Experiment with channels (email, LinkedIn, cold calls etc.)
• Experiment with different types of collateral
• Experiment with the recipient being targeted - industry, persona, intent signals etc.
• Loop in feedback from prospect responses to emails and cold calls to refine messaging further
• Inbound follow-ups - Respond to inbound leads and automate follow-up communication; iterate on messaging/channels to maximize conversion rate
• Run custom campaigns e.g., writing to VCs for intros to their portfolio companies, writing to conference attendees, scraping forums and job descriptions for relevant leads etc.
• Set up in-house tooling to ensure email deliverability, monitor open rate/reply rate, track domain reputation etc.
• Owning the CRM: Create and update leads, set up pipelines, email templates, and automation. Fully utilize CRM capabilities to nurture leads and deliver timely and relevant content

Key Qualifications

• 1-2 years of experience working as a sales development representative at a B2B SaaS company
• The solid hustle and entrepreneurial mindset; Thrive under the uncertainty that comes with an early-stage setup
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Experience working with lead databases, sales engagement tools etc
• Familiarity with CRM systems and proficiency in managing leads, pipelines, and automation
• Willingness to get your hands dirty and do the grunt work in the early days
• Strong first principles understanding of business fundamentals; Ability to empathize with the end user, and understand their pain points; Ability to understand the product at a granular level
• Adaptable to work across time zones to cater to a global customer base
• Self-driven individual with high ownership and a strong work ethic
• Ability to build, manage and motivate a team
• Previous entrepreneurial experience is a huge plus
• Experience catering to the CFO persona is a plus
• Familiarity with billing systems, CPQ and accounting systems is a plus
• Not taking yourself too seriously :)

Key Roles/Responsibilities: –

• Develop an understanding of business obstacles, create

• solutions based on advanced analytics and draw implications for

• model development

• Combine, explore and draw insights from data. Often large and

• complex data assets from different parts of the business.

• Design and build explorative, predictive- or prescriptive

• models, utilizing optimization, simulation and machine learning

• techniques

• Prototype and pilot new solutions and be a part of the aim

• of ‘productifying’ those valuable solutions that can have impact at a

• global scale

• Guides and coaches other chapter colleagues to help solve

• data/technical problems at an operational level, and in

• methodologies to help improve development processes

• Identifies and interprets trends and patterns in complex data sets to

• enable the business to take data-driven decisions

Required a full stack Senior SDE with focus on Backend microservices/ modular monolith with 3-4+ years of experience on the following:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent industry technical skills
• Mandatory In-depth knowledge and strong experience in Python programming language.
• Expertise and significant work experience in Python with Fastapi and Async frameworks. 
• Prior experience building Microservice and/or modular monolith.
• Should be an expert Object Oriented Programming and Design Patterns.
• Has knowledge and experience with SQLAlchemy/ORM, Celery, Flower, etc.
• Has knowledge and experience with Kafka / RabbitMQ, Redis.
• Experience in Postgres/ Cockroachdb.
• Experience in MongoDB/DynamoDB and/or Cassandra are added advantages.
• Strong experience in either AWS services (e.g, EC2, ECS, Lambda, StepFunction, S3, SQS, Cognito). and/or equivalent Azure services preferred.
• Experience working with Docker required.
• Experience in socket.io added advantage
• Experience with CI/CD e.g. git actions preferred. 
• Experience in version control tools Git etc.

This is one of the early positions for scaling up the Technology team. So culture-fit is really important.

• The role will require serious commitment, and someone with a similar mindset with the team would be a good fit. It's going to be a tremendous growth opportunity. There will be challenging tasks. A lot of these tasks would involve working closely with our AI & Data Science Team.
• We are looking for someone who has considerable expertise and experience on a low latency highly scaled backend / fullstack engineering stack. The role is ideal for someone who's willing to take such challenges.
• Coding Expectation – 70-80% of time.
• Has worked with enterprise solution company / client or, worked with growth/scaled startup earlier.
• Skills to work effectively in a distributed and remote team environment.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Include the following, other duties that may be assigned:

Lead the Requirement Discovery Calls.

Defining the Vision

Managing & Scoping the Product Backlog

Providing solutions to solving the Assortment, Availability, Merchandizing, and Supply Chain Problems in Retail Space

Working on various metrics for Retail Industry KPIs and assessing the performance of a retail business

Work with Data Engineers on giving in-depth knowledge of the Business Requirements.

Understanding the business purpose of the story and defining and analyzing possible alternative ways of satisfying the business purpose of the story

Estimation of Level of Efforts(LOE) and Deployment Timelines.

Accountable for ensuring advanced analytics and data science outcomes are continually improved such that product and service offerings stay aligned with changing business needs and strategic objectives

Performing line management of product teams operating within an AGILE methodology

Collaborating closely with Business Owners and users to define product roadmaps, epics, features and user stories

Working with team members to take shared responsibility for the overall efforts that the team has committed to

Taking responsibility for the quality data solutions that developers produce

Interacting with Stake holders (Internal & External) as necessary to clarify requirements and agree on priorities

Review project team solution designs to ensure technical alignment & consistency against predefined target architecture and established standards

Work in partnership with third party suppliers to formulate and execute delivery of customer-focused Product & Services

Assist in developing standards for data ingestion, data access layers, application and integration of selected SaaS platforms and Data Science solutions as key components of the overall solution architecture

First Level of the Analysis of the Data Issues.

Understand End-End Flow of the application technically and functionally to enable oneself to be an eventual Product Owner.

Build and maintain architecture, design, and metadata documentation

Desired Qualifications:

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Data or Computer Science or equivalent technical field

Experience in retail industry is must

Lead the Requirement Discovery Calls.

Defining the Vision

Managing & Scoping the Product Backlog

Experience in solving business problems i.e. Assortment, Availability, Merchandizing, and Supply Chain

Providing solutions to solving the Availability, Merchandizing, and Supply Chain Problems in Retail Space

Working on various metrics for Retail Industry KPI’s and assessing the performance of a retail business

8-10 years of Overall IT Experience.

>5 years of Retail Business experience. Experience in Cloud Technologies is a plus

>2 years’ experience managing stakeholder relationships including influencing & negotiating outcomes

Experience in writing SQL and Complex SQL Queries is a Big Plus

About Us:

Prolifics Corporation Limited is a Global Technology Solutions Provider with presence across North America (USA and Canada), Europe (UK and Germany), Middle East & Asia. In India, we have off shore development centres: 3 in Hyderabad & 1 in Pune.

For more than 40 years, Prolifics has transformed enterprises of all sizes including over 100 Fortune 1000 companies by solving their complex IT challenges. Our clients include Fortune 50 and Fortune 100 companies across a broad range of industries including Financial Services, Insurance, Government, Healthcare, Telecommunications, Manufacturing and Retail. We rank consistently in Dream Companies to Work For and Dream Employer of the Year ranking from World HRD Congress, ranked 7 in 2019.

We encourage you to visit us on www.prolifics.com or follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube and other social media to know more about us.

• Work on world-class solutions to deliver industry's leading Cloud operations management
• Develop system architecture, design and build platform services for scalable, resilient, multi-tenant Cloud SaaS. Examples of work include:
• Writing microservices based distributed applications
• Designing REST APIs for backend services
• Develop user-interface for our SaaS
• Handle cross-cutting microservices concerns such as externalizing configuration, logging, health checks, metrics, distributed tracing
• Work with customers, partners, and business leaders to architect solutions for Cloud Operations

• Has significant (3+ years) experience developing and deploying Cloud services for a large scale software projects on public clouds (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Has hands-on experience building multi-tenant SaaS solutions on public clouds (AWS)
• Strong experience with React, NodeJS, Java, GO, Python
• Has expertise with microservices, infrastructure as code (IaC), continuous integration/delivery (CI/CD), etc.
• Has experience working with containerization, cluster orchestration, or infrastructure management frameworks (such as Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform)
• Basic knowledge of AWS security (IAM, Cognito)
• Knowledge of good engineering practices and agile culture
• Takes initiative in a fast-paced environment
• 100% hands-on and loves to code

• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Jaeger, etc.
• AWS certification
• Experience with machine-learning (ML), MLOps
• Experience with Apache Flink, Spark, Hadoop, or other
• Experience working remotely in a distributed team
• Startup experience

The role provides L2 and L3 support and IS services to F&PA community using the Cognos Controller Applications

1. Problem determination / troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills for our IBM Cognos Controller Cloud and On-Premises offerings 
2. Create or enhance knowledge assets for our Knowledge Base (how-to guides, technical notes or similar).
3. Contribute to key operational metrics: for example: NPS, initial response times, backlog management, Time to Resolution

Technical expertise:

1. Previous experience with IBM Cognos Controller, Planning Analytics, or equivalent financial consolidation software (e.g. Anaplan, Tagetek, OneStream, Vena Financial Close Management, Oracle Financial Consolidation, ) 
2. Web tier technologies 
3. Network administration 
4. Web applications 
5. Databases (SQL Server Oracle, DB2) 
6. Strong troubleshooting communication skills 
7. Demonstrated organization and time management skills 
8. Demonstrated verbal and written communication skills 
9. Must be self-motivated and disciplined 
10. Ability to recognize and prioritize critical tasks independently

1. Strong in IBM Cognos Controller 10x expertise 2. Strong SQL knowledge (Oracle, MS SQL Server) 3. Good in Data-warehousing concepts with cognos schema  4. Preferred Knowledge on Cognos finance products - Planning/TM1 5. Excellent communication skills  

cognos Controller 10.4.2 -On premise experience - this is the keyword for the search for Cognos Controller.

This is a temporary full time/freelancer role.

Requirements: 

• - Write well designed, testable code in popular Javascript frameworks like React, Angular etc. and Ruby/Ruby on Rails.
  - A good exposure to both SQL and NoSQL database architectures.
• - Ability to write well documented and testable scripts to automate some processes, preferably using Javascript and/or Ruby.
• - A strong problem solving mindset.
• - Excellent oral and written communication skills.
  - Ability to work collaboratively in teams, with a self-starting, entrepreneurial and ownership mindset.
• - Experience working on Open Source projects is a big plus

Responsibilities:               

• - You will be responsible to work on key issues for one of our dashboard platforms, and collaborate with other developers and the product team to drive the product development forward.
• - You will be expected to take ownership of the work you do, and the dashboard platform that you will be working on.
• - You will be also responsible to train future developers on the platform you'll be working on, once they join your team.
• - At times you will be required to communicate and collaborate with our dashboard implementation partners on a technical front, to discuss roadblocks, potential future roadmaps and improvements, along with our engineering and product teams.
• - You will be required to attend weekly cadences with the team to discuss updates and future goals, brainstorm on some problems and give key updates on deliverables on behalf of the team you'll be working with.

• Make Outbound Calls to Prospects
• Explaining the services of Hedgehomes over call and in person to the clients
• Assissting the Prospects in site visits to various real estate projects briefing them about the pros and cons of individual location and project.
• Analysing the requirement of the prospect and finding a suitable project for him/her.
• Supporting business development through active lead nurturing and developing prospect relationships
• Maintaining Proper Follow up with the prospects and updating it on cloud based CRM.