Sr Content Developer – EdTech

Job Requirements:  

• Strong command over language
• Strong visualisation skills
• Highly skilled with creating content and understanding the needs of the client and delivering the right grammar for the audience for each piece of content
• Can effectively research and organise data for all related topics for various industries/businesses
• Can create and edit original copy that is accurate, well-researched, and meets client/company needs and deadlines.
• Should have enough experience with creating content for B2B and for B2C marketing
• Should have written for videos, blogs, websites, podcasts,etc. 
• Having worked on content for corporate videos/ explainers will be an added advantage. 
• Can work well under pressure and to tight timelines
• Exposure to understanding the video production process would be an added benefit
• Understanding of global quality and trends in marketing content and content writing

Qualifications: 

• Strong creative vision, insight-driven, problem solving skills and understanding of business objectives and brand strategy
• A proven track record of leading and managing teams.
• Great communication and presentation skills
• Exceptional writing skills 
• Ability to craft engaging and persuasive content that resonates with the target audience while adhering to brand guidelines and voice.
• Capacity to think outside the box and develop unique angles and approaches to communicate messages effectively.
• Ability to conduct thorough research to understand client needs, brand positioning, and competitive landscapes.
• The ability to work well under pressure and adhere to tight deadlines

About Shankar Mahadevan Academy 

Founded by Indian singer-composer Shankar Mahadevan, this 11-year old music academy has pioneered online music education for Indian music. Shankar Mahadevan Academy has brought music to over 10,000 students in over 88 countries with more than 3,00,000 virtual classes.  With its mission “Joy of Music”, the Academy has also brought music to the underprivileged and the underserved with its various non-profit initiatives.  

Website: www.shankarmahadevanacademy.com

Shankar Mahadevan Academy is inviting passionate growth and outreach professionals to join our Admissions team. 

At Shankar Mahadevan Academy you will be a part of a dynamic and entrepreneurial team that works at the crossroads of arts, education and technology. Your career at Shankar Mahadevan Academy will contribute to spreading music and Indian arts, while you get an opportunity to learn all aspects of growing an online business for a globally recognised brand. 

The ideal candidate will have strong spoken and written communication skills, have 6 months - 3 years of experience with B2C sales, and be able to handle 70-80 cold calls per day. 

About the role 

• Work hours: 6 days a week, including weekends. U.S. Shift (7:00 - 4:00 p.m.) OR India Shift (12:00 p.m.- 9:00 p.m.) 
• Work location: Located off MG Road, Easy access to Trinity Circle Metro Station
• Work from Office only, no work from home/ Hybrid model 
• Benefits: Health Insurance and PF cover 
• We follow a culture of fun, engagement and growth with emphasis on work-life balance and healthy living. You also get fruits, activities every week, regular team outings and learning opportunities 

Goals / What you will do 

• Acquire new customers by handling inbound and outbound calls, and walk-in inquiries 
• Actively generate leads and seek out new sales opportunities through cold calling, networking and social media 
• Possess a strong understanding of our products, and showcase our value to our customers in the form of counseling 
• Gather market and student information and provide feedback on buying trends and competitive advantages
• Representing SMA at trade exhibitions, events and demonstrations

Skills required / Must-haves for the role 

• 6 months to 3 years of work experience in B2C sales 
• Good spoken and written communication in English with good listening skills 
• Team player who likes to work with like-minded people 
• Good at objection handling and sales closure 
• Multi-language skills added advantage 
• Willing to pick up new skills 

We are looking for a Graphic Designer to create engaging and on-brand graphics for a variety of media. the Graphic Designer job description includes the entire process of defining requirements, visualizing and creating graphics including illustrations, logos, layouts, and photos.

Your graphics should capture the attention of those who see them and communicate the right message. For this, you need to have a creative flair and a strong ability to translate requirements into design. If you can communicate well and work methodically as part of a team, we’d like to meet you.

• Responsible for designing marketing collaterals/Creatives such as Banners, Display Ads, Social Media Creatives, Promotional Material
• Work together with a writing partner and collaborate with client-facing teams and delivery to develop visual branding and graphic visualizations for pursuit artifacts
• Ability to understand the client and/or end-user point of view and values in globally and regionally
• Having a deep understanding and proven ability is generating great visual content online Prior experience and expertise in creating content focused on furniture would be ideal
• Guide in creating outlines, storyboards based on imagery and come up with highly creative and modern designs that are in sync with what users of social media would expect from a leading furniture brand
• Adhering to defined timelines to produce high-quality deliverables
• Bring new innovative approaches to graphic visualizations from experience, research on creative design trends
• Should be proficient in designing posters, booklets, handouts, PPT decks

• Experience in Graphic Design software – Adobe Photoshop, Canva, Illustrator, Sketch, Corel draw, etc.
• Exceptional ability in graphic design and typography, preferably with experience in digital consumer products
• Should have experience in photo retouching
• Understanding of branding and ability to apply a brand s look and feel across the web and mobile properties
• Self-driven with the ability to work without constant supervision
• Ability to communicate effectively in a cross-functional team and present ideas and designs effectively.
• Prior Experience in online furniture industry will be an advantage

• You will be having an impact on our 1.7M users every day.
• You will be rolling out experiments and working closely with our product managers and design team to validate and build new features.
• Monitoring apps and fixing bugs for improving performance.
• Refactoring/Rewriting obsolete code to align with the new architecture.
• Design, build and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable Kotlin code.
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency Experience: 1- 5 yrs in android development

Expertise:

• Kotlin
• Live Data and other Android Jetpack components
• DI (Dagger/Hilt)
• Design patterns MVVM, MVI
• Multithreading (Coroutines)
• Offline Storage
• Remote data interaction via REST and JSON

Hands-on experience:

• Git
• CI/CD
• Third-party analytics like Amplitude, Clevertap, etc..
• Common third-party libraries and APIs like (Glide, retrofit...)
• Firebase products (FireStore/ RealTimeDB/ FCM..)
• Writing custom views
• Text-based UIs like notes, reader, etc..
• Publishing/Updating apps on Google Play and other stores (Huawei/Xiaomi...)

Good to have:

• Basic understanding of clean architecture.
• Simple data structure and algorithm understanding.
• Basic understanding of AWS services and products
• Strong design intuition and user empathy.
• Should be aware of future technologies in the Android ecosystem.
• You should be quick in understanding the hypothesis, and build the experiment and make it available to a user
• We prefer people who are highly experimental and willing to take risks.
• Experience in training or mentoring team members.

Do not apply if you are not:

• Ownership driven
• Curious in general
• Self-motivated
• Use to work in a chaotic environment
• Highly proactive
• Hate drinking and smoking will have a hard time here

Job Skills & Qualifications (REQUIRED)

• Bachelors degree.
• Negotiation skills.
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills.
• Strong social aptitude and ability to build relationships.
• Technical knowledge to be able to talk to job prospects and understand qualifications.

Job Responsibilities

• Develop recruiting strategies that meet anticipated staffing needs.
• Review job orders and employment applications to match applicants with job requirements.
• Search for job candidates using various sources such as databases, internet recruiting resources, networking, job fairs, media advertisements, recruiting firms or employee referrals.
• Interview job applicants as part of the screening process to get information on their work history, job skills, training and education, and inform them of the positions duties and responsibilities, compensation, benefits and working conditions.
• Analyze employment data related to the position and create reports based on your findings.
• Contact applicants to inform them of their application statuses and conduct background or reference checks on job applicants, particularly those who will be given job offers.