Sr/Jr UX Designer

Job Description

Certa is recruiting a Product Manager, who is passionate, strategic, and driven for developing a world-class no-code SaaS product. As a key member of the Product Management team, you will work closely with UX, technology, and business. This role will allow you to set product strategies, identify new business opportunities, solve complex problems, and work with a smart innovative team.

Requirements

• A natural collaborator with a proven ability to work across teams to get things done.
• You have structured problem-solving abilities and a clear communication style.
• Familiar and comfortable with Agile development.
• Results-oriented. You know how to ‘get it done; you drive results with your team. Exceptional problem-solving, teamwork, and leadership skills. Handle details accurately and promptly
• Customer Focused. Dedication to customer success. Demonstrated ability to deliver SaaS software solutions to customers.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage expectations and customer demands. You know how and when to influence customers to adapt to smarter operational techniques of Certa’s platform
• Ability to work with remote teams.
• You show you care about quality and driving strategy to build innovative products.
• You are an effective communicator and know how to adjust your management style to help coach and lead at all levels in the organization.
• Ability to manage multiple challenges, competing for priorities simultaneously.
• Identifying and validating new business and product opportunities.
• Creating and analyzing new product ideas, testing the ideas, and translating that into the product roadmap
• Orchestrating the execution of the roadmap in a look-ahead timeline approach
• Managing the product life cycle from strategic planning to tactical product management activities. This includes acting as product owner on one or more scrum teams.
• Acting as the subject matter expert on the product for the company.
• Working in an outbound capacity to provide domain expertise in support of sales and partner opportunities.
• Working closely with engineering and UX teams to provide the input needed to guide the product development effort.
• Developing business cases as needed for major new product initiatives while working with the sales/business development team to understand the best use-case scenarios and spot possible feature development opportunities proactively
• Prioritizing product requirements for new features by conducting market and customer research supported by ongoing communications with customers, prospects, and with internal customer-facing organizations.
• To execute your responsibilities, you will interface with customers and prospects to understand user needs and customer use cases. You will interface with engineering and UX teams to execute the product roadmap, as well as work with marketing to ensure alignment with external communication in terms of target markets, go-to-market strategy, product positioning, and key benefits. You will also serve as an internal and external evangelist for your product offering.
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Technical Skills:

• Familiar and comfortable with Agile development, wireframing tools, Jira for user stories Figma, and MIRO.
• Product manager for no code SaaS product
• ERP, Coupa, Anaplan, ServiceNow

• Must-Know React, PHP, & JS
• Good with writing clean and efficient code
• Must use WordPress coding standards
• Decent knowledge of all technologies involved with developing WordPress plugins
• Basic knowledge of Photoshop for creating pixel-perfect HTML (if needed)
• Common sense & Troubleshooting mindset

Summary of this position

We are actively looking for individuals with high energy to actively drive the sales efforts for the automation services (RPA and AI) in our focus regions (the US, Australia, and India). The business development executive will be responsible for building the pipeline within the target verticals (Financial services). This position requires candidates to have strong communication skills, a self-motivated approach, and results-driven.

The position will report directly to the Head or Operations and has the potential to grow and establish into lead roles.

What we are looking for,

• Coordinate with the marketing team in running targeted campaigns through multiple channels and drive traffic for potential prospecting
• Actively connect with the identified leads through emails and calls as appropriate within your market or geographic area to build and establish the initial connection by scheduling a meeting for the solution team to connect and explore opportunities for automation.
• Ensure a healthy and robust pipeline of opportunities. Connect with potential prospects periodically to nurture and mature the relationship towards a successful deal closure.
• Identify potential clients, and the decision-makers within the client organization.
• Research and build relationships with prospects and existing clients for referrals and new opportunities.
• Identify opportunities for campaigns, services, and distribution channels that will lead to an increase in sales.
• Through regular competitive analysis identify and develop unique selling propositions to position and differentiate.
• Forecast sales targets and ensure they are met.

​We expect the candidate to have,

• Bachelors or Masters Degree. This is a mandatory requirement.
• Excellent communication skills. This is a mandatory requirement.
• Minimal of 2 to 3 years of experience in sales and marketing, preferably for US and Australia markets.
• Preferably good experience in promoting and selling software products and services.

Employment type

This is a Full-time position with added benefits – Provident Fund (PF), Paid Time Off (PTO) and Health Insurance

Where would they be working

Office location is Coimbatore, India. Currently we are open for candidates working remotely but by June of 2022, we will need you to work from our office location.

We are looking for a great Go developer who possesses a strong understanding of how best to leverage and exploit the language’s unique paradigms, idioms, and syntax. Your primary focus will be on developing Go packages and programs that are scalable and maintainable. You will ensure that these Go packages and programs are well documented and has a reasonable test coverage. You will coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure. A commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and quality product is essential.

• Writing scalable, robust,, testable, efficient, and easily maintainable code

• Translating software requirements into stable, working, high performance software

• Playing a key role in architectural and design decisions, building toward an efficient micro services distributed architecture
  
  
  

   
   

Emeritus is committed to teaching the skills of the future by making high-quality education accessible and affordable to individuals, companies, and governments around the world. It does this by collaborating with more than 50 top-tier universities across the United States, Europe, Latin America, Southeast Asia, India and China. Emeritus’ short courses, degree programs, professional certificates, and senior executive programs help individuals learn new skills and transform their lives, companies and organizations.

Its unique model of state-of-the-art technology, curriculum innovation, and hands-on instruction from senior faculty, mentors and coaches has educated more than 250,000 individuals across 80 countries. Founded in 2015, Emeritus, part of the Eruditus Group has more than 1,400 employees globally and offices in Mumbai, New Delhi, Shanghai, Singapore, Palo Alto, Mexico City, New York, Boston, London, and Dubai.

With offices in six countries, 1000+ employees and more than 100,000 student enrollments over the last 12 months, Emeritus is a global leader in the $280 billion global professional education market. In 2020, EMERITUS secured a $113 million Series D round with participation from Leeds Illuminate, Prosus Ventures, Sequoia India, and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

Learning Design – designing to maximize the learning of the student; having a student centric approach in all decisions regarding design experience.

Storyboarding – translating the raw video footage into an accessible and engaging series of videos that enhance the student’s learning.

Visualization – using visual medium to convey ideas and enhance learning - creating visual representations of concepts, ensuring visual consistency and harmony in the videos.

Video reviews – checking the quality of videos received from the video editors.

Co-ordination with Production team – interacting with teammates the extended team (video editing partners) to create a top-quality product.

Skills and Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Educational Tech, Instructional Design, Mass Communication, or Journalism. An MBA degree is highly desirable.
• Specialized knowledge: Instructional design, online learning, video-based learning, mobile learning  Other characteristics: team player, ability to work in a global, virtual team, Prior experience in a startup environment will be helpful, innovative, attention to detail, ability to grasp technical concepts and simplify them visually, and an inclination towards understanding academic content.
• Professional certification: Instructional design, video editing a plus
• Experience: At least 6 years work experience in a fast-paced, growth environment in a similar role

Characteristics

• Team player
• Ability to work in agile methodology
• Ability to grasp technical concepts and simplify them visually
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Innovative
• Attention to detail
• An inclination towards understanding academic content

Emeritus provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Locus is a global decision- making platform in the supply chain that uses deep learning and proprietary algorithms to provide route optimization, real-time tracking, insights and analytics, beat optimization, efficient warehouse management, vehicle allocation and utilization, intuitive 3D packing and measurement of packages. Locus automates human decisions required to transport a package or a person, between any two points on earth, delivering gains along efficiency, consistency, and transparency in operations.

Locus, which has achieved a peak of 1 million orders processed in a day (200,000 orders an hour) and is trained & tested on over 100 million+ order deliveries, works in 75 cities across the globe. Locus works with several large-scale market leaders like Urban Ladder, Tata Group of Companies, Droplet, Licious, Rollick, Lenskart, other global FMCG, pharma, e-commerce, 3PL and logistics conglomerates.

Locus is backed by some of the biggest names in the market and recently raised $22 MN in Series B funding and also $4 Mn in a pre-Series B round. Earlier, In 2016, Locus raised $2.75 Mn (INR 18.3 Cr) in a Series A funding.

Locus was started by Nishith Rastogi and Geet Garg, two ex-Amazon engineers on a mission to democratize logistics intelligence for businesses across industries. Nishith was profiled by Forbes Asia in their ’30 Under 30’ 2018 list. Geet, on the other hand, holds a dual degree (BTech and MTech) in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology. Our team constitutes of engineers from Indian Institute of Technology and Birla Institute of Technology & Science- Pilani, and Data Scientists with PhDs from Carnegie Mellon University and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. Our multifaced product and business team is led by senior members from Barclays, Google & Goldman Sachs with immense operational execution experience.

Job Description

• Design & implement backend APIs at Locus.sh
• Mentor junior developers technically.
• Actively work to reduce tech debt in the Locus backend
• Work towards more stability & scalability of the backend
• Tech stack - Java, AWS, Aurora etc.

Eligibility

• 4-8 years of product company experience
• OOP implementation experience. Programming language does not matter, We use Java internally but have hired folks from non Java background.
• Hands on experience in SQL, Dynamo DB, Postgres etc preferred.
• Prior experience building REST APIs
• Advanced understanding of AWS stack
• Prior knowledge of solving problems at scale.

Perks:

• Healthy catered meals at office
• You decide your own Work From Home (WFH) and Out Of Office (OOO)
• Pet-friendly - bring your pets to the office any day. Locus family already has a Rottweiler and a Beagle