Sr. Sales/Business Development

Key Factors:

1. Proven experience in sales and business development, preferably within the education sector, specifically in selling admission management solutions to CBSE, ICSE, IGCSE, IB, and boarding schools.
2. Strong understanding of the admission processes and challenges faced by educational institutions.
3. Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to effectively engage with school stakeholders at all levels.
4. The proactive and results-driven mindset with a track record of meeting or exceeding sales targets.
5. Ability to build and nurture long-term relationships with customers.
6. Strong negotiation and closing skills, with attention to detail in contract and agreement management.
7. Exceptional organizational and time management skills, with the ability to prioritize tasks effectively.
8. Willingness to travel within the assigned territory as required.
9. Bachelor's or Master’s degree in business, marketing, education, or a related field is preferred.

Position Overview: We are looking for a senior developer who must be capable of building services using modern microservices architecture with NodeJS & serverless frameworks. Should have strong knowledge of ObjectOriented Concepts, and Node. Js frameworks like loopback, RDBMS, and microservice patterns. The candidate should be comfortable with application coding based on design and specifications, and also be comfortable working with JSON and RESTful services. The candidate must be a top-notch developer committed to keeping learning new things and becoming an integral part of and fostering growth within our development team.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Developing and maintaining the backend systems that support the application
• Designing and implementing APIs and Microservices architecture to handle the application workload
• Developing and optimizing queries for RDBMS (MySQL) to manage data and ensure performance and scalability
• Managing and deploying the application on AWS using Lambda, ECS and other related services
• Collaborating with front-end developers to ensure smooth communication between front-end and back-end systems and back-end systems
• Writing clean, neat and reusable code that follows coding standards and best practices.
• Participating in code reviews and ensuring that coding standards are maintained
• Troubleshooting and debugging issues that arise in production environments
• Optimizing the application for performance, scalability, and security
• Continuously learning and staying up-to-date with the latest technologies and best practices in software development
• Documenting technical specifications, processes, and system design

● Proven experience in training, evaluating and deploying machine learning models

● Solid understanding of data science and machine learning concepts

● Experience with some machine learning / data engineering machine learning tech in Python (such as numpy, pytorch, pandas/polars, airflow, etc)

● Experience developing data products using large language model, prompt engineering, model evaluation.

● Experience with web services and programming (such as Python, docker, databases etc.)  

● Understanding of some of the following: FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Celery, Docker, AWS, Modal, git, continuous integration. 

Our requirements for consultants include 

- Impeccable communication skills, sales background in Ed-tech or education. 

- Availability to join immediately or within 30 days of offer release.

- proof of incentive/salary slips and minimum 3 referrals from past organizations.

 - The role requires working from the office in Gurgaon, with a 6-day workweek and 9 hours daily from 10 am to 7 pm, with only Sunday off.

• End-to-end full-stack development experience
• Full hands-on experience with at least one of the following languages Java, PHP, Python, .NET and code repositories like GIT, SVN
• Expertise with HTML5, JQuery, CSS
• Proficiency with front-end JavaScript frameworks like Angular, React, etc.
• Experience of designing and developing APIs in a micro-service architecture
• Experience with webserver technologies like Node.js, J2EE, Apache etc.
• Good understanding and working experience with either relational or non-relational databases like Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Mongo DB, Cassandra
• Good understanding of the changing trends of user interface guidelines for mobile apps and be able to transform apps to newer form factors
• Hands-on with Native UI Components
• Familiar with Cloud components & deployment procedures.
• Familiar with code repository

• Possesses a proficient level understanding of business analysis professional standards, business processes, workflows, methodologies and leading practices.
• Understands Project/Product Vision and Objectives and articulates the same to internal and external stakeholders
• Identifies and characterizes Product Users and other connected Internal and External stakeholders
• Gathers Product Requirements through techniques including Surveys, Workshops, Interviews, Site Visits etc.
• Assists the Product Owner by Analyzing, modularizing and documenting requirements in the form of Epics/Features, User Stories, Scenarios and other such industry-standard formats
• Helps detail out functional and non-functional requirements through modeling to enable easy comprehension by the development teams
• Assists the UI/UX teams to ensure functionality and product objectives are met/enhanced - Performs proxy user validation and acceptance testing at various logical milestones in the Product Development life cycle
• Monitor business analysis activities to ensure the traceability and optimum coverage of business requirements with change request backlog.
• Collaborates with application developers, designers, and architects to ensure a shared understanding of the business model and the detailed functional requirements.
• Manages the progress of projects by tracking activity, resolving issues, and recommending actions; Provides senior management and project management with regular updates on the deliverable timeline and project status.

• Play a critical role in managing the helpdesk tickets. Work with the clients to understand and prioritize needs while proactively suggesting future enhancements and improvements.
• Conduct user acceptance testing to ensure solutions are defect-free and achieve design requirements.

• Validates requirements to conform to Correctness, Completeness and Consistency and obtains sign-off from all stakeholders, by leveraging well-documented and comprehensive Acceptance Criteria and peer reviews.
• Responsible for product quality, project timeliness, and customer satisfaction.
• Leads or Assists in sales and pre-sales activities including the creation of sales material and product demos
• Responds proactively to both business and project issues and escalates appropriately.

• Balance multiple priorities and deliverables to maintain forward progress and ensure customer expectations are met
• Provide and maintain all project-related documentation including business requirements, workflows, active communication updates, procedures and approvals
• Analyzing market trends to develop strategies that improve sales productivity for the organization.
• Identify business areas that can be improved to increase efficiency and strengthen business processes.