Strategy & Operantions Manager

Job Responsibilities

• Help develop an analytics platform that integrates insights from diverse data sources.
• Build, deploy, and test machine learning and classification models
• Train and retrain systems when necessary
• Design experiments, train and track performance of machine learning and AI models that meet specific business requirements
• ML and data labelling: Identify ways to gather and build training data with automated data labelling techniques and the creation of highly accurate training datasets.
• Automatic extraction of causal knowledge from diverse information sources such as databases, news, social media, videos and images etc.
• Develop customized machine learning solutions including data querying and knowledge extraction.
• Develop and implement approaches for extracting patterns and correlations from both internal and external data sources using time series machine learning models.
• Work in an Agile, collaborative environment, partnering with other scientists, engineers, consultants and database administrators of all backgrounds and disciplines to bring analytical rigor and statistical methods to the challenges of predicting behaviors.
• Distil insights from complex data, communicating findings to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Develop, improve, or expand in-house computational pipelines, algorithms, models, and services used in crop product development.
• Constantly document and communicate results of research on data mining, analysis, and modelling approaches.
• 5+ years of experience working with NLP and ML technologies.
• Proven experience as a Machine Learning Engineer or similar role.
• Experience with NLP/ML frameworks and libraries       
• Proficient with Python scripting language
• Background in machine learning frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit Learn, etc.
• Demonstrated experience developing and executing machine learning, deep learning, data mining and classification models. Conversant with the latest in NLP and NLU models including transformer architectures and in creating explainable AI
• Ability to communicate the advantages and disadvantages of choosing specific models to various stakeholders
• Proficient with relational databases and SQL. Ability to write efficient queries and optimize the storage and retrieval of data within the database. Experience with creating and working on APIs, Serverless architectures and Containers.
• Creative, innovative, and strategic thinking; willingness to be bold and take risks on new ideas.

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Mandatory Skills: AI : Artificial Intelligence .

Experience: 8-10 Years .

Job Summary:

We seek aggressive and results-driven folks to identify and pursue new business opportunities. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of our industry and be able to build relationships with key decision-makers.

Key Responsibilities:

Identify and pursue new business opportunities through nurturing, networking, and lead generation using an already existing customer base.

Build and maintain relationships with key decision-makers at prospective levels.

Take video counseling sessions with parents and students and close sales by providing the right product.

Meet or exceed weekly and monthly sales targets.

Requirements:

- Prior experience in business development or sales, preferably in Edu-Tech.

- Proven track record of success in identifying and pursuing new business opportunities.

- Strong understanding of our industry and the needs of our clients.

- Excellent communication, negotiation, and relationship-building skills.

- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and meet deadlines.

About PlanetSpark:

PlanetSpark is on a mission to build the next generation of confident speakers and creative writers amongst kids and young adults. We are a Series B funded, global company impacting over 13 countries through live 1:1 personalized classes on Public Speaking and Creative Writing through handpicked top 1% teachers. Our kids participate in gripping debates, create viral YouTube videos, start their own podcast channels, perform stand-up comedy, write nail-biting mystery stories, and become confident and fearless speakers. PlanetSpark is on its journey to becoming the global leader in the large and untapped communication skills segment by 2024. We are backed by some top VCs such as Prime Venture Partners and global entrepreneurs such as Binny Bansal, Deep Kalra, Gokul Rajaram and Shirish Nandkarni. Come, join a passionate team of over 500 young and energetic team members and 3500+ expert teachers on this roller coaster ride to build the most loved brand for kids who will move the world!

Your Roles and Responsibilities:

Business Development is a critical aspect of our platform business.

1. Actively seeking out new sales opportunities through cold calling, networking and social media.

2. Calling 65-70 leads everyday

3. Setting up meetings with potential clients (parents)

4. Generating Trial Classes - Pitch Parents to take PlanetSpark trial Classes

5. Negotiate/close deals and handle complaints or objections

6. Follow and achieve department’s sales goals on a monthly, quarterly and yearly basis (3L revenue per month) 7. “Go the extra mile” to drive sales

Mission Statement

1. In your training of 1st month, we shall actively probe you through the process using Training Decks, Live Experiences, Re-Training Programs that aims to give you an overall Learning experience along with you paid stipend along the journey.

2. We create career oritented BDT in this 1 month whose skill becomes unmatched across the sector.

3. You are required to use right sales strategy and accomplish 1 Lac of revenue in the training period, hence making a way to achieve License to Sell (L-2-S)

4. You will be entitled for training stipend of INR. 21428. In-office attendance of 90% is mandatory in 1month of training

5. Post 1L Revenue achievement, you will be entitled for below

US/ Canada Shift (8:00 pm to 5:00am) - INR 7.23 LPA (4.83 Fixed + 2.4 LPA Variable)

What are we looking for?

1. Proficiency in English

2. Thorough understanding of marketing and negotiating techniques

3. Fast learner and passion for sales

4. Self-motivated with a results-driven approach

5. Proven experience in sale or relevant role is a plus

6. A friendly and energetic personality with customer service focus

Criteria

1. Willing to work 6 days in a week in a fast paced startup

2. Ready to work from Office and join immediately.

What are the behavioral attributes that we are looking for?

- A keen desire to bring growth for a fast-growing Series B funded startup

- An apparent Founder's mindset

- The candidates should be able to work in a high paced ever-changing digital environment. The role will require you to be resourceful, proactive and an expert communicator. In turn it offers immense learning and growth.

- Don't forget to carry along a dash of humor. It never hurts. And we are fun loving people

• Proven experience in handling large infrastructure and distributed systems like Kafka, Yarn, Elastic Search, etc..
• Familiarity with Python-related technologies and frameworks like Django or Pyramid.
• Experience with Unix/Linux operating systems internals and administration (e.g. filesystems, inodes, system calls, etc) or networking (e.g. TCP/IP, routing, network topologies, and hardware, SDN, etc)
• Familiarity with at least one of the cloud computing infrastructures - GCP / Azure / AWS
• Familiarity with task queue frameworks like Celery or Pika is a plus.
• Source code management and Implementation of security best practices.
• Experienced in building monitoring/metrics & alerting tool (APM tool), a custom dashboard for each Application stack against the supported environment
• Good understanding & implementation experience using 12-factor App principles
• Awareness of Cloud Security concepts
• Awareness of Information Security concepts and Best Practices