Technical Research Analyst

About Us :
Merito is a curated talent platform that helps growth companies to identify and hire quality talent faster. Setup by team of IIM Ahmedabad and HEC Paris alumni Merito with its unique approaches changing the way hiring is done.

What are looking for?
- You are keen on understanding customer's hiring trends and companies current hiring
- You're excited about identifying and reaching our to the prospects
- You're proficient in Microsoft Office applications and tool like CRM, Hubspot to curate the prospect data and be on the top of it
- You're good at communicating with prospective clients on email and phone to maintain a healthy relationship
- You should always be in hunting mode and leveraging different data sources to identify prospects
- Your interpersonal skills and knowledge in Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Software, get us to the top
- You're always ready for the future and always focuses on trying new approaches

Requirements :
- To create new client opportunities, its in your hands to research, identify and reach out to prospects
- You would be dealing with potential clients directly at all times to understand and managing their expectations
- You'd would understand client needs and suggest appropriate services to them
- The power lies within you to develop new relationships with potential clients, while maintaining existing client relationships
- You would be developing proposals for projects and also work on sales pitches and close deals with potential clients
- You're the key person who keeps a close look on the market and has an excellent understanding of the emerging market challenges.

Benefits :
- Fixed + variable pay
- Flexi work hours

The Role:

A seasoned, experienced Enterprise SaaS sales & business development leader to join the growing company's leadership team. In this role, you are responsible for developing and executing sales and go-to-market strategies that help achieve new client sales & revenue goals for the company. The VP of Business Development & Sales will also work closely with other stakeholders to drive strategic direction and resource allocation for the company.

Key Responsibilities -

- Strategic Thinker & Leadership: Leading from the front on all important Client facing discussions, while providing direction to the team on the positioning, go-to-market strategy and priority amongst the prospect segments.

- Full Sales Cycle Ownership: Tactfully and strategically enable the team to follow up with the prospects regularly, host the commercial negotiations and drive the needed urgency towards deal closures.

- Partnerships & Influencer Management: Actively discover, acquire and engage with strategic partners/industry influencers, consultants and resellers to drive an efficient channel of demand creation and client acquisition across multiple geographies

- Data & Process Driven-You obsess with data, analytics and processes to ensure repeatability and consistency around meeting & exceeding the Quarterly goals and also enabling data-led experimentation in short delivery cycles.

- Team Management - Manage a team of Sales representatives responsible for selling Enterprise Software and New Customer Acquisition

Skills Required:

- Strong understanding of company positioning, pricing, and business development strategies for complex Enterprise SaaS Companies

- Extensive experience negotiating terms and closing contracts for business

- Strategic thinker with strong storytelling skills and written communication

- Strong cross-functional partner, particularly with Product, Marketing and Client Management teams.

- Experience of selling to the US from India

Responsibilities

Researches, develops and maintains machine learning and statistical models for

business requirements

Work across the spectrum of statistical modelling including supervised,

unsupervised, & deep learning techniques to apply the right level of solution to

the right problem Coordinate with different functional teams to monitor outcomes and refine/

improve the machine learning models Implements models to uncover patterns and predictions creating business value and innovation

Identify unexplored data opportunities for the business to unlock and maximize

the potential of digital data within the organization

Develop NLP concepts and algorithms to classify and summarize structured/unstructured text data

Qualifications

3+ years of experience solving complex business problems using machine

learning.

Fluency in programming languages such as Python, NLP and Bert, is a must

Strong analytical and critical thinking skills

Experience in building production quality models using state-of-the-art technologies 

Familiarity with databases .

desirable Ability to collaborate on projects and work independently when required.

Previous experience in Fintech/payments domain is a bonus

You should have Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics

or Mathematics or another quantitative field from a top tier Institute

• Working directly with clients to understand requirements for a green field development
• Designing the technology and cloud infrastructure architecture to achieve the functional and nonfunctional requirements
• The product you will be working on needs to scale up to support millions of users an efficient micro service distributed architecture
• Solution needs to be easy to deploy and manage on multiple cloud providers (AWS, GCP or Azure)
• Mentoring, guiding and training the team on various technology, quality and security aspects
• Guiding the team to implement automated CI/CD processes
• Strong analytical, problem solving and data analysis
• Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills are a must
• Micro service frameworks such as Java SpringBoot
• Design and implement automated unit and integration tests
• Writing scalable, robust, testable, efficient, and easily maintainable code
• Familiarity with most AWS Services - EC2, ECS, RDS, ECR, S3, SNS, SQS, and more
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Deploying and Scaling microservices to AWS
• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud platform in evaluation and cost estimation

                                          Business Development Manager- Job Description

Responsibilities

• Lead generation through various marketing activities, cold call and networking.
• Meet potential clients by growing, maintaining, and leveraging your network.
• Developing sales plan, prospecting / identification of opportunities, customer presentations, managing RFI / RFP responses, and winning opportunities.
• Achieve set targets in terms of revenue, profitability, collection and other result areas.
• Work with technical team and other internal colleagues to meet customer needs.
• Arrange and participate in internal and external client debriefs.

• Manage Key Accounts, develop and maintain client relationship.
• New Account Development, Developing relationships with key decision-makers in target organizations for business development.
• Understanding and coordinating client's needs / enhancements and consulting with team to provide solutions in adherence to delivery schedules.

 Skill Sets

• Knowledge of IT Infrastructure Solutions and Services.
• Knowledge of Networking products like Switches, Routers, structured cabling , NAS SAN Storage, CCTV etc.

• Knowledge of of IT Security products like UTM, firewall, VA-PT Cyber Security and End Point Security.

• Knowledge of Computing like Servers, Desktops etc.

 Requirements

• Technical Background (BE, B.Tech, B Sc, BCA, B.com, Diploma) MBA a strong plus.
• Good track record in IT Hardware, Software & Services sales.
• 3 to 12 years of Corporate Sales experience in IT Industry mandatory. 
• Excellent interpersonal, diplomacy and conflict-resolution skills.
• Good Personal Networking Skills.

What you need to have: