Telesales Representative

WHO ARE We?

WeMakeScholars is a Fintech startup funded and supported by the Ministry of IT, Government of India. We help students get education loans to fund their studies abroad or in India by closely working with 14+ lenders, including public/private banks & NBFC. We currently get around 0.5 million unique visitors a month.

We are the market leader in the education finance segment. Last academic year, we disbursed around 5,000Cr, and this year, we'd be doing more than that. Our team has more than doubled in one year, from 70 to 180 members. Overall, we have seen tremendous growth year-on-year, in every aspect since our inception 7years ago.

JOB DESCRIPTION

We strongly believe that eventually, every company has to become a tech company. As our website is the face of our company, we must have a strong, organically top-rank website on google to survive & grow in the long term. Since SEO plays an integral part in this, we have decided to invest more time & resources into it. We are looking for an SEO Specialist to be a part of our growth story and we like your profile for it.

You'll be working as the SEO Team Lead, with the assistance of our 6 members tech team, 4 members content team, 1 junior SEO Analyst. You will be directly reporting to our Chief Growth Officer who's got more than 11yrs experience with SEO.

IDEAL CANDIDATE

- 3yrs+ experience in SEO (preferably in consumer tech, e-commerce, banking, financial services or education segments)

- expertise in Google Analytics/SEMrush/similar web analytics platform

- well-versed with Google Algorithm updates

- Very high attention to detail, obsessed with the details & spotting opportunities to optimize

- Excellent communication (written and verbal) & interpersonal skills and a very high sense of ownership and integrity

JOB PERKS

With us, you not only get a competitive compensation package but also excellent career progression, healthy work-life balance, flexible working hours, leaves, work from home policies. Most importantly, working under our Senior SEO leadership, you'll have a steep learning curve and a great learning experience.

Package: Up to 20 LPA

Job Description

Our client is a brand co-creation platform that transforms powerful ideas into authentic, profitable, and experience-led brands that can define the future of brands in key consumption categories. They are a team of experienced entrepreneurs, marquee investors, and industry professionals who have expertise and experience in building some of the most popular brands in the country.

What will you be doing?

• Own the solution design and user experience aspects of any project/product. This includes conducting user research through interviews, observations and other research methods & translating it into insights that are simple, and intuitive and result in delightful user experiences.

• Understands product specifications and identifies user touchpoints/ interactions through the various journeys

• Work closely with the product team to translate business requirements into user personas, conceptual diagrams, wireframes, prototypes (paper sketches to high- -fidelity), flow diagrams and finally production quality mocks for web, mobile web and apps.

•Create images and videos for our various products selling on multiple e-commerce websites.

•Producing graphic content for landing pages, page layouts, site graphics & static & banners

•Defining standards and guidelines for UI and Usability.

•Will work across different brands from fashion/BPC categories and other categories

•Suggest design solutions in the form of sketches, storyboards, wireframes, and paper/interactive prototypes.

Requirements

What will you bring?

•You are comfortable working hands-on in a fast-paced start-up environment.

•Must have the ability to work with a sense of urgency and be able to successfully navigate changing priorities

•2-3 years of experience as a visual designer

•Advanced proficiency in visual design software, such as Adobe Creative Suite's InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator or any other relevant tools

•Knowledge of 3D design and animation tools such as 3DS Max, Maya

Benefits

Why work with us?

•You will be part of our founding team and get your hands dirty in the 0-1 stage of building a D2C brand.

•You will work with a solid set of people from diverse backgrounds.

•You will independently lead projects and have ownership of your deliverables.

•You will be pushed out of your comfort zone and watch your learning curve spike.

Your primary role will be to drive and grow our in-house software expertise. Working with a small software team in India and the UK, you will be responsible in understanding the requirements from various internal teams and taking ownership of software development, including backend database development and any front-end applications that will be developed in the future. Implementing AGILE methodologies, you will be responsible for delivering iterative results through regular sprints.

The software team manages a range of systems for the company, ranging from our client-facing applications to content delivery portals. You will be involved in all the projects and will contribute to developing, maintaining, and improving our systems. You will also be expected to keep on top of the latest developments in the software world and constantly check if we can make use of the latest technologies to deliver an even better user experience to both our internal and external clients. This role will suit someone who has extremely good technical skills but who is also ambitious to play a more strategic role in a growing company and build a strong team. The role may also require occasional travel to our UK headquarters and other offices around the world.

Essentials:

• Solid development skills and track-record of successful project delivery
• PHP and frameworks
• Database design and development
• SQL
• Open-source SQL databases, e.g. MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL
• HTML
• CSS, Sass and frameworks
• JavaScript: ES5, ES6, Ajax, libraries, and frameworks like VueJs, ReactJs.
• Front-end tooling
• Accessibility and progressive enhancement
• Git and/or other version control systems
• Project management
• Excellent communication, leadership, and motivation skills
• Willing to take on new technical projects.
• Attention to detail.

Desirable skills and experience:

• Agile development experience or certification
• .Net Framework
• Data visualisation and tools
• js
• NoSQL technologies such as MongoDB
• Continuous integration and deployment
• Big data and analytics
• Web security and development practices
• Data scraping and parsing.
• Aptitude for statistical analysis