UI Design Intern

GradRight is an ed-fin-tech company committed to driving transparency and accountability in the global higher education sector. 

We are the world's first platform that integrates 'Selection' with 'Financing'. and brings students, banks, and universities into a SaaS environment to make smarter decisions. Using data science, technology, and strategic partnerships across the industry, we enable students to find the “Right University” at the “Right Cost”. We are on a mission to aid a million students to find their best-fit universities and financial offerings by 2025.

Our flagship product - FundRight, is the world’s first student loan bidding platform. In just two years, we have enabled students to get the best deals on $ 1 Billion of loan requests and facilitated disbursements of more than $ 120 Million in loans. We are India's largest single pipeline of education loans and are poised to scale up globally.

Our second product, SelectRight, is the world's first MarTech SaaS platform that redefines how students select the right colleges and how colleges find and engage with the right students.

GradRight is a Delaware, USA-registered company with a wholly-owned subsidiary in India.

Brief:

Obsession with customer needs, passionate about customer experience, and thrive on data - if you resonate with these, then we’d love to hear from you. As a product manager, you’ll be the voice of reason for our entire product ecosystem. You’ll join a fast-paced environment and work with cross-functional teams to design and deliver products aligned with the company’s vision and strategy.

Responsibilities:

1. Collect and analyze customer needs, collaborate with key stakeholders to ideate and deliver compelling solutions that create incremental value for customers
2. Create buy-in for product vision across all stakeholders
3. Develop positioning strategies that can drive growth and improve market share
4. Create and maintain detailed product requirements and roadmap
5. Create and track product success metrics and use them to identify problems and opportunities to pursue
6. Work with designers to build wireframes, validate and translate them into full-blown designs
7. Collaborate with engineering teams to drive feasibility analysis and refine product requirements
8. Work closely with engineering teams to deliver the roadmap while optimizing for time-to-market
9. Own the design <> engineering teams hand-off, release timelines, and work with business teams to plan and execute product launches
10. Evaluate marketing and sales strategies to ensure that they are in line with product strategy
11. Standardize the product design process and evangelize the same across all stakeholders

Requirements:

1. At least 6 years experience as a product manager at a B2C startup, with war stories to share
2. Proven track record of managing all aspects of product development lifecycle
3. Strong understanding of software development workflows and ability to work with top-notch engineering teams
4. Strong problem-solving skills and willingness to roll up one’s sleeves to get the job done
5. Excellent written and verbal communication skills
6. Strong presentational and public speaking skills
7. Bias for experimentation and ability to ask the right questions

Good to have:

1. Both B2C and B2B experience, preferably on marketplace-like initiatives
2. Exposure to edTech and/or finTech domains
3. Worked on products that addressed an international audience
4. Worked on products that scaled to millions of users

FactWise is a fully funded, early-stage b2b SaaS startup offering solutions to a global client base. The flagship product is an end-to-end S2P solution designed to transform procurement for product manufacturing companies across industries. Our singular focus is to create a truly distinctive procurement platform that delights users and provides sustainable positive impact to the organizations we serve. We achieve this by providing transparency and insights to leaders, streamlining and automating processes to improve efficiency, and driving bottom-line impact by unlocking savings potential.

About the Role

As a Product Manager you will help define and create end-to-end products which starts from ideation all the way to product deployment based on customer needs. You will own the product end to end and will be liaising with UI/UX teams, developers, QA team members to ensure product feasibility and readiness.

Responsibilities

• Interview customers to understand new/existing product need and fit

• Working closely with senior stakeholders to understand business requirements and help translate these into technical requirements for the development team

• Define requirements for product features and work with UI/UX team to create mock-ups

• Work with front-end and back-end teams to oversee feature implementation

• Work with QA team to ensure testing excellence and product readiness

• Forming and testing hypotheses using data from various sources

• Doing product research to find the best-in-class approach to solving problems and designing the UX

• Owning a product roadmap, prioritizing a sequence of feature builds, and objectively measuring outcomes from product decisions

Must-Have skills:

• Bachelors/master's degree in computer science engineering

The Business Development Manager will be responsible for identifying and pursuing new business opportunities, building and maintaining strong relationships with clients, and driving revenue growth. The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker with a proven track record of success in business development and sales.

Key Responsibilities:

Identify, evaluate, and pursue new business opportunities to achieve revenue and growth targets.

Develop and implement strategic business development plans to expand the company's customer base and market presence.

Build and maintain strong, long-lasting client relationships through regular communication and by understanding their needs.

Conduct market research to identify new trends, opportunities, and competitive activities.

Collaborate with internal teams to develop customized proposals, presentations, and sales strategies.

Negotiate contracts and agreements with clients, ensuring mutually beneficial outcomes.

Track and report on business development activities, including pipeline status, revenue forecasts, and market feedback.

Represent the company at industry events, conferences, and trade shows to network and promote the company's offerings.

Stay up-to-date with industry trends and competitors to identify new business opportunities and potential partnerships.

Provide feedback to senior management on market trends, competition, and customer feedback to help shape the company's strategic direction.

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, or a related field. MBA is a plus.

Proven experience as a Business Development Manager, Sales Manager, or similar role.

Strong understanding of the market, industry trends, and competitive landscape.

Excellent communication, negotiation, and presentation skills.

Ability to build and maintain relationships with clients and stakeholders.

Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to think strategically.

Proficiency in CRM software and Microsoft Office Suite.

Self-motivated, goal-oriented, and able to work independently as well as part of a team.

What we look for:

Resourceful individuals with a creative spirit to sketch our brand image through vividly portrayed content.

Responsibilities:

• Develop persuasive SEO-optimized content for blogs, campaigns, and newsletters
• Create research-oriented industry-specific content for websites
• Proofreading content before delivery
• Identify customers’ needs and gaps in content and recommend new topics
• Generate fresh content ideas for social media
• Work with graphic designers to digitally deliver content concepts

Requirements:

• Graduate in any stream with exceptional writing skills
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite and Google Docs
• Ability to multitask, prioritize and manage time efficiently

• Work with other developers to ensure that the website is functional and visually appealing.
• Liaise with the client to gauge their needs and expectations.
• Plan the layout of the website.
• Ensure that the website is optimized for various devices.
• Use analytics to test client enjoyment.

• Proficiency in HTML, JavaScript, jQuery, and CSS.
• Knowledge of Adobe Illustrator.
• Good interpersonal skills.
• Understanding of key design principles.
• Good problem-solving skills.

• Build hypotheses: It starts with identifying the problems by doing in-depth research with customers and cross-validating it with data analysis. We are razor-focused on solving the right problems:
• Identify solutions: You will be defining the requirements and working with a cross-functional team from design, engineering, business, marketing, and support. You will identify solutions that truly solve the user problem keeping business interests in mind
• Launch and iterate: No product is truly world-class in the first launch. Your job is not just to launch new products but also to work closely with other teams to ensure the go-to-market is completed from all sides. Additionally, you will also balance new product launches with iterating on existing products ensuring that you pick the ones that are most impactful
• Build roadmap: You will always have a roadmap for your product and you will constantly update the roadmap taking into account the rapid change of business dynamics as well as user behavior and segments that we would go after
• Help build the team: Participate in hiring cross-functional team members for different roles

You are a right fit if:

• You understand technology, but love customer-first & business-first thinking
• You are comfortable working hands-on in a fast-paced start-up environment
• You are good at problem-solving and have an analytical and data-driven approach to day-to-day work
• You have prior work experience in the tech-driven lending business
• You are in love with Bangalore weather and would enjoy working here :)

Why should you work with us?

• Work in one of the most exciting start-up sectors
• Opportunity to create impact for the blue-collar workforce
• Unique and unsolved problems for the unique customer segment to work on
• The non-hierarchical, flat, and transparent culture where we also have lots of fun
• Pay at par with market salaries

You would possess experience building web applications using MVC frameworks (Reactjs, Redux) in a service-oriented environment.

• In-depth experience in object oriented Javascript.
• Excellent knowledge of professional software engineering practices and best practices for the full Software Development Lifecycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing and operations.
• Proficiency to code in front-end technologies such as Javascript/HTML/CSS.

• Manage sales operations in assigned district to achieve revenue goals.
• Supervise sales team members; the BSMs, on daily basis and provide guidance whenever needed.
• Identify skill gaps and conduct trainings to sales team.
• Work with team to implement new sales techniques to obtain profits.
• Assist in employee recruitment, promotion, retention and termination activities.
• Conduct employee performance evaluation and provide feedback for improvements.
• Contact potential customers and identify new business opportunities.
• Stay abreast with customer needs, market trends and competitors.
• Maintain clear and complete sales reports for management review.
• Build strong relationships with customers for business growth.
• Analyze sales performances and recommend improvements.
• Ensure that sales team follows company policies and procedures at all times.
• Develop promotional programs to increase sales and revenue.
• Plan and coordinate sales activities for assigned projects.