UX Designer

 research and identify new business opportunities - including new markets, growth areas, trends, customers, partnerships, products and services - or new ways of reaching existing markets  seek out the appropriate contact in an organisation  generate leads and cold call prospective customers  meet with customers/clients face to face or over the phone  foster and develop relationships with clients  understand the needs of your customers and be able to respond effectively with a plan of how to meet these  think strategically - seeing the bigger picture and setting aims and objectives in order to develop and improve the business  work strategically - carrying out necessary planning in order to implement operational changes  draw up client contracts - depending on the size of company, this task may be completed by someone else or agreements may not be as formal  have a good understanding of the businesses' products or services and be able to advise others about them  ensure staff are on board throughout the organisation, and understand the need for change and what is required of them  train members of your team, arranging external training where appropriate  discuss promotional strategy and activities with the marketing department  seek ways of improving the way the business operates  attend seminars, conferences and events where appropriate  keep abreast of trends and changes in the business world.

Job Description
Lead Machine Learning (ML)/
NLP Engineer
5 + years of experience

About Contify
Contify is an AI-enabled Market and Competitive Intelligence (MCI)
software to help professionals make informed decisions. Its B2B SaaS
platform helps leading organizations such as Ericsson, EY, Wipro,
Deloitte, L&T, BCG, MetLife, etc. track information on their competitors,
customers, industries, and topics of interest by continuously monitoring
over 500,000+ sources on a real-time basis. Contify is rapidly growing
with 185+ people across two offices in India. Contify is the winner of
Frost and Sullivan’s Product Innovation Award for Market and
Competitive Intelligence Platforms.

The role
We are looking for a hardworking, aspirational, and innovative
engineering person for the Lead ML/ NLP Engineer position. You’ll build
Contify’s ML and NLP capabilities and help us extract value from
unstructured data. Using advanced NLP, ML, and text analytics, you will
develop applications that will extract business insights by analyzing a
large amount of unstructured text information, identifying patterns, and
by connecting the events.
Responsibilities:
You will be responsible for all the processes from data collection, and
pre-processing, to training models and deploying them to production.
➔ Understand the business objectives; design and deploy scalable
ML models/ NLP applications to meet those objectives
➔ Use of NLP techniques for text representation, semantic analysis,
information extraction, to meet the business objectives in an
efficient manner along with metrics to measure progress
➔ Extend existing ML libraries and frameworks and use effective text
representations to transform natural language into useful features
➔ Defining and supervising the data collection process, verifying data
quality, and employing data augmentation techniques
➔ Defining the preprocessing or feature engineering to be done on a
given dataset
➔ Analyze the errors of the model and design strategies to overcome
them
➔ Research and implement the right algorithms and tools for ML/
NLP tasks
➔ Collaborate with engineering and product development teams
➔ Represent Contify in external ML industry events and publish
thought leadership articles

Desired Skills and Experience
To succeed in this role, you should possess outstanding skills in
statistical analysis, machine learning methods, and text representation
techniques.
➔ Deep understanding of text representation techniques (such as n-
grams, bag of words, sentiment analysis, etc), statistics and
classification algorithms
➔ Hand on experience in feature extraction techniques for text
classification and topic mining
➔ Knowledge of text analytics with a strong understanding of NLP
algorithms and models (GLMs, SVM, PCA, NB, Clustering, DTs)
and their underlying computational and probabilistic statistics
◆ Word Embedding like Tfidf, Word2Vec, GLove, FastText, etc.
◆ Language models like Bert, GPT,  RoBERTa, XLNet 
◆ Neural networks like RNN, GRU, LSTM, Bi-LSTM
◆ Classification algorithms like LinearSVC, SVM, LR
◆ XGB, MultinomialNB, etc.
◆ Other Algos- PCA, Clustering methods, etc
➔ Excellent knowledge and demonstrable experience in using NLP
packages such as NLTK, Word2Vec, SpaCy, Gensim, Standford
CoreNLP, TensorFlow/ PyTorch.
➔ Experience in setting up supervised & unsupervised learning
models including data cleaning, data analytics, feature creation,
model selection & ensemble methods, performance metrics &
visualization
➔ Evaluation Metrics- Root Mean Squared Error, Confusion Matrix, F
Score, AUC – ROC, etc
➔ Understanding of knowledge graph will be a plus


Qualifications
➔ Education: Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science,
Mathematics, Computational Linguistics or similar field
➔ At least 4 years' experience building Machine Learning & NLP
solutions over open-source platforms such as SciKit-Learn,
Tensorflow, SparkML, etc
➔ At least 2 years' experience in designing and developing
enterprise-scale NLP solutions in one or more of: Named Entity
Recognition, Document Classification, Feature Extraction, Triplet
Extraction, Clustering, Summarization, Topic Modelling, Dialog
Systems, Sentiment Analysis
➔ Self-starter who can see the big picture, and prioritize your work to
make the largest impact on the business’ and customer’s vision
and requirements
➔ Being a committer or a contributor to an open-source project is a
plus

Note
Contify is a people-oriented company. Emotional intelligence, therefore,
is a must. You should enjoy working in a team environment, supporting
your teammates in pursuit of our common goals, and working with your
colleagues to drive customer value. You strive to not only improve
yourself, but also those around you.

• Define and document best practices and strategies regarding application deployment and infrastructure maintenance.
• Ensure limited system failure and increase up-time and availability of the various company apps.
• Understand the current application infrastructure and strive for making it better.
• Automate infrastructure and develop tools and processes to improve the customer experience and reduce support time.
• Work closely with a team of developers and solution strategists to develop, deploy and troubleshoot the deployment and infrastructure issues.
• Manage full application stacks from the OS through custom applications using Amazon cloud-based computing environments.
• Set up a monitoring stack.
• Implement the application’s CI/CD pipeline using the AWS stack. Increasingly automate and improve the testing plans and development workflows and tools.
• Work closely with the engineers to design networks, systems, and storage environments that effectively reflect business needs, security requirements, and service level requirements.
• Manage a continuous integration/continuous deployment methodology for the server-based technologies.
• Proficient in leveraging CI and CD tools to automate testing and deployment. Experience working in an Agile, fast-paced, DevOps environment.
• Support internal and external customers on multiple platforms.
• First point of contact for handling customer issues, providing guidance and recommendations to increase efficiency and reduce customer incidents.
• Learn on the job and explore new technologies with little supervision.
• In addition to providing customer support, will be responsible for helping build tools and processes necessary for excellent customer outcomes.

Skills:

• Experience with the core AWS services, plus the specifics mentioned in this job description.
• Experience working with at least one of the following languages: Node.js, Python, PHP, Ruby, Kotlin or Java.
• Proficient with Git and Git workflows and hosted enterprise Git solutions like GitHub.
• Ability to troubleshoot distributed systems.
• Experience with. AWS EKS Kubernetes infrastructure setup.
• Experience creating Cloud Formation Template to create Auto Scaling Groups, Route 53, DNS, back-end database, Elastic load balancer, VPCs, Subnets, Security Groups, Cloud Watch, S3, IAM roles, RDS DB instances, and to provide those instances and configure those resources to work together reducing the manual effort.
• Experience in deploying and monitoring microservices on Kubernetes, AWS ECS, and AWS EKS
• Security aware and ensures that all systems are security standards-compliant.
• Good background in Linux/Unix administration.
• Experience with building or maintaining cloud-native applications.
• Minimum 3-5 years of cloud development experience, preferably AWS
• Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins preferred.
• Good analytical and communication skills
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline

• Optimizing copy and landing pages for search engine optimization
• Performing ongoing keyword research including discovery and expansion of keyword opportunities
• Researching and implementing content recommendations for organic SEO success
• Execute tests, collect and analyze data and results, identify trends and insights in order to achieve maximum ROI in paid search campaigns
• Track, report, and analyze website analytics and PPC initiatives and campaigns
• Manage campaign expenses, staying on budget, estimating monthly costs and reconciling discrepancies.
• Optimize copy and landing pages for search engine marketing
• Perform ongoing keyword discovery, expansion and optimization
• Research and implement search engine optimization recommendations
• Research and analyze competitor advertising links
• Develop and implement link building strategy
• Work with the development team to ensure SEO best practices are properly implemented on newly developed code
• Work with editorial and marketing teams to drive SEO in content creation and content programming
• Recommend changes to website architecture, content, linking and other factors to improve SEO positions for target keywords.
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Responsibilities:

• Respond to customer queries and customers concern
• Provide support for data collection to enable Recovery of the account for end user.
• Maintain a deep understanding of client process and policies
• Reproduce customer issues and escalate product bugs
• Provide excellent customer service to our customers
• You should be responsible to exhibit capacity for critical thinking and analysis.
• Responsible to showcase proven work ethic, with the ability to work well both independently and within the context of a larger collaborative environment

Requirements:

• Graduate (Any Discipline)
• Previous experience in a customer service role chat/email/voice
• Effective probing skills and analyzing / understanding skills
• Analytical skills with customer centric approach
• Excellent proficiency with written English and with neutral English accent
• Excellent English - Verbal & Written (Highly Professional English)
• Excellent Excel Capabilities as we need to submit monthly SLA reports to clients. (Should be an expert)

• Develop new business opportunities with potential customers at all stages of the sales cycle to include targeting, prospecting and presenting business propositions.
• Should be able to understand manage and interpret customer requirements. 
• Work with team to develop proposals that speak to the clients’ needs, concerns, and objectives. 
• To meet prospective clients and give presentations on the company's services to clients. 
• Build and deepen client relationships through proactively suggesting new ideas and opportunities add value to our client’s businesses 
• Screens potential business deals by analyzing market strategies, deal requirements, potential, and financials.
• Establish a good relationship with prospective clients, closures of sales for revenue generation. 
• Communication with clients (after-sales) to maintain the client-relationship

Desired skills:

1. Strong work ethic, highly organized, and a self-starter
2. Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal skills 
3. Detailed and multi-task oriented
4. Mission-driven and highly entrepreneurial mindset
5. At least 3 years of sales and business development experience in the software industry