VP Engineering (Potential Unicorn)

About Us: YMGrad is a leading study abroad consultancy firm dedicated to helping students achieve their dreams of higher education abroad. We provide comprehensive services, including application assistance, university shortlisting, and expert guidance throughout the admissions process.

Job Overview: We are seeking a skilled and motivated Content Writer to join our dynamic team. This role involves crafting compelling and personalized application materials, including Statements of Purpose (SOPs), Letters of Recommendation (LORs), resumes, and other college applications. Additionally, the writer will produce SEO-friendly blogs on study-abroad topics and provide consultancy to clients about the admissions process. The ideal candidate will be adaptable, collaborative, and enthusiastic about contributing to various aspects of our consultancy services.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Application Materials: Write and edit Statements of Purpose (SOPs), Letters of Recommendation (LORs), resumes, and other application documents tailored to individual client profiles.

2. Blog Writing: Develop and publish SEO-friendly blog content on study abroad topics, including tips, trends, and country-specific information.

3. Client Consultation: Provide personalized advice to clients regarding the admissions process, application strategies, and document requirements.

4. University Shortlisting: Assist clients in shortlisting suitable universities based on their academic profile, career goals, and preferences.

5. Collaborative Support: Work closely with other team members, including advisors and counselors, to ensure a seamless and integrated service for clients.

6. Quality Assurance: Ensure all written content is error-free, adheres to client requirements, and maintains high standards of professionalism.

7. Continuous Improvement: Stay updated on changes in the study abroad landscape and admissions requirements to provide current and accurate advice.

Designation: Business Development Manager/ Sr. Business Development Manager- IT Service Sales  

Coddle Technologies Pvt Ltd  

 Experience: 5 - 10 years  

 Salary: As per the Market Standards  

 Location: Bangalore/Bengaluru  

Job Description:  

Able to converse clearly and concisely over the phone.  

Proactive, dedicated and self-motivated attitude.  

Appears confident and assertive, but not aggressive in all internal/external dealings.  

Ability to work on own initiative.  

Should be target oriented and should be able to meet the targets well in time.  

Clear demonstration of an interest in Digital Internet technologies.  

Should be able to manage a team and deliver results.  

Do telephonic with prospects and customers and work on closures.  

Would be responsible for managing end to end sales and achieve targets / Quotas.  

Responsible for providing technical inputs to the sales team, both printed and electronic promotional material, product training, and relevant clinical papers.  

Required Candidate profile:  

Must have experience of Marketing / Business development or Client generation in Web, Mobile application using PHP, React Native from international market.  

Responsible for Research & Generating Quality Leads for Web, Mobile development by Outbound calls, Emails, creating required documents.  

Follow-up with Generated Leads.  

You will be responsible for identifying opportunities, evaluating its fit with the company vision, negotiating and closing deals.  

Achieve the assigned Sales target by Acquisition, Retention & Renewal.  

An input into the sales strategy - You will constantly keep upgrading your business development techniques.  

Candidate with Excellent Communication, Presentable Personality.  

Experience of forecasting, budgeting expenses and ensuring sales achievement.  

Experience in handling a team of 4+ members.  

Role:  Sales/Business Development Manager  

Industry Type:  IT Services & Consulting  

Functional Area: Sales, Retail, Business Development  

Education  

UG: Any Graduate - Any Specialization  

Key Skills  

Sales Strategy, Marketing, Business Development Management , Sales Achievement , Target Achievement , Product Training, Web Technologies , React Native, Mobile Development, Outbound Calling, Web and Mobility Service Sales  

Key Qualifications

1) BS/MS in Computer Science or relevant field and 6+ years of experience in building backend services with

Python 3.7.x using Django >= 2.2.1, Django REST framework >= 3.13.1, Flask >=1.1.2 and relational databases

design and maintenance.

2) At least 4 years of solid experience in working with front-end MVC framework React and caching strategies

(memcached, Redis).

3) Expertise in building microservices-based and cloud-based architectures including development and deployment

in AWS.

4) At least 3 years of experience with Web Application technologies: REST, MongoDB, MySQL, NoSQL, AWS

Lambda, API Gateway and web servers Apache, Nginx.

5) Follows coding best practices to produce tested, scalable, reliable and maintainable code.

6) Hands-on experience in developing, deploying, and releasing large-scale applications.

Responsibilities

1) Understand complex requirements, scope and architect major features and perform API technical design for

junior developers to enhance the product at all layers.

2) Think in terms of future possibility of features, backward compatibility, and application performance.

3) Build cloud-based Python Django software products and implement UI components in React.js framework.

4) Write quality code (with comments, unit tests & documentation), design, implement and manage data pipelines

at enterprise scale with data migration and production data maintenance.

5) Collaborate with different teams to conceptualize, design, and build highly scalable and reliable software

solutions with REST APIs following SDLC best practices and DevOps principles.

6) Work closely with product, project and business teams to translate user feedback and company vision into

technical roadmap.

7) Possess strong product-centric mindset. You should be interested in the way software products are built and

comfortable to be proactive with your ideas and opinions.

 Must Have: BE/BTech/ME/MTech in Computer Science or Information Technology

Our Stack

Back-end: Python, Django REST, MySQL, Celery, Rabbitmq, Sqlalchemy, RDS

Front-end: JavaScript, React, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap

Ops: Docker, AWS, RDS, Terraform, Github Actions, AWS Route53, AWS cloudwatch

• Generates sales leads through Company–sponsored (walk-ins and TI’s) and employee sponsored outreach programs and promotions
• Maintains accurate records of all Company-sponsored and employee-sponsored leads
• Follows up on all prospects by using established sales systems
• Conduct Club tours using established sales systems
• Conduct telephone inquiries using established sales systems
• Establish and maintain a minimum of 3 lead boxes/ tie-ups in the community on a monthly basis
• Must establish and maintain a minimum required referral program as defined by Company standards
• Maintain Membership Coordinator planner using established sales systems
• Successfully completed the Membership Coordinator Training courses
• Complete all formalities of a member that joins / transfers / renews his membership
• Makes courtesy calls to all new members once a month to maintain relationships and ensure the members is regular in using the club
• Enter Guest courtesy forms in software

Make regular weekly reports

Job Summary

• Must be proficient in PHP, MySQL, Laravel, Codeigniter, Core PHP
• Min 4 yr exp.
• Should have knowledge with PHP, laraval, MySQL, CSS, HTML, Javascript, AJAX. Core PHP, WordPress etc
• Should have excellent written and verbal communication skills (English).
• Must have the capacity to work independently and also as a part of a team.
• Must have dedication and commitment towards work and time.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Able to grasp requirements quickly.
• Understand requirements and drive projects with high-quality output.
• Should be a team player and bring positive influence within the team
• Ensuring high-performance and availability and managing all technical aspects of the project
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Qualifications and Skills

• Educational Qualification: Bachelor's (Preferred)
• Good communication
• Team work understanding

Note:-Work From Office only

Despite the global pandemic, Flexiple has been growing ~25% month on month for the last 6 months and has grown its fully distributed network of highly skilled tech talent across ~50 countries now.

Our Marketplace & Talent Operations team till date has been led by https://www.linkedin.com/in/suvansh-bansal/">Suvansh Bansal, right now assisted by a 10 member team. We are now looking to add a leader to the team who can help us hire, grow, nurture, and retain quality operations talent. Additionally, you will play a key role in leading the strategy and execution to ensure that high-quality freelance talent is onboarded and optimally placed to meet client demands (average deal size of ~US$30000).

You have the opportunity to be a part of a company that is leading the remote work revolution and be the revenue-driving force in the premium B2B services industry Flexiple operates in. We expect to grow to $15 million by end of FY22-23.

Kindly note, this is a remote position.

• Attracting & Retaining Talent - Build and execute a strategy to effectively attract, onboard, and retain talent to meet the speed and quality expectations of our clients. This includes collaborating with our screening teams to optimize the process for sourced talent. Your strategic and analytical thinking will contribute to the formulation of unique solutions to streamline such processes.
• Optimize matching process - Lead a fully distributed team and ensure work practices are designed to encourage revenue optimization. The focus thus, needs to be on assessing client needs, finding the "right" freelancer, so that we can match freelance talent to meet the speed and quality expectations of our clients. A key work area would be to do supply planning in alignment with forecasted client demand.
• Collaboration with Sales team - Build robust feedback loops with the Sales team to ensure that both teams work in the same direction. Your success will be measured by exceeding established KPIs for the supply and the demand teams.
• Driving improvements with the Marketing team - Lead efforts while working with the founders to dramatically scale the inbound funnel. Your role will be prioritize the different methods of talent acquisition to meet the forecasted client demand. Your insights will help the marketing team build landing pages and site resources to attract and retain targeted talent.
• Work with the Founders - Share feedback backed by strategic and analytical thinking with the founders on tech products (for freelancer success, onboarding, and matching), technical screening, talent success (laying out a clear path for success for our community).
• Team - Lead by example, hire/ train/ mentor mentor junior team members, and provide instant, relevant feedback on areas of improvement for processes and performance.

Expectations in Week 1

1. Understand our business model and way of working.
2. Work with key teams to learn the core of Flexiple's talent operations and sales capabilities.

Expectations in Month 1

1. Take ownership of a set of freelancer leads and work on the process followed for them.
2. Complete a current state assessment of the structure and functions that define attracting, onboarding, and retaining talent.
3. Pick up necessary tech skills that are needed for the industry.

Expectations till Month 3

1. Take ownership of a set of client leads and work on finding the best matches for them.
2. Complete a current state assessment of the structure and functions that define the Talent Matching process.
3. Work with the existing Talent Operations team to help them improve their sales ability, industry knowledge, and tech understanding.
4. Get the team in the habit of hitting their targets every month.
5. Build up on the tech skills you picked up in the first month.

Expectations till Month 6

1. Assess, develop, and execute strategies to effectively onboard, and retain talent while adapting to the specialized needs of our clients.
2. Begin to assess, develop, and execute strategies to effectively matching talent while meeting the speed and quality expectations of our clients.
3. Gain a deep understanding of the supply/ demand dynamics within Flexiple to assist with prioritization of matching activities and optimal supply planning.
4. Build up on the tech skills you picked up in the first 3 months.

Expectations in Year 1

1. Take ownership of the talent attraction, on-boarding, retention, and matching teams to meet changing demands and drive revenues.
2. Develop and nurture robust feedback loops between the Talent Operations team and the Sales teams to efficiently run the matching process.
3. Evaluate the current team and bridge shortfalls by hiring, training, growing, and retaining internal talent for the Talent Operations team.
4. Develop supply models to ensure we can meet client expectations for current and future needs.

• 5+ years of experience in business operations/ management consulting, developing and executing strategies, leveraging analytics and KPIs to inform decision-making and performance management.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to problem solve to inform supply planning decisions so that priorities can be set are mandatory.
• Ability to lead a global team, provide motivation and clear direction to meet expectations by instilling accountability for quality, sense of urgency, and deepening of customer relationships with both clients and freelance talents.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively and develop strong cross-functional relationships, especially with Operations and Sales functions.
• Accustomed to working in a metrics-driven environment and success in developing methods to achieve KPI expectations.
• Expertise in building a replicable playbook to hire, train, mentor junior team members.
• Ability to adapt to changing business priorities and environments.

• A fully remote (work from anywhere) role
• Receive a more-than-competitive salary plus benefits
• A flat and transparent culture
• Support for setting up home office
• Laptop on joining
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• Enjoy a culture with opportunities for growth and learning

• Responsible for the successful technical delivery of code and design documents
• Responsible to evaluate and review design frameworks and methodologies.
• Responsible for organizing, documenting, and review work items scope from a technical point of view.
• Responsible for scoping, designing, development, reviews, and complete delivery from the technical end.
• Review and validate estimates for complex projects to ensure correct sizing of work.
• Participates in POCs, validates the complex technical solution, performs estimates and collateral consolidation.
• Lead and coach a team of junior developers

Requirement

• Strong experience in the development of microservices-based applications using JEE technologies Spring Boot, and Spring MVC, JPA, and Hibernate.
• Experience in handling integration with multiple legacy systems by creating/consuming services in SOAP/REST/MQ, Apache Camel integration framework.
• Strong experience in developing web applications using single-page architecture and a responsive design using Angular, Bootstrap, and building hybrid mobile applications
• Understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3
• Containerizing applications using Docker/Kubernetes
• Setting up CI/CD pipelines using GIT, Jenkins, SonarQube is a plus
• Setting up applications for log monitoring using ELK stack and performance monitoring using Prometheus and Grafana is a plus
• Ensure quality and timeliness of implementation of activities related to design, build and implementation of work product; participate in activities related to requirements elicitation, validation of architecture, creation, and review of design; provide pseudo code to the team; assign and review tasks for work product implementation with the objective of ensuring the highest levels of service offerings in own technology domain
• Performs high and low-level design provides pseudo-codes, implements the prototype, and does design reviews in order to deliver design documents as per customer requirements
• Provides inputs for an overall implementation plan, lead deployment of applications, infrastructure, and post-production support activities
• Interface with customer for issue resolution, provide status updates, Build customer confidence in team`s ability to deliver in order to support high customer satisfaction
• Understand client-side business requirements and provide value-led solutions. Should have strong and clear verbal and written communication skills including addressing escalations, presenting status in management meetings. Excellent client interfacing skills, mentoring skills
• Experienced in developing microservices/APIs using REST principles
• Experienced in JEE technologies, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Hibernate, Swagger
• Experienced in using Queues (ActiveMQ/RabbitMQ, Kafka) and integration frameworks like Apache Camel
• Experienced in Front End skills include Angular, CSS, SAAS, Node, NPM, Bootstrap
• Experience with one of the application servers like Tomcat, JBoss EAP, IBM WebSphere
• Experience with relational databases like Postgres, Oracle DB2, and NoSQL databases like Elastic Search, MongoDB, Neo4J
• Experience in containerizing applications using Docker/Kubernetes
• Experience in setting up CI/CD pipelines using GIT, Jenkins, SonarQube is a plus
• Experience in setting up applications for log monitoring using ELK stack and performance monitoring using Prometheus and Grafana is a plus