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REVIEW CRITERIA:

MANDATORY:

• Strong Customer Success, Large account management Profile
• Must have 5+ YOE in Customer Success, Account Management, or Client Relationship in a SaaS environment.
• Must have 3+ YOE in Team management
• Must have expertise in managing and ensuring long-term satisfaction and growth with the enterprise-level customers,
• Must be proficient in CRM and customer success tools
• Candidate for Hyderabad should know 1 more South Indian language (Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam) other than Telugu

PREFERRED:

• Retail, Manufacturing or FMCG
• Candidates for Hyderabad knowing any other south Indian language apart from Telegu

ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders within assigned high ticket accounts.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for strategic customers, ensuring their needs are met and expectations are exceeded.
• Develop and execute customer success plans, including onboarding, training, and ongoing support.
• Proactively identify and address customer challenges, providing solutions and recommendations to drive customer success.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Sales, Product, and Support, to ensure a seamless customer experience.
• Conduct regular business reviews with customers to review performance, identify areas for improvement, and present new opportunities.
• Monitor customer health metrics and proactively address any red flags to prevent churn.
• Act as a customer advocate, providing feedback and insights to internal teams to drive product enhancements and improvements.
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends and best practices in customer success management.

IDEAL CANDIDATE:

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Accounts, or a related field.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in a customer success role, preferably in a SaaS company.
• Proven track record of managing and retaining high-value customers.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build strong relationships with customers.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to identify and address customer challenges.
• Self-motivated and results-oriented, with the ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Proficient in CRM software and other customer success tools.
• Ability to travel as needed to meet with customers.

REQUIREMENTS: ● 1-2 years in outbound focused sales position desired; customer-oriented background required (sales, support, customer service) in B2B preferably ● Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, or related field ● Excellent communication and interpersonal skills ● The ability to generate leads independently. ● Willingness to learn and apply the fundamentals of the MEDDIC Sales process approach ● Great to have-Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and/or Computer Vision ● Knowledge of the AI industry and emerging technologies

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: ● Prospecting: As a SDR you will be responsible for identifying and qualifying high potential customers via cold calling, networking, e-mail, as well as utilizing Internet information sources to build and maintain a lead development pipeline. ● Lead Nurturing: You will follow up with qualified leads and build a relationship with them, answering their questions and providing helpful information to move them closer to a buying decision. ● Sales Enablement: You will work closely with the sales team to understand their needs and help them be more effective in closing deals. This can involve creating sales collateral, providing market insights, and organizing training sessions. ● Data Management: You’ll be responsible for keeping accurate and up-to-date records of all their activities and interactions with potential customers. This data is used to inform the sales process and improve overall performance. ● Pipeline Management: You will be managing the pipeline of leads and ensuring that it is always full of high-quality prospects.

Background

Praan (Praan, Inc.) is an impact focused deep-tech startup democratising clean air using breakthrough filterless technology. The company is backed by top tier VCs and CXOs globally and currently operates between the United States and India. Our team puts extreme attention to detail and loves building technology that's aspirational. Praan's team and culture is positioned to empower people to solve large global problems at an accelerated pace. 

Why

Everyone worries about the dooms-day in climate change which is expected to occur in the 2050s. However, there's one doom's day which is the reality for millions of people around the world today. Air pollution takes more than 7 Million lives globally every single year. Over 5% of premature children death occur due to air pollution in developing countries. Everyone has relied on governments or experts to solve the problem, but most solutions up until today have either been too expensive or too ineffective. Praan is an attempt at making the future cleaner, healthier, and safer for the generations to come. 

Job Description

• Lead the technical sales efforts for Praan's filterless purification systems, targeting industrial clients for the MK II platform, and commercial clients for the HIVE platform
• Identify potential customers, establish and nurture relationships, and conduct product demonstrations to showcase the features and advantages of our product portfolio
• Collaborate closely with the engineering and product teams to understand technical details, product capabilities, and competitive advantages, enabling you to effectively communicate the value proposition to potential customers
• Understand customer requirements and tailor product solutions to meet their specific needs, providing technical recommendations and guidance throughout the sales process
• Develop and deliver persuasive sales presentations, proposals, and product demonstrations to key decision-makers, highlighting the benefits and ROI of our products
• Actively track and manage sales opportunities through the entire sales cycle, from lead generation to deal closure, ensuring timely follow-ups and effective communication to meet sales targets
• Provide feedback from the market to the product development teams, helping to shape future product enhancements and new offerings based on customer needs and market trends

Skill Requirements

• Past academic education in Engineering + MBA or equivallent 
• Proven track record working on engineering projects and have sold products like vibro sifters
• Past experience of 7 years to 10 years in the relevant industry
• Proven track record of successful technical sales, preferably in the B2B environment, with a focus on complex products or solutions
• Proven track record of achieving monthly/quarterly and yearly targets
• Strong leadership skills - will be managing a team of 4-5 Inside sales representatives
• Strong technical acumen and the ability to understand and explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate complex ideas clearly and concisely
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain strong relationships with customers, understanding their needs and providing effective solutions
• Self-motivated, results-oriented, and able to work independently as well as collaboratively within a cross-functional team environment
• Willingness to travel as required to meet with clients, attend trade shows, and participate in industry events.

• Good understanding of UI technologies like PHP JQuery JavaScript HTML 5 CSS Pearl Curl
• Good understanding of backend technologies like Java EE Servlets JSP Tag libraries and JSTL skills combined with a good understanding of Enterprise Java frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate
• Preferred Knowledge in Day CQ foundational concepts including the CRX repository the CQ platform the use of core frameworks such as Apache Sling and Apache Felix a solid understanding of all Day CQ building blocks including templates components dialogs widgets etc and the CQ development and deployment process
• Maintain and build solutions on top of the AEM Scene 7 DAM and SoCo modules
• Create and integrate content-driven applications on top of the CQ core platform and integrate with other systems

What we're looking for

Energetic product & design skilled individuals who love building and shipping high-quality products.

Someone who is ready to work in a new organization and help set up a design-driven culture.

Responsibilities

Product design ideation, planning, prioritization & designing at all levels of fidelity
Take part in User research, create detailed user journeys and take appropriate design decisions backed by user behavior and data
Work closely with cross-disciplinary teams including Product, Engineering, Marketing, and various Business teams to deliver delightful customer experiences
Help build a design system & framework that fits the organization's brand
Ensure engineers are able to translate your designs into living products

What you would need to have

1-3 years of experience designing & shipping products
Examples of your work in the form of a case study
Expert knowledge of industry-standard product design tools (ideally Figma )

Bonus points for

Visual design specialty like 3D illustrations
Ability to do motion design beyond basic micro-interactions
Past experience shipping tech products

• 1-2 years of work experience, preferably in a startup
• An engineering degree from a reputed college or University
• Hands-on experience in developing end-to-end applications using Node.Js, ReactJs,
• Knowledge of HTML/CSS, web standards, best practices
• Experience of working with databases - MySQL, MongoDB
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
• An experience in writing clean, semantic code with cross-browser compatibility in mind
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git/SVN
• Excellent coding and debugging skills
• A passion and the ability to make beautiful, smooth, delightful web experiences
• A Will-Do attitude

• A team of aces, from top-tier schools and startups, to work with
• A fast-paced, data-driven, and fun work environment
• A huge appetite for new, disruptive, creative and implementable ideas
• An open work culture

• Competitive salary
• Great working environment, opportunity to work directly with the founders on very exciting real-life problems.
• Opportunity to grow really fast.

• Shortlist
• Intro call of 15min
• 1-2 Tech rounds
• HR round
• Offer rollout

What you will be working on?

You'll be a part of the core team and will be working with the founders in building and iterating upon the core product.

How you can grow with us?

• Will be working on the bleeding edge technologies of IoT which are not usually accessible to software engineers.

• Will get exposure to IoT Hardware and Industrial Infrastructure.

• Will get to deliver on-time, quality software in the challenging domains of Energy/IoT/Automation.
  
  

We appreciate the following traits!

• Will be dealing with the web app, mobile app, frontend, backend, etc. So, you need to be flexible in getting the work done.

• Need not be proficient in all of these but you can trump any of this by being a quick learner and a hard worker.

• Should be familiar with the transition from the development phase to the deployment phase.