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Job Title: Senior Product Delivery Manager

Job Location: Mumbai

About Qrata

We match top talent with highly competitive career opportunities with leading startups in India and globally and address hiring challenges, recruitment brand marketing, with innovative and collaborative strategic consulting.

About the company we are hiring for

It is a global technology firm that offers a SaaS based Delivery Automation Platform. The software helps brands across Food & Beverage, Courier, Express and Parcel, eCommerce & Retail and Transportation (3PLs, 4PLs, etc.) to digitize, optimize and automate deliveries across the supply chain.

It is Growing at an average rate of 120% YoY, it has 200+ enterprise clients in 50+ countries with headquarters in New Jersey, USA and regional offices in Mumbai, Jakarta, Delhi, and Dubai. They are backed with $49.5 million across three rounds of private equity investments by Tiger Global Management, Stead view Capital and Alibaba Group of companies.

They are incredibly excited about the SaaS ecosystem as well and proud to be one of the frontrunners when it comes to building a SaaS platform for the logistics industry. With some of the biggest brands like KFC, Starbucks, McDonald’s, Singapore Post and Decathlon as their clients, their platform has matured tremendously and powers millions of shipments across the globe every day.

Their Culture

Most of their workforce is in Mumbai and there are a bunch of people interested in technology and working at the forefront of innovation in the logistics automation industry. With smaller teams distributed across the globe, the entire team gets together during their annual workcation. The vision of building a global enterprise company and going IPO is what drives us to achieve more, every day!

They endeavour to change the world through continuous innovation and optimization in the space of logistics and supply chain management. Join them as they create the next version of an impactful product which aims to revolutionize business processes and user behaviour through unprecedented forms of disruption

We are currently scouting for Senior Product Delivery Manager

As they experience exponential growth, they are looking for individuals having experience in implementing SaaS solutions for large, global enterprises. The ideal candidate will be an innovative self-starter comfortable working in a start-up environment and adept at managing client expectations. You will be the face of company to C-level executives and senior leaders of our enterprise clients.

You will develop the strategy behind implementations, and bring an obsession for exceeding customer expectations by delivering in accordance with project success metrics. You will also build long-term relationships with the clients, connecting with key business executives and stakeholders. You will liaise between clients, cross-functional internal teams and other system integrators to ensure the timely and successful delivery of our solutions according to customer needs

Responsibilities

• Work with Business Development, Product Management and Engineering team to build highly scalable SaaS products and integration modules
• Connect with clients to determine their technical and functional requirements and recommend appropriate solutions to ensure successful product implementation
• Prepare detailed project plans that blend client requirements well with the company’s visions and co-ordinate across various teams to establish smooth execution during all phases of project
• Adhere to the standards of scope, timeline, and budget throughout the entire execution of project lifecycle and ensure success of the project
• Work closely with development team to explain the requirements and constantly monitor the progress
• Be hands-on, adopt practical approach to software and technology
• Suggest improvements in systems & processes and assist technical team with issues needing technical expertise
• Create technical content such as blogs, technical specification documents and system integration requirements documents

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
• 8 to 10 years of experience in project and delivery management for Enterprise SaaS companies
• Solid technical background with minimum 2-years of hands-on experience in software development preferably in cloud technologies
• Proven ability to drive large scale global projects with deep understanding of agile SDLC, high collaboration and leadership
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, judgement, and decision- making skills, and the ability to work under continual deadline pressure
• Willingness to travel occasionally within India and internationally

Must Haves:

·        Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field

·        Experience in project and delivery management for Enterprise SaaS companies

·        Solid technical background with minimum 2-years of hands-on experience in software development preferably in cloud technologies

·        Proven ability to drive large scale global projects with deep understanding of agile SDLC, high collaboration and leadership

·        Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office Excellent written and oral communication skills, judgement, and decision- making skills, and the ability to work under continual deadline pressure

Willingness to travel occasionally within India and internationally

Job responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Building GTM Strategy. You’ll own our growth strategies and identify the key channels in which we can invest in and scale our customer acquisition efforts. You’ll be a thought leader who is excited to take a scrappy approach, brainstorm and launch new experiments, A/B test, and double down upon early signs of success.
• Relentlessly optimizing.. You’ll combine quantitative and qualitative insights to identify opportunities, improve conversion rates, and reduce costs.
• Scale a world class team. We’re looking for someone who can build the playbook that the team will operate against as it grows. You’ll be empowered to recruit and get the most out of a high-performing, efficient team.
• Execute a broad mandate. You’ll roll up your sleeves and get done what is necessary to remove blockers to our company’s growth, recognizing that this will change and develop as the business matures. You aren’t afraid to dive in and help us solve other business problems as needed.
• Own growth, content and digital marketing completely: experience in PR/ Comms not needed.
• Highly quantitative approach to growth and marketing. Experience with A/B experiments, growth hacks and other tools.

What will set this person apart:

• BS/BA degree
• 3+ years experience in management consulting and/ or previous experience in a founders role. Former founders encouraged to apply
• Strategic thinker that can tailor nuanced responses to different audiences and define priorities
• Ability to weigh in on or make decisions with authority across all parts of a business
• Self starter; highly motivated and resourceful with proven ability to lead and execute
• Exceptional organizational and task management abilities
• Ability to execute good judgment, tact, professionalism and diplomacy when interacting with employees, managers or clients
• Adept at handling multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced, results-driven, rapidly changing environment

.Net Core is preferred along with SQL or very strong .Net developer with SQL

The job requires the resource to do documentation, SQL support, development with .Net,integration,interaction with end user- mix of all activities

• A customer care executive tends to act as a link-man between a company and its customers and resolves any such queries generated by its customers or clients with efficiency.
• The only aim is to ensure customer satisfaction by fulfilling their requirements.
• Should be confident in troubleshooting any such emerging queries and maintaining high standards.
• Good Convincing Skills.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills interactive communication.
• Document or maintain records of each and every interaction with the customers for future evaluation.
• Follow the procedure, and guidelines provided and implement it while troubleshooting queries.
• Proficiency in English is Mandatory.

Roles and Responsibilities:

1. The Head of Technology at Grab will work closely with the Founding team and lead a team of 30 people comprising backend, frontend developers testers.
2. Grab ’s current technology stack is LAMP and it houses Android applications along with backend modules. The candidate’s role will be to revisit the architecture and aim   the team towards it.  
3. Grab shall be diversifying into various new processes that will create opportunities to create new products which the Candidate shall take ownership of.
4. The Candidate's role apart from owning existing product lines will also be to create enterprise versions of Grab’s stack.
5. Candidates will obtain a deep understanding of the business side and accurate processes and systems around it. He/She will gather feedback from various stakeholders   and continuously refine tech offerings.

 Skills & Qualification:

1. Proven experience of absorbing business knowledge into building innovations around technologies is the key. We expect the technology headto bear the attitude of an entrepreneur to command the future of the firm’s technology to first in industry status.
2. Engineering Degree. One from a premier institute, preferred.
3. Minimum 10 years of experience. Off which 3 years, at a leadership role.
4. Prior development experience, preferred.

• upGrad was awarded the Best Tech for Education by IAMAI for 2018-19,
• upGrad was also ranked as one of the LinkedIn Top Startups 2018: The 25 most sought-after startups in India.
• upGrad was earlier selected as one of the top ten most innovative companies in India by FastCompany.
• We were also covered by the Financial Times along with other disruptors in Ed-Tech.
• upGrad is the official education partner for Government of India - Startup India program.
• Our program with IIIT B has been ranked #1 program in the country in the domain of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

• Work with Product Managers and Business to understand business/product requirements and vision.
• Provide a clear architectural vision in line with business and product vision.
• Lead a team of architects, developers, and data engineers to provide platform services to other engineering teams.
• Provide architectural oversight to engineering teams across the organization.
• Hands on design and development of platform services and features owned by self - this is a hands-on coding role.
• Define guidelines for best practices covering design, unit testing, secure coding etc.
• Ensure quality by reviewing design, code, test plans, load test plans etc. as appropriate.
• Work closely with the QA and Support teams to track quality and proactively identify improvement opportunities.
• Work closely with DevOps and IT to ensure highly secure and cost optimized operations in the cloud.
• Grow technical skills in the team - identify skill gaps with plans to address them, participate in hiring, mentor other architects and engineers.
• Support other engineers in resolving complex technical issues as a go-to person.

• 12+ years of experience in design and development of ecommerce scale systems and highly scalable SaaS or enterprise products.
• Extensive experience in developing extensible and scalable web applications with
  • Java, Spring Boot, Go
  • Web Services - REST, OAuth, OData
  • Database/Caching - MySQL, Cassandra, MongoDB, Memcached/Redis
  • Queue/Broker services - RabbitMQ/Kafka
  • Microservices architecture via Docker on AWS or Azure.
  • Experience with web front end technologies - HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript libraries and frameworks such as jQuery, AngularJS, React, Vue.js, Bootstrap etc.

• Extensive experience with cloud based architectures and how to optimize design for cost.
• Expert level understanding of secure application design practices and a working understanding of cloud infrastructure security.
• Experience with CI/CD processes and design for testability.
• Experience working with big data technologies such as Spark/Storm/Hadoop/Data Lake Architectures is a big plus.
• Action and result-oriented problem-solver who works well both independently and as part of a team; able to foster and develop others' ideas as well as his/her own.
• Ability to organize, prioritize and schedule a high workload and multiple parallel projects efficiently.
• Excellent verbal and written communication with stakeholders in a matrixed environment.
• Long term experience with at least one product from inception to completion and evolution of the product over multiple years.