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Senior Manager - Research

About Us

upGrad is an online education platform building the careers of tomorrow by offering the most industry-relevant programs in an immersive learning experience. Our mission is to create a new digital-first learning experience to deliver tangible career impact to individuals at scale.

upGrad currently offers programs in Data Science, Machine Learning, Product Management, Digital Marketing, and Entrepreneurship, etc. upGrad is looking for people passionate about management and education to help design learning programs for working professionals to stay sharp and stay relevant and help build the careers of tomorrow.

• 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 the 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

Role Summary

As a User Research Professional you will establish UX Research practice for your pods and collaborate closely with the product and tech leadership to shape our products. You will work with your peer(s) to set clear methods, standards and metrics for gathering qualitative and quantitative insights to continuously deepen the actionable knowledge of our product teams.

You will work with teams to develop research awareness, skills for engaging learners, community and experts, also knowledge for discerning what is important to take into product or innovation practices. You will maintain the highest level of research rigour across all types of studies and constraints. In addition to laying the foundation for user research for your pods, you will conduct and lead key research activities, applying quantitative or qualitative research methodologies to generate actionable insights for our products, brand and strategic direction. Your success will be the team’s commitment to research practices and knowledge of deep learning practices which are hidden in plain sight from across India's hinterland to metros.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Lead and coach team of UX researchers across any one of the Discovery and Growth, Learning experience, Careers, and Breakout pods
• Partner with User Researchers, Design Leads, Product Managers, and Engineering managers to drive all stages of research from early product direction through summative validation in an Agile work environment
• Lead prioritization about what we research, when to research it, and how that research is conducted; This might mean working with cross-functional teams, multiple devices, brands, and platforms, in order to find opportunities to further improve the user experience
• Influence a diverse set of stakeholders through excellent relationship building, and crisply providing insight and deep domain expertise in research practices and product development
• Put the needs of our varied set of users front and center and driving, through influence and well-constructed presentations of insights, the user experience strategy of our many products
• As a voice of the user, effectively challenge and elevate the customer experience in a data-driven environment
• Design, recruit and moderate research studies regularly (both in-person and remote)
• Use a variety of research methods and tools to best reach the goals of each project in order to provide rich, actionable insights
• Communicate research findings and prioritized recommendations to internal stakeholders in a clear and compelling way

Skills Required

• You have 6+ years of experience as a User Research Leader with experience building successful practices inside of companies
• You have to lead a team of at least 4 people
• You have deep knowledge of qualitative research methods and tools across the Indian diaspora, as well as knowledge of quantitative methods
• You know how to analyze and work with design, business, and product data tracking
• You have an excellent knowledge of UX standards, and bring a deep background in psychology, social sciences, or anthropology to the practice
• You have strong oral and written communication skills in both Hind, English, and ideally one other language relevant to our deep reach in India. Any other language is a bonus.
• Your excellent presentation skills will help you collaborate with team members from a wide range of teams and geographies across India.
• You have experience in working in an agile environment and the ability to adapt quickly to changing product priorities
• BA or MS in Psychology, Anthropology or Design with a strong focus on User Research is an added bonus

1. At least 3+ years of experience in Oracle ERP/Fusion SaaS/PaaS project implementations as a technical developer

2. Completed at least 1 ERP or Oracle Cloud (Fusion) project implementations

3. Extensive Knowledge on underlying database structure for ERP/Oracle Cloud (Fusion)

4. Extensively worked on BI Publisher reports, FBDI/OTBI and Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC)

5. Have strong technical knowledge on Oracle Database SQL and PLSQL

6. VBCS development experience is an added advantage 

Key Responsibilities:

1. Understanding the brand that is being represented, the TLC brand, the Program, the benefits, the scripts, the possible talking and opening lines and ensuring that the company guidelines on these are followed when a customer connect is made to enroll them into a membership program.

2. A soft approach to the sales process with conversational scripts and engagement on the call to sign up a customer. To protect the brand and ensure that a positive impact is left on the prospect after the interaction, whether he / she buys a membership or not.

3. Program Benefits must be conveyed in complete transparency leaving no scope of ambiguity or sounding / making false promises or over commitment.

4. Ensure that the prospect is not called for more than 3 times and also, he / she is not spammed on the calls. A prospect who does not want to be spoken to should be blocked from the system.

5. Ensure a database is provided by the company and only approved databases after proper DNC scrubbing are used.

6. It is mandatory to ensure that on every point of connect generating relevant leads are required, this is a part of our database expansion exercise, and must be followed.

7. Ensuing all relevant information is captured and converted into company intelligence like reasons for close etc and the prospects once spoken to are accordingly blocked from the system so that they are not called again.

8. Ensure any escalation or potential escalation is immediately reported to the Manager.

9. Ensure company time spent in the office is spent on productive customer acquisition work and aim for high enrolments, conversions, and no complaints as a performance matrix.

10. Ensuring confidentiality of all company information is maintained at all times.

Required Skills Set:

1. Minimum two years’ experience in a high-quality outbound voice process.

2. Good verbal and social communication skills in English with supporting local language. English will always be the first language for opening a customer conversation.

3. Proactive, confident, and self-motivated.

4. Performance oriented with a passion for sales and numbers.

• Develop new user-facing features
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
• Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability
• Assure that all user input is validated before submitting to back-end services
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders

• Strong understanding of JavaScript, its quirks, and workarounds
• Basic understanding of web markup, including HTML5 and CSS3
• Good understanding and the knowledge of advanced JavaScript libraries and frameworks such as AngularJS, KnockoutJS, BackboneJS, ReactJS, DurandalJS etc.
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around such issues
• Familiarity with JavaScript module loaders, such as Require.js and AMD
• Familiarity with front-end build tools, such as Grunt and Gulp.js
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Good understanding of browser rendering behavior and performance

Our client is India’s first non- preservative brand for natural aroma products. Their offerings include skincare, haircare, body care, bath salts, carrier oils, massage oils, essential oils, handmade soaps, aroma diffusers, foot care and others. All their spa and aromatherapy products are a combination of the best of ingredients that are locally sourced from the freshest and purest sustainable resources. This homegrown D2C startup also has an impressive B2B portfolio and has tied up with well known brands for corporate gifting solutions and signature scents.

It sells its products through its own website, prominent retail stores and pharmacies as well as all the leading ecommerce portals. It has also stepped into the international market and has a strong overseas presence.

Founded by alumni of Stanford University Graduate School of Business and ISB, Hyderabad, this ISO certified company is indeed revolutionizing beauty care by harmonizing body, mind and soul.

As a Sr Manager - Marketplaces, you will be responsible for managing the ecommerce business on key accounts like Amazon, Flipkart or International Business on Amazon in USA and UAE. (Allocation of accounts based on business/ opportunity/ experience)

What you will do:

• Conducting, operating and achieving the business on key account with sales plan to achieve budgeted numbers
• Connecting/ coordinating with Account/ Category Managers of the key account/ Marketplaces
• Ensuring strong healthy relationship with the account team to drive business
• Understanding price sensitivity and managing pricing, ensuring there is price parity as per the policy
• Creating and managing ads, evaluating which ads are working and optimising the same to achieve
• Managing inventory, optimizing content for listings, listing hygiene as per platform standards/guidelines
• Inventory planning and management aligned with sales and marketing plan, focussing on top- sellers, to improve inventory turn and optimised discounting
• Ensuring our top-sellers are in category/ sub-category sales ranks with good visibility and discoverability
• Managing and tracking payments from the partner websites, reconciliation and ensuring there is no variance in the same
• Managing brand reputation through reviews/ ratings/ feedback on the account
• Constantly tracking competitor brands and product, comparative category share to be tracked and working on increasing it
• Using all the tools/ services available on the account that can help in increasing our customer base

What you need to have:

• Graduation is a must.
• Minimum 2-3 years experience in beauty and personal care as in Category(FMCG), Merchandising, KAM role or Business Manager Role on the E-commerce platform
• Experience in a highly analytical, results-oriented environment. (OKR’s). (Plan your work ; work on your plan)
• Proven operational skills and demonstrated ability to manage the business “by the numbers”. Must be metrics-driven.
• Desire to work in a fast-paced, challenging environment with business on mind
• Excellent written and oral communication and presentation skills and the ability to express thoughts logically and succinctly
• Demonstrated active listening skills, highly consultative and solutions-oriented.
• Ability to comprehend questions and ask the right people
• Advanced IT literacy especially in Microsoft Office applications.
• Proficiency in MS excel
• Track record of managing and troubleshooting technical, compliance and business problems
• Strong process definition and optimization skills
• Proven ability to define effective, efficient and scalable processes and drive continuous improvement through root cause identification and defect elimination in consumer experience, business process, product visibility
• Attention to detail and capability to work on multiple projects in parallel
• Easy with numbers and calculations, Ad account management is integral part of growth managers
• Experience with e-commerce, retail, would be an advantage
• Engineering Student (Drop outs also welcome)
• Excellent Communication Skills (Written/ Verbal)
• Strong sense of urgency ability to manage details and multiple tasks while responding to changing priorities and feedback
• A hands-on self-starter, with a can-do positive attitude, willing to roll up their sleeves to do whatever it takes to get the job done, and a strong work ethic will also be essential
• Relationship management: Managing team and working with external and internal stakeholders
• Managing Expectations: Can define Business ASK’s clearly (Number Specific)
• Negotiation skill for getting better visibility on Amazon, Flipkart and like portals (free and paid both)
• Marketing to Operation mindset (Size the Opportunity and how will you Seize the same)

• Check the Cmg's and take the requirements from functional consultants and users.
• As per business logic (MD50) do change existing reports and develop the new reports.
• Developing new packages, procedures, functions and updating existing packages and procedures, functions.
• Developing the workflows.
• Developing the API's as per business logic's for data updates.
• Developing the data extraction automation programs (.sql files developments) for data extractions.
• Prepare the test cases and migration documents for migrating objects.

• Bachelor's Degree in IT/ Computers/ Science or Master's in Computer required.
• 2 - 5 years of relevant experience on Oracle Apps Technical.
• Candidates must have hands on experience on Oracle RDF/XML/Pl-SQL Reports, D2k Forms, Workflow, OAF, And functional knowledge on O2C & P2P.