The Position

We are looking for a Marketing Operations Manager with around 6-8 years of experience. You are a self-starter who takes the initiative and can work closely with a team of marketers, senior company executives, and agencies. You should be a dynamic high-energy individual with a positive, can-do attitude. You possess an analytical mindset, sound judgment, excellent creative instincts and very strong communication skills, verbal and written.  You must have the interest and the desire to deeply connect with the culture of iMerit and be a part of its global growth journey. There is substantial opportunity for ownership of marketing initiatives and visibility within the company.

Your main responsibilities will include ensuring smooth global marketing operations, working with top management to coordinate and execute all types of marketing activities, both outbound and inbound for iMerit, and to drive rigor in measuring marketing metrics. This position is based in Kolkata but will have involvement with all the company’s global operations.

Core Responsibilities

• Ensure execution of the company’s global marketing strategy with quick turnaround times by coordinating between internal team members and stakeholders and external vendors
• Align marketing framework throughout the organization
• Develop and maintain a rigorous reporting approach to measure marketing attribution
• Ensure consistency of creative language and tone of voice
• Build and implement a content production pipeline with input from US counterparts with creative resources including blogs, videos, infographics, presentations, campaign pages
• Be a branding strategist for top management; coordinate their content needs and PR.
• Continuously stay in touch with events within the company and outside it, and find ways to translate these into actionable marketing stories
• Act as primary liaison between marketing and sales teams for coordination of events
• Manage and grow marketing technology stack with inputs from global team.
• Leverage CRM and marketing automation platforms for dashboarding marketing activities
• Coordinate with US counterparts to execute all digital marketing strategies and tactics including SEO/SEM, Blogs and Forums, Page optimizations, remarketing, calls-to-action, email campaigns and more for demand generation
• Plan and manage presence at global conferences, events and award ceremonies

Required skills:

• Top-notch communication skills across all levels of management, with crisp writing skills
• Hands-on approach to fast paced parallel initiatives
• Team management skills – internal and external
• 2+ years’ experience in a business environment with digital presence
• Basic eye for design in both photography and videography. A flair for the use of imagery in illustrating concepts
• Broad view of the tech world, and an interest in social impact or international development
• Analytics and toolchain e.g. automation platforms Salesforce, AdWords strongly recommended
• Good knowledge and interest in SEO/SEM, blogs, social media, campaigns and analytics

To Apply

Send your CV/resume and a brief cover letter outlining why you are a good fit for the role along with examples of your past work. We leave the specifics up to you to decide, but feel free to include a website or video link that best showcases you as an individual.  

The Position

We are looking for a Market Research Analyst to build market, industry and key account intelligence for the company in our areas of interest. You will work with internal stakeholders including management, technology, marketing and sales team as well as access outside resources to ideate and create various thought pieces which can allow the company to better understand the market and focus its efforts. This position is based in Kolkata.

Responsibilities

• Rapidly acquire actionable information and develop point of view in multiple areas of current and future interest to the company, example market sizing, market segmentation, market potential, key account analysis and competitor analysis
• Build thought pieces and briefings both broad and deep, which can help the sales and leadership team work on its market strategy
• Track industry developments and trends, both qualitatively and quantitatively
• Provide support to the DemandGen efforts by delivering insights on potential leads

Required

• 2+ years’ experience in Market Research / Consulting
• Specific demonstrable work in global B2B technology sector
• Crisp communication and presentation skills
• Broad view of the tech world, and an interest in social impact
• Great to Have

• MBA in Marketing
• Exposure to AI, technology services, Computer Vision, e-Commerce sectors

To Apply

Send your CV/resume, a brief cover letter outlining why you are a good fit for the role, and examples of your work

The Position

We are looking for a Graphic Designer to drive the visual elements of iMerit’s branding and marketing presence. You will work with internal stakeholders including management, marketing and sales team to ideate and create various elements for use in collateral, communication and digital presence. This position is based in Kolkata.

Responsibilities

• As part of the marketing team, be responsible for creating and repurposing various design elements, layouts, and visual collateral to support iMerit’s marketing, sales and brand presence
• Define the “look and feel” of iMerit’s collateral, both internal and external, including:
  • Web page and landing pages
  • Leadership decks and presentations
  • Public email communications
  • Sales collateral and case studies
  • Research materials
• Continuously develop visual ideas to understand and tell our story

Required

• Clean and elegant modern visual taste with detail orientation

• 2+ years’ experience in a business environment with digital presence
• Familiarity with Adobe Creative Suite, Powerpoint, Various image editing utilities
• Broad view of the tech world, and an interest in social impact or international development

Great to Have

• Basic knowledge of videography, photography and an eye for imagery. The more you can do, the more dynamic you can make the role for yourself
• Agency or inhouse marketing team experience

To Apply

Send your CV/resume, a brief cover letter outlining why you are a good fit for the role, and portfolio of design work (required)

Want to work on an international team in Tech? Want to work with the world’s most innovative companies focusing on AI, self-driving cars, VR/AR, and all sorts of other cool stuff? Want to know that your work drives a HUGE social impact? If you answered “yes” to all of these and you’re confident you have what it takes, let’s talk!

Location: New Orleans, LA

About the Role

We’re looking for a Sales Development Representative (SDR) to join our Sales team. As an SDR at iMerit, you will play a key role in building out the lead generation engine that supports our fast-growing business. Your primary focus will be supporting our lead generation efforts by booking appointments for the Sales team.

To be successful in this role, you will:

• BE A HUNTER: Research our space and our target accounts, engage with prospects via telephone/email/social, creatively initiate conversations, schedule meetings with the right people at the right companies
• BE SCRAPPY: You find a way to get things done no matter what, customize useful sales materials (presentations, one-pagers, case studies), learn from mistakes, won’t make excuses
• BE A PROBLEM SOLVER: Have a consultative approach, deeply understand client needs/business goals, connect the dots on how iMerit will deliver customized solutions to solve unique client problems, handle and overcome prospect objections verbally and via email
• BE A TEAM PLAYER: Work cross-functionally with SDR, Sales, and Marketing teams to ensure campaign success, ask for help when needed, help others when able
• BE A SELF-STARTER: Tackle new markets and opportunities with a great sense of urgency while having little direction and training, update all prospect interactions and statuses in Salesforce to ensure efficient lead management, take initiative – when you see something needs to be done you do it
• BE AN INFLUENCER: Lead by example, show a high level of work ethic, add to the company culture, deliver measurable results

Required Experience/Skills:

• 2 years experience in a Sales or lead generation role (cold calling)
• Ability to work interculturally and in a distributed team
• Interest and openness to travel (up to 25%)
• Self-directed learner and hands-on problem solver
• Comfortable working with data and complicated technologies
• Prior experience in CrowdSourcing, Outsourcing, and/or Solutions Selling
• Desire to research market trends, technology, and concepts, in Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning/Data Science

Ideal Candidate Traits/Experience:

• Proven track record of reaching/exceeding sales goals
• Experience working with an international team
• Experience working with remote teams
• Prior work history with crowdsourcing/outsourcing
• Interest in social impact
• Basic knowledge of Microsoft Office, Google suite, and Salesforce

About You:

• Fun to be around
• Can carry a conversation with anyone (CEO, data scientist, homeless person)
• Curious by nature – eager to learn
• Passionate
• Competitive
• EXCELLENT verbal and written skills
• Value teamwork but able to fly solo
• Have a track record of thriving in a self-starting environment leveraging your drive, creativity, and intellect
• Outstanding organization and time management skills

Benefits:

• Competitive health benefits
• PTO program and paid holidays
• Casual work environment
• Social impact mission/vision

Location: Remote

About the Role

As a pre-sales Solutions Architect you are supporting the Sales team’s efforts to engage with prospective clients and translate their often custom requirements into a full-fledged end-to-end data processing solution.

In order to establish new processes, you will be working closely with the Sales team, prospective and current clients, and the India-based Project Management team. You will also have the opportunity to design, coordinate, and product manage the in-house development of custom tools and workflows.

This is a role for self-directed learners, creative thinkers, and workplace chameleons. You will need to be adaptive, curious, and resourceful, and enjoy working with a diverse team.

 Responsibilities:

• Work with existing and prospective customers to deeply understand their proposed use case(s) and propose solutions based on iMerit’s core offerings, technology, and workforce capability
• Lead newly engaged customers through any technical sales consultation and project implementation phase, while building trust in the solutions offered by iMerit
• Work as the bridge between Sales, guiding their understanding of project implementation, and Project Management (responsible for the actual delivery of quality work). This requires a strong ability to multi-task, and switch gears between teams with competing priorities.
• Provide consultative proposals and findings to clients in an organized and accessible manner. This includes a combination of data analysis, development of workflow proposals, and the ability to clearly map out process and values provided by the iMerit team. While heavily consultative, the ability to win (and maintain) client trust is of great importance.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously, including the project design, development, implementation, and delivery

Required Experience/Skills:

• Minimum 3 years experience and success working in a customer-facing technical role
• Ability to work interculturally and in a distributed team
• Interest (and openness) to travel (India and California)
• Self-directed learner and hands-on problem solver
• Comfortable working with data
• Prior experience in Account Management, Project Management or Sales Engineering
• Desire to learn independently about market trends, technology, and concepts in Machine Learning/Data Science field

Ideal Candidate Traits/Experience:

• Experience working for an international company
• Experience working with remote teams
• Experience working in/with India
• Interest in social impact
• Prior work history with crowd-sourcing/outsourcing
• Moderate to advanced Excel knowledge
• Basic knowledge of SQL and other databases
• Basic knowledge of programming languages such as HTML, PHP, Python, R
• Plus if based in San Francisco Bay Area (Remote OK)

Job Description

Position – Solutions Engineer (Full Stack)

Location – Kolkata

About iMerit

iMerit is a unique for-profit social impact company providing on-demand digital dataset services to global clients. Founded by successful multiple entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, we train and employ marginalized youth and women in IT jobs, and provide some of the most sought after data services such as data enrichment, sentiment analysis and image classification. Our funders include Omidyar Network, Khosla Impact, and the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation. Our customers span diverse segments like computer vision, machine learning and social media.

Summary

Looking for a strong Solutions Engineer to design and develop custom web-based applications for our work with customers, typically in interactive processing of text or image data. The successful candidate will be able to build innovative and robust software in compliance with coding standards and technical design while maintaining an approach of improvisation and problem-solving.

Responsibilities

• Works as a team player to produce high quality solutions & web applications incorporating data pipeline, web UI, database and reports
• Interacts with client alongside Account Executive and Business Analyst, to understand the needs, define the problem, and define the solution to achieve the desired work flow
• Improvises and plans for both rapid pilots and main production
• Templatizes the solution for modular reuse

Required Qualifications

Technical (Specific)

1. Ideal candidate should have 2+ years of web application development experience using

PHP5, PHP7, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Jquery, MySQL, NoSql

1. Should have in depth understanding in LAMP stack
2. Must have Good OOP (Object Oriented Programming) concepts
3. Knowledge in MVC Framework e.g (Zend Framework, Laravel)
4. Clear understanding of JSON, AJAX, XML, CURL, Web Service
5. Knowledge of the Linux command line tools optional
6. Good to have experience in Angular JS and Node JS, concept of UI/UX
7. Experience in handling large database, including designing & advanced querying in MySql
8. Good knowledge of version control tools like GIT, SVN

Personal Qualities

1. Strong analytical acumen and comfortable generating analysis and requirements
2. Ability to work autonomously and proactively
3. Proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities
4. Most important should be comfortable to work coolly under pressure
5. Extreme customer focus, ability to work across time-zones and to self-manage
6. Hunger to learn new application areas and technologies and ability to make quick choices and integrate multiple components in a cohesive workflow

Job Description

Position – Sr. Software Engineer

Location – Kolkata

Summary

Looking for a passionate Software Engineer to design, develop and install software solutions with futuristic ideas. The successful candidate will be able to build high-quality, innovative and fully performing software in compliance with coding standards and technical design.

Responsibilities

1. Determines operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions
2. Documents and demonstrates solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code
3. Protects operations by keeping information confidential
4. Produce specifications and determine operational feasibility
5. Integrate software components into a fully functional software system
6. Develop software verification plans and quality assurance procedures
7. Document and maintain software functionality
8. Tailor and deploy software tools, processes and metrics
9. Serve as a subject matter expert
10. Comply with project plans and industry standards

Required Qualifications

Technical (Specific)

1. LAMP
2. Foundation – Object Oriented Programming, Clear understanding of Web Application Architecture and MVC
3. Web Server – Apache
4. Programming Language – PHP, Node JS, Ruby,
5. Database – MySQL, SQL / JSON in general
6. Front end tools – HTML5, CSS3, Java Script, jQuery, Angular JS, AJAX, JSON, XML
7. Web Services – REST / SOAP

Technical (Desired)

1. SaaS fundamentals
2. Analytics API

Technical (General)

1. Knowledge of creating reasonably normalized relational model to avoid strange codes to compensate corner cases
2. Good Object Oriented Skills
3. Knowledge of Web Framework (Python, Laravel, Codeigniter, Ruby on rails, Bootstrap)
4. Ability to write clear, consistent, simple to use interfaces to outside world (REST APIs)
5. Must have clear concept of MVC architecture and implications
6. Understanding of repeatable automated processes for building the application, testing, documenting and deploying it at scale
7. Should have an awareness of security as each layer presents its own possible vulnerabilities
8. Should be open to quickly adapt new technologies and tools

Experience (Desired)

1. Experience of working at each level of SDLC, clear understanding on Project Life Cycle, powerful analytical skills to understand end‐user requirements

The Role: Software Director:

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Jointly with other organizations and (internal/external) customers define and document major requirements to SW products and services.
• Defining SW roadmap and major milestones
• Define and institute common SW development practices across all SW teams
• Define architecture of major SW components
• Develop professional skills of the members of the SW teams
• Represent SW organization at the company management levels

Location: Kolkata

Qualifications:

• Typically holds MS/PhD in Computer Science and has 12+ years of industry experience.
• Previous experience leading large SW teams
• Expert in agile SW development practices
• Previous experience shipping production CW products
• Strong technical background in multiple SW domains across full stack of SW technologies
• Expert knowledge of multiple programming languages including C/C++, Java, JS, Python
• Expert knowledge of web and cloud technologies
• Interest in work around new AI/ML initiatives
• Ability/Openness to work with distributed teams across different time zones and cultures

Please send your application to HR@iMerit.net