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About iMerit

iMerit offers an on-demand, human-empowered computing workforce. The world’s most innovative and tech-driven companies partner with us to unlock the value hidden within complex, unstructured data and to improve technical process efficiencies. iMerit creates inclusive and diverse employment in the tech-enabled services sector to serve the ever-growing data needs of organizations investing in Artificial Intelligence (AI)while making a social impact. We offer data annotation and enrichment services that power algorithms in areas such as machine learning (ML), computer vision (CV), natural language processing (NLP), e-commerce, and augmented reality, and in domains as diverse as cancer cell research, optimizing crop yields, and training driverless cars.

iMerit’s customers are able to focus on the projects that drive their company forward whether it be machine learning, computer vision, analytics or virtual reality while our team of specialists handle the data work. A highly diversified and inclusive workforce of 2000+ people spread over India & USwith output accuracy higher than 95%, makes iMerit a reliable partner in delivering cost-effective, quality data projects on time and on budget. For more information, please visit https://imerit.net

Position: AGM /AVP / VP – Projects & Operations

Reports to: Chief Delivery Officer

Job Description:

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work as a key member of the leadership team in supporting the operational, reporting, analytical and insight generation aspects of service delivery, aimed at generating exceptional client-value.
• Leverage people, process and technical expertise to identify opportunities for quality & process design improvement to support the three fundamental outcomes – Faster, Cheaper, Better while upholding the company’s social impact mission.
• Promote a culture of quality customer service in the organization
• Initiate and develop partnerships with customers and customer success managers to define and evaluate service performance outcomes.
• Liaise with senior stakeholders in other functions on key dependencies and identify/create synergies for optimal client experience.
• Identify and incorporate the interests and needs of customers in business process design.
• Ensure that the organization’s systems, processes, policies and programs respond to customer needs.
• Contribute to transformational agenda and support all Company growth initiatives, as applicable.
• Lead change, manage and escalate risks arising out of transition of new planning processes.
• Monitor operational risk across planning processes and escalate key risks to right forums.

Qualifications/Skills

• BE/BTech or Masters in Mathematics/Statistics
• PMP/Prince 2 certification (optional)
• Proven experience in building teams from scratch and growing individuals into leaders.
• Ability to keep your employees motivated, resolve conflicts and make hard decisions for your employees.
• Hands-on experience.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to communicate effectively with clients and cross-border colleagues.
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Adept at working with employees, customers and management often spinning multiple plates at once.
• Ability and experience to keep and maintain a budget.

Key Competencies/Experience

• Experience of working on-site with local client teams or colleagues in a client-facing middle-management role for at least over a year.
• Passionate about technology, self-learner who keeps abreast with latest developments.
• Consistent high achiever marked by perseverance and a positive outlook in the face of challenges.
• Able to solve complex problems and successfully manage ambiguity and rapid change.
• Strong team-working ethos.
• Avid listener.

Compensation: As per industry norms and will not be constraint for the right candidate.

Location: Kolkata / Bhubaneshwar / Vishakhapatnam / Shillong

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About iMerit

iMerit annotates and enriches data to help its customers make their algorithms better. Through a combination of services and technology we help power some of the most innovative technologies like autonomous vehicles, medical imagery and natural language recognition. iMerit’s customers are able to focus on the projects that drive their company forward whether it be machine learning, computer vision, analytics or virtual reality while our team of specialists handle the data work. Our social mission to create inclusive livelihoods results in low attrition and high motivation as over 80% of our employees come from poor family backgrounds and over 50% are women. iMerit has won many technology and innovation awards including Stevies, MIT Impact Innovation and Red Herring Global 100.

For more information, please visit https://imerit.net

What this role offers: 

• Unique opportunity to work in a young IT company which is currently at its growth inflexion point.
• Start-up like environment with ambiguity but tremendous opportunity to build something from scratch.
• Conceptualize and implement Build Business Finance processes in a company.
• Ample opportunity to learn and grow.

Job Description:

• Work with Senior management to build operation and financial plan.
• Analysis of historical financials.
• Variance analysis and working with Delivery and other stakeholders to come up with corrective actions.
• Understand operating system of the company and design appropriate system support for all project level financials tracking and analysis.
• Build detailed MIS for the company.
• Work closely with Tech Function to formulate requirements for building IT backbone for financial systems/MIS.
• Create enough check and balances in system (Tech based intervention) to ensure financial discipline is maintained without impeding growth of the company.
• Work with Sales to create different pricing scenarios and provide them key inputs on deal level financials.
• Design Order-to-Cash processes and work with Tech team to implement the same.

Requirements:

Technical:

• Strong grasp on financial concepts.
• Extremely comfortable with number crunching.
• Good business understanding and appreciation of IT system implementation.
• Preferably working in IT company.
• Strong business acumen (preferably MBA).

Soft skills:

• Strong communication skills.
• Excellent team player.
• High learnability.
• Ability to work in a dynamic environment.

Location: Kolkata

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iMerit, a fast-growing digital data services company is looking for a Social Media Marketing Associate, to help grow the company’s brand visibility and successfully communicate to global teams working on cutting-edge technologies.

What does iMerit do?

iMerit creates inclusive and diverse livelihoods in the tech-enabled services sector to serve the data needs of organizations investing in Artificial Intelligence (AI). We offer annotation and enrichment services that power algorithms in Machine Learning (ML), Computer Vision (CV), Natural Language Processing (NLP) and e-Commerce. We span problems as diverse as cancer cell research, optimizing crop yields, and training driverless cars.

What You’ll Do:

• Manage social media marketing campaigns and day-to-day maintenance of official social platforms in accordance with the company’s style and tone guidelines.
• Ideate, create, curate and post relevant visuals and copy to reach the company’s target audiences.
• Think creatively to grow and engage communities on social platforms.
• Monitor relevant industry trends, tools, and topics.
• Study and compile engagement metrics and KPIs.
• Develop, maintain, and review marketing collateral and digital assets.
• Provide marketing assistance to sales staff, project managers and executive leadership team.
• Support to implement a marketing plan.
• Ensure timely delivery and execution of global as well as local marketing plans.

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About iMerit

iMerit annotates and enriches data to help its customers make their algorithms better. Through a combination of services and technology we help power some of the most innovative technologies like autonomous vehicles, medical imagery and natural language recognition. iMerit’s customers are able to focus on the projects that drive their company forward whether it be machine learning, computer vision, analytics or virtual reality while our team of specialists handle the data work. Our social mission to create inclusive livelihoods results in low attrition and high motivation as over 80% of our employees come from poor family backgrounds and over 50% are women. iMerit has won many technology and innovation awards including Stevies, MIT Impact Innovation and Red Herring Global 100.

For more information, please visit https://imerit.net

Job Responsibilities :

• Develop, maintain, and review marketing collateral inclusive of presentation templates.
• Update and ensure the organization of an online database.
• Translate all research statistics in sales materials’ interesting points, develop presentations to sales with actionable insights.
• Coordinate sponsorship events inclusive of booth and materials for distribution etc.
• Provide marketing resource assistance to entire sales staff, management team and sales manager.
• Support to facilitate marketing plan.
• Ensure timely delivery and execution of global as well as local marketing plans.

Desired Profile :

• Having 1-3 years of industry experience with tech organization.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Active learner and technically sound.

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The Marketing Manager will set the strategy and lead the execution of all iMerit’s marketing activities including digital, content, brand, communications and demand generation. The Marketing Manager will interface with multiple teams (sales, product management, marketing, client support, partnerships) to execute marketing campaigns, messaging and positioning that supports our customer needs and differentiates iMerit in the competitive landscape.

The ideal candidate will showcase marketing creativity and storytelling skills combined with strong operational and analytical skills in a B2B technology enterprise business. This is a significant growth role in the company, reporting to the VP, Marketing, with direct visibility to the Executive Leadership team.

What you will do

Own the Story

• Help define and prioritise the various service lines of the business across vertical industries and horizontal use cases.
• Distill, document and disseminate the technology story we are telling in a cutting edge segments like machine learning and computer vision

Drive the Machine

• Manage a distributed team as well as specialised vendors and agencies.
• Own lead generation campaigns across multiple channels including paid search, display, content syndication, paid social, webinars, and white papers.
• Define and own metrics and KPIs across campaigns and channels and continually optimize to improve ROI.

Grow the Pie

• Spin up new avenues for demand generation.
• Work closely with VP of Marketing & Strategic Business Development to develop strategies for revenue generation.
• Drive research in existing and new service areas and influence decision makers with key insights.

Requirements

• 5-8 years experience in B2B technology marketing required.
• Self-starter, with attention to detail and a passion for creative marketing.
• Record of working with a global distributed team (in-house and external).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills down to the “last mile”.
• Demonstrated success in planning and execution of digital advertising, content marketing, event marketing, public relations, and lead generation campaigns.
• Proficient in the use of industry standard marketing automation and optimization tools.
• An analytical mindset with a strong focus on metrics, measurement and optimization.
• Familiarity with current trends in machine learning & computer vision a plus.
• Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Journalism, Marketing, or Business.

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Required key skills:

Primary Skills:

• Should have sound knowledge on Cisco ASA, Cisco Firepower Firewall (NG-IPS, Content Filtering and AMP).
• Sound Knowledge on VLAN, FireSight VM and Firepower modules.
• Hands on experience in installation, configuration of Routers, Switches, firewalls, DNS, Wi-Fi.
• Monitor network performance (availability, utilization, throughput and latency) and test for weaknesses.
• Sound knowledge on Active Directory Services, DNS, DHCP either on Windows Server or Linux.
• Knowledge on Symantec Endpoint Protection and its policy management.

Secondary Skills:

• Should have good experience in handling day-to-day clients technical issues related to Hardware, Software, Applications, Remote desktop, LAN, WAN etc.
• The ability effectively to priorities and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
• Flexibility to work on weekend on demand basis and dynamic office environment.
• Good communication skill.

Total experience: 3+ years in the above skills.

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About iMerit

iMerit provides next-generation data annotation services to the world’s most innovative companies while creating positive social and economic change through employment in underprivileged communities. We are a for-profit social enterprise whose 2,000+ employees power transformative AI technologies in machine learning, natural language processing and computer vision. Through data classification and enrichment, our teams train driverless vehicles to understand their environment, help deliver personalized banking information, optimize crop yields and advance cancer cell research. We partner with the world’s most innovative companies in e-commerce, sports, finance, medicine, aerial imagery, virtual reality and autonomous driving.

Our funders include Omidyar Network, Khosla Impact, and the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation. We are an agile and fast-paced global startup with growing revenues and hands-on leadership.

iMerit is headquartered in Kolkata, India, with remote teams across the US and Europe, and with delivery centers in India, Bhutan and New Orleans, Louisiana.

About the Role

As an iMerit Account Manager you will be a part of a small, yet mighty team of solutions focused individuals, who are tasked with making sure our clients are thriving. Part project manager, problem solver and relationship manager, you will work to establish, retain and grow accounts through close collaboration with clients, Solutions Architects, and our India based Project Delivery team. As the newest team within iMerit you will be integral to building strong and repeatable business processes while being a relentless promoter for improvement and excellence.

In addition to being the primary owner of client health, the Account Manager will ensure fulfillment of the statement(s) of work and in accordance with the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) established, as well as regular reporting against these KPIs. Working closely with the Delivery Project Manager, the Account Manager will be hands-on within accounts and the projects within them, with a proactive approach to risk management and process improvement.

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 in new and challenging situations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Initiates project setup together with Solutions Architects and Delivery Project Managers as it relates to staffing, reporting, deliverables, and general project tracking.
• Primary point of contact for customer for account level matters (e.g. overall relationship, matters related to business terms including billing, project structure, etc.)
• Designs and implements internal and client facing project related reports and reporting structures.
• Facilitates communications with Delivery PM and/or wider delivery team as warranted for project and/or client wishes.
• Primary conduit between account and any other teams/individuals that need to be brought in (Solution Architect, Sales, Engineering, Finance, etc.)
• Manages maintenance and/or modification of project guidelines as needed. Works with Solutions Architect in the event major modification is required.
• Conducts quarterly business reviews including goal setting for the following quarter.
• Advises client on industry best practices, key learnings, observations about their workflow and opportunities for improvement.
• Works with sales to identify opportunities to increase revenue and/or margins for project and working directly with client to upsell or cross-sell as the opportunity presents itself.

Required Experience/Skills:

• Minimum 3 years experience and success working in a customer-facing role.
• Ability to work interculturally and in a distributed team.
• Interest in and availability to travel (India + US) (20% travel).
• Self-directed learner and hands-on problem solver.
• Analytical by nature and medium to advanced skills working with data.
• Prior experience in Account Management, Project Management or Customer Success.
• Good at establishing and refining processes at scale.

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/annotation science/vendor management.
• Prior experience working within computer vision or NLP related fields a plus.
• Moderate to advanced Excel knowledge.
• Familiarity working with various data file formats (xls, csv, JSON, xml, jpg, etc).
• Basic knowledge of SQL and other databases
• Plus if based in the San Francisco Bay Area (Remote OK)

Interested applicants please include Cover Letter with Resume.

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About iMerit

iMerit provides next-generation data annotation services to the world’s most innovative companies while creating positive social and economic change through employment in underprivileged communities. We are a for-profit social enterprise whose 2,000+ employees power transformative AI technologies in machine learning, natural language processing and computer vision. Through data classification and enrichment, our teams train driverless vehicles to understand their environment, help deliver personalized banking information, optimize crop yields and advance cancer cell research. We partner with the world’s most innovative companies in e-commerce, sports, finance, medicine, aerial imagery, virtual reality and autonomous driving.

Our funders include Omidyar Network, Khosla Impact, and the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation. We are an agile and fast-paced global startup with growing revenues and hands-on leadership.

iMerit was founded in Kolkata, India, with teams across the US and Europe, and with delivery centers in India, Bhutan and New Orleans, Louisiana.

About the Role

As an iMerit Jr. Account Executive you will be a part of a small, yet mighty team of driven individuals tasked for revenue growth. This is a hunter role with involvement in strategy as well as end-to-end sales and part account management activities. The Jr. Account Executive will identify and qualify suitable prospects, develop and convert them with suitable mapping of our offerings and grow them into long term relationships. The KPI for this role will be based strongly in building new revenue streams to scale iMerit based on our large set of successful case studies. As the newest team member within iMerit you will be integral to building strong and repeatable business processes while being a relentless promoter for improvement and excellence. You will be working closely with the Delivery Project Managers and the Account Managers for working out the client requirement and services mapping.

This will be a challenging role and require someone who can work independently for long periods and who can match the thought process and pace of top industry clients. Finally, it is also essential that the candidate understand and be committed to the social mission of iMerit – to provide transformational livelihood opportunities to marginalized communities around the world

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 in new and challenging situations.

Expertise:

• At least 5+ years experience in sales/business development role and experience of business development in Global Markets with strong expertise in solution selling to senior business/IT leaders/CXO level in mid and large enterprise business organizations
• Out of the above, 2+ years of experience in the global IT/ BPO industry and/or domain experience in industry verticals like Publishing/eCommerce/Organizations with big data/cloud/mobile/social media driven business models is required.
• Familiar with next generation technologies and business processes – Mobile Apps, Social, Cloud, Content/Data Management
• Familiarity with Marketing and Branding strategy
• Proven ability to build partnerships, generate leads and launched new revenue streams
• Self-motivated with a strong drive to work both in teams and independently

Ideal Candidate Traits/Experience:

• Experience working for an international company
• Experience working with remote teams
• Experience working with India teams
• Interest in social impact

Compensation:

Compensation will be commensurate with the value proposition and proven expertise of the candidate

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About iMerit

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: 100% remote, based in Austin, TX

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

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Job Location: Salt Lake & Shillong
Compensation: As per the industry standard

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Want to work in 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!

About the Role

We’re looking for a Team Lead for our Sales Development team (SDR team) to join our growing Sales department. As a Team Lead, you will play a key role in building out the lead generation engine that supports our fast-growing business. Your primary focus will be guiding one of the SDR teams while you yourself are also reaching out to potential clients and setting meetings for the Sales team. The Team Lead will assist the Director of Sales Development (located in the USA) in onboarding, training, and coaching the SDR team. The Team Lead will ensure SDR team alignment with organizational goals, strategy, and tactics. To be clear, we’re looking for a “player/coach” who will help guide the SDR team while also setting their own meetings for the Sales team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Prospect, educate, qualify, and set meetings for Sales team.
• Interact with prospects via email and social media to explain iMerit, identify opportunities and generate interest.
• Assist in onboarding, training, coaching, and management of SDR team(s).
• Motivate SDRs to exceed goals through coaching and by your own example.
• Develop and maintain key performance metrics and dashboards that help the SDR team focus on improving performance.
• Work with sales leadership to optimize SDR team pipeline and align activities with organizational goals.

To be successful in this role, you will:

• BE CURIOUS: You’re constantly wanting to learn about the industry, trends, and technology so you have an extremely good understanding of where we fit into the market and how we can help our clients.
• BE INSIGHTFUL: You can creatively “connect the dots” when you see an opportunity for us to sell into a new market.
• PAY ATTENTION TO DETAIL: You always double and triple-check your spelling to make sure it’s perfect before clicking “send”.
• BE PROACTIVE: You do things that need to be done when you see they need to be done – you don’t wait for someone to tell you to do something.
• BE A HUNTER: Understand our industry and our services to be able to identify companies that will want to learn about iMerit. Research prospective companies and figure out the best people to speak with, based on our services. Find valuable supporting information on each person/company to allow our Sales team to 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, and you don’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, provide research to allow Sales team to 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 information 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 lead generation (cold calling/emailing) role.
• 1 year managing a team.
• Proven track record of reaching and exceeding goals.
• Ability to work interculturally and in a distributed team.
• Self-directed learner and hands-on problem solver.
• Able to motivate and lead a team.
• Basic knowledge of Google suite (Gmail, Sheets, Docs, etc.) and Microsoft Office.

Ideal Candidate Traits/Experience:

• Experience working with an international team.
• Experience working with remote teams and/or teams in multiple locations.
• Prior work history with crowdsourcing and/or outsourcing.
• Interest in social impact.
• Basic knowledge of Salesforce (or equivalent).

About You:

• Fun to be around.
• Curious by nature – eager to learn.
• Passionate
• Competitive
• EXCELLENT verbal and written skills.
• Able to work on a team or by yourself.
• Outstanding organization and time management skills.
• Strong work ethic.

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About iMerit

iMerit annotates and enriches data to help its customers make their algorithms better. Through a combination of services and technology we help power some of the most innovative technologies like autonomous vehicles, medical imagery and natural language recognition. iMerit’s customers are able to focus on the projects that drive their company forward whether it be machine learning, computer vision, analytics or virtual reality while our team of specialists handle the data work. Our social mission to create inclusive livelihoods results in low attrition and high motivation as over 80% of our employees come from poor family backgrounds and over 50% are women. iMerit has won many technology and innovation awards including Stevies, MIT Impact Innovation and Red Herring Global 100.

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

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About iMerit

iMerit annotates and enriches data to help customers make their AI-related algorithms better. Through a combination of services and technology we help power some of the most innovative technologies like autonomous vehicles, medical imagery and natural language recognition. iMerit’s customers are able to focus on the projects that drive their company forward whether it be machine learning, computer vision, analytics or virtual reality while our team of specialists handle the data work. Our social mission to create inclusive livelihoods results in low attrition and high motivation as over 80% of our employees come from poor family backgrounds and over 50% are women. iMerit has won many technology and innovation awards including Stevies, MIT Impact Innovation and Red Herring Global 100.  For more information, please visit https://imerit.net

Director of Engineering (Software) Responsibilities:

The Director of Engineering plays a key role in connecting the various platform and application initiatives of the company with the business needs, by building and leading a high performance team of engineers, testers and product managers. This is an opportunity to build some great technology on modern stacks while inculcating best practices. You will be working with multiple serial entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley and serving clients in cutting edge sectors.

The Director of Engineering will work with the team of engineers to set goals, plan projects, build a timeline, and stay within budget. Their duties and responsibilities also include project management, hiring new team members, presenting budgets and plans to other departments, and meeting with upper-level management. As part of their responsibilities they are expected to:

• Take ownership for leading and managing the Engineering & QA teams to deliver on business & product priorities. Plan and direct all aspects of engineering activities and projects within iMerit.
• Ensure all engineering projects, initiatives, and processes are in conformance with organization’s established policies and objectives. Utilize best practice engineering methods and provides expert technical guidance for engineering initiatives. Incorporate components, materials, and tools that result in quality output.
• Define and organize development teams and closely collaborate with Product Management to plan development.
• Define, implement and monitor Best Practices for AGILE development across all development teams; if needed implement training & coaching for development teams.
• Define architecture of major product components.
• Drive and enable ongoing technical and soft skills coaching and development of team members.
• Keep company leadership team apprised of development priorities, personnel and planning.
• Lead and enforce best practices (architecture council, code reviews, go/no-go calls) for ensuring high quality working software as deliverables.
• Empower QA team to play an important “policing” role in ensuring quality of the code.

Qualifications:

• Typically holds MS  in Computer Science and has 12+ years of industry experience.
• Previous experience leading large engineering i.e., software development teams, developing talent, and coaching engineers, a must.
• Proactive in taking ownership of role, output and teams.
• Expert in AGILE software development practices.
• Collaborative and comfortable in presenting to top management.
• Previous experience shipping production quality working software.
• Strong technical background in multiple domains across full stack of front-end and back-end technologies.
• Has worked with and has extensive knowledge of.
  • multiple programming languages including C/C++, Java, JS, Python.
  • web and cloud stack like MEAN / LAMP.
  • Frameworks like Angular, Node, Laravel.
• Interested in working with/in new AI/ML initiatives.
• Ability/Openness to work with distributed teams across different time zones and cultures.

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