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Job Title: Vice President, Technology
Company: Simpa Networks
Location: Bangalore, India ( at least 50%) and San Francisco
Job Level: Senior
Field: Technology Development
Salary: Competitive, with stock options
Summary
Simpa Networks seeks an exceptional individual to take on the critical role of VP Technology, leading the development of Simpa’s innovative Progressive Purchase payment platform. Our VP Technology will be a creative visionary leader with 5 or more years experience leading the development of hardware and software products such as embedded systems, ERP or other highly scaled software-as-a-service applications. Simpa operates at the intersection of modern energy and mobile technologies and our VP Technology will have experience in one or more relevant domains.
About Simpa Networks
Simpa Networks, has a bold mission: to make modern energy simple, affordable, and accessible to everyone. Simpa is selling solar energy systems on a pay-as-you-go basis to underserved consumers in emerging markets. Customers make a small initial payment for a high-quality solar PV system and then pay for the energy service, topping up their systems in small user-defined increments using a mobile phone. Each payment for energy also adds towards the final purchase price. Once fully paid, the system unlocks permanently and delivers free solar energy. The innovative pricing model is called Progressive Purchase, and Simpa is already live with customers in Karnataka, India. Simpa helps its customers transform a daily expenditure for energy into ownership of a valuable asset. The business model is disruptive and highly scalable, re-imagining the value chain for delivering energy access at the base of the economic pyramid.
Responsibilities
The VP Technology has overall responsibility for the engineering and development of Simpa’s Progressive Purchase technology platform and the integration of our technology with our product, distribution and financial partners’ systems and processes. The VP Technology role will be based in India, and will have overall responsibility for defining and implementing our technology and product development strategy, building and leading the team of software and hardware engineers to deliver and iterate the solution for our customers and partners. Reporting to the company President, the VP Technology will join the senior leadership team as a key decision maker.
Requirements:
Graduate degree in relevant technology (electrical engineering, computer science, etc.)
At least 10 years experience in technology roles with minimum 5 years in a senior leadership role as VP or CTO.
Experience and record of excellence in fast moving entrepreneurial organizations
Proven track record of leading teams and delivering exceptional products
Experience with embedded systems, hardware and software development
Demonstrated understanding of developing solutions for rural or underserved markets
India market experience preferred
Contact:
Please submit your C.V and cover letter to Michael MacHarg, Vice President, Service Innovation (michael@simpanetworks.com) by 30 July 2011 for priority consideration. For more information about Simpa, please visit: http://www.simpanetworks.com
*Only short-listed candidates will be contacted to set up an interview. Hope to hear from you!
Marketer and entrepreneur, with a premier business school background, seeks a chef/ food production professional with good experience as a partner. Must be willing to invest and take up equity.
Location: Bangalore
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Title: Vice-President Operation
Job Location: Gurgaon
Reports to: CEO (Based in Toronto, Canada)
About Savvica:
Savvica is India’s leading educational marketing and recruitment services company. We work with universities and colleges primarily in the US, Canada, UK and India to recruit Indian students for their programs. We offer a broad spectrum of products ranging from brand advertising on our family of sites, to lead generation to full enrollment services.
Savvica operates learnhub.com, studyplaces.com, and jumbotest.com, reaching more Indian students than any other education-focused sites in India.
Savvica is a subsidiary of Educomp Solutions Limited.
Profile:
As the Senior Vice President of Operations, you are responsible for ensuring that Savvica’s Indian operations run efficiently and smoothly. You work with the heads of marketing, sales, counseling and call center operations to ensure the proper flow of information and outputs from each part of the business. You ensure each part of the business is properly aligned to meet the company’s top-level business goals, as set out by the CEO.
As the ideal candidate, you will have managed large, technology-driven business operations. You are highly analytic and know how to break down complex processes and understand the core drivers of a business.
Despite being a key member of the senior management team, you are a doer first, and a manager second. You are willing to dig deep, solve problems, and do what is needed to get the job done, not simply hire others to do the job for you.
You have excellent communication skills, and can easily negotiate complex inter-personal situations. You are a natural leader and know how to motivate people to perform to the best of their abilities and work towards common business goals.
Responsibilities:
• Fulfillment of Clients’ Order – Profit & Loss
• In charge of processes related to India operations
• Business Performance Reporting & Analysis
• Support CEO in Business Planning & MIS Reporting
• Call Center Operations in India
Eligibility:
• Minimum experience of 10 years in a senior operations management role
• Minimum bachelor in engineering or business
• MBA strongly preferred
This job vacancy is for India office of Savvica located in Gurgaon. If it looks interesting, please contact Abhishek at jobs@learnhub.com
Work with a small team of smart engineers at a fast growing and successful startup. We are very passionate about technology and building a great company centered around our technology. Ideal candidates will have the experience and skills in the full range of user friendly, scalable front-end systems to back-end technologies that will scale to millions of transactions per day at a global scale. Your contributions will directly impact performance, customer experience, and the growth of our business. You will work cross-departmentally with engineers, external partners, and our product development teams to deliver ad technology solutions and business intelligence tools and help develop new forms of advertising.
Pontiflex helped Obama campaign for online lead generation. ( http://www.pontiflex.com/press/)
Requirements & Technologies:
* 4+ years Java application development preferably in fast-paced and dynamic environment
* Strong application design and understanding of OOP concepts
* Proficient in Java EE technologies like persistence, transactions, messaging, web services, XML and web application frameworks like JSF, Facelets
* Demonstrated ability to leverage open source tools to increase productivity
* Excellent communication and analytical skills
* Self-motivation and the ability to work under minimal supervision are a must
* Understanding of networking concepts and web security
* Experience with relational databases (Oracle, MySQL, etc) and embedded databases (BerkeleyDB, CDB, MonetDB, etc) a plus
* Experience with Hadoop – MapReduce a plus
* Experience with Statistical Analysis a plus
* Intermediate Linux/UNIX skills
Culturally we believe in:
* Evidence based thinking: gathering data to make decisions
* Team based collaboration: bringing diverse ideas to shared problems
* Emphasis on delivery: ownership, execution and follow-through
* Self-starter: take initiative, drive consensus
* Think creatively: There is always a way to get there
Education
Candidate should have an Engineering or Computer Science degree.
To apply for this position send an email to “careers-india (-at-) pontiflex.com” with a recent copy of your resume. We look forward to hearing from you!
Thanks
Barry DCunha
http://www.pontiflex.com
9945060146
A high-tech startup at the cross-section of Social, Semantic and Mobile internet technologies is looking for a business development co-founder. The founder has a PhD research background from IIT/CMU in NLP and machine learning.
The startup is currently addressing the vertical of App Store search and discovery. It helps users explore the ever growing App Stores and find quality apps that are relevant to them in a specific context. The natural language technology allows users to enter unconstrained queries or get contextual app recommendations based on their social media profile or expressions.
The business development co-founder will help build the business structure of the startup. The ideal person should have a prior experience running business development operations in an internet product startup including strategy development and execution, online marketing, sales, user acquisition, product promotion, event participation and presentations and team building. You should preferably hold a business degree from a reputed institute with a tech degree background. You will be highly energetic and passionate about the future internet and mobile technology landscape and committed to make a positive contribution to the larger societal good.
This is a highly rewarding position with the opportunity to become the CEO of a high-tech startup. You will have the full flexibility to set up the early stage work culture and layout the business processes. You will also receive significant equity in the startup that is addressing an emerging market need. Send your application to jobsATiappsDOTin