SquadRun Inc - Business Development Lead - Testing & Surveys

Business Development Lead - Testing & Surveys

We- re looking for an entrepreneurial candidate with extremely strong sales, business development and communication skills to join our team. You will be part of the core founding team.

We used to get a lot of requests for testing of products + surveys on SquadRun platform. We didn't want to mix it with other use cases and are going to launch a new vertical (squadtest.com) for this. Businesses can leverage SquadRun's platform and player base to get insights from the youth. We are looking for someone to lead this end to end for us.

This requires a candidate who is extremely motivated, dedicated, and passionate about entrepreneurship. Its a high growth opportunity to be part of fast growing startup!

About SquadRun :

SquadRun is a mobile marketplace. It helps businesses crowdsource operational tasks that require human intelligence. From the user side, SquadRun is a gamified app that allows anybody with a smartphone to make money on a per task basis. Check this video that explains the player-side concept and this deck to understand the business side.

Overall Responsibilities

Understand market pricing and customer segment for Surveys and user testing. Research on relevant topics and create collateral (case studies, blogs etc) aimed at creating a constant flow of demand and increasing sales conversion.

Branding :

- Build a strong brand image on the business side for this vertical by incorporating effective public relations, content marketing and development of key business goals.

- Effectively search and identify prospective clients and generate sales leads. Open doors to new accounts by cold-calling, leveraging your existing relationships, SquadRun marketing programs and newly developed industry connections. Identify and reach out to warm connects and take focused action to convert leads to customers.

- Account management and liaising with clients to ensure client satisfaction. Provide skilled support to businesses. Understand customer engagement, behaviour and sentiments to improve customer satisfaction for this business product.

Product :

- Experiment and test new features and constantly work towards improving the product.

- Operations Support: Support and coordinate with the operations team to ensure seamless creation and execution of missions.

Requirements :

Education : Graduate in any domain (drop-outs are cool as well!)

Location : Candidate must be based in Delhi NCR and willing to move/travel anywhere in the world (not a #telecommute position)

Joining Date : ASAP!

Traits : Extremely motivated, entrepreneurial, social, energetic, persuasive, humble, patient, analytical and hard-working with great communication skills; Good written & spoken english. Most important - willing to go that extra mile to get the work done.

Experience : 1-3 years of relevant work experience. Past startup experience is a big plus!

Why we- re cool :

We- re creating a new market and working on a massive opportunity. We- re creating value for businesses using mobile, human computation, gamification and crowd sourcing. Not just data curation but this platform can disrupt markets such as BPOs, market research industry, user testing, data collection etc.

On the supply side - the idea is to be able to empower housewives, students, young professionals etc by providing them- with a stable source of secondary income- . By 2020, we will have a million folks benefitting from this platform everyday.

We are a well balanced team of experienced entrepreneurs. We are backed by some of the most respected investors and mentors in the industry (founders of Snapdeal, Slideshare, Zomato, Toppr, Scientific Animations, etc).

We don- t believe in formal titles, this JD has one to make the search easier. Feel free to call yourself whatever you need to get the work done.

Every team member gets complete ownership of their work. We also give competitive salaries along with stock options.

We have been able to grow at an amazing pace. We were recognized by respected global platforms as one of the hottest startups from India in 2014

Represented India among 46 countries at the Startup Nations Summit in Seoul, South Korea

Among top 7 startups at the Noah Conference, London (The only one from Asia)

Among the hottest mobile Start-ups in India - #MobileSparks 2014 - YourStory

This is just the beginning and we here to change the world! :)

In your cover letter, tell us why you are perfect for this role. Include links to your past projects. If you write a blog, contribute to an open source project, or tried solving an interesting problem, we want to hear about it.