UrbanClap - Business Development Manager

About UrbanClap

UrbanClap (www.urbanclap.com | Android app | iOS app) is a marketplace for trusted local services. We help customers hire reliable services at the push of a button. Be it getting a plumbing job done, improving your fitness through yoga, learning to play the guitar, decorating your home or getting candid photos of your wedding clicked, we are a sure shot destination for your service needs.

What drives us-

Our vision is to use technology and smart processes to structure the highly unorganized services market in India and across the world (Especially emerging markets). UrbanClap aspires to make hiring a service professional as easy and straightforward as Amazon makes buying products.

We are a young, passionate team working on a tough but huge opportunity. We believe there is immense value (akin to serendipity) in connecting customers and professionals looking for each other. In the process, we hope to impact the lives of millions of service entrepreneurs, helping them refocus on their craft.

Venture funding

We have raised three rounds of funding (~US$ 37 M) from Saif Partners, Accel Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Mr. Ratan Tata and the founders of SnapDeal.

Founding team

Abhiraj Bhal: IIT Kanpur, IIM Ahmedabad, Ex-BCG consultant

Raghav Chandra: UC Berkeley, Yelp, Twitter, Ex-entrepreneur

Varun Khaitan: IIT Kanpur, Qualcomm (US), Ex-BCG consultant

In the Press and Media

NDTV | Zee Business | TechCrunch | TechInAsia | Yourstory | Business Standard | Times of India | Economic Times |The Hindu | Financial Express | LiveMint

https://www.youtube.com/playlist- list=PLXgFkLYF0UCyYmHmrLTZFD8yZkw0TTHue

Job Responsibilities :

- Download the UrbanClap app on your phone and understand the platform before reading further.

- End-to-end ownership of select service categories (The buck stops at you for these categories)

- Get UrbanClap to dominate your categories in the cities present

- Understand the category in depth, and how customers hire in the same

- Identify and on-board great service professionals in the category - This may involve meeting many of them and plenty of field work initially

- Institutionalize service delivery norms and processes for the category

- Impart necessary training to on-boarded service professionals on these norms and how to use UrbanClap

- Represent UrbanClap in city wide events and conferences

- Work with the product team to create a great user experience for that category

- Work with the marketing team to generate customer requests in that category

- You may also be expected to champion the - launch team-, a team that will help launch UrbanClap beyond Hyderabad in Pune, Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Jaipur and other cities across 2015/16

Job Requirements:

- 1+ years of work-experience in startups, consulting, marketing or operations roles

- Strong analytical skills and a data driven decision making mentality

- Strong oral and written communication skills

- Hustle and get things done attitude

- Entrepreneurial DNA and dreams in your eyes

Compensation and perks:

- Market competitive salary + equity, based on fit and profile

- Opportunity to shape the strategic direction of the company

- Making a difference: Impact the lives of our customers and the hundreds of thousands of service entrepreneurs we will partner with

- We have access to an amazing list of advisors and investors that we actively engage