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Business Development Associate

AlgoUniversity

AlgoUniversity

Sales & Business Development
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Posted on Feb 26, 2025

πŸ”— Website: https://www.algouniversity.com

About AlgoUniversity

AlgoUniversity bridges the gap between the CS curriculum at universities and what the industry requires. We offer live classes, industry-relevant projects, and learning products that prepare students for software engineering jobs at top tech companies.

AlgoUniversity is democratizing education. Anyone with skills can teach and anyone with will can learn. We bring these together, to help transform lives. We are building a live teaching infrastructure that enables a handful of top educators to coach a large number of students.

We house a young energetic team of ACM ICPC world finalists, Olympiad medalists (won a total of 4 medals for India!), and engineers from Google, Apple and Microsoft. Our core team is alumni of IIIT Hyderabad, IIT Bombay, IIM Indore.

What will I be doing? πŸ‘©β€πŸ’»πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’»

  • You will be working directly with Manas (founder) of AlgoU around building GTM strategies, identifying sales opportunities and building AlgoU's brand.
  • Proactively engage with prospective learners who visit the website and identify opportunities.
  • Develop and maintain sales enablement resources including presentation decks, prospecting scripts, sales playbook, persona profiles, etc.
  • Assisting in research & data collection, market assessment and need-based customer segmentation.
  • Diligently communicating and priming the lead through channels like email, WhatsApp, SMS, and calls.
  • Monitoring self-performance always keeps track of factors like conversion factor, Average revenue generated per lead, average revenue per sale, etc.

What do I need? πŸ€“

  • A+ communicator and co-ordinator who can deliver elevator pitches like a charm.
  • Prior experience in sales enablement and or sales training.
  • Ability to think/plan strategically, anticipating the needs of growing sales and learner needs.
  • Bachelor’s degree or above in education, business, or related discipline.
  • You have a prior experience in market research *Willing to mentor AlgoU team in sales, marketing and whatever you know best

Brownie points 🍰

  • You have a prior experience in edtech sector
  • Experience in selling edtech/consumer facing products.

Feel free to apply even if you feel unsure about whether you meet every single requirement in this posting. As long as you're a quick learner, and are excited about changing the status quo for tech recruitment, we're happy to support you as you come up to speed with our stack.

Perks 😍

  • We offer best-in-industry salaries.
  • Work in an environment that feels like a family.
  • Work with Founders of a well-funded YC incubated startup directly.
  • Bragging rights of changing the tech recruitment space in India.
  • Chance of full-time employment post completion of Internship (ESOPs included)

What happens after I apply? πŸ€”

  • Application Review (Send in your Resume)
  • Coffee Chat: Quick phone call to find out more about your experience, motivations and why you want to work at AlgoU.
  • Brainstorm Round: Pairing on an interesting open-ended problem with your interviewer
  • Founders Round: Meet the founders and you are in! 😊

Why AlgoUniversity? πŸš€

In almost every decade, there are few ideas that seem obvious looking back. Working on them will create one hell of a story to tell. This role could be your chance to be a part of that story!

You will be working closely with the founders and have first-hand access to how they think and are scaling AlgoUniversity from the ground up! Things you build here will have a tremendous impact.

Mentorship from a team like no other! πŸ”₯

You will be working with and learning from some of the coolest people in the Tech-space. Take a look at our founders, who have guided more than 500+ success stories (and counting). You will get a chance to directly work with them!

Here’s a quick sneak-peek into Life at AlgoU! πŸ‘οΈ

We work hard, but party harder πŸ‘ŠπŸŽ‰

We regularly go out for weekend team outings where we play futsal, bowling, indoor game-zones, foodwalks and exquisite Hyderabadi food explorations!

In the month of March, our team went on a work-tour across the country visiting top colleges such as IITs, NITs and IIITs, conducting our flagship coding competition, CODERUSH.

Checkout the teaser here πŸ‘‰ CODE RUSH 1 MIN .mp4