In this role,

• You will be the thought leader offering your vision and leadership to Srijan in its aspiration to become a global technology services company
• You’ll grow this open source technology services business to $1 million within the financial year 2010-2011, from its current, roughly, $0.5 million
• You would define the marketing and sales strategy for Srijan globally, including setting up sales offices in various regions, and perhaps even leading operations from one of these regions
• You will be the agent for transformation for branding Srijan among the leading open source technology services company, at par with other brands in this space
• You would be the flag-bearer of Srijan’s people oriented ‘core ideology’ in national and international fora
• You would be a key stakeholder and thought leader in determining the future direction for Srijan, in terms of leading it to an IPO, or otherwise

To apply write to rahul (at) srijan (dot) in with a CC to jobs (at) srijan (dot) in, and an appropriate header. Do include a brief introduction about your work, skills, and specific interests in this opening, as well.

Requirements

• 6 to 12 Years of sales and marketing experience at least 4 years of the past job experiences in the Internet or technology services industries, preferably with some experience leading marketing operations in a startup
• Should have deep understanding and appreciation for open source software philosophy
• Strong experience in promoting Web2.0 and Internet marketing related services
• Up-to-date contacts with in an industry, relationship within business community & and keen knowledge of industry players in Indian and USA markets
• Proven track record of successfully growing businesses sales
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong sales and marketing skills
• Ability to articulate core message while developing world class marketing collateral
• Ability to think strategically but get hands dirty in achieving sales while working with sales force
• MBA with marketing focus
• Has knowledge of commonly used sales and marketing concepts, practices and procedures in Internet marketing, understands search engines, understands databases
• Top-notch marketing skills with clear understanding on line marketing strategies, print visual media and content delivery models

Responsibilities

• Lead the business plan development for Srijan
• Prepare strategy for marketing Srijan globally, including online and offline campaigns, even with bootstrapped/start-up budgets
• Blog profusely on Srijan’s official blog, and in the process create your own personal brand
• Develop “business partnerships” and startup “sales channels” in USA, Europe, Australia, Africa and Middle East
• Oversee and direct all aspects of on-line and off-line marketing campaigns for global markets, specifically USA and Europe
• Implement ‘leads generation campaigns’ for revenues and business growth
• Build upon Srijan’s penetration into the international ‘donor and non-profit’ sector, to get access to large ‘developmental projects’ from World Bank, UNDP, and similar organisations
• Get your hands-dirty with writing responses to RFPs from international agencies
• Train, develop, and motivate all online marketing personnel for various marketing processes
• Research to identify new products and productised services that Srijan could offer globally
• Lead the brand essence and brand position development

Benefits

• Become a partner: Help build upon its vision thus being in the thick of things, in creating a unique organisation of the future
• A leadership position at Srijan would naturally offer an opportunity to create a personal brand as a thought leader in the open source industry
• Own Srijan: Srijan is coming out with an attractive “ESOP” scheme to offer ownership of the company to ‘all’ its employees. It is planned as a year-on-year ESOP scheme, rather than being a one-time activity
• Find your self-expression: Express yourself freely within Srijan, and present its services and value systems at seminars and events
• Profit sharing: All profits at Srijan
• Healthy salary: Inspite of being small, Srijan pays decently well
• Make money: Lead Srijan to becoming an IPO/ internally-traded organisation/ PE investment, and make quite a bif of money in the process
• Training: Get trained through a Certified Professional Coach (CPC) based in USA, who is part of our ‘advisory board’
• All standard benefits of, Accident and medical cover, paid holidays, etc.

About Srijan

Srijan is an award winning technology services company engaged in designing and building corporate websites, portals, intranets and web applications using open source software. It works with Drupal, TYPO3, and Django, and deploys and manages Linux servers that run these applications. It has several successes in Drupal such as www.openthemagazine.com (which recently found its way as a Case Study on drupal.org, thus getting international acclaim), and www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in, which has become a benchmark as a knowledge portal in development. Srijan has a very strong tech leadership with its, CTO at the helm of affairs, and heads of various practices (Django, Drupal, TYPO3, Infra and Maintenance) working with him.

Srijan has partnered with “Itu Chaudhuri Design” (ICD; www.icdindia.com) to offer strategy, design and technology services under one umbrella. ICD is India’s leading strategy and design consulting firm. It engages with customers in helping define their internet strategy, leading to information architecture (IA), user experience and usability, and visual design aspects for their websites and web applications. One of the major successes of this partnership has been the collaborative design and development of the OPEN portal.