People Partners (Business Development)

Gradright is an educational, financial services company aiming to foster accountability and create a long-lasting impact in global higher education using the power of technology, data science, and collaboration. Our mission is to aid a million students to make rational and informed decisions about their universities and finances by 2025 and help them in pursuing their passion without unnecessary financial burden. GradRight is founded by the alumni of the University of Pennsylvania, Indian School of Business, IIT Delhi, and BITS Pilani with experience in setting up and leading multimillion-dollar higher education projects in India.

We are a small team passionate about education and believe in having fun, working hard and helping each other grow professionally and personally. We are looking forward to inviting an energetic and stellar storyteller to join our small but committed team as a ‘People Partner’

Summary

To scout, educate, and serve students using India’s first student funding platform and who would benefit from financial advisory to pursue their studies in India or abroad.

In this role, you will

• Plan and execute sales strategy of the firm
• Create innovative avenues and incentives for existing and new influencers, alumni, B2B partners, and university partners to further the firm’s lead generation efforts
• Utilizing the firm’s platform and partnerships, nurture leads to signup for the firm’s services
• Engage students over telephonic conversations, emails, video calls in order to achieve your sales targets in an effective manner
• Create and maintain GradRight brand’s voice, tone, and character across all channels
• Lead end-to-end financial advisory and own student funding requirement of the enrolled students
• Coordinate with financing institutions to help students close their funding in time
• Improve existing products and help design new ones by using customer insights
• Coordinate with other colleagues with a sense of shared responsibility and help them achieve their targets

You are expected to be great at

• Listening, writing, negotiation, and storytelling
• Engaging people over social media
• Getting things done, no matter what
• Keeping your word
• Attention to detail is what you see, write, listen and do
• Maintaining a high level of professional and ethical standards

Employment Type
Full-time