UpGrad Hiring for Associate Director – Business Development Job at Dubai Full Time

About Us :

upGrad is a pioneer in the online education revolution. 4800+ upGrad colleagues are focused on powering career success for a global workforce of over 1.3 billion. It is one of the few integrated lifelong learning tech companies in the world—spanning the college student to the working professional and across undergraduate courses, campus & job linked programs, studying abroad, short form and executive programs, to undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral degrees. upGrad serves a student base of over three million across 100+ countries and has more than 300 university partners, as well as a robust enterprise business with a client base of over 1,000 companies worldwide. Already termed Asia’s higher education leader, it has offices in the UK, U.S., Middle East, India, Singapore & Vietnam, and a presence in several more countries.

• upGrad was also ranked as one of the LinkedIn Top Start-ups 2018: The 25 most sought-after startups in India
• upGrad was earlier selected as one of the top ten most innovative companies in India by FastCompany.

Job Responsibilities:

Role: Investigate market opportunities and build partnerships to launch and grow an edtech business from strategy to execution, including delivering programs, brand, subscribers, revenue, profit

Summary Key attributes:

Entrepreneurial business builder, D2C experience in sales & marketing, Education

Experience:

Team leader in a business that triangulates consumer, content, and monetization. Market entry / business building / scaling Digital economy business management experience: education / EdTech sector would be a plus Sales and consumer insight

Knowledge:

Deep understanding of the market with a consumer driven mindset and strong network Functional knowledge of 360 levers of business: strategy, product, marketing, technology, people, financials, legal Proficiency in D2C sales & marketing. Content creation, marketing and B2B would be a plus

Attitude:

Self starter, able to work independently and deliver high quality communication Passionate, hungry to grow with ability to spread High positive energy Able to deliver Independently with minimal supervision, roll sleeves up and make things happen, deal with ambiguity and figure things out on the go Collaborative and high integrity.

Qualification:

A masters qualification in management studies / similar discipline Skills: Entrepreneurial: ability to turn ideas into action overcoming obstacles with creativity & minimum resources.

Strategic: balancing short vs long term Sales Leadership with ability to spot opportunities and close them, ability to manage talent (teachers/creative) a plus Savvy about the Digital/ online world

Location : Middle East