Undoubtedly, “big data” is the in-thing and is growing at a tremendous rate. With data acquisition companies in the market, it is not all that difficult or expensive to collect data from multiple sources on the web. We strongly believe that every company which has anything to remotely do with the Internet (selling their products, being reviewed by customers, so on and so forth), would immensely benefit by structuring data scattered around the web. However, how prepared are you to embrace data?
Here is an attempt at demystifying the issue, based on the hundreds of conversations we have day-in and day-out with people trying to foray into big data.
Objective
It is really a no-brainer! Without having a clear reason as to why you would want to gather data, it makes no sense to embark upon the journey. However, this crucial detail often goes missing and projects get started without a predefined result/to-be state. Of course, it may sound great to get all that data, but why? Knowing which sites to crawl, what fields to extract and how frequently to crawl do not always mean that your objective is well defined.
Data Acquisition Plan
Simply put – what kind of data are you looking to acquire, from which sites and at what frequency. If you are unable to pin-point to, say, 10 – 50 websites or less which would provide you with sufficient data to start with, you might want to think deeper! This is not to say that we do not crawl more than 50 sites for a Client – we do. Also, we are only referring to site-specific crawls and not mass-scale crawls . On a lighter note, just to give you a perspective – one of the companies that crawls data from the entire WWW, was valued at $527 billion, the last time I checked!
Tools & Processes
Acquiring data is one thing and utilizing it is another! It wouldn’t make much of a sense to use a spreadsheet application (like Excel for example) to analyse millions of records. However, if it is just a few thousand records from a couple of sites, even a tool like MS Excel would suffice. Either ways, the process and tools for consuming data should be in a reasonably good shape prior to getting started with large-scale data acquisition.
Time Commitment
Let us get real – no project has ever delivered immediate results. We, at PromptCloud, ask for a minimum commitment of three months because we’ve seen that it is the bare minimum time required to get everything in order. In most cases, three months is too short a time period to even gauge the success/failure of a project. Data – based projects are generally long-term in nature. If you are just starting out with an intention to “test it out” before committing anything to the project, please go back to point #1 above!
Plan to Scale-up
This is where the long-term vision of the project comes into play. It is always prudent to start small and scale up gradually. This gives you time and immense amount of learning to do it the right way. Scaling up could be in the form of adding new data sources (websites), data points (fields), categories or even increasing the frequency of crawls.
If you think to have answers to the above, it seems like to perfect time to reach out to us!
Stay tuned for our next article to find out the real reason behind Microsoft’s acquisition of LinkedIn.
Software Engineer – Full time
We’re a team of high-tech Engineers working on fresh big data problems. An integral part of our offerings is web-scale crawl and extraction using cloud computing and machine learning techniques. We’re on a quest for innovative ways to solve the business problems of data acquisition and normalization on the web. Our vision is to make PromptCloud a one-stop brand for data and our growth is geared towards that.
Where we are at PromptCloud- We are a bootstrapped company in the mid-growth phase and are planning to quickly expand (not much in terms of personnel) but heavily with respect to the solutions we can provide to big data problems in the market. We started off with international clients and we have pretty much covered the globe at that.
What PromptCloud expects for this role:
– Sound knowledge of Algorithms and OOP concepts
– Proficiency with Linux/Unix (required)
– Knowledge of any one of the scripting languages – Ruby/Perl/Python
– Graduated from a tier-1 college (IITs, NITs, IIITs, BITs) or you’re dead smart to blow us away with your tech skills
– 1 to 3 years of industry experience in a tech role
– Prior experience with a startup or Big Data technologies is a plus
– Prior exposure to web technologies, Rails, Django is a plus
– Energy and passion for working in a growing company
– Sense of ownership and attention to detailsDevOps experience
– An entrepreneurial and experimental mindset
What you will receive:
– Truckloads of learning
– Friendly environment and a culture for growth
– Collaboratively solving exciting challenges with smart minds around
– Busy days and busier nights that you won’t regret
– All things good or great at any bootstrapped company
Ruby on Rails Developer – Full time
We’re a team of high-tech Engineers working on fresh big data problems. An integral part of our offerings is web-scale crawl and extraction using cloud computing and machine learning techniques. We’re on a quest for innovative ways to solve the business problems of data acquisition and normalization on the web. Our vision is to make PromptCloud a one-stop brand for data and our growth is geared towards that.
Where we are at PromptCloud- We are a bootstrapped company in the mid-growth phase and are planning to quickly expand (not much in terms of personnel) but heavily with respect to the solutions we can provide to big data problems in the market. We started off with international clients and we have pretty much covered the globe at that.
We’re looking for a Ruby on Rails developer to take over various responsibilities in design and development of rails application. The role involves client side as well as server side expertise.
What PromptCloud expects for this role:
– At least 1-2 year experience working with Ruby on Rails (or Django) and MVC
– Experience working with HTML5, CSS3, JS, jQuery, AJAX, and other web technologies
– Experience working with Linux
– UI/UX Design and front end development experience
– Ability to write well-abstracted, reusable code for various UI components
– Should be willing to work independently and take end-to-end ownership with minimal guidance
– Excellent time-management, multi-tasking, communication and interpersonal skills.
– Must have great design and good documentation skills
Applicants having the following skills will be given preference:
– Knowledge of open source tools such as Firebug, Chrome developer tools
– Experience working with Twitter Bootstrap & Node.JS
– Work independently and end-to-end with minimal guidance
– Ability to write well-abstracted, reusable code
– Excellent time-management, multi-tasking, communication and interpersonal skills
– Must have great design and good documentation skills
What you will receive:
– Truckloads of learning
– Friendly environment and a culture for growth
– Collaboratively solving exciting challenges with smart minds around
– Busy days and busier nights that you won’t regret
– All things good or great at any bootstrapped company
DevOps Engineer – Full time
We’re a team of high-tech Engineers working on fresh big data problems. An integral part of our offerings is web-scale crawl and extraction using cloud computing and machine learning techniques. We’re on a quest for innovative ways to solve the business problems of data acquisition and normalization on the web. Our vision is to make PromptCloud a one-stop brand for data and our growth is geared towards that.
Where we are at PromptCloud- We are a bootstrapped company in the mid-growth phase and are planning to quickly expand (not much in terms of personnel) but heavily with respect to the solutions we can provide to big data problems in the market. We started off with international clients and we have pretty much covered the globe at that.
Responsibilities:
– Ensure 100% availability and reliability of our service,
– Help the company make optimized infrastructural choices.
– Create and implement tools that manage infrastructure.
– Work independently and end-to-end with minimal guidance.
Skills:
On the system side
– Experience with Puppet/Chef/Ansible, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Git, Graphite and related tools for large-scale systems management
– Experience working with linux system monitoring and analysis
– Good understanding of distributed computing environments
– Open to working non-standard hours in critical situations
– Replication of databases (both relational or NoSQL) across geographical regions using various consistency models
– Experience with package management systems such as APT or RPM
On the development side
– Basic coding/scripting ability in Ruby, Python or any other scripting language
– Write clean, elegant and reusable OO code. This is not a sysadmin job.
– Ability to write well-abstracted, reusable code and good documentation skills
– Some understanding of REST and other web technologies is a plus.
– The ideal candidate for this position should have good attention to details, along with excellent time-management, multi-tasking, communication and interpersonal skills.
What you will receive:
– Truckloads of learning
– Friendly environment and a culture for growth
– Collaboratively solving exciting challenges with smart minds around
– Busy days and busier nights that you won’t regret
– All things good or great at any bootstrapped company
Marketing Manager – Full time
PromptCloud is looking for a growth hacker to take over responsibilities in developing and executing strategic marketing programs to meet growth objectives, develop market awareness and communicate client results. The analyst works with the Digital and Inbound Marketing Manager and other business segment executives, product management and sales leadership in supporting sales tools to attract, win and retain clients. Essentially, this profile touches all aspects of marketing and business development, thus evolving into being a successful growth-in-charge for the organization.
He/she partners with all functions within marketing as well as key external departments to drive successful, cross-functional marketing and sales initiatives and contributes towards the successful development and maintenance of key performance indicators that lead PromptCloud to 5x growth in the next 3 years.
Desired Skills and Experience:
– Tech (CS) along with an MBA degree from a top B-school
– Minimum 2 years of experience in a marketing/business analyst role
– Good experience in top and bottom level funnels
– Strong business acumen, highly developed analytical skills and recognized for innovative and creative approaches to problem solving
– Inherent empathy for the customer
– Highly professional written and verbal communication skills, along with interpersonal skills
– Hands-on experience with blogging, copywriting, content marketing & PR
– Experience in social media marketing (planning and execution) is a plus
– Experience working with a B2B/enterprise startup is a big plus
– Excellent time-management, multi-tasking and interpersonal skill
Responsibilities include:
– Understanding PromptCloud’s technology well as you progress, and using it to ideate on marketing strategies across geographies
– Performing timely market researches driven towards opening newer marketing and revenue channels that would directly affect technology roadmap (essentially growth hacking) and tracking various growth and marketing initiatives using key metrics customized to PromptCloud’s environment.
– Growing a community of big data enthusiasts on social media sites like LinkedIn and Twitter, and the technology ecosystem, and prospecting within the group
– Coordinating with vendors on collated improvements to company website via A/B testing, etc. and maintaining the same
– Collaborating with the SEO team on launching and monitoring PPC campaigns
– Creating content for various online and offline channels, and further coordinating with vendors towards this goal
– Publicizing content generated on various online and offline channels, as deemed appropriate with regular research
– Taking end-to-end ownership of tasks with moderate to minimal guidance.
What you will receive:
– Truckloads of learning
– Friendly environment and a culture for growth
– Collaboratively solving exciting challenges with smart minds around
– Busy days and busier nights that you won’t regret
– All things good or great at any bootstrapped company
(This position is currently inactive, you can still apply if you’re interested.)
PromptCloud is looking for an ambitious content marketing all-rounder who would be responsible for writing well-researched and informative content for the blog, website and other marketing collateral. The person should be an auto-pilot and self- thinker and have strong convictions along with efficient proofreading and paraphrasing skills. There will be a steep learning. As a company, we like to work with people who are smarter than their years, fast learners, and quick thinkers. Responsibility-shirkers need not apply. This is an amazing place to grow rapidly and make a real impact. If you’re someone who doesn’t tolerate low expectations, then you might be the right person for our team.
Job Responsibilities:
– Responsible for generating new opportunities: key business function is prospecting new accounts and also to manage and execute research activities as required to compile successful campaign target lists.
– Responsible for segmenting and identifying qualified outbound leads via various communication channels through in-depth understanding of their use case.
– He/she will assist in expanding the company’s database of prospects.
– He/she will be responsible for retargeting of outbound leads and launching various client-nurturing campaigns and account management including up-sell and cross sell.
– He/she will be responsible for arranging various outbound campaigns for increasing brand awareness and revenue.
Establish annual, quarterly, monthly, or weekly sales and collection plans and prioritize and schedule own –
activities so these targets are met.
– Responsible for responding to RFPs and other queries from outbound leads.
– Advising customers on forthcoming product developments and discussing special promotions.
– Understand PromptCloud’s technology well enough.
Desired skills and experience:
– Should be an MBA with a tech background.
– 2 – 4 years of experience in a similar role.
– Experience of software sales/ business development.
– Should be a Techno functional who can map Technology to Business Processes.
– Excellent written skills and ability to communicate well with clients from various geographies.
– Should have experience in handling customer queries.
– Excellent listening skills.
– Ability to understand customer’s industry and core business processes, and then identify the problems they are facing.
– Ability to understand and describe how solutions and features can address the business issues that customers are facing.
– Target focused individual contributor.
– This is an independent role with minimal guidance / interference so give us a shout only if you can ideate as well as execute end to end.
What you will receive:
– Truckloads of learning
– Friendly environment and a culture for growth
– Collaboratively solving exciting challenges with smart minds around
– Busy days and busier nights that you won’t regret
– All things good or great at any bootstrapped company
(This position is currently inactive, you can still apply if you’re interested.)
Content Writer & Social Media Marketer – Full time
PromptCloud is looking for an ambitious content marketing all-rounder who would be responsible for writing well-researched and informative content for the blog, website and other marketing collateral. The person should be an auto-pilot and self- thinker and have strong convictions along with efficient proofreading and paraphrasing skills. There will be a steep learning. As a company, we like to work with people who are smarter than their years, fast learners, and quick thinkers. Responsibility-shirkers need not apply. This is an amazing place to grow rapidly and make a real impact. If you’re someone who doesn’t tolerate low expectations, then you might be the right person for our team.
Desired Skills and Experience:
– Excellent written communication skills
– 1-2 years of full-time experience with content writing
– Should have exposure in public writing, blogs
– High attention to detail
– Hands-on experience with blogging, copywriting, content marketing & PR
– A good hang of the nuances of English language and grammar rules
– Experience in social media marketing (planning and execution) is a big plus
– Ability to learn and adapt to the latest online marketing trends
– Experience working with a B2B/enterprise startup is a plus
– Excellent time-management, multi-tasking and interpersonal skills
Responsibilities include:
– Writing engaging content for the blog, website and emails
– Creating newsletters targeted towards a B2B audience
– Generating SEO-friendly content across sources and sharing them on social media channels
– Independently coming up with GREAT content from time to time
– Developing measurable content marketing strategies
– Growing a community of big data enthusiasts on social media sites like LinkedIn and Twitter
– Understanding PromptCloud’s technology well as you progress
– Taking end-to-end ownership of tasks with moderate to minimal guidance
– Should have understanding of promotion of own articles on various platforms
– Should be familiar with keyword research and ROI on content in terms of visitors, likes, comments, leads etc
– Take ownership of on-page SEO and content promotion on various platforms including but not limited to blogs, forums and social media sites
– Have a basic understanding of Google webmaster and Analytics
– Assist in content strategy and keyword strategy to increase traffic for the website
– In-depth knowledge of and enthusiasm for social media along with demonstrated awareness of social media trends/developments
– Ability to work in a fast-moving and team-oriented environment
This is an independent role with minimal guidance / interference so give us a shout only if you can ideate as well as execute end to end.
What you will receive:
– Truckloads of learning
– Friendly environment and a culture for growth
– Collaboratively solving exciting challenges with smart minds around
– Busy days and busier nights that you won’t regret
– All things good or great at any bootstrapped company
(This position is currently inactive, you can still apply if you’re interested.)
Intern – Sales
Job Location
Bengaluru, India
Job Description
Interns in this program will work with PromptCloud’s/JobsPikr’s Sales Team at the company’s headquarters in Bengaluru, India for a duration of 2-3 months. The positions’ duties include but are not limited to prospecting, qualifying, conducting introductory calls, educating leads on the features & uses of our services/offerings, and closing deals.
Desired Qualifications
-Currently enrolled in a Business program with a Marketing or Sales focus, preferably with a Tech background.
-Excellent listening skills along with strong communication and organizational skills
-Ability to be detail oriented and realize the importance of accurate documentation and tracking
-Able to think critically, multi-task, and keep up in a fast-paced environment-Should be good with browsing through data to find the right prospects.
Job Description
-Responsible for generating new opportunities: key business function is prospecting new accounts for a newly launched product (https://www.jobspikr.com) and to manage and execute research activities as required to compile successful campaign target lists.
-He/she will assist in expanding the company’s database of prospects.
-He/she will be responsible for retargeting of outbound leads and launching various client-nurturing campaigns and account management.
-He/she will be responsible for arranging various outbound campaigns for increasing brand awareness and revenue.-Responsible for responding to RFPs and other queries from leads.
What you’ll Get!
-Challenging sales experience of breaking into a nascent market and gaining traction for a new product (using PromptCloud’s existing brand name)
-Opportunity to intern with & learn from the global leader in web data extraction
–Flexible work schedule
-Most importantly: First-hand sales experience!
-Potential full-time offer
So, are you ready help organizations across the world realize the potential of Web Crawling Services?
Note: Though all training and support shall be provided, the candidate is expected to work as an individual contributor.
Freelance Sales Agent- Multiple Geos (Commission based)
Job Location
Remote
Job Description
-Person in this role will be working remotely and independently as a sales agent responsible for generating new opportunities: key business function is prospecting new accounts and generating qualified leads for PromptCloud’s primary solutions
-Responsible for segmenting and identifying qualified leads via various communication channels through in-depth understanding of their use case
-Responsible for responding to RFPs and other queries from outbound leads and filling the middle of the sales funnel
Desired Skills and Experience
-Understand PromptCloud’s technology well enough
-Should have a good network and command over the market in one/multiple regions- especially North America, UK, EU and Middle East
–Experience of software sales/ business development in multiple verticals
-Excellent written skills and ability to communicate well with clients from various geographies
-Ability to understand customer’s industry and core business processes, and then identify the problems they are facing
-Ability to understand and describe how solutions and features can address the business issues that customers are facing
-Target focused individual contributor
How to apply
Send a mail to info+freelancer@promptcloud.com .
Note: This is an independent role with minimal guidance / interference so give us a shout only if you can ideate as well as execute end to end. All necessary knowledge base and training will be provided. Compensation will be made on a commission basis for every closed deal.