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Job Title
# of Positions
Business Area
Location
Account Executive (Posting Coming Soon!)
1 POSITION
Sales
India

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Account Executive
1 POSITION
Sales
Dubai

ABOUT TOPCODER

At Topcoder, our purpose is to unlock the potential of the global workforce. We do this by embracing a competitive open innovation model to build premier grade IT solutions that solve our clients toughest problems. As a part of Lab45 (Wipro’s visionary space for developing ground-breaking solutions to foster and accelerate ideation), Topcoder is pioneering the way work gets done. Topcoder offers competitive programming, freelance gigs, and opportunities to our 1.6M community by connecting them to some of the most high profile clients in the world. Over the past two decades, Comcast, Google, Harvard, Microsoft, NASA, SpaceNet, T-Mobile, US Department of Energy, Zurich Insurance, and more have put their trust in Topcoder, and our community, to develop industry leading solutions. Join us in our mission to unlock the potential of the global workforce!

ROLE SUMMARY

Topcoder is looking for motivated self-starters to join our Sales team as Account Executives. An Account Executive is solely responsible for generating business for new accounts and expanding business at existing accounts within a specified territory. Our account executives are facilitators between stakeholders, clients, and the delivery team at Topcoder to drive revenue from crowdsourcing engagements. It is a mix of territory management and solution selling, including leveraging Topcoder’s growing partner ecosystem of GSIs and delivery partners to provide the best outcomes for customers. Ideally, Account Executives become the “crowd advisor” for enterprise customers and motivate them to expand usage of the Topcoder platform and offerings.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES

  • Meet and exceed sales quotas.
  • Provide account-based forecasting for revenue based on active and upcoming projects.
  • Actively expand existing accounts to ensure the achievement of account-based revenue targets.
  • Maintain awareness of industry trends concerning development, design, and data science, and articulate how clients can use crowdsourcing to approach these trends.
  • Comfortable working across multiple industries and leveraging internal and partner expertise to translate crowdsourcing benefits into industry-specific messages.
  • Quickly apply subject matter and technical expertise to client problems to map them to solutions using specific Topcoder crowdsourcing offerings and capabilities.
  • Manage account-based sales programs (e.g., QBRs) and ensure interlock with other functions, including product management, marketing, etc.
  • Build strong multi-level relationships with individual contributors through senior executives(including CxO). This will require participating in program and project discovery meetings through strategic planning sessions.
  • Serve as an escalation point for the customer and internal resources related to all account operations, e.g., delivery, invoicing, and collections.
  • Ensure high NPS across accounts and drive renewals to prevent churn.
  • Provide account history updates (annually) and customer win details (as they happen) to marketing
  • Orchestrate all engagements, from an opportunity to invoice payments.
  • Be process driven.

CORE OBJECTIVES

  • Exceed sales quota within assigned accounts/geography
  • Identify growth opportunities
  • Customer success (keep customers for life)
  • Drive crowdsourcing adoption & implementation

QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS

  • 5+ years of experience in complex sales, solution selling, and strategic accounts selling, including any combination of hunting, farming, or technical sales roles
  • Proven track record of meeting and exceeding quotas2
  • BA/BS or equivalent; MBA is a plus; or equivalent combination of education and experience
  • This is a direct sales role. Superior communication skills (both for internal and external clients), strong leadership qualities, and team-oriented business values are essential.
  • Must be located in the geographic territory – relocation may not be considered.
  • Experience working through Account teams as a pre-sales or service line team member is a plus.
  • You can help identify & sell growth opportunities
  • Open to frequent customer-related trave
  • Hands-on experience with design, development, or data science projects for either enterprise or technology companies
  • Experience in IT technology consulting projects in the areas of analyzing existing system architectures and technology portfolios; making recommendations for improvements and alternatives
  • Knowledge/understanding of emerging technology stacks and software development methodologies
  • Drive and motivation to make crowdsourcing the next major industry trend.
  • Ability to quickly learn new technologies and apply them in real-world situations
  • Detail-oriented, ability to do some hands-on work if required

We are an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer: minorities, women, veterans, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Senior Data Engineer (Posting Coming Soon!)
1 POSITION
PMO & Strategy
India

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Senior Software Engineer (Posting Coming Soon!)
2 POSITIONS
Platform
India

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Software Architect
1 POSITION
Platform
US

ABOUT TOPCODER

At Topcoder, our purpose is to unlock the potential of the global workforce. We do this by embracing a competitive open innovation model to build premier grade IT solutions that solve our clients toughest problems. As a part of Lab45 (Wipro’s visionary space for developing ground-breaking solutions to foster and accelerate ideation), Topcoder is pioneering the way work gets done. Topcoder offers competitive programming, freelance gigs, and opportunities to our 1.6M community by connecting them to some of the most high profile clients in the world. Over the past two decades, Comcast, Google, Harvard, Microsoft, NASA, SpaceNet, T-Mobile, US Department of Energy, Zurich Insurance, and more have put their trust in Topcoder, and our community, to develop industry leading solutions. Join us in our mission to unlock the potential of the global workforce! ROLE SUMMARY As an Architect responsible for designing, prototyping and driving to deployment of Frameworks and Platform capabilities, you will be leading technical design discussions with product, marketing and engineering teams to take ideas from concepts to deployment. You will be building solutions for complex application processes, platform services, infrastructure integration and high performing SaaS system.This position can be located anywhere in the US and is primarily a remote work position that requires independent work and a high standard of communication and coordination with team members. You may be required to be available to work teams in India and Europe time zone.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES

  • Lead design and participate in build and deployment of shared framework and libraries for identity management, database access, instrumentation and request and response handling
  • Modernizing and growing the Framework APIs, backend services
  • Work within the Topcoder product team to provide technical advice to assist with prioritization and planning
  • Architecting solutions for distributed applications with low latency, high throughput
  • Participate in POC’s with applications and projects interested in Topcoder Platform and APIs
  • Mentor team members in technology, architecture and delivery of new solutions
  • Identify, investigate and evaluate new technologies, vendors and solution for Topcoder business ● Providing technical leadership and setting architectural direction for all the business services in the domain by bringing both technical vision and business objectives together
  • Identify feature & process improvements that can be made to increase efficiency and product quality
  • Be the change leader in continuously improving the technical prowess of the team

QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS

  • 10-15 years software development
  • Bachelor’s in computer science or related degree required. Masters preferred.
  • Be able to zoom in and out of technical details based on the audience
  • In depth familiarity with distributed systems, scalable systems development
  • Experience developing software systems in NodeJS, Java and scripting
  • Experience in relational and noSQL DB – Postgres, Dynamo, MongoDB
  • Expert in Caching techniques, state transition and messaging
  • Experience in AWS cloud based deployment is a plus
  • Expert in both development and quality assurance activities – CI/CD
  • Experience working in Containers (Dockers) & frameworks
  • In-depth understanding of web services and related standards like REST/JSON
  • Should have worked in Agile environment and followed agile process (scrum/kanban) We are an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer: minorities, women, veterans, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply
Technical Program Manager
1 POSITION
Platform
US

ABOUT TOPCODER

At Topcoder, our purpose is to unlock the potential of the global workforce. We do this by embracing a competitive open innovation model to build premier grade IT solutions that solve our clients toughest problems. As a part of Lab45 (Wipro’s visionary space for developing ground-breaking solutions to foster and accelerate ideation), Topcoder is pioneering the way work gets done. Topcoder offers competitive programming, freelance gigs, and opportunities to our 1.6M community by connecting them to some of the most high profile clients in the world. Over the past two decades, Comcast, Google, Harvard, Microsoft, NASA, SpaceNet, T-Mobile, US Department of Energy, Zurich Insurance, and more have put their trust in Topcoder, and our community, to develop industry leading solutions. Join us in our mission to unlock the potential of the global workforce!

ROLE SUMMARY

Are you an expert in technical program management looking to strategize, shape and execute exciting projects? Do you enjoy working with multiple orgs to develop and identify best practices and processes that lead to positive outcomes? Are you obsessed with contributing to the development of high-performance teams through rigorous goal-setting, disciplined attention to performance metrics and continuous process improvement? If so, we are looking for someone like you!

The Technical Program Manager will work closely with our Platform/Product teams to understand their requirements/integration and needs to help shape executable projects, and then see those projects through to completion. The team works on a diverse technology stack from Node.js, Java, Messaging to Data Warehouse and Workflow automation.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES

  • Evolve Topcoder Platform implementation methodology, incorporating novel approaches and industry-accepted best practices.
  • Oversee technical-implementations and manage the progress. View over-communication as a tool that sets everyone up for success.
  • Obsess over timelines and follow-ups
  • Lead executive-level conversations with stakeholders and technical counterparts. Prepare all necessary documentation and data in support.
  • Have an immense sense of ownership on your projects and willingness to think outside the box to make the customer successful.
  • Review, capture, and advise on complex project requirements with customers.
  • Design and execute a wide range of projects spanning system design, code development, data strategy, devops, and other cutting-edge / Emerging Technology areas
  • Interface with stakeholders through regular project meetings, QBRs, and onsite visits
  • Be a trusted partner with the internal team as you work together to focus on making each project delivery an overwhelming success.
  • Be an expert in Topcoder’s delivery models and methodology, designing projects that utilize our capabilities to achieve customer success and growth
  • Use creative thinking and design to build a successful delivery program

QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS

  • Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree in Engineering or Science
  • Certification in Agile Methodology or Program/Project Management is desirable
  • 6+ years of program management experience working in Platform/Systems.
  • 5+ years of experience with technical implementations on projects across multiple domains.
  • General Knowledge of scalable web applications, SaaS products and distributed systems
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills, as well as an innate understanding of interpersonal communication.
  • Experience running or participating in projects across multiple remote teams and regions globally
  • Experience working with development teams in systems, apis and infrastructure
Technical Project Manager
1 POSITION
Operations
US

ABOUT TOPCODER

At Topcoder, our purpose is to unlock the potential of the global workforce. We do this by embracing a competitive open innovation model to build premier grade IT solutions that solve our clients toughest problems. As a part of Lab45 (Wipro’s visionary space for developing ground-breaking solutions to foster and accelerate ideation), Topcoder is pioneering the way work gets done. Topcoder offers competitive programming, freelance gigs, and opportunities to our 1.6M community by connecting them to some of the most high profile clients in the world. Over the past two decades, Comcast, Google, Harvard, Microsoft, NASA, SpaceNet, T-Mobile, US Department of Energy, Zurich Insurance, and more have put their trust in Topcoder, and our community, to develop industry leading solutions. Join us in our mission to unlock the potential
of the global workforce!

ROLE SUMMARY

Technical Project managers at Topcoder are a customer-focused role responsible
for tackling our clients toughest software problems. Our TPM’s execute a wide range of projects across multiple global clients — spanning UI design, code development, data science, blockchain, and other cuttingedge areas. As part of our expert services team, you’ll serve as a hands-on expert who helps to manage, govern and deliver software using our crowdsourcing platform. TPMs are the interface between stakeholders and clients, and the team here at Topcoder.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES

  • Work with clients to establish, configure and launch programs internally that allow any business users or teams to easily and simply launch work with Topcoder.
  • Take the guesswork and fumbling out of the equation by visiting clients on-site, building a rapport and making sure that we follow up.
  • Experience running or participating in projects across multiple remote teams and regions globally.
  • Well versed in all aspects of the software development lifecycle.
  • You’re organized, process-driven and love documentation.
  • You can help identify & sell growth opportunities.
  • Able to directly work, engage, and manage customers to drive project success.
  • Review, capture, and advise on project requirements with customers.
  • Proven acumen to identify and deliver projects to timeline and budget.
  • Strong writing, presentation and communication skills.
  • Experience running or participating in projects across multiple remote teams and regions globally.
  • Well versed in all aspects of the software development lifecycle.
  • You’re organized, process-driven and love documentation.
  • You can help identify & sell growth opportunities.
  • Able to directly work, engage, and manage customers to drive project success.
  • Review, capture, and advise on project requirements with customers.
  • Proven acumen to identify and deliver projects to timeline and budget.
  • Strong writing, presentation and communication skills.
  • Enthusiastic, professional, and confident personality, with a focus on customer success and a team player attitude.

QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS

  • BS degree in computer science, software engineering, or equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years in an IT industry.
  • 5+ years of project management experience working with customers
UI Designer
1 POSITION
UX/UI Design
US

ABOUT TOPCODER

At Topcoder, our purpose is to unlock the potential of the global workforce. We do this by embracing a competitive open innovation model to build premier grade IT solutions that solve our clients toughest problems. As a part of Lab45 (Wipro’s visionary space for developing ground-breaking solutions to foster and accelerate ideation), Topcoder is pioneering the way work gets done. Topcoder offers competitive programming, freelance gigs, and opportunities to our 1.6M community by connecting them to some of themost high profile clients in the world. Over the past two decades, Comcast, Google, Harvard, Microsoft, NASA, SpaceNet, T-Mobile, US Department of Energy, Zurich Insurance, and more have put their trust in Topcoder, and our community, to develop industry leading solutions. Join us in our mission to unlock the potential of the global workforce!

ROLE SUMMARY

As a Topcoder UI Designer you will use your skills in visual communication design to create functional and delightful interfaces for Topcoder customers, community members and employees. In addition to our User Experience team, you will work closely
with our Product and Marketing teams to produce world-class digital experiences which: maintain a look and feel that is on-brand; are based on research and best practices; and provide functionality that is valuable to our users.

RESPONSIBILITIES & DUTIES

  • Create visual designs for a wide variety of responsive online experiences within the Topcoder digital environment.
  • Effectively use requirements input with UX artifacts to guide decisions to create exceptional user-focused digital interfaces.
  • Work collaboratively with other designers to ensure a consistent, integrated brand and vision
  • Create a variety of design assets including: conceptual explorations, illustrative storyboards, detailed responsive interface designs, interactive prototypes, development-ready UI assets, design patterns/guides, etc.

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS

  • Bachelor degree or equivalent experience in the Visual Design field (i.e. Experience or Interaction Design, Graphic Design, Communication Design, Digital Media Design).
  • A strong portfolio demonstrating aesthetic awareness and solid design problem-solving skills.
  • Experience working with corporate brand guides and design systems.
  • Mastery of Figma design application is strongly preferred.
  • Excellent communication skills – speaking and writing – to clearly explain recommendations.
  • The ability to receive, interpret and implement constructive feedback into solutions.
  • Appreciation and awareness of emerging technology and digital design trends.
  • 5+ years of applicable work experience.
Topcoder University Partnerships Lead
1 POSITION
Partnerships
US

About the job

It is Remote opportunity, and the applicant can be based anywhere in the US.

At Topcoder, our purpose is to unlock the potential of the global workforce. We do this by embracing a competitive open innovation model to build premier grade IT solutions that solve our clients’ toughest problems. As a part of Lab45 (Wipro’s visionary space for developing ground-breaking solutions to foster and accelerate ideation), Topcoder is pioneering the way work gets done. Topcoder offers competitive programming, freelance gigs, and opportunities to our 1.6M community by connecting them to some of the most high profile clients in the world. Over the past two decades, Comcast, Google, Harvard, Microsoft, NASA, SpaceNet, T-Mobile, US Department of Energy, Zurich Insurance, and more have put their trust in Topcoder, and our community, to develop industry leading solutions. Join us in our mission to unlock the potential of the global workforce!

ROLE SUMMARY

As the University Partnerships Lead, you will work alongside the Head of Partnerships to lead our effort to grow our university partner network. The right candidate has a passion for academia and a previous sales background. Past experience with partnerships or universities is a plus. In this role, you will be expected to self-prospect leads, set meetings, and build relationships with strategic university partners.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES

  • Responsible for prospecting leads, setting meetings, and working with faculty and students to grow Topcoder community membership
  • Passion for Education and Academia is a must
  • Prospecting leads
  • Researching business and market trends
  • Building partnership and client development strategies
  • Setting targeted goals and metrics for each quarter

QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS

  • 5+ years of outside sales experience required
  • Technical background preferred
  • Experience with Salesforce

We are an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer: minorities, women, veterans, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

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