CAREERS AT SAFFRONART
With ten years of experience in auctioning Indian art online, Saffronart is committed to serving the growing community of Indian collectors while also creating a cultural bridge to India for both the global Indian diaspora and the international community at large.
With online auctions of art and jewelry, a host of technology enabled services for clients, and a global presence in Mumbai, New York and London, Saffronart has broadened and simplified access to Indian art and jewelry, and is working to achieve the same for real estate. Also involved with various institutions, organizations and publications, the company is driven by an endeavour to provide accurate and timely information on Indian artists, designers, events and trends.
Saffronart is always looking for new talent to serve in the many in-house departments across our offices. These departments include Client Relations, Content, Design, Technology, Logistics, Operations, Marketing and Accounting amongst others. Our team comprises seasoned experts in several fields, many of whom have been with Saffronart since its inception and witnessed their careers grow and evolve along with the company.
If you would like to build a career at Saffronart, please email us at careers@saffronart.com with a cover letter and your curriculum vitae.
We are currently recruiting in the following areas:
Senior Software Engineer (Location: Mumbai)
We are looking for some great tech leaders to architect & build our auction platform and grow products and categories. You will be responsible for building robust, scalable applications for both our website and our mobile platform. You will serve as a lead technical resource in the full development cycle, end-to-end, executing development projects from conception, design, implementation and testing to documentation, delivery and maintenance.
Requirements:
- BS/MS in Computer Science or related field/degree, and/or equivalent work experience
- Fluency in one or more of: C++, Java, C#; and familiarity with one or more of: Python, Perl, Shell, Ruby
- Ability to work collaboratively across different workgroups.
- Expertise in data structures, complex algorithms and object oriented programming.
- Strong analytical, systems and architecture skills.
- Working Knowledge of Web Technologies such as IIS / Tomcat / Hibernate / Subsonic.
- Experience with Web Development such as XHTML, CSS and JavaScript.
- Experience with .NET a plus
Content Programming Manager (Location: Mumbai)
The Content Programming Manager is a critical role which carries responsibility for all messaging and communications with our online customers.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent required (a qualification or strong interest in art, jewelry or design is an added advantage)
- Minimum 1 year experience writing or editing content for Internet web sites, with minimum 5 years work experience overall.
- Strong writing skills, particularly with regard to online writing, including headlines, e-mail newsletters, blogs and promotions.
- Strong interpersonal skills, ability to clearly communicate both in oral and verbal forms.
- Well-read, with a high awareness of news, current affairs and popular culture.
- Ability to work collaboratively across different workgroups.
- Results oriented.
Job Responsibility:
Conceptualize, schedule and write all content appearing on the Saffronart home page, newsletters, Facebook, Twitter and other online media
Maintain a tone and voice consistent with the Saffronart brand
Work with marketing team to conceptualize and execute on online marketing campaigns
Measure results based on user activity based metrics
Regularly report results of activities, and continuously improve performance