Currently Hiring

SALES EXECUTIVE | FULL TIME, DUBAI

A little bit about us...

skilldeer is an award-winning online platform that allows users conveniently to find, browse and enroll in any sort of class, course, workshop or leisure activity in their city. Whether it is learning a new art, going for adventure sports, finding a new hobby or advancing professional skills, skilldeer offers endless opportunities. We offer you an opportunity to join us on our growth track and offer in return a great working environment, plenty to learn, career advancement and a competitive salary. As a member of our young, international team, you’ll be able to truly shape and guide the direction of our business and have a genuine impact on company performance and long-term success.

Job description

We are seeking for a hungry, talented sales professional to help us identify and partner with local business institutions and educators across a wide area of service sectors.

Your responsibilities

  • Lead generation with a focus on educational providers and professional instructors from different fields such as art, craft, cooking, sports, languages, music, business, etc.
  • Approach and acquire business partners, introduce them to our platform, educate them about the advantages and convince them to sign-up
  • Work closely with the content team by collecting and preparing all necessary information about the provider and their courses
  • Maintain good relationships with the providers and resolve any partnership related issues
  • Achieve and exceed on monthly KPIs

Your profile

  • Young professional (or fresh graduate with sales talent) with up to 5 years previous experience in B2B sales (hunting), preferably in the e-commerce/online sector
  • Strong relationship builder with a positive, can-do attitude and tenacity
  • Experience in sales canvassing, arranging meetings and closing deals
  • Professional, friendly appearance with excellent communication skills
  • Highly motivated, self-organized and well-structured
  • A valid UAE driving license

Please send your resume to [email protected] with job title and your name in subject"

SENIOR BACKEND DEVELOPER | FULL TIME, DUBAI

A little bit about us...

skilldeer is an award-winning online platform that allows users conveniently to find, browse and enroll in any sort of class, course, workshop or leisure activity in their city. Whether it is learning a new art, going for adventure sports, finding a new hobby or advancing professional skills, skilldeer offers endless opportunities. We offer you an opportunity to join us on our growth track and offer in return a great working environment, plenty to learn, career advancement and a competitive salary. As a member of our young, international team, you’ll be able to truly shape and guide the direction of our business and have a genuine impact on company performance and long-term success.

Job description

We are looking for a senior backend developer who will be responsible from our web platforms and systems. The candidate will work in a fast-paced startup environment with a chance to experience every aspect of the technical architecture and help scale the business.

Your responsibilities

  • Convert business requirements into clean and maintainable code structures
  • Work together with frontend developers & product managers
  • Find performance bottlenecks & improvements on various parts of the overall architecture
  • Take initiative on applying industry best practices focusing on efficiency and reliability
  • Help maintain and improve existing cloud infrastructure

Your profile

  • Proven 4+ years of backend experience on PHP with well-known MVC frameworks (Symfony / Yii / Laravel)
  • Strong knowledge on relational database design and implementation
  • Solid understanding of Elasticsearch as a marketplace search engine
  • Experience on page and data caching. Varnish / Redis / Memcache knowledge is a plus
  • Knowledge on unix systems and docker. DevOps experience in cloud environments is a plus
  • Comfortable with source control systems & ability to work within a team of multiple stakeholders
  • Experience in modern JS frameworks and architecture is a big plus

Please send your resume to [email protected] with job title and your name in subject"

SENIOR FRONTEND DEVELOPER | FULL TIME, DUBAI

A little bit about us...

skilldeer is an award-winning online platform that allows users conveniently to find, browse and enroll in any sort of class, course, workshop or leisure activity in their city. Whether it is learning a new art, going for adventure sports, finding a new hobby or advancing professional skills, skilldeer offers endless opportunities. We offer you an opportunity to join us on our growth track and offer in return a great working environment, plenty to learn, career advancement and a competitive salary. As a member of our young, international team, you’ll be able to truly shape and guide the direction of our business and have a genuine impact on company performance and long-term success.

Job description

We are looking for a senior frontend developer who will be responsible for the UI/UX developments of our web platform. The candidate will work in a fast-paced startup environment with a chance to experience every aspect of the product lifecycle and grow with the business.

Your responsibilities

  • Design and implement modern UI/UX solutions for our web platform
  • Work together with backend developers & product managers
  • Ensure cross-browser requirements & standards are met
  • Find performance bottlenecks & improvements
  • Take initiative on applying industry best practices focusing on business & customer experience
  • Manage the existing web platform with a focus on mobile-first responsive design

Your profile

  • Proven 4+ years of front-end development with latest tools & technologies
  • Strong knowledge on HTML5, CSS3 and modern JS frameworks ( jQuery or AngularJS or React )
  • Solid understanding of modern UI/UX principles and ability to implement a consistent product
  • Proficient understanding of cross-browser / cross-device compatibility issues and ways to work around them
  • Experience with CSS preprocessors
  • Knowledge in source control systems & ability to work within a team of multiple stakeholders
  • Experience in design tools such as Photoshop or Gimp is a plus
  • Familiarity with newsletter design & implementation is a plus
  • Knowledge in SEO best practices is a plus

Please send your resume to [email protected] with job title and your name in subject"

ONLINE MARKETING MANAGER | FULL TIME, DUBAI

A little bit about us...

skilldeer is an award-winning online platform that allows users conveniently to find, browse and enroll in any sort of class, course, workshop or leisure activity in their city. Whether it is learning a new art, going for adventure sports, finding a new hobby or advancing professional skills, skilldeer offers endless opportunities. We offer you an opportunity to join us on our growth track and offer in return a great working environment, plenty to learn, career advancement and a competitive salary. As a member of our young, international team, you’ll be able to truly shape and guide the direction of our business and have a genuine impact on company performance and long-term success.

Job description

We are looking for a hands-on Online Marketing Manager to help us build our newly launched online marketplace. The candidate will work in a fast-paced startup environment with a chance to experience all stages of growth.

Your responsibilities

  • Plan and execute all SEM, email, social media and display advertising campaigns
  • Measure and report performance of all digital marketing campaigns, and assess against goals (ROI and KPIs)
  • Design, build and maintain our social media presence
  • Identify trends and insights and optimize marketing spent and performance accordingly
  • Explore new growth opportunities
  • Utilize strong analytical ability to evaluate end-to- end customer experience across multiple channels and customer touch points

Your profile

  • 5+ years hands-on working experience in performance marketing and online campaign management - preferably at a leading online startup
  • Solid knowledge of web and app analytics tools
  • Proven experience in managing SEO, SEM, email, social media (Facebook, Instagram, twitter) and display advertising campaigns
  • Ability to think out-of- the-box as well as identifying the right target groups and designing compelling online campaigns
  • Experience with A/B and multivariate experiments
  • Experience in setting up and optimizing Google AdWords and Facebook campaigns
  • Strong analytical skills and data-driven thinking
  • Up-to- date with the latest trends and best practices in online marketing and measurement

Please send your resume to [email protected] with job title and your name in subject"

DIGITAL CONTENT WRITER | FULL TIME, DUBAI

A little bit about us...

skilldeer is an award-winning online platform that allows users conveniently to find, browse and enroll in any sort of class, course, workshop or leisure activity in their city. Whether it is learning a new art, going for adventure sports, finding a new hobby or advancing professional skills, skilldeer offers endless opportunities. We offer you an opportunity to join us on our growth track and offer in return a great working environment, plenty to learn, career advancement and a competitive salary. As a member of our young, international team, you’ll be able to truly shape and guide the direction of our business and have a genuine impact on company performance and long-term success.

Job description

We are seeking for a hungry, talented Digital Content Writer who will work on producing content for our website across a wider are of categories such as Arts, Cooking, Sports, Fashion, Crafting, Languages, Business and many others.

Your responsibilities

  • Content writing, research and editing following skilldeer language standards
  • Content creation and management using a Content Management System (CMS)
  • Partner management with focus on updating existing content and adding new content
  • Proofread content to ensure quality 
  • Writing ad-hoc articles for the skilldeer website, PR agencies, content marketing, etc.
  • Support with social media, online and offline marketing

Your profile

  • Graduate of Journalism, English, mass communication, or any related degree
  • 2+ years experience in content writing and editing preferably in a digital environment
  • Passion and ability to write engaging and inspirational text about a wide area of topics
  • Experience in handling clients and partners
  • Multi-tasker who can work fast and precisely (“eye for detail”) at the same time
  • Able to meet deadlines and handle stress
  • Positive attitude and motivation to work in a fast-paced start-up

Please send your resume to [email protected] with job title and your name in subject"

CUSTOMER CARE REPRESENTATIVE | FULL TIME, DUBAI

A little bit about us...

skilldeer is an award-winning online platform that allows users conveniently to find, browse and enroll in any sort of class, course, workshop or leisure activity in their city. Whether it is learning a new art, going for adventure sports, finding a new hobby or advancing professional skills, skilldeer offers endless opportunities. We offer you an opportunity to join us on our growth track and offer in return a great working environment, plenty to learn, career advancement and a competitive salary. As a member of our young, international team, you’ll be able to truly shape and guide the direction of our business and have a genuine impact on company performance and long-term success.

Job description

We are seeking for a hungry, talented customer care representative to help us manage customer inquiries in cooperation with our partner network and solve any customer or partner related issue in a fast and effective way.

Your responsibilities

  • Attract potential customers by answering questions related to classes on skilldeer
  • Answer inbound calls from customers
  • Resolve customer care tickets in a timely manner
  • Conduct outbound calls to follow-up with leads and encourage them to book a class
  • Communicate and coordinate between customers and partner institutions
  • Provide feedback to relevant departments to help improve our customer experience

Your profile

  • 2+ years of customer care experience preferably at an e-commerce environment
  • Ability to quickly assess a situation and problem solve to point of resolution.
  • Able to effectively communicate to a wide range of people via telephone or email
  • Multitasking and ability to adapt to changing dynamics of business environment
  • Excellent written and spoken English
  • Positive attitude and some basic sales talent

Please send your resume to [email protected] with job title and your name in subject"