Social networks continue to specialize - Pinterest for design, Twitter for media, Instagram for pictures, Linkedin for professionals:
Pin a location on the map, and magicpin will show you the best local experiences that people in the neighborhood are having - from the hippest cafés, to the yummiest dimsums, the trendiest fashion boutique, luxurious spas, and more…
Social networks continue to specialize - Pinterest for design, Twitter for media, Instagram for pictures, Linkedin for professionals:
magicpin is the social network for ‘local experiences’.
Offline retail is a $1 Trillion market in India (by 2020). This is 100x the size of ecommerce and constitutes of many large brands and millions of merchants across categories like restaurants, fashion, spa, beauty, yoga, sports, gym, and more. With the penetration of smartphones, the way we discover and transact these local experiences is changing and magicpin is driving that change.
Our user community, known as ‘magicians’ are up and about in their city’s neighborhoods sharing their local experiences through picture stories that inspire other users to have those experiences. For their spending, users get rewarded in ‘magicpin points’ that can be used to buy more services and experiences at magicpin partner merchants. magicpin is now live in Delhi NCR, Bangalore, Mumbai and is quickly spreading to more cities.
For partner brands and merchants, we are the place to engage people, to spotlight their uniqueness, reward loyal customers, and share updates about new events or services. On magicpin, a partner's customers create content that goes on to social media to more relevant users, increasing new and repeat business to the partner. The ability to drive engagement and commerce at a neighborhood level is what wins magicpin the love of thousands of live partners.
Lightspeed is a three decade old Silicon Valley based venture capital fund with over USD 3B in assets under management across US, Israel, China and India. Consumer investments include Snapchat, Living Social, Nest, Playdom, etc.
Google Launchpad Accelerator provides successful early stage businesses with technology and expertise necessary to scale. magicpin was the youngest startup internationally selected for this program.
Anshoo has 13 years of professional experience in investing, consulting and tech roles across India and USA. Before magicpin, he was the second person on Lightspeed's India team where he spent close to 6 years and led or was actively involved with nine investments. Prior to Lightspeed, Anshoo was at Bain & Co for 4 years - he joined Bain in Boston, and was then a part of Bain's early team in India where he advised clients across consumer, tech and financial services sectors. Anshoo is a graduate from IIM-Ahmedabad before which he was in product and technology roles for 3 years at Motorola and Hughes Software (Aricent). Outside of work he enjoys spending time with family, driving, music and movies.
Brij has spent a large part of his professional life closely involved in the startup ecosystem with Nexus as an investor and leadership role at early stage startup before that. He also spent 4 years at Bain & Co's India and USA office after graduating from IIM Bangalore and had been in tech roles prior to that. He is passionate about solving problems, building things from scratch and developing people. Startups provide such opportunities in abundance. Outside of living his dream of building magicpin, he likes spending time with his family, traveling and reading.
Rinshul is passionate about applying creative solutions to complex, unstructured challenges, and building processes and teams. Before magicpin, he was a part of Front-end Engineering team at Royal Dutch Shell, liaising with multi-disciplinary teams to develop and deliver solutions for multi-tiered projects across the globe. Rinshul has closely worked with several startups and projects spanning the fields of product innovation, supply chain, education tech, analytics and business strategy. He had a gamut of achievements and leadership roles under his belt at his graduate school, IIT Kharagpur. An avid quizzer, he loves basketball, music and exploring new places in his free time.
Abhishek brings 10 years of professional experience across tech leadership, product designing, delivering end to end tech solutions and team building. He enjoys writing code, innovating scalable tech solutions and exploring new technologies. Before magicpin, Abhishek has been in the tech leadership role with Tradus and Oneshield where he built teams and owned tech platforms. Abhishek is computer science graduate from IIT-BHU and started his career with Goldman Sachs. Outside the work, he loves spending time with family, travelling to new places, reading books and music.
IITKGP-CS, MSFT.
IIT-KGP, Oracle.
Naman has 9 years of professional experience in investment banking and consulting. Prior to joining magicpin, he worked with Langham Capital, a boutique advisory firm focused on M&A and private equity for seven years closing transactions in sectors including technology, consumer, renewable energy and restaurants. He worked with McKinsey & Company focused on consumer sector before securing his MBA from Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), with a major in Finance. An alumnus of Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC), he graduated amongst the top 1% of Delhi University. Naman enjoys reading, investing in public markets and spending time with his son.
IIT KGP-CS, Microsoft, 3rd Dime.
Team:
Collaborate, help, have fun
Innovation:
Question status quo, be creative, think out-of-the-box
Courage:
Say what you think, take hard decisions
Curiosity:
Listen, seek to understand, insatiable appetite to learn
Courage:
Say what you think, take hard decisions
Ownership:
Take initiatives, own your tasks, get stuff done
Integrity:
Do the right thing, be transparent
Empathy:
Have respect for customers, merchants and team
Integrity:
Do the right thing, be transparent
Curiosity:
Listen, seek to understand, insatiable appetite to learn
Empathy:
Have respect for customers, merchants and team
Ownership:
Take initiatives, own your tasks, get stuff done
Team:
Collaborate, help, have fun
Innovation:
Question status quo, be creative, think out-of-the-box
We are a highly driven team with rich and varied background from IITs, IIMs and other reputed colleges. Between us, we have built and scaled high performance teams from scratch, built technology solutions that impact lives and advised leading corporates on strategy and operations. We have also been an integral part of India’s startup journey having worked in leading VCs and led investments in several early stage startups in India like Delhivery, Housing, TinyOwl, LimeRoad, Freshmenu, CraftsVilla, OneAssist.
Our work culture empowers the individual - gives you the independence and the space to explore, challenge, critique and learn. If you are seeking an opportunity where you can apply your skills and enhance your learning in an open, collaborative and challenging environment, then reach out to us.
We believe that we are forming a cult here and would like more like minded people in the country to come and be a part of it.
What we are looking for in the next person who joins us:
What would a typical week in the shoes of a developer, look like:
You will be the face of magicpin and the friend, philosopher and guide to our merchant partners. Every day will be unique and interesting. You will be convincing new partners and working with the existing ones to drive greater business. You will experience the high of seeing magicpin make a positive impact on the lives of millions of merchants and be the key architect behind enabling it. The adrenalin rush of achieving targets, building and selling solutions and seeing hyper growth will make you feel at home!
Working closely with users and knowing their behaviors, reactions & expectations is the most enticing part for experience design.
Design at magicpin has been a similar journey, where knowing your user groups and creating enchanting User experience has been the objective. We work closely with design centric product teams and focus on creating great experiences. Creating an engaging, entertaining & social experience has been our common goal.
We believe that design is an iterative process and we refine our design based on feedback from users & stakeholders. It is a joy to see your work getting evaluated with users and evolving with time. You always learn and gather new stories from such experiences.
So here is what we are looking for: strong visual or interaction design skills - or ideally, a combination of both along with 3+ years of relevant experience in design for web & mobile apps. UX designers take ownership within the products, so strong communication skill, ability to rationalize and articulate their designs and represent their work with confidence is an absolute necessity.
We are building a disruptive local social experience and would love to connect with enthusiastic and driven designers who want to explore this path with us.
As part of the Product team at magicpin, you will be responsible to actively sculpt, refine, simplify, stress test and improve the vision.
You will be
(1) developing and implementing product strategies,
(2) working closely with the Technology team to define product release requirements, and
(3) building and constantly improving the product through constant measurement of funnel performance, industry experience and feedback from customers/merchant partners.
Most importantly, you will be getting stuff done. After all, PMs that don’t ship product aren’t PMs, they’re just people with nice ideas! We seek out for PMs who are consumer focused, know how to leverage technology and can generate insights to evolve the vision they own.
You will be key to building the people and process backbone that will drive efficiency and scale of magicpin. Typical day will involve closely tracking key business metrics, coaching and mentoring your team, re-defining processes to match the demand and smart use of technology to scale non-linearly. If you love dealing with ambiguity, fanatic pace of work, working with smart and ambitious people and a strong bias for action, you will love it here!
Samast Technologies Pvt Ltd,
Plot - 379 & 380, Sector - 29,
Near IFFCO Chowk Metro Station
Gurgaon - 122001
No.421/G, 1st Floor,
3rd Cross, 1st Main, 1st Stage, Indiranagar,
Bangalore - 560 038