--- title: 'Business Development Representative at Sarvam' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/business-development-representative-sarvam-bengaluru-032ytxycy2bz' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-12' --- # Business Development Representative at Sarvam - **Company:** [Sarvam](https://feeny.ai/companies/sarvam) - **Location:** Bengaluru, India - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-07-05 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sarvam/ccfc0dbf-cf76-439a-aaea-f622daae614b ## Job description ## About Sarvam Sarvam is building the bedrock of Sovereign AI for India. The company is developing India’s full-stack sovereign AI platform, building across research, models, infrastructure and applications with a singular focus on making AI genuinely work for India. Sarvam works with leading enterprises and public institutions and is backed by Lightspeed, Peak XV, and Khosla Ventures. Sarvam partners with India’s leading brands, including Tata Capital, SBI Life, CRED, IDFC, and LIC. ## About the Role Sarvam is looking for a Business Development Representative to drive outbound prospecting, engage decision-makers, and generate qualified pipeline. In this role you will run cold calls, email, and LinkedIn outreach to identify and nurture new business opportunities, and partner closely with Account Executives to turn interest into qualified meetings. A working grasp of the Sarvam stack will let you translate complex AI concepts into clear value for enterprise teams, and strong messaging instincts will help you reach the right decision-makers with outreach that lands. ## What You’ll Do - Prospect and qualify. Build a steady pipeline of high-potential opportunities through cold calls, email, and social outreach. - Engage decision-makers. Reach out to enterprise prospects, understand their pain points, and position Sarvam's solutions as effective, scalable answers. - Run discovery. Conduct initial discovery calls to assess needs, qualify fit, and guide prospects into the evaluation process. - Partner with Account Executives. Align on target accounts, prioritise outreach, and hand off qualified opportunities cleanly to accelerate pipeline growth. - Keep the CRM clean. Maintain accurate records of every interaction, track activity and trends, and surface insights for continuous improvement. - Work with Marketing. Partner on outreach strategy, share what is landing with prospects, and help refine messaging and campaigns for higher engagement. - Hit your targets. Own and consistently meet activity and qualified-meeting targets that feed the pipeline. ## What We're Looking For - 3-5 years of experience, including at least 2 years in a SaaS-based BDR/SDR role, demonstrating strong sales acumen. - Proven track record of successfully cold-calling and converting enterprise decision-makers into high-value business opportunities. - Strong communication skills with the ability to engage prospects, build rapport, and foster long-term client relationships. - Hands-on experience with a CRM (Salesforce, HubSpot, or similar) and outreach tooling Why Sarvam? Sarvam is a fast-moving, high talent-density team building full-stack AI for India, working on problems that push the frontiers of AI with real population-scale impact. Work alongside researchers, engineers, builders, and business leaders who move fast and hold each other to a very high bar High ownership and high impact, from day one Everything we do is AI-first, from the way we build and ship to the way we think about problems You can work on problems that could change how an entire country learns, works, and communicates If you want to work on problems at the frontier of AI in India, Sarvam is the place to be. ## About Sarvam ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Sarvam is building India's full-stack sovereign AI platform, delivering state-of-the-art models and enterprise-grade applications for Indic languages. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A – $41M raised) - **Headquarters**: Bengaluru, India - **Founded**: August 2023 - **Founders**: Dr. Vivek Raghavan, Dr. Pratyush Kumar ## Core Business - Primary industry: Artificial Intelligence / Generative AI - Target customers: Enterprises, Government, Developers (B2B, B2G) - Mission: Make AI widely accessible to everyone in India by building foundational components that reflect how the country thinks, speaks, reasons, and solves problems. ## Products & Services - **Sarvam Cloud**: Fully managed, automatically scaling API platform for Indic AI capabilities. - **Speech to Text (Saaras)**: High‑accuracy ASR across 12 Indic languages. - **Text to Speech (Bulbul)**: Natural voices across 11 Indic languages. - **Translation**: State‑of‑the‑art translation across 23 languages. - **Document Digitisation (Akshar)**: Convert PDFs and images into structured data. - **Vision Models**: Image understanding and processing. - **Samvaad**: Conversational AI studio for building voice agents. - **Arya**: AI‑for‑work platform with forward‑deployed engineers for custom agent design and integration. - **Deployment Options**: Private cloud, on‑premise, hybrid, or air‑gapped environments. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private) - **Key Metric**: Total funding $41M (from Khosla Ventures, Lightspeed, Peak XV Partners) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Khosla Ventures, Lightspeed, Peak XV Partners - **Growth Signals**: 62 open positions across engineering, models, product, sales, and more; case studies with large‑scale deployments (50,000+ farmer feedback calls, millions of policy calls); SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, DPDP compliant. ## Competitive Advantages - **Sovereign AI**: All technology developed and operated entirely in India, with full data control and compliance with Indian data protection laws. - **Full‑stack platform**: From foundational models to enterprise agents, everything built in‑house. - **Forward‑deployed engineering**: Dedicated engineers embedded with customer teams to ensure successful delivery. - **Population‑scale impact**: Proven ability to serve millions of users in Indic languages across government and BFSI. - **Deployment flexibility**: Can run on any infrastructure, including air‑gapped for regulated industries. ## Strategic Focus - Continue building state‑of‑the‑art models and tools for Indic languages. - Expand enterprise and government adoption of conversational AI agents. - Nurture the Indian AI ecosystem by open‑sourcing models and tools. - Scale team rapidly (62 open roles) to support growing customer demand. ## Why Work Here - **Mission‑driven opportunity**: Shape AI that serves India’s linguistic and cultural diversity. - **On‑site first**: All roles are based in Bengaluru (Delhi also available), fostering deep collaboration. - **Cutting‑edge work**: Foundational model research, ML infrastructure, full‑stack product engineering. - **High‑impact culture**: Teams work directly with customers via forward‑deployed engineers, seeing immediate real‑world use. - **Backed by top investors**: Financial stability and growth runway from Lightspeed, Peak XV, and Khosla Ventures. ## Sources 1. [sarvam.ai](https://www.sarvam.ai/) 2. [sarvam.ai/about-us](https://www.sarvam.ai/about-us) 3. [sarvam.ai/careers](https://www.sarvam.ai/careers) 4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/sarvam](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sarvam) 5. 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