--- title: 'Product Manager - Chanakya at Sarvam' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/product-manager-chanakya-sarvam-delhi-2m6xvntkdk71' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-05' --- # Product Manager - Chanakya at Sarvam - **Company:** [Sarvam](https://feeny.ai/companies/sarvam) - **Location:** Delhi, India - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-08-24 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sarvam/c4099026-b194-4b16-8a12-c7ae1a9b51a0 ## Job description About team: Chanakya is Sarvam AI's specialised, self-contained vertical for national security and institutions of national importance. It carries its own pricing, business, product, engineering, custom-model and vendor functions under one roof — a complete unit built to solve the most complex problems in the strategic sector: the three armed forces, intelligence agencies, financial regulators, and institutions of national importance such as central ministries and national policy bodies. What we deploy here must be at strategic parity or higher — anything less is a national-security risk. That standard is the reason Chanakya is a small, exceptionally high-performing team inside Sarvam, and the reason we are deliberate about who joins it. Why this is one of the most consequential seats in Indian AI ## 01 — NATIONAL IMPACT You sit where it all gets decided. These systems are deployed inside the institutions that safeguard the country. The potential for national impact is not abstract — it is at the core of how the strategic sector reasons, decides, and acts. Few roles anywhere in Indian technology carry this weight. ## 02 — UNPARALLELED LEARNING Full-stack, end to end — nowhere else does this exist. Every deployment runs the entire stack: understanding a customer's real requirement, architecting and customising the stack for it, and where needed building and fine-tuning models, shaping training data, and inventing data representations for extraordinarily complex data, workflows and applications. You touch nearly the whole arc of the work. This experience sets you apart — whether you go on to found a company, or become a business or technology leader in the years ahead, at Sarvam or beyond. ## 03 — A PATH TO LEADERSHIP These are leadership seats in the making. Chanakya's functions are being built out now. We are looking for people who will grow into the leaders of these emerging functions — every one of these roles is a route to leading a part of the vertical, not just filling it. Where we are. This is not a leap into the unknown. Chanakya has already achieved product–market fit to a meaningful degree, has significant revenue booked, and has large strategic projects officially underway. Things are structured and going well. The opportunity. This is a genuine zero-to-one journey — but one taken within the reach, talent and standing of a company like Sarvam. You get the ambition and ownership of building something new, backed by the full weight of Sarvam's capability and presence. The golden opportunity: to help build out and lead the emerging functions of Chanakya, with a clear growth path ahead. Product Manager (4–8 years) Zero-to-one builders for a next-generation defence decision-support product. We are building a next-generation decision-support product for defence users and need product leaders who have genuinely taken something from zero to one — conceived, built, and shipped a product to real users, not managed a roadmap on an established one. - A hands-on, prototyping instinct — comfortable putting something rough in front of users quickly. •Stayed in the line of building tech products; strong AI-first instinct — reasoning about what models make newly possible. •Comfortable with ambiguity, senior institutional users, air-gapped deployments, and frequent travel to client sites. Much of the product definition will be theirs to make. The bar. Across every one of these roles, we are looking for people who want to change the world and build something of national consequence — and who will grow into the leaders of Chanakya's verticals. If that is you, the ceiling here is set only by your ambition. Base: Delhi NCR, with travel across India. All roles involve working inside restricted environments and travelling to client sites at short notice. ## 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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