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 RoleEngagement Manager is a senior client-facing role in the vertical. You own pipeline development, account strategy, and long-term engagement management. This is a builder role for someone who understands the procurement landscape, can engage at the CXO and technical leadership level, and can convert complex AI capability into funded, deployable programmes.
What You'll DoOwn the day-to-day management of active client engagements, from scoping and alignment through to operational handover and adoption
Serve as the primary point of contact for clients across the engagement lifecycle; manage expectations proactively and honestly
Translate client operational problems into precise briefs that deployment and engineering teams can act on
Track delivery against commitments; surface risks early and drive resolution without waiting for escalation
Work with Strategic Deployment Engineers to ensure what is being built reflects what the client actually needs
Support pipeline development: account mapping, stakeholder outreach, and PoC scoping
Build and maintain working relationships with mid-to-senior client stakeholders; grow account depth over time
Surface ground-level observations back to the vertical as market intelligence
4–6 years of professional experience; foundational background at a top-tier consulting firm strongly preferred — with a track record of owning complex analytical work, structuring ambiguous problems, and being accountable for outcomes
At least 2 years in strategic or complex enterprise GTM, account management, or programme delivery — where you owned client relationships, not just supported them
Comfort operating in long-cycle, relationship-driven environments where trust is built over months, not deals
Strong written and verbal communication, able to hold a room with senior stakeholders and write briefs that people act on
Familiarity with GenAI or ML concepts sufficient to engage credibly with technical teams and translate capability to clients
Experience in or adjacent to defence, government, critical infrastructure and complex enterprises is a plus
You've owned something - a client, a mandate - and driven it to a conclusion without being
managed to do it
You've had to deliver a hard message to a client or stakeholder, done it early, and held the
relationship
You think in structures. You make complex problems legible and actionable for the people who
need to move on them
You've worked across functions — engineering, finance, policy, or operations — and made thing happen without formal authority
Experience at a top-tier consulting firm; owning complex analytical problem-solving, structuring ambiguous mandates, and being accountable for outcomes is strongly valued.
You treat client ownership as a baseline, not a virtue — if the engagement is in trouble, it's your problem to fix
You are direct; you say what you actually think, including to people more senior than you
You are comfortable with ambiguity and genuinely energised by environments where the answer isn't obvious
You move with urgency and bring others with you through influence, not authority
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.
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