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
Engagement 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 Do
• Own 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 accurate 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
What We're Looking For
• 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