About World Salon
World Salon produces expert panel discussions on technology, business, policy and markets. We run more than 100 events a year with speakers from companies like Oracle, Google, Meta, Amazon, Citigroup and McKinsey, and from leading universities. Universities, companies and associations commission us to design a panel around a question their audience cares about, recruit the right experts, run the live discussion, and turn it into articles, short video and social content they can use for months. We are small, bootstrapped and founder-led. You would be our first dedicated business development hire and would work directly with the founder.

The role
Your job is to bring in new clients. That means finding organizations that want a credible expert conversation in front of their audience, reaching the right person there, getting them on a call, and closing a first engagement. The founder has done this personally until now. You will take it over, systematize it, and grow it.

What you will do
- Own the new-client pipeline end to end: research, outreach, discovery calls,



proposals and close.
- Build target lists of universities and business schools, corporate marketing and thought-leadership teams, industry associations, and qualified-services firms in the US and Europe.
- Write outreach that gets replies. A short, specific, personal note outperforms a polished template several times over. You will run cadences in Gmail, GMass and a CRM, and reply to every response within 24 hours.
- Run discovery calls with US-based decision makers, understand what they want the event to achieve, and hand off cleanly to our producer once a deal closes.
- Draft proposals and pricing with the founder, and keep a pipeline with honest weekly forecasts.
- Bring the market back to us: objections, pricing signals, competitor moves, and ideas for packages we should offer.

What we are looking for
- 3 or more years in B2B sales, business development or partnerships. Selling spon

📌 Business Development Manager, Partnerships (India)
🏢 World Salon
📍 India