HK DataCrest is a data and AI engineering company in Ahmedabad. We build production software for businesses in India and the United States - data platforms, AI automation, business intelligence, and warehouse engineering on Snowflake, dbt and BigQuery. Our own product, Data Dock, is a natural-language interface for data warehouses.
WHAT THIS JOB ACTUALLY IS
We need someone to find US companies who should be talking to us, write to them, follow up, and get a call in the diary. That is the whole job.
You are not closing. You are not writing proposals or quoting prices. When a prospect is interested, you hand them to the founder with a short written brief and he takes it from there.
We are being specific about this because "business development" usually means five jobs in a trench coat. This is one job: get qualified conversations started.
A DAY
Build and research the target list - US companies, mostly mid-size, using Apollo and LinkedIn. Work out who the actual decision-maker is.
Write the first message. We have a library of tested templates you can start from, but a template sent untouched does not work and we will not ask you to send one.
Follow up. Most replies come from the second or third touch, not the first.
Handle the reply, qualify it against a short checklist - the problem, the person, the timeline, the budget - and book the call.
Log everything honestly in the CRM, including the ones that went nowhere.
WHAT WE NEED FROM YOU
Written English that a US business owner will take seriously. This is the whole job and it is the thing we will assess hardest. Not formal, not flowery - clear.
Comfortable with LinkedIn and Apollo, or able to become comfortable in a fortnight.
Consistency. Sending forty good emails a week, every week, when thirty-five of them get ignored. That is the actual skill and it is rarer than it sounds.
Based in Ahmedabad and able to work on-site.
HELPFUL, NOT REQUIRED
Lead generation for an IT services or software company.
Any experience of the US market.
Familiarity with data or AI, enough to hold a short introductory conversation. We will teach you the rest.
No particular degree. No sales certification. No existing network - nobody at this level has one.
WHAT YOU GET
Rs 10,000 to Rs 20,000 per month fixed, depending on experience, paid whatever happens.
15% of everything a client you sourced pays us, for their first twelve months. Calculated on money collected, not on profit, and there is no cap.
You work directly with the founder, daily. There is no layer between you and the person who makes decisions.
You will use AI tooling properly as part of the job, not as a gimmick.
If this works, this becomes a team and you run it.
BEING STRAIGHT ABOUT WHERE WE ARE
We are early. We do not have a long client list to point at,
and the sales cycle for what we sell runs in weeks, not days. Some months you will book a lot of calls and close nothing. We would rather you knew that now.
What we do have is a researched target list, a tested message library, and a founder who will get on any call you book.
HOW WE HIRE
1. You apply. We reply within 48 hours - yes or no. We will not leave you waiting.
2. A short paid task: find 15 US companies that fit our profile, and write the first message you would send to three of them. Paid because it is real work and it takes real time.
3. One conversation, in person at our office in Ahmedabad.
4. A decision within a week of that conversation.
TO APPLY
Email
[email protected] with the subject line: SDR - Your Name
Attach your CV, and in the body write - in under 150 words - the cold email you would send to an operations manager at a US mid-size company who has never heard of us.
We read that before we read the CV. It is the job.
HK DataCrest is an equal-prospect employer.
Pay: ₹10,000.00 - ₹20,000.00 per month
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Ahmedabad, Gujarat: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)
Application Question(s):
- Our clients are US businesses. Write two or three sentences you would send, cold, to an operations manager at a mid-size US company who has never heard of us.
- In your last role, roughly how many cold emails or messages did you send in a typical week, and what share got a reply?
Work Location: In person
📌 Lead Generation Executive (SDR) - US Market (Ahmedabad)
🏢 HK DataCrest
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