Business Development Manager

About jhana

jhana is an early-stage, seed-funded startup that builds intelligent practice tools for the law across research, drafting, and document management. At jhana.ai, we are transforming the legal industry with India’s first AI-driven Paralegal. Our product delivers critical legal insights through advanced AI, producing outputs like redlines, memos, and risk assessments to streamline workflows for legal teams. Recognized as the Best Legal Tech Startup in Asia and Oceania by ALITA, we are on a mission to empower professionals with technology that drives efficiency and excellence. 

Job Description:

jhana is looking for an Sr. Account Manager with background in law to drive growth, optimize business & sales processes, and manage high-value client relationships. This role is ideal for legal professionals with business acumen who seek opportunities in a high-growth, client-focused environment. The candidate must be comfortable working in a dynamic, tech-driven space and be willing to travel for client meetings and industry events.

Responsibilities

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1. Sales & Business Development: Define and refine scalable sales processes, drive lead generation, and manage the entire sales cycle to closure.
2. Client Relationship & Strategic Engagement – Manage key client relationships as a trusted advisor, ensuring high retention and satisfaction, and representing the company at client meetings, industry events, and conferences.
3. Pipeline Management & Conversion Optimization – Build and manage a structured sales pipeline, enhancing lead-to-deal conversion and ensuring predictable, sustained revenue growth.
4. Proactive Sales Strategy & Execution – Drive business development by proactively sourcing and closing new opportunities, setting the standard as a top-performing salesperson with a hunter mentality.
5. Consultative Selling & Client Partnership – Leverage a consultative approach to tailor solutions to client needs, fostering strong relationships through impactful presentations, demos, and negotiations.
6. Market & Competitive Intelligence – Stay ahead of industry trends, competitor activities, and client needs to refine sales strategies, shape product positioning, and drive a competitive edge.
7. Cross-functional Collaboration & Data-Driven Reporting – Partner with Marketing, Product, and Customer Success teams to align efforts with company goals, while leveraging CRM systems to track sales performance, forecast accurately, and adjust strategies based on data insights.
8. Leadership in Team Development - Mentoring junior team members, spearhead cross-functional projects with product, marketing, and customer success teams to ensure unified client engagement and retention strategies, and actively participate in strategic discussions by offering insights on process enhancements, client feedback, and sales tactics to drive company growth.
9. Client Engagement & Travel: Represent jhana at client meetings, conferences, and industry events, involving regular travel as well as virtual interactions.

Skills & Experience

1. Education: Bachelor’s degree in Law, Business, or a related field. Advanced degrees (JD, MBA) preferred.
2. Legal Industry Experience: 5+ years (Senior Account Manager) in a top-tier law firm or legal chamber with a strong grasp of legal processes and industry challenges is mandatory.
3. Leadership & Collaboration : Demonstrated ability to mentor and coach junior colleagues, share best practices, and drive collaborative initiatives across departments. Comfort taking ownership of new projects, providing strategic input, and setting a high bar for performance.
4. Consultative Sales & Relationship Building: Adept at identifying client needs and crafting tailored solutions. Track record of consistently meeting or exceeding sales goals, maintaining client satisfaction, and establishing long-term partnerships.
5. Strategic and Data-Driven Mindset: Experience developing or optimizing sales strategies based on market trends and client feedback.
6. Sales & Business Development Expertise: Proven background in Law, sales, account management, or business development, ideally in the legal tech or SaaS sector (preferred).
7. Process Development & Leadership: Experience in designing and implementing scalable sales strategies. Ability to mentor and lead teams effectively.
8. Tech & Data Proficiency: Proficiency in CRM platforms (e.g., Salesforce, HubSpot), data analytics, and sales tracking tools (preferred).
9. Communication & Negotiation: Exceptional verbal and written communication skills with the ability to articulate complex concepts clearly.

Additional Requirements

• Willingness to travel frequently for client meetings and events.
• Strong adaptability to a fast-paced, evolving startup environment.
• Tech-savvy with a keen interest in legal innovation and AI-driven solutions.
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What We Offer

• Best-in class salary, benefits and performance-based incentives.
• High-impact role with growth opportunities to build and scale the sales function.
• A dynamic, inclusive, and mission-driven work environment.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Maintain confidentiality in all aspects of client and staff information
• Interact with staff, clients, suppliers, and visitors
• Open, sort and distribute incoming correspondence.
• Perform general clerical duties to include, but are not limited to, copying, mailing, laminating, and filing.
• Provide support to the Maintenance team on the raising and closing of reactive.
• Utilize the system for raising purchase orders and the subsequent processing of the associated invoices for posting weekly.
• End-to-End Facility Management (Example: Security, Fire & Safety, Building Security, Etc.,)

• Provide support to the Facility Management in maintaining supplier matrices, back-to-work / self-certification documentation and the associated documentation.

• Order and maintain stock about the facilities management service provision
• Attend team meetings and produce subsequent minutes/actions
• Produce hotel, weekend, weekday, tenant, and ad-hoc car park passes as requested.
• Where applicable, meet & greet including organizing appropriate hospitality.
• Where applicable, assist the Centre Receptionist and Administrator.
• ISO Internal Audit Knowledge will be an added advantage.

Office Administrator Qualifications / Skills:

• Managing processes
• Developing standards
• Promoting process improvement
• Tracking budget expenses
• Staffing
• Supervision
• Delegation
• Informing others
• Reporting skills
• Supply management
• Inventory control

Gobillion is a YCombinator backed IIM-NIT alumni co-founded social commerce startup headquartered in San Francisco, USA with offices in New Delhi, Bangalore and Guwahati. We are bringing e-commerce 2.0 to the next 400 million online customers across India, through a community and social driven approach. Our co-founding has diversified experience with prestigious organizations including McKinsey & Company, Deloitte US, EY, Adobe and SAP Labs.

Gobillion has been rapidly scaling and is backed by some of the world’s most prestigious investors from US, Europe, SE Asia and India including - YCombinator, Justin Mateen (Founder - Tinder), Pioneer Fund, Soma Capital, Venture Souq, Goodwater Capital, LetsVenture, Vikalp Sahni (Co-Founder- Gobibibo) amongst others.

We have been selected for and globally validated by the world’s leading investors/accelerators including YCombinator, Founder Institute Silicon Valley, NASSCOM 10000 Startups - India and Assam Startup. We have been named as the Top 10 Global startup for YCombinator S21 by Alex Mitchell.

Summary of role:

As a Developer, you will be working alongside our product team in the conceptualization, design and development of app and frontend components. You will be doing the following on the job

• Write clean, manageable code and maintain proper documentation
• Reviewing application requirements and interface designs.
• Developing and implementing highly-responsive user interface components using Android material design concepts
• Writing application interface codes using Java, Android
• Developing and implementing front-end architecture to support user interface concepts.
• Monitoring and improving front-end performance.

Why Join Us?

• You will have a chance to be a leader and have the responsibility to scale Gobillon across India's most fast growing cities
• The opportunity to join one of India’s fastest growing companies at an early stage - We are giving our early team members to benefit from a strong ESOP pool and be part of our growth journey
• Joining an amazing team of Gobillion rockstars from colleges like IIMs, IITs, NITs etc. and from organizations including McKinsey & Company, Deloitte US, EY, Adobe, SAP Labs, Urban Company, Udaan, Amazon, Delivery, Ninjacart, Accenture etc.
• Wear the Gobillion badge with pride - We are looking for owners with a founder’s mindset - not just employees. If you are passionate about our mission about making e-commerce social for the next 400M customers in India and serve as culture carriers - we are the right place for you!

Key Responsibilities of this Role:

• At least three years of production level experience in working with native Android using Kotlin, Java
• Bachelors in Computer Science (or equivalent work experience) is preferred
• Understanding of key design principles.
• At least one Android app developed by you must be live
• Experience with responsive and adaptive design.
• In-depth knowledge and passion for Java, Kotlin, CSS, HTML, OOPs and front-end languages
• If you have worked on an app (on Android) used by 100K+ users, you will be preferred.

The 2018 Forbes Indonesia Choice Award winner and Galen Growth’s 2018 Most

Innovative HealthTech Startup in Asia. Ours is a secure health-tech platform with a mission to

simplifying access to healthcare by connecting millions of patients with licensed doctors, insurance, labs, and pharmacies in one mobile application.

Key Job Responsibilities:

• He/She is a responsive team player who can proactively contribute for building technical

strategies for applications and systems by promoting an understanding of the technology and

business roadmap.

• He /she is someone who thrives in a fun, fast-paced, dynamic, startup-like environment.
• Work very closely with various business stakeholders to drive the execution of multiple

business plans and technologies.

• Work closely with Product, Design, and Marketing to conceive features, plan projects, and

build roadmaps

• Prior experience with scalable Architecture managing team of minimum 5 engineers and

coaching, mentoring while maintaining a role with code development.

• Proven history of contributing to product strategy and shipping products with multi-functional

teams.

• Highly involved in recruitment while building team also leading app development for both

platforms

• Promote and support company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics

and integrity.

Minimum Qualification:

• Total of 10+ years experience
• Experince in performance appraisal and people management.
• Hands-on working on Java ( {Language understanding - Java 8, Lambdas, Collections,

popular frameworks & libraries}, JVM, GC tuning, performance tuning)

• Worked on REST frameworks/libraries like Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Dropwizard, REST

Express etc

• Worked on Relational data stores viz. MySQL, Oracle, or Postgres
• Worked on Non-relational data stores viz. Cassandra, HBase, Couchbase, MongoDB, etc
• Worked on caching infra viz. Redis, Memcached, Aerospike, Riak, etc
• Worked on Queueing infra viz. Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ etc

  Questions

  1. How many years of Techno-managerial experience do you have? 
  2. How many performance review cycles did you do?
  3. What is the size of the team that you've managed?

   

   

   

Roles and Responsibilities:

1. SDLC and Agile methodologies of software development.
2. Experience in managing software development projects - Ability to oversee entire Project Management lifecycle, to include scheduling, coordinating, invoicing and management of multiple projects
3. End to end accountability for Software Development projects
4. Managing the team of software developers; Advanced level of technical background to provide highly-credible leadership to the team
5. Provide technical leadership for software development
6. Deliver the project to the clients
7. Troubleshoot the issues - custom web applications, mobile application development
8. Establish the framework, leverage our product Turanto-Cloud Application Development Platform for each project
9. Has a product development background and has experience in building enterprise grade products using C#.Net MVC
10. Proven ability to handle multiple scrum teams and guide them to overcome technical challenges
11. Good experience in WebAPI and Service Oriented Architecture
12. Have practical experience in implementing CI and CD in recent projects and have a DevOps mindset
13. Solid understanding of the design process and various tools and resources available in the market and of backend and frontend development
14. Ability to accurately and objectively evaluate complex project risks and issues
15. Strong knowledge and understanding of business needs with the ability to establish and maintain a high level of stakeholder trust and confidence
16. Exceptional tracking and time management skills
17. Ability to balance conflicting priorities and changing demands.
18. Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences.
19. Should have expertise on client co-ordination
20. Mentor team members for successful delivery of projects
21. Guide cross-functional teams in the execution of projects
22. Deliver the project successfully with highest quality, agreed effort and on-time

Skills

1. Agile development practices (Kanban, Scrum)
2. Can do attitude
3. Thirst for knowledge and relish the opportunity to solve problems either as a team or independently.
4. A natural curiosity, always searching for improvements and learning new skills
5. A deep passion for technology and a love of learning new concepts and technologies.
6. Must be good in collaboration/team building/servant leadership.
7. Key Performance Indicator: Project Delivery Metrics Effort, On-Time Delivery, First Time Right
8. Strong technical knowledge in Web Development Frameworks, Mobile App Development Framework, emerging web and app development technologies
9. Successfully delivered the software solutions to the client (must)
10. Experience of leading a team of 15-20 developers
11. Demonstrate leadership skills
12. Passion for coding/programming and development

7+ years experience in software development with primary focus on Microsoft .Net stack(Asp.Net MVC, C#, Dotnet Core, SQLAzure, Microsoft Azure) & relevant experience in Web & Mobile App Development is must.

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Role Category: Programming & Design

Your skills and experience should cover:

• Excellent programming skills using JavaScript or TypeScript

• 2+ years of relevant software engineering experience

• Proven Node.JS programming skills with knowledge on how to scale huge Node.JS setups

• Experience profiling and optimizing Node.JS applications

• API design and development best practices

• Restful web services, service-oriented architectures

• SQL and NoSQL expert

• Hands-on experience with developing automated tests

• Test-driven development (TDD)

• Experience with SCM systems like Git/SVN

• Experience in Agile software development and continuous Integration systems like Jenkins

The following areas are highly advantageous:

• Experience with Express and Knex

• Experience with Loopback (https://loopback.io/" target="_blank">https://loopback.io/ TypeScript framework)

• Experience/Interest with MySQL or PostgreSQL database