About the role
Business Development Manager - Enterprise | Consultant POD | Hyderabad
> Apna · Hyderabad, India · Full-time · Posted 2026-02-05
Salary: INR 600,000–900,000
Workplace: on_site
Department: Sales and Business Development
Description
About Apna
Since 2019, apna has connected over 60 million jobseekers with more than 250,000 enterprises and small businesses across India. Founded by Nirmit Parikh, a Stanford graduate and serial entrepreneur who recognized the challenges in entry-level hiring, apna has rapidly grown to become India's fastest unicorn in 2021 achieving this milestone in just 21 months.
Backed by Marquee global investors - Insight Partners, Tiger Global, Lightspeed India, Sequoia Capital, and GSV, we're revolutionizing livelihood creation across India.
Description
The Growth and Business team at Apna owns user and revenue growth metrics across all business lines candidates and employers. The team has played a key role in Apna’s growth journey to become a clear market leader in the space within 18 months of product launch overtaking multiple incumbent players. This has been achieved by managing multiple short and long term levers, such as marketing, sales, search engine or app store optimization, product changes and partnerships and tactically thinking through resource and capital allocation, cost upside trade-offs and realization timelines across multiple initiatives. We are adding new members to the team to augment our existing capabilities and help chart Apna’s next phase of rapid business growth & product development
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About the Role
We are looking for talented and competitive Business Development folks who thrive in a quick sales cycle environment, who have experience having CXO level business conversations with the client at higher ticket size and are OK with an Individual role. You will play a fundamental role in achieving our ambitious new customer acquisition and revenue growth objectives for the
Enterprise mode
Requirement
1. Selling online enterprise recruitment solutions to corporate clients by assessing their business requirements.
2. Achieving sales targets through acquisition of new clients and growing business from existing client.
3. Developing a database of qualified leads through referrals, telephone canvassing, social media and other channels.
4. Area Mapping, prospecting, negotiation, freezing on commercials and closing of deals with necessary documentation.
5. Prospect relentlessly to build a pipeline and strong personal relationships with prospects.
6. Be an evangelist for apna's ecosystem of products and services.
7. Being part of a start-up from an early stage, lead your area of expertise and be a part of this exciting growth journey.
Skills Required
● Previous experience of at least 4 years in handling large accounts (HRTech background preferred)
● Stakeholder Management: External client-facing role, managing client expectations, should be able to navigate his/her way to the leadership of the companies.
● Good operations and commercial understanding of the business and should be able tonegotiate with the clients.
● Good command of communication at least in two languages.
● Lead generation to Closure experience.
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About Apna
Founded in 2019, Apna.co is India’s largest professional networking platform dedicated to helping India’s rising workforce unlock unique professional networking and skilling opportunities. The app is currently serving in 75 cities across India.
Having raised $190+ million from marquee investors like Insight Partners, Tiger Global, Lightspeed India, Sequoia Capital India, Rocketship.vc, and Greenoaks Capital, Apna is on a mission to enable livelihoods for billions in India. With over 35 million users, present in 75 cities and counting, and over 2 million employers that trust the platform, India has a new destination to discover relevant opportunities.
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Job details
Location
Hyderabad, Telangana
Funding
Total raised
$194M
Last stage
Series C
Investors
Founders
Aryan Kenchin
ex-Co-Founder
What happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.
