Josh Talks

At Josh Talks AI (Audio Data Research Lab), we believe that the primary medium of interaction between man and machine will be Voice.

We are building the worlds most diverse speech datasets spanning high and low-resource languages to power this future.

Licensed by leading global AI labs and fine-tuned into cutting-edge models, our work is shaping how billions of people will communicate with technology through voice.

What youll do:

- Grow existing accounts and deepen partnerships with leading AI labs.

- Own revenue delivery with a personal target of $3M in Year 1 and $7M in Year 2.

- Build relationships and engage with researchers to anticipate future dataset needs, and collaborate with our product and data teams to build tailored samples and pilots.

- License current OTS datasets across Indian and international languages, expanding adoption globally.

- Maintain public-facing presence on platforms like Hugging Face, Kaggle, and more, while also managing LinkedIn presence, website, catalogues, and other sales assets.

- Drive thought leadership & research collaborations, co-creating benchmarks and proprietary studies to demonstrate the efficacy of our data.

- Forge barter partnerships with governments and academic institutes to expand data collection and validation.

- Represent Josh Talks AI at global conferences in speech, data, and AI, converting events into strategic lead pipelines.

- Partner with other organizations (publishers, regional orgs ) to sub license their datasets for further licensing globally.

Must Haves :

- Proven experience in partnerships, business development, or sales within AI, data, or technology sectors.

- Strong ability to engage with researchers and translate technical needs into actionable dataset proposals.

- Excellent relationship-building and communication skills, with a track record of managing global accounts.

- Comfort with public-facing brand management LinkedIn campaigns, website upkeep, Hugging Face/Kaggle pages, and digital catalogues.

- Exposure to research-driven environments and ability to co-develop benchmarks, evaluation sets, or collaborative projects.

- Strong execution orientation able to move from conversations to signed deals, pilots, and delivered revenue.

- Extroverted nature to deliver at public facing conferences.

- A builder mindset excited by early-stage environments, ambitious revenue targets, and the opportunity to shape how the world interacts with voice AI.

- High accountability individual with the ability to chase a strong revenue target.

- Making decks at the speed of lightning, excel workflows, basics of graphic design is non-negotiable.

Other Details:

We actively seek teammates from diverse backgrounds and only hire extremely driven people.

The team is composed of people who are ambitious and intend to create something that is bigger than themselves.

We like no-nonsense, get stuff done kind of people and keep things simple.