Strategic Projects Lead at AfterQuery

AfterQuery is seeking exceptional candidates for our Strategic Projects Lead position. This is not a typical job – you'll work directly with our founding team on high-priority projects spanning product development, research, and operations.

Annual target cash compensation of $300K

Includes a profit-sharing bonus structure, where top talent frequently earn over $500K in total compensation

Company Overview

AfterQuery is an applied AI research lab focused on providing high quality data to advance the frontier of AI.

Our mission is to teach machines to think like experts. We imagine a world where expertise that once took a lifetime to acquire is accessible to anyone through AI. We partner with frontier AI labs to build the high-quality data that trains and improves the world's most advanced AI systems.

Since raising our $30M Series A at a $300M valuation, AfterQuery has grown well over a $100M revenue run rate. We're backed by leading AI investors and angels from Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta Superintelligence Labs, and Microsoft AI and are based in San Francisco.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the world’s leading AI labs to generate next generation datasets to push the boundaries of AI to the limits, directly generating revenue for the company

• Manage teams of experts across a wide variety of domains, like finance, software engineering, and sciences

• Collaborate with internal teams to develop groundbreaking AI research

• Drive initiatives across the company as an early hire

• Support the team across various operational initiatives

Required Qualifications

• Intense work ethic, agency, and drive

• Passion for AI and interest in entrepreneurship

• Competitive nature and demonstrated past success

• Strong leadership experience and communication skills

• 2+ YOE in the human-data industry or a top tier client-facing role (ex: finance, consulting, PE, ex-founder, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications

• Interested in making a pivot to AI with demonstrated success elsewhere

• Willingness to work 6-7 days a week