About the role
AfterQuery is seeking exceptional candidates for our Strategic Projects Associate 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.
Company Overview
AfterQuery is a research lab investigating the boundaries and capabilities of artificial intelligence through novel datasets and experimentation. Our customers are the foundation model labs, and we serve all of the frontier AI labs.
We are based in San Francisco, CA, and have raised funding from top investors, including Y Combinator and BoxGroup, ex-partners from Lightspeed and Index Ventures, and senior leadership at Google DeepMind and Meta GenAI.
Our founding team brings backgrounds from Jane Street, Meta, Citadel Securities, Google, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Silver Lake, Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR), and Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL).
Key Responsibilities
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Work closely with the world’s leading AI labs to build next generation datasets to push the boundaries of AI to the limits, directly generating revenue for the company
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Manage teams of experts across a wide variety of professional domains, like finance, software engineering, and law
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Create and execute on sales memos and the development of data samples
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Support the team across various operational initiatives
What We Are Looking For
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Proficiency or strong interest in AI tools and technologies and Microsoft Office
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Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
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Willingness to work 6 days a week, extremely high levels of agency
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Ability to learn very quickly and iterate
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Preference: technical skills (able to use AI tools like Claude Code)
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Preference: ability to start as soon as possible in-person in SF
Your Growth
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Develop unparalleled AI fluency and AI hard skills
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Gain a network of frontier AI researchers, builders, and investors
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Learn how to build a company from 0 to 1
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Direct mentorship from founding team
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Replacement for entry-level IB and consulting roles
About AfterQuery
AfterQuery is helping push the frontier of LLMs and AI Agents through novel datasets and experimentation. We work on building the most complex infrastructure that powers frontier data creation for agentic and hard reasoning workflows. We work the leading AI labs and are becoming the go-to partner for data infrastructure for YC companies. We have a sharp hockey stick growth rate and are extremely talent-dense, with most of our founding team coming from top IB and quant firms.
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Job details
Salary
$200,000 - $200,000
Location
San Francisco
Experience
0+ years
Funding
Total raised
$34M
Last stage
Series A
Investors
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.