Strategic Projects Associate - Coding

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Overview

Technical Strategic Projects Associate AfterQuery is seeking exceptional candidates for our Technical Strategic Projects Associate position. This is not a typical operations role – you'll work directly with our founding team on high-priority technical and operational projects that directly support…

Key Responsibilities

Partner with frontier AI labs to coordinate dataset generation projects, manage timelines, and ensure delivery excellence Build and maintain operational tools using AI (ChatGPT, Claude Code) and scripting to automate workflows, track metrics, and…

Requirements Summary

Strong interest in AI and technical fluency—comfortable using AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude Code, and learning new technologies quickly Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to interface with technical and non-technical…

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AfterQuery is an applied research lab curating data solutions for foundation model development.

We serve every frontier AI lab with the mission of delivering the best data to power the best models. In doing so, we can make expertise that once took a lifetime to build available to anyone who needs it. Our customers are the ones building the foundation models themselves and our work sits directly in the loop of how those systems improve.

This is a rare opportunity to join a company at a defining moment in AI. Since raising our $30M Series A at a $300M valuation, AfterQuery has grown well over a $100M revenue run rate.

We're based in San Francisco and backed by leading investors including Altos Ventures, BoxGroup, and Y Combinator and angels from Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta Superintelligence Labs, and Microsoft AI and are based in San Francisco.

Responsibilities

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Project and client management: Work with the world’s leading AI organizations to build next-generation data solutions that push the limits of model capability, while directly driving revenue.

Manage expert teams across domains: Lead and coordinate highly specialized contributors across fields like software engineering, data science, and machine learning.

Shape how AI systems are trained: Design dataset specifications that directly influence how frontier models are evaluated and improved. Your taste and judgement will shape what foundation models become.

Drive high-impact execution end-to-end: Own critical projects from idea to delivery. From scoping, executing, iterating, and shipping in a fast-moving, high-stakes environment, you will touch it all.

Gain top tier operational experience: Support the team across a range of operational initiatives that will directly contribute to the future of AfterQuery. You will work across multiple parts of the business in the same week, ranging from building, analyzing, coordinating, and executing where needed most.

What We Offer

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Work at the frontier: Get a front-row seat to the most advanced AI development happening today. You’ll sit at the frontier, collaborating with research teams at frontier AI labs, big tech companies, and neolabs.

Own high-impact work from day one: You’ll be trusted with real projects that matter to customers, revenue, and the company’s trajectory and lead critical initiatives with real business impact

Build across disciplines: This role sits at the intersection of engineering, AI, operations, and strategy. You’ll solve a different class of problem than most engineers ever encounter.

Learn how companies are actually built: From 0 → 1 execution, sales motions, dataset design, to operational scaling, you’ll see and participate in every layer of a fast-growing AI company.

Be part of a world-class team: Our team includes alumni from Jane Street, Palantir, NVIDIA, Google, Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, and leading startups. We take talent seriously and like to work with other exceptional, driven, and genuine people.

Join a rocket ship: We grew well beyond $100M revenue run rate in just over a year.

✓Annual cash compensation of $210K + meaningful equity

✓Comprehensive benefits (UberEats and ride share stipend, comped Equinox, 401K with match, health, dental, and vision insurance)

Strong technical background: CS degree, engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated ability to ship technical projects
High agency, drive, and a strong work ethic; thrive in ambiguity and execute with minimal direction
Passion for AI and interest in entrepreneurship; enjoy experimenting with new tools (experience with Claude Code is a plus)
Competitive nature and demonstrated past success
Strong leadership experience and excellent written and verbal communication skills
Thrive in fast-moving, high-impact environments with bias towards action, while balancing attention to detail
Proficiency in Python and comfort writing production-quality code
Bonus: technical skills (coding, scripting, or working with data) or experience using AI tools to automate workflows, conduct research, or build products