Forward Deployed AI Strategy Lead

Highlights

• Lead strategic AI deployments from discovery through POC to production expansion.
• Turn customer workflows into evals, environments, and post-training loops.
• Shape product roadmap by bringing customer signal to Applied Research.

What they offer

• Competitive cash compensation and meaningful equity
• Flexible work in San Francisco or hybrid-remote
• Visa sponsorship and relocation support
• Professional development budget
• Team off-sites and conference attendance
• Direct exposure to frontier AI labs, leading AI startups, and enterprise AI teams

Ideal candidate

High-agency builder who thrives in ambiguity and sits comfortably with executives, researchers, and operators. You love turning messy customer problems into valuable AI systems at the frontier of agents and post-training.

Requirements

• Comfort operating with executives, researchers, engineers, and operators
• High agency and low ego
• Ability to run multiple complex customer workstreams
• Taste for what makes a deployment valuable
• Strong commercial instincts
• Deep curiosity about post-training, agents, evals, RL, and AI infrastructure
• Ability to make progress before the playbook exists