Strategic Projects Lead
Strategic Projects Lead at AfterQuery — San Francisco, US
- Company: AfterQuery
- Location: San Francisco, US
- Employment type: FULL_TIME
- Salary: USD 200000–400000 / year
- Posted: 2026-07-17
About this role
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.
Base Salary: $110,000 - $150,000
Total Compensation: up to $300k in cash comp in addition to equity
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).
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
Preferred Qualifications
Ex-finance, consulting, or PE at a top firm
Interested in making a pivot to AI with demonstrated success elsewhere
Willingness to work 6-7 days a week