Growth Associate
afterqueryMillbrae (CA)
About the role
After Query is hiring Growth Associates to architect and scale the expert supply engine powering frontier AI training. You will own both manual and automated acquisition pipelines to grow our expert network from 100K to hundreds of thousands and beyond. This role blends GTM automation engineering, talent acquisition, marketing, conference planning, partnership building, purchasing, and distribution. This is not a typical "growth" role. It is an operational, and strategic position working directly with our founding team. You will design scalable systems, run experiments, recruit elite experts and operators, build automation stacks, represent After Query at conferences and panels, and drive brand amplification / marketing initiatives.
Company Overview:
After Query 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 Box Group, ex-partners from Lightspeed and Index Ventures, and senior leadership at Google Deep Mind 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).Why Join Work in-person at our brand new San Francisco office with direct access to the founding team Help build and design a massive growth engine for the future of work Competitive pay Daily Lunch and Dinner provided Fully stocked Pantry Uber home from the office Optional Sunday night team dinners with the full team
Responsibilities:
Build, optimize, and scale automated expert sourcing pipelines Leverage Linked In and similar platforms to identify and bring on professionals from diverse industries Lead purchasing efforts in the up and coming data acquisition field Expand After Query's Conference footprint Expand Campus Partnership efforts with elite universities and MBA/PHD programs Collaborate with Marketing to improve brand awareness and social media strategy Work hand in hand with Engineering on Product Design Optimization
Required Qualifications:
Experience scaling talent networks or marketplaces, recruiting, or outbound sales/lead generation Scrappiness, thriving in ambiguity, and being able to overcome bottlenecks on the fly Demonstrated track record of elite operational execution Analytical rigor; comfort with funnel modeling and pipeline analytics Exceptional written and verbal communication Evidence of high agency, resourcefulness, and competitive drive
Preferred Qualifications:
Proficiency with GTM tooling (Clay, Instantly, Apollo, Zapier, scripts, scrapers)Willingness to operate in a 5-6 day startup cadence Passion for frontier AI and ambition to build category-defining systems
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