7+ years in a technical or product engineering role (FDE, Field Engineering, DevRel, or ML) with experience in LLMs and RAG pipelines.
Established presence in the San Francisco AI ecosystem with an active network and public technical contributions.
Empathetic listener skilled at distilling chaotic ecosystem signals into actionable insights.
Ability to evaluate architectural tradeoffs and stress-test new developer tools.
Strong product acumen and technical depth.
Responsibilities
Embed within the Bay Area AI ecosystem to scout emerging AI vendors and deliver actionable insights to stakeholders.
Track and assess emerging AI tools and frameworks to inform product strategy.
Cultivate peer-to-peer relationships within the AI community to build credibility.
Uncover product insights and strategic opportunities through mapping active builders and workflows.
Validate new APIs and tools through prototyping to produce technical evaluations.
Drive high-level discourse on LLMs and agentic infrastructure to guide product direction.
Serve as a liaison between the external AI ecosystem and internal teams to refine product roadmap.
Benefits
Equity package of restricted stock units (RSU).
Eligibility to participate in the Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
Comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, and retirement plans.
Wellness programs and additional perks.
Full Job Description
A Different Kind of Forward Deployed AI Strategist - you will be embedded directly into the San Francisco AI ecosystem. Modeled after elite archetype roles at OpenAI and Anthropic, your "customer" is the entire SF AI community, and your ultimate deliverable is intelligence.
This is a high-trust role, as you will work directly under the CTO. You will represent JFrog as a peer, not a pitch. Everything you learn about emerging tools, working patterns, and enterprise pain points will directly shape our product, strategy, and roadmap.
What you'll do
Market Intelligence & Ecosystem Scouting: Embedded within the Bay Area AI ecosystem (meetups, hackathons, conferences), and build a structured view of emerging, enterprise-ready, or overhyped AI vendors and startups to map enterprise-ready vendors and deliver actionable signal briefs to executive stakeholders.
Trend Assessment & Product Strategy: Track emerging AI tools, frameworks, and architectural patterns ahead of mainstream adoption to anticipate critical shifts and inform the product roadmap.
Community Relationship Management: Cultivate authentic, peer-to-peer relationships with AI enthusiasts, founders, and enterprise practitioners, building credibility, and a strong reputation within local AI and developer communities
Product Insight & Opportunity Discovery: Continuously uncover actionable product insights and strategic opportunities by mapping active builders, emerging workflows, and problem-solving trends through a living, evolving knowledge base.
Hands-On Prototyping & Assessment: Validate new APIs, tools, and agentic frameworks firsthand through active prototyping to produce concise technical evaluations detailing true utility, limitations, and strategic relevance.
Credible Technical Leadership: Partner deeply with technical stakeholders by driving high-level discourse on LLMs, RAG architectures, fine-tuning, training and agentic infrastructure to guide product direction.
Cross-Functional Synergy & Roadmap Alignment: Serve as the connective tissue between the external AI ecosystem and JFrog's internal teams, partnering with Product, Engineering, and GTM to refine platform roadmap and competitive positioning.
Internal Knowledge Amplification: Drive organizational alignment by leading regular technical briefing sessions on emerging AI trends.
What you'll bring
Technical Depth & Product Acumen:7+ years in a technical or product engineering role (FDE, Field Engineering, DevRel, or ML) with firsthand experience building with LLMs, RAG pipelines, and agentic frameworks.
Established SF AI Network & Presence: Deeply embedded in the San Francisco AI ecosystem with an active network and a public technical footprint (e.g., blog, Substack newsletter, X-feed, or open-source contributions).
Strategic Synthesis & Inbound-First Mindset: An empathetic, inbound-first listener skilled at distilling chaotic, high-volume external ecosystem signals into clear, actionable insights.
Rapid Prototyping & Architectural Judgment: Ability to instantly evaluate architectural tradeoffs and stress-test new developer tools to assess their true platform utility.
What JFrog offers you
At JFrog, base salary is only one component of our compensation package.
This position also includes an equity package of restricted stock units (RSU). In addition, JFrog employees are eligible to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
JFrog provides employees comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, retirement, wellness and much more!
About JFrog
JFrog is a software company that provides a universal artifact management platform for software development and DevOps. The company's products include JFrog Artifactory, a universal artifact repository manager, and JFrog Xray, a universal component analysis tool. JFrog's platform enables developers to manage and distribute software artifacts across multiple development teams, build tools, and deployment environments. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California.
