Strategic Projects Associate - Coding

AfterQuery

• $110K — $130K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Strong interest in AI and comfort using AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude Code.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills for engaging with diverse stakeholders.
  • High level of ownership and ability to work independently with minimal oversight.
  • Adaptability to learn quickly and manage ambiguity in dynamic environments.
  • Strong organizational skills with a sharp attention to detail.
  • Collaborative mindset for effective team coordination.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office and Google Workspace, plus familiarity with technical tools.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with frontier AI labs to manage dataset generation projects, ensuring timely delivery.
  • Build and maintain operational tools using AI to enhance workflow efficiency.
  • Lead teams of technical experts in software engineering, data science, and machine learning.
  • Create comprehensive technical documentation and project briefs for stakeholder engagement.
  • Support product development by gathering requirements, managing testing, and tracking feature releases.
  • Analyze metrics and develop dashboards to monitor project health and performance.
  • Drive improvements in processes and develop systems to support company scalability.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work directly with founding team members for mentorship.
  • Gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge AI technologies.
  • Develop a professional network within the frontier AI community.
  • Fast-track career progression compared to traditional consulting or tech programs.
Full Job Description
Overview

You'll work with the world's leading AI organizations to build next-generation data solutions, managing expert teams across finance, software engineering, law, and more to deliver high-quality outputs at scale. You'll shape the dataset specifications that directly influence how frontier models are trained and evaluated, owning projects end-to-end from scoping through delivery in a fast-moving, high-stakes environment. Along the way, you'll pick up broad operational experience, moving fluidly across building, analyzing, coordinating, and executing wherever the business needs it most.

Responsibilities
  • 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.


Required Qualifications
  • 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


Preferred Qualifications
  • Technical skills (coding, scripting, or working with data) or experience using AI tools to automate workflows, conduct research, or build products
Company Benefits (For Eligible Employees):
  • Health Insurance: Medical, Vision, Dental
  • 401(k) with Employer Match
  • Daily Meals: Daily UberEats Stipend
  • Monthly Wellness Stipend
  • Commute Covered

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