Sierra Club

Strategist, Agent Development - Tech, Media & Telecom

Sierra Club$120K — $145K *
Telecommunications & Hardware
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in a related field, preferably AI, telecommunications, or technology
  • Strong analytical and critical-thinking abilities
  • Excellent communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences
  • Proven project management skills with a focus on high-visibility initiatives
  • Interest and background in telecommunications, media, or tech industries

Responsibilities

  • Own the entire Agent Development Life Cycle from scope to production
  • Serve as a trusted advisor to enterprise leaders on AI strategy
  • Collaborate daily with customer teams to troubleshoot and refine agents
  • Identify and communicate unmet customer needs to influence product direction
  • Shape innovative AI solutions addressing high-stakes customer challenges

Benefits

  • Unlimited paid time off for work-life balance
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits for employees and family
  • Life insurance and disability coverage for peace of mind
  • Retirement plan tailored to the country of employment
  • Generous parental leave to support families
  • Fertility and family building assistance through Carrot
  • Daily lunch and snacks to fuel productivity
  • Discretionary benefit stipend for personal needs
  • Unique perks, such as free alphorn lessons
Full Job Description
What you'll do

As an Agent Strategist, you own how Sierra's AI agents come to life for our customers - from first pilot to a production agent handling thousands of conversations a day. You sit at the intersection of product, building agents and customer-facing work, and stay just as close to the technology as you are to the people you build for. You transform a customer's thorniest, highest-stakes problems into agents that measurably move their business.
  • Own the Agent Development Life Cycle. Take agents from initial scope through conversation design, tooling, and evaluation, to launch and continuous iteration in production - translating business goals into an agent that outperforms, and tuning relentlessly until it's the best version of itself in the real world. You'll have real ownership and autonomy over the outcome.
  • Be the trusted strategic advisor to enterprise leaders. Sit shoulder-to-shoulder with our customers' executives, understand what success actually means to their business, and shape the AI strategy that gets them there.
  • Partner with the customer's working teams day to day. Run working sessions, troubleshoot the agent as issues come up, and make the calls that keep the build on track for launch.
  • Directly impact product. Surface unmet needs from your customer work, and feed them back to research and platform to shape where Sierra goes next.
Example projects

These are the kinds of projects strategists on our TMT team work on:
  • Scope and launch a subscription-retention agent for a telecommunications or media company, then tune it to save more at-risk customers while preserving trust and brand voice.
  • Launch a top-of-funnel sales agent for a telecommunications provider that qualifies prospects, recommends plans and devices, and converts interest into new subscriptions.
  • Build a new-subscriber onboarding agent that activates service, ports numbers, configures devices, and reduces early-life churn.
  • Create a proactive, long-running agent that detects service or account issues, reaches out across channels, and manages resolution before the customer contacts support.
  • Develop a media growth agent that drives content discovery, trial conversion, plan upgrades, and subscription renewal.
  • Partner with Product to develop capabilities for TMT-scale traffic, including low-latency voice, multilingual experiences, proactive communications, and resilient performance during major launches or service events.
What you'll bring
  • Customer obsession. Genuine energy being in front of customers - understanding their business and needs, thriving in complex organizations, and building trusted relationships.
  • Communication. Clear, direct, and persuasive across technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Strategic problem-solving in ambiguity. Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills to break down complex problems, spot risks early, and adapt as things change fast.
  • Technical aptitude. Comfortable engaging directly with technical concepts - reading API documentation, understanding data models and system architecture, and following engineering tradeoffs in a design discussion.
  • Ownership and delivery. A track record of running multiple complex, high-visibility projects at once and driving them to outcomes.
  • Interest in telecommunications, media, and technology. Experience in telecom, streaming and digital media, enterprise or consumer technology, or subscription businesses - and familiarity with customer care, billing, identity, content, or technical support systems - is a strong plus.
Even better...
  • Experience building or deploying AI/LLM agents in production - hands-on with the tools behind them (eval frameworks, agent tooling, RAG, prompt engineering) - working closely with technical counterparts.
  • You've been a founder, founding team member, or operator - you know how to balance craft, ownership, and speed.
  • A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience - and/or an MBA or comparable experience at the intersection of technology and business.
  • Client-facing consulting, solutions, or strategy experience in a technically complex environment.
What we offer

We want our benefits to reflect our values and offer the following to full-time employees:
  • Flexible (unlimited) paid time off
  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits for you and your family
  • Life insurance and disability benefits
  • Retirement plan dependent on country of employment
  • Parental leave
  • Fertility and family building benefits through Carrot
  • Lunch, as well as delicious snacks and coffee to keep you energized
  • Discretionary benefit stipend giving people the ability to spend where it matters most
  • Free alphorn lessons

About Sierra Club

The Sierra Club is a nonprofit organization that promotes environmental conservation. It was founded in 1892 by John Muir and is one of the oldest and largest environmental organizations in the United States. The organization has over 3.8 million members and supporters and is dedicated to protecting the planet's natural resources and wildlife. The Sierra Club engages in a variety of activities, including lobbying for environmental legislation, organizing outdoor activities, and publishing a magazine. The organization is headquartered in Oakland, California.
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