Growth Associate

AfterQuery is hiring a Growth Associate 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, operational excellence, and distribution.

This is not a typical “growth” role. It is a technical, 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, and drive brand amplification.

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

• Build, optimize, and scale automated expert sourcing pipelines

• Leverage LinkedIn and similar platforms to identify and bring on professionals from diverse industries

• Manage concurrent recruiting workflows to deliver high volumes of qualified experts

Required Qualifications

• Experience scaling talent networks or marketplaces, recruiting, or outbound sales/lead generation

• 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 automation/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