Growth Associate

AfterQuery is an applied research lab curating data solutions for foundation model development. We serve every frontier AI lab with the mission of delivering the best data to power the best models. In doing so, we can make expertise that once took a lifetime to build available to anyone who needs it.

Our customers are the ones building the foundation models themselves and our work sits directly in the loop of how those systems improve. This is a rare opportunity to join a company at a defining moment in AI. Forbes reported that we could be YC's fastest unicorn, reportedly raising at a $3.2 billion valuation. We're based in San Francisco and backed by leading investors including Altos Ventures, BoxGroup, and Y Combinator and angels from Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta Superintelligence Labs, and Microsoft AI.

AfterQuery is hiring a Growth Associate to architect and scale the expert supply engine powering frontier AI training. You'll own both manual and automated acquisition pipelines to grow the expert network from 100K to hundreds of thousands and beyond. This blends GTM automation engineering, talent acquisition, operational excellence, and distribution. It is not a typical growth role: it's technical, operational, and strategic, working directly with the founding team, designing scalable systems, running experiments, recruiting elite experts and operators, building automation stacks, and driving brand amplification.

This is fundamentally a high-agency generalist role. The strongest hires own things end to end, figure things out on their own, and thrive in high-pressure, fast-paced environments where they juggle a lot, not people who need to be told what to do. Sourcing itself can be taught; what's hard to teach is diligence, initiative, and competitive drive.

What you'll own:

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

Run experiments on funnel performance and iterate on what scales

Recruit elite experts and operators into the expert network

Build the automation stack (Clay, Instantly, Apollo, Zapier, custom scripts and scrapers) that makes scale possible

Drive brand amplification across channels

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