AfterQuery captures how experts reason and turns real-world professional work into high-quality training data for frontier foundation models. Backed by Y Combinator.
About the role
As the Head of Expert Marketplace / Technical GM, you'll own AfterQuery's expert marketplace strategy, acquisition, activation, matching, retention, and quality, leading the team responsible for expert sourcing, onboarding, and staffing. You'll build scalable supply systems across domains, partnering with Engineering on requirements for applications, assessments, matching, and automation, and setting the metrics and cadences that track staffing speed, conversion, and quality.
What they're looking for
- Experience building or operating a marketplace, talent network, labor platform, recruiting system, expert network, or contractor supply function
- Strong product and systems thinking, with the ability to design scalable processes across complex workflows
- Technical enough to partner deeply with engineers on product requirements, roadmap tradeoffs, and implementation priorities
- Strong analytical intuition around funnels, liquidity, activation, matching, conversion, and quality signals
- Experience managing operators or cross-functional teams in a high-growth environment
- High ownership, strong communication, and ability to operate in a fast-changing environment
More about this role
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.
Massive Opportunity: Forbes reported that we could be YC's fastest unicorn, reportedly raising at a $3.2 billion valuation, and we're not slowing down.
Founding Impact: You will own and architect core infrastructure systems that power our platform from the ground up.
Equity & Growth: Competitive salary and meaningful equity. As we scale, you’ll have the opportunity to...
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