# People Programs Lead at AfterQuery

- Company: AfterQuery
- What the company does: AfterQuery captures how experts reason and turns real-world professional work into high-quality training data for frontier foundation models. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://afterquery.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $190K to $230K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-05-15
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/afterquery/2ba013e1-d254-4436-afd7-19d0b451424f
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/afterquery-people-programs-lead/

## About the role

This is our first dedicated People Programs hire , reporting to the Head of Business Operations & People. You will own the systems that turn AfterQuery from a fast-growing team into a durable institution. Join to help build comp philosophy and bands, leveling and career pathways, performance management, learning & development, and retention.

## What they're looking for

- 7-10+ years of experience across a combination of top-tier strategy consulting, analytical or strategy & operations roles, and core People / HR programs work
- Quantitative rigor that goes beyond comp benchmarks: you can model leveling decisions, attrition, comp band overlap, and equity refresh tradeoffs, and you reach for the spreadsheet before the slide
- A point of view. You can debate with founders about decisions, and bring the data and the company’s values to back it up
- Demonstrated ability to design programs from 0→ 1. Bonus points if you have done this through a strategy shift
- A genuine interest in the AfterQuery thesis: that the future of AI is bottlenecked on human data, and that the workforce generating that data is the most important product decision the company makes
- High agency, low ego, written-first. Comfortable in a 5-day in-office SF environment that prizes speed and direct feedback

Tags: Internal Ops