About AfterQuery

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. Since raising our $30M Series A at a $300M valuation, AfterQuery has grown well over a $100M revenue run rate.

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 and are based in San Francisco.

Business Operations

AfterQuery is hiring a Business Operations lead to work directly with our CEO as we scale to become one of the fastest-growing AI companies of all time. You will be the operational backbone of the company—owning our hiring pipeline, managing day-to-day administration, and ensuring the founding team's time is protected and focused on what matters most.

This is an in-person role. You'll be embedded with the founding team in San Francisco, moving at the speed of the company.

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—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, and Palantir.

Why Apply

Massive Opportunity: We are growing incredibly fast and have reached millions in monthly revenue in < 12 months. The foundation model labs are scaling faster than any technology companies in history. We sit at the center of that growth, providing the data and infrastructure needed to push the frontier forward

Founding Role: Own the job from day one

Competitive Salary + Meaningful Equity in a fast-scaling company

High Caliber Team: Work alongside a founding team that left firms like Citadel Securities, Jane Street, Meta, Palantir, Goldman Sachs, and McKinsey. Join for a front-row seat at the frontier with the most talent-dense team you've ever worked with

Responsibilities

1. Hiring Pipeline Support: Support recruiting end-to-end, from sourcing and top-of-funnel outreach to coordinating interviews and work trials, managing candidate relationships, and managing external recruiters. You'll be the operational force that keeps hiring moving quickly and without gaps.

2. Admin & Office Operations: Support the company's administrative infrastructure: financials (payroll, expense tracking, vendor payments, invoicing), real estate and lease management, office setup, and any other operational foundations that keep the business running smoothly.

3. Operations & Sales Support: Step in wherever the founding team needs support, whether that's prepping materials for customer calls, tracking deal progress, drafting contracts, or solving cross-functional bottlenecks as they arise.

4. CEO Support & Strategic Execution: Serve as the right hand to the CEO across whatever the company needs most. This includes driving decision-making, owning high-priority cross-functional projects, and external communications, building and refining company operating cadences, monitoring core business metrics, identifying and eliminating operational bottlenecks, and acting as organizational glue as the team scales. If it matters to the company and doesn't have a clear owner, it's yours.

Required Qualifications

• 1-2 years of experience at a top investment bank, consulting firm, or private equity firm

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; ability to distill complex information and drive clarity

• Track record of owning ambiguous, high-stakes projects and delivering results under tight timelines

• Strong quantitative and analytical skills; comfortable with data, metrics, and building lightweight tools/dashboards

• Obsessive attention to detail paired with strategic thinking and business judgment

• Extreme ownership mentality—you see problems and fix them without being asked

• Thrives in fast-paced, unstructured environments; comfortable with rapid context-switching

• Collaborative, low-ego, high-trust operator who earns respect through execution

Preferred Qualifications

• Technical background or strong technical fluency (ability to engage credibly with engineering and research teams)

• Experience across multiple functions: operations, strategy, finance, go-to-market, product, recruiting