AfterQuery
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Marketing Lead

Location
San Francisco, CA · On-site
Job type
Full-time
Level
Lead / Staff
Experience
2+ years
Listed
30 days ago

Skills & highlights for this role

  • B2B marketing
  • product marketing
  • campaign management
  • positioning and messaging for technical audiences

Also useful

  • developer marketing
  • open-source marketing
  • technical writing

Stated benefits & perks

  • Health
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k match
  • Meal stipend

Why Apply

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 shape the engineering organization and lead major technical initiatives.

Strong Team: Our founding team has experience from Citadel Securities, Meta, Google, Silver Lake, and Morgan Stanley - work alongside world-class engineers and researchers.

Overview

We're looking for a Marketing Lead to help expand our online presence and brand perception as an industry-leading research lab curating human data. 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. You'll work across Ops, Research, and Engineering to match experts to the right projects, grow conversion and marketplace liquidity, and shape the long-term structure of the expert marketplace function.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and execute AfterQuery’s go-to-market and brand strategy for technical and enterprise audiences
  • Design, launch, and optimize multi-channel marketing campaigns to drive awareness, product adoption, and customer engagement across frontier AI labs
  • Collaborate with founders and technical teams to craft compelling messaging for our offerings and breakthroughs
  • Own marketing content creation-including case studies, whitepapers, presentations, and press releases
  • Analyze campaign effectiveness, optimize strategies, and report on key performance metrics
  • Represent AfterQuery at industry events, conferences, and online communities

Required Qualifications

  • 2-5 years of experience in marketing, product marketing, or growth at a B2B or technical company (AI, software, or data infrastructure experience a strong plus)
  • Deep understanding of AI, ML, and the evolving landscape of foundation models
  • Strong communicator with experience crafting positioning and messaging for technical audiences
  • Proven track record launching and scaling marketing campaigns that drive measurable results
  • Experience working in fast-paced startup or research lab environments
  • Hands-on approach, comfort wearing multiple hats, and ability to execute independently

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience marketing products or services to AI labs or technical researchers
  • Familiarity with developer-focused or open-source marketing
  • Background in technical writing or communications

Company Benefits (For Eligible Employees)

  • Health Insurance: Medical, Vision, Dental
  • 401(k) with Employer Match
  • Daily Meals: Daily UberEats Stipend
  • Monthly Wellness Stipend

We comply with applicable pay transparency requirements and provide compensation ranges based on the position, qualifications, experience, and other relevant factors. This job description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed and is not an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, qualifications, or working conditions associated with the position. We reserve the right to modify this job description as business needs change.

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. 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.

Read the original posting

From AfterQuery's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 10, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.

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