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Posted Mar 2Strategic Projects Lead
at fireworks
On-site
Responsibilities
- RESPONSIBILITIES: - Identify and create new strategic capabilities for Fireworks, like new GTM motions or standardized GTM playbooks - Build deep relationships with customers and lead strategic customer engagements from initial sale to long-term success - Determine product roadmap needs and instrument solutions end-to-end - Own and drive cross-functional initiatives from definition to execution, like partnership creation and model launches MINIMUM
Requirements
- ABOUT US: At Fireworks, we’re building the future of generative AI infrastructure.
- We’ve been independently benchmarked as the leader in LLM inference speed and are driving cutting-edge innovation through projects like our own function calling and multimodal models.
- We’re an ambitious, collaborative team of builders, founded by veterans of Meta PyTorch and Google Vertex AI.
- In the last few months alone we launched Fireworks Training, partnered with Microsoft Azure Foundry, and published research straight from our production systems.
- (blog https://fireworks.ai/blog/frontier-rl-is-cheaper-than-you-think) - Open source agents with frontier advisors: matching frontier performance through training and harness engineering.
- (blog https://fireworks.ai/blog/open-source-agents-frontier-advisors) - The fine-tuning bottleneck is not the algorithm: integration friction and iteration speed are what actually stall teams; we documented the patterns across dozens of customer engagements.
- (blog) https://fireworks.ai/blog/fine-tuning-bottlenecks THE ROLE: Fireworks AI is looking for a Strategic Projects Lead to drive high-impact, cross-functional initiatives.
- We’re looking for a high-agency operator to wear many hats at the intersection of Engineering, Product, and GTM.
- experience in a high-ownership, fast-paced environment (consulting, product management, software or banking) - Entrepreneurial mindset - excitement about wearing many hats and ability to identify issues and execute quickly - Fluency to engage with senior stakeholders in client and partner organizations - Technical fluency in AI, ML infrastructure, or cloud platforms - Proven track record of leading complex technical or cross-functional initiatives - Analytical capability and comfortability driving
- Experience working on ML infrastructure, inference systems, or AI platforms -
- Experience supporting enterprise or strategic customers - Prior
- experience in infrastructure, DevEx, or performance optimization initiatives -
- Experience operating in high-growth startup environments WHY FIREWORKS AI?
- - Solve Hard Problems: Tackle challenges at the forefront of AI infrastructure, from low-latency inference to scalable model serving.
- - Ownership & Impact: Join a fast-growing, passionate team where your work directly shapes the future of AI—no bureaucracy, just results.
- - Learn from the Best: Collaborate with world-class engineers and AI researchers who thrive on curiosity and innovation.
- Fireworks AI is an equal-opportunity employer.
Experience
- REQUIREMENTS: - We’re hiring smart hungry people at a variety of experience levels - 1+ years of
Additional details
- Our platform delivers the highest-quality models with the fastest and most scalable inference in the industry.
- A few examples of what that looks like in practice: - Frontier RL is cheaper than the mega-cluster narrative suggests: we ran cross-region rollouts using 98% sparse weight deltas and published what we learned.
- You’ll be part of the Fireworks product organization where you’ll be an expert in Fireworks’ products and customers.
- You’ll use that knowledge to drive high-priority, end-to-end projects across the company. KEY
- We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all innovators.