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Posted 4 weeks agoPeople Programs Lead
at AfterQuery
San Francisco, United StatesOn-site
Responsibilities
- - Build the career pathways and leveling rubric that operators see, in writing, what excellence at the next level looks like and how to get there.
- - Design learning & development programs for a high-agency, early-career workforce — onboarding, manager training, technical depth, and feedback culture.
- - Own retention as a measurable outcome: define the leading indicators, build the sensing systems, and run programs that move the metric.
Requirements
- We serve every frontier AI lab with the mission of delivering the best data to power the best models.
- This is a rare opportunity to join a company at a defining moment in AI.
- 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.
- Full-time ABOUT AFTERQUERY AfterQuery is building the human-data layer that the next generation of AI models is trained on.
- Frontier labs and AI-first companies depend on us to deliver high-quality, expert-generated data — fast, with rigor, and at a level of taste that off-the-shelf labeling vendors cannot match.
- You are excited to tackle the talent opportunities specific to an AI-native company, and/or internalize the insights from the kind of work that Handshake AI, Block, and a small set of others have had to navigate as they reorient around AI products and AI-native talent.
- experience across a combination of top-tier strategy consulting, analytical or strategy & operations roles, and core People / HR programs work. - Time at companies known for strong People programs (e.g., Stripe, Block/Square, Netflix, Airbnb, Bridgewater), or industry peers such as Mercor, Surge, or ScaleAI.
- 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.
- WHY AFTERQUERY - You’ll build the People function for a fast growing company in the AI training-data category. - A real seat at the strategy table — comp, leveling, and org design will shape product velocity and burn, and you’ll own that. - A small, dense team with high standards.