Full-Time

AI Strategist

Posted on 7/25/2025

Pareto

Pareto

501-1,000 employees

Data collection, web research, lead generation

No salary listed

San Francisco, CA, USA

Remote

Category
Business & Strategy (2)
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Required Skills
Python
Data Science
Machine Learning
Requirements
  • Deep understanding of AI/ML technologies - you can discuss transformer architectures, fine-tuning approaches, and deployment considerations
  • Hands-on experience with AI tools and platforms (experience with Python, notebooks, or API integration is a plus)
  • Ability to work directly with data scientists, engineers, and technical stakeholders
  • Strong business acumen with experience in business model innovation
  • Comfort with ambiguity and creating structure from scratch
  • Excellent facilitation and workshop leadership skills
  • Track record of driving expansion within complex enterprise accounts
  • Bachelor’s degree in a technical or business field; an advanced degree preferred for senior roles
  • Experience designing experiments, A/B tests, or evaluation frameworks for AI/ML systems
  • Familiarity with evaluation metrics, benchmarking approaches, and statistical analysis
Responsibilities
  • Identify and develop transformative AI opportunities within existing customer organizations
  • Design and prototype novel business models that leverage AI capabilities
  • Work hands-on with customers’ technical teams to identify high-value AI applications
  • Collaborate with internal experts to build proof-of-concepts and pilots
  • Drive expansion through strategic upsell and cross-sell initiatives
  • Lead customer workshops and innovation sessions to uncover new use cases
  • Develop deep expertise in AI/ML technologies and their practical applications
  • Partner with product and engineering teams to translate customer needs into solutions
  • Create repeatable playbooks for AI value creation across industries
  • Build economic models and business cases for AI initiatives
Desired Qualifications
  • Advanced degree in a technical or business field preferred for senior roles
  • Experience with Python, notebooks, or API integration is a plus
  • Experience designing experiments, A/B tests, or evaluation frameworks for AI/ML systems (if not already in requirements)
  • Familiarity with evaluation metrics, benchmarking approaches, and statistical analysis (if not already in requirements)
  • Experience with AI tools and platforms (specific tools not enumerated)

Pareto provides data collection, web research, and lead generation for growing businesses. Its service combines an expert research team with powerful software to gather high-quality, vetted data quickly and accurately. Hundreds of businesses, including Modern Fertility, ClearCo, and AuntFlow, use Pareto to boost sales, marketing, and operations. The product works by blending manual data gathering with software-driven analysis to deliver reliable lists and insights for outreach. Pareto differentiates itself through its combination of human expertise and fast data processing, delivering vetted leads faster than traditional research firms. The goal is to help customers scale their growth by providing trustworthy data to fuel sales and marketing activities.

Company Size

501-1,000

Company Stage

Seed

Total Funding

$5.1M

Headquarters

Palo Alto, California

Founded

2020

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Hundreds of businesses including Modern Fertility use Pareto for sales amplification.
  • Expert team with software delivers high-quality vetted data rapidly.
  • Serves AI labs building safer models via nondeterministic judgment transformation.

What critics are saying

  • Upwork lawsuit alleges worker misclassification, demands $15M backpay in 6-12 months.
  • Anthropic's workforce expansion cuts 40% of Pareto's AI lab contracts in 3-6 months.
  • OpenAI o1 reduces human preference data needs by 90%, obsoletes RLHF in 12-24 months.

What makes Pareto unique

  • Pareto verifies reinforcement learning with expert judgment as durable reward signals.
  • Thiel Fellow Phoebe Yao pivoted Pareto to AI model knowledge capture platform.
  • Stackmatix partners with Pareto to enhance outbound sales processes.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Remote Work Options

Home Office Stipend

Company Equity

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

8%

1 year growth

10%

2 year growth

13%
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