Sierra
Strategist, Agent Development - Travel, Transportation and Hospitality
$200K–$290K
San Francisco, CA +1 · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 1, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
New York, NY - Experience
- No specific years stated; track record of managing multiple complex, high-visibility projects and delivering outcomes.
- Education
- Not required; preferred: a degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience; and/or an MBA or comparable experience at the intersection of technology and business.
About the job
Owns the end-to-end development and production launch of customer-facing AI agents for travel, transportation, and hospitality customers, while advising enterprise leaders and feeding customer needs into product development.
What you'll do
- Lead agent development from scoping and conversation design through tooling, evaluation, launch, and ongoing production iteration.
- Advise customer executives on AI strategy and work with customer teams to troubleshoot agents and keep deployments on track.
- Identify unmet customer needs and share them with research and platform teams to inform product direction.
What they ask for
- Strong customer relationship-building and ability to work effectively in complex organizations.
- Clear, persuasive communication with technical and non-technical audiences.
- Analytical and critical-thinking skills for solving ambiguous problems and identifying risks.
- Technical aptitude to read API documentation, understand data models and system architecture, and discuss engineering tradeoffs.
Nice to have
- Production experience building or deploying AI/LLM agents, including familiarity with eval frameworks, agent tooling, RAG, or prompt engineering.
- Founder, founding-team, or operator experience.
Pay
$200K – $290K USD base salary
Tools
AI/LLM agents, eval frameworks, agent tooling, RAG, prompt engineering
AI focus
Develop, evaluate, launch, and continuously improve customer-facing AI agents that address customer business needs and deliver measurable outcomes.
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