Sieve
Business Development
$175K–$275K
San Francisco · On-site · Full-time · Posted Sep 1, 2026
About the job
Build strategic relationships and generate business opportunities with frontier AI labs and related organizations, while running programs that create inbound demand.
What you'll do
- Develop relationships with AI labs, identify opportunities, and connect external stakeholders with Sieve’s general managers.
- Research lab organizations, priorities, and emerging data needs; equip internal teams with stakeholder and opportunity context.
- Lead demand-generation initiatives such as events, conferences, ecosystem partnerships, and marketing programs.
What they ask for
- Deep familiarity with the frontier AI lab and AI data ecosystem, including an existing network or demonstrated ability to build trusted relationships.
- Experience in strategic business development, partnerships, investing, company-building, or another relationship-driven AI role.
- Strong understanding of foundation-model training and improvement, including pretraining, post-training, evaluations, human and multimodal data, and RL environments.
- Technical judgment to assess training data and hold credible conversations with AI researchers and technical leaders.
Nice to have
- Experience at a human-data, training-data, evaluation, or AI infrastructure company.
- Direct experience scoping or executing data engagements with frontier AI labs.
Pay
$175K – $275K USD base salary
AI focus
Business development for multimodal training data and infrastructure; engage with needs related to foundation-model training, post-training, evaluations, human data, and RL environments.
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