Research & Product Lead

Sieve; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k + Full Health Insurance

Meals provided

Uber rides covered home

Job summary

Sieve is looking for a Research & Product Lead in San Francisco to manage key AI lab relationships. This role requires a strong understanding of ML/AI workflows and excellent relationship-building capabilities. Candidates should be comfortable translating customer requirements into actionable priorities and work closely with various teams to ensure successful customer deliverables. Benefits include full health insurance and meals covered at the HQ.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of data pipelines and model training.
• Natural relationship builder with a strong external network.
• Excellent communication skills across technical and business audiences.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced startup environment.

Responsibilities

• Own and grow relationships with top AI lab customers.
• Serve as technical point of contact regarding data pipelines.
• Translate customer feedback into clear internal briefs.
• Drive renewals and upsells by identifying new dataset needs.
• Collaborate with partnerships, engineering, and data ops teams.
• Contribute to sales processes including demos and proposals.

Skills

Understanding of ML/AI workflows

Relationship building

Excellent communication

Comfortable with ambiguity

Job description

About the Role

As a Research & Product Lead, you'll be the primary face of Sieve to our customers, top AI labs building frontier models. You'll combine deep technical fluency with strong relationship skills to manage our most important accounts, drive revenue expansion, and translate customer needs into internal priorities. This role sits at the intersection of product, applied research, and customer engagement, and requires someone equally comfortable in a technical deep-dive as they are shaping roadmap priorities or navigating a commercial conversation. Relationships are central to this role. The strongest candidates will already be plugged into the AI lab ecosystem and have trust built with the people and teams we work with.

What You'll Do

• Own and grow relationships with Sieve's top AI lab customers end-to-end, from onboarding through expansion
• Serve as the technical point of contact, understanding customer data pipelines, model training workflows, and how Sieve's datasets fit into their stack
• Translate customer feedback and requirements into clear internal briefs for engineering and data ops
• Drive renewals and upsells by identifying new dataset needs and partnership opportunities within existing accounts
• Collaborate closely with the partnerships, engineering, and data ops teams to ensure customer deliverables are met on time and at quality
• Contribute to sales processes for new customers including demos, technical scoping, and proposal development

Requirements

• Strong understanding of ML/AI workflows, particularly around data pipelines and model training
• A natural relationship builder with a strong external network, especially across AI labs and frontier model companies
• Excellent communication skills, able to translate between engineering and business audiences fluently
• Comfortable with ambiguity and moving fast in a startup environment
• In-person at our SF HQ

Nice to Have

• Existing relationships at AI labs or frontier model companies
• Background in video, media, or content-related technologies
• Prior startup experience, especially as an early hire
• Experience in product, technical operations, or a customer-facing technical role

Benefits

• 401k + Full Health Insurance
• Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner covered and your choice of snacks
• Ubers covered home