Agent Development Strategist Lead
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Enterprise conversational-AI platform that helps businesses build and operate customer-experience agents across channels.
San Francisco, United States
About Sierra
Sierra provides an AI platform for businesses to build, deploy, analyze, and optimize customer-facing agents across chat, SMS, WhatsApp, email, voice, and ChatGPT.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead the Agent Development Life Cycle from scoping through production iteration. You will manage strategists, guide enterprise customer deployments, run working sessions, ensure delivery quality, and translate customer needs into product priorities.
Requirements
- Customer-facing relationship-building skills
- Clear communication for technical and non-technical audiences
- Analytical and critical-thinking skills
- Hands-on leadership experience
- Technical aptitude with API documentation, data models, and system architecture
- Experience leading multiple complex projects
- Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, related technical degree, equivalent practical experience, MBA, or comparable experience
Responsibilities
- Lead AI agents through scoping, conversation design, tooling, evaluation, launch, and production iteration
- Coach strategists on Agent Development Life Cycle practices
- Manage a team of strategists and support hiring and onboarding
- Advise enterprise leaders on AI strategy
- Run customer working sessions and troubleshoot agents
- Ensure delivery quality and customer impact across the portfolio
- Surface customer needs and influence product initiatives
Benefits
- Flexible unlimited paid time off
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits for employees and their families
- Life insurance and disability benefits
- Retirement plan dependent on country of employment
- Parental leave
- Fertility and family building benefits through Carrot
- Lunch, snacks, and coffee
- Discretionary benefit stipend
- Free alphorn lessons
- Equity plan participation
