# Head of Expert Marketplace / Technical GM

**Company:** [AfterQuery](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/afterquery)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Business Operations
**Salary:** $200k – $400k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** marketplace operations, talent networks, expert sourcing, product requirements, System Design, Analytics, Cross-Functional Leadership
**Posted:** 2026-07-24

> Lead the expert marketplace strategy and operations for an AI data company, owning acquisition, matching, retention, and quality while building scalable systems and partnering closely with Engineering. Requires marketplace/talent platform experience, strong product/systems thinking, and technical depth to define product requirements.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own AfterQuery’s expert marketplace strategy across acquisition, activation, matching, retention, and quality
- Lead the operating team responsible for expert sourcing, onboarding, and project staffing
- Build scalable systems and processes for expert supply across multiple domains and project types
- Partner closely with Engineering to define product requirements for applications, assessments, expert profiles, matching, and automation
- Establish metrics, dashboards, and operating cadences for expert supply, staffing speed, conversion, and quality
- Work cross-functionally with Ops, Research, and Engineering to ensure the right experts are matched to the right project requirements
- Identify opportunities to improve expert conversion, reactivation, referrals, and long-term marketplace liquidity
- Help build the long-term organizational structure for AfterQuery’s expert marketplace function

## Required Qualifications
- Experience building or operating a marketplace, talent network, labor platform, recruiting system, expert network, or contractor supply function
- Strong product and systems thinking, with the ability to design scalable processes across complex workflows
- Technical enough to partner deeply with engineers on product requirements, roadmap tradeoffs, and implementation priorities
- Strong analytical intuition around funnels, liquidity, activation, matching, conversion, and quality signals
- Experience managing operators or cross-functional teams in a high-growth environment
- High ownership, strong communication, and ability to operate in a fast-changing environment
- Deep care for speed, quality, customer impact, expert experience, and building systems that scale

## Not a Fit If
- You are primarily interested in traditional marketing growth
- You do not want to work closely with engineers, operators, and domain experts
- You prefer narrow execution roles over owning a broad business function
- You are uncomfortable balancing strategy, systems, and day-to-day execution
- You would solve expert supply only by adding headcount rather than improving systems and process
- You are not excited by building a high-quality expert marketplace for frontier AI data

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