Data Acquisition Lead, Frontier Environments
Core
Own the commercial motion to acquire proprietary data from organizations for building RL environments and AI systems.
Role type
Zero-to-one business development lead (data acquisition)
Builds
Commercial pipelines for acquiring datasets to train AI models
Domain
AI infrastructure, data markets, enterprise data licensing
Deliverable
client delivery
Required skills
Business development, corporate development, commercial strategy, deal structuring, cold outreach, stakeholder management, technical translation, independent operation, building new functions from scratch
Preferred skills
Experience in AI, data infrastructure, marketplaces, platforms, high-growth tech, post-training, RL, evals, synthetic data, data licensing, IP, regulated data, partnering with Legal/Finance
Technologies
None explicitly listed
Responsibilities
Map the supply side of data by identifying organizations holding underlying data, invent deal structures with legal, close deals from outreach to signature, collaborate with technical teams on dataset trainability, build repeatable acquisition pipelines
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC