Associate AI Strategist | Careers at Scope

About Scope

Scope is an applied AI company. We build custom AI systems and agents that run real workflows inside enterprises, things like customer onboarding, contract drafting, campaign launches, and the operational work that today eats hours of human time.

AI has flipped the economics of enterprise software. It's now faster and cheaper to build a custom system per client than to force that client to bend their processes around off-the-shelf tools. The results: customer onboarding compressed from days to hours, contract drafting reduced by 90%, campaign launches that used to take days now ship in under an hour.

Scope is backed by Pear VC, one of Silicon Valley's most respected pre-seed funds and an early investor in DoorDash, Gusto, Dropbox, and Vanta.

About the Role

We're looking for an Associate AI Strategist to work alongside the founders on our most important client engagements. You'll sit between the executive room and the production codebase: joining discovery sessions with C-level stakeholders, helping design the AI workflows and systems that solve their problem, and shipping the production code that makes it real.

This is an early-career role with a clear ramp. You'll start by learning the playbook from the founders and grow into owning the relationship, the solution, and the outcome.

Responsibilities

Join the Discover phase of client engagements: participate in workshops with executives, help map processes and data, and contribute to scoping where AI creates the most value
Translate discovery findings into concrete Design alongside the founders, combining off-the-shelf APIs, custom build, and the Scope Context Layer, with crisp reasoning about tradeoffs
Deploy: build and ship production AI systems alongside engineering, including agentic workflows, knowledge systems, analytical pipelines, and automations
Write production-grade code in Python/FastAPI and TypeScript/Node, integrating with LLM frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, and the Anthropic and OpenAI SDKs
Translate what we learn at clients into platform improvements, feeding the Scope Context Layer so each engagement compounds

Requirements

CS background or equivalent technical foundation; can ship code in Python and/or TypeScript and pick up LLM frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph, Anthropic and OpenAI SDKs, MCP) on the job
Real interest in how businesses operate, not only the engineering side
Comfortable in an unstructured environment: can take a vague problem and make progress without a step-by-step playbook
Strong written and spoken communication; can hold your own in a meeting with senior client stakeholders early in the role
Smart, hungry, fast learner who likes the breadth of an early-stage company
Authorization to work in the US on a permanent basis (US citizen or lawful permanent resident). We're unable to sponsor visas at this time.

Bonus

Internship or first-role experience at a top-tier strategy consultancy (BCG, McKinsey, Bain) or technical practice (BCG X, McKinsey QuantumBlack, Bain Vector) or product organization
Built or led something end-to-end (a startup, a product, a research project, a campus initiative)
Hands-on experience with LLM frameworks, agent systems, or RAG pipelines, including from side projects
Bilingual English/Spanish