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title: 'AI Strategist at Crucibl'
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# AI Strategist at Crucibl

- **Company:** Crucibl
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-05-07
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/crucibl-ai/am9icG9zdDr6cb5s0nmAGm-soUaw9hcD

## Job description

## About Crucibl

Management consulting is a $400B industry built on selling intelligence-for-hire. The model is breaking. Crucibl is building the AI-native operating system for business decisions — agents that turn messy enterprise data into crisp, actionable outcomes in seconds.

We're not pre-revenue and hoping. We're profitable, growing fast, and delivering for Fortune 500 clients. We raised a $10M seed from Tier 1 VCs — then kept growing on revenue. The client pipeline is full. We're scaling to meet demand.

## The Role

You've delivered high-stakes strategy projects at a top firm. Now imagine doing it with AI as your co-pilot instead of a team of analysts grinding through spreadsheets at 2 AM — and then turning what you learn in the field directly into the next version of the platform.

As an AI Strategist, you own engagements end-to-end — from scoping the problem with a senior client to partnering with engineering on what to build next. You're not building decks for a partner to present. You're in the room, making the call, then building toward something bigger — a product the client keeps. Not a one-time deliverable, but a decision-making tool that stays embedded in their business long after the engagement ends.

## Why Join Now

- The hardest part is done — real revenue, Fortune 500 clients, Tier 1 backing. You're scaling a winning hand, not placing a bet.
- Do the work you loved in consulting — structured problem-solving for high-stakes decisions — without the parts you didn't (the grind, the slow pace of change, the distance from impact)
- Shape the product — your delivery experience directly informs what we build next. You're not just a user of the platform, you're a builder.
- Work directly with founders who have built at Google scale and deployed capital at top consulting and PE firms
- Outsized equity in a company that's already generating revenue and growing fast

## What You'll Do

Client Delivery:

- Own engagements end-to-end — scope the problem, structure the analysis, deliver the recommendation
- Discern what clients need from what they ask for — then architect the right MVP, Phase I, Phase II
- Build senior stakeholder relationships that expand our footprint; grow accounts, not just serve them Judgment & Problem Structuring:
- Take ambiguous, messy business questions and break them into frameworks our AI agents can execute against
- Make calls with incomplete information — you don't wait for perfect data to move
- Know when the deliverable isn't landing and course-correct before the client tells you Product Partnership:
- Be the voice of the client inside the company — and a credible one. Engineering needs to trust your read on what matters and why.
- Know when to push for the right solution and when to accept the trade-off — velocity, complexity, and client need are always in tension
- Translate what you're seeing in the field into product thinking: not just "the client wanted this" but "here's the pattern, here's what it means, here's what we should build"
- The relationship with engineering is a partnership, not a handoff — you'll disagree, debate, and build something neither of you could have alone Scale & Team Building:
- Build the delivery playbook as you go — what you create outlasts any single project
- Help define what great looks like as we hire the next wave of Strategists

## Who You Are

Must-haves:

- 2–5 years at MBB or equivalent top-tier firm — you've owned workstreams and presented to senior clients, not just supported them
- Sharp judgment: you read situations accurately, update fast, and know the difference between a scope problem and a relationship problem
- Exceptional communication — responsive, crisp, client-ready; senior stakeholders trust you immediately
- Deeply curious about AI — you don't need to be an engineer, but you reach for new tools unprompted and use them fluently Strong signal:
- PE deal team or operator experience — you know what it means to be on the hook for the outcome, not just the analysis
- Has led an AI-powered initiative — fast to ramp, not just familiar
- Entrepreneurial streak — you've built something, started something, or operated somewhere with nowhere to hide We're not looking for:
- Pure MBB without operational exposure — strategy without touching grass isn't enough
- Traditional PMs — this role owns client outcomes, not backlogs

Who You'll Work With Our founders bring deep technology experience (Google-scale systems serving hundreds of millions of users) and domain expertise in high-stakes business decisions from top consulting and private equity firms. You'll work side by side with engineers — your consulting rigor shaping what gets built, their technical depth making it possible.

## Why This Matters

85% of the global economy runs on enterprises. The biggest frontier in AI isn't better models - it's judgment at scale. You'll be on the front lines, proving that AI can deliver the quality of insight Fortune 500 companies currently pay millions for - faster, sharper, and at a fraction of the cost.

You won't just advise companies on strategy. You'll prove a better way exists.

## Equal Opportunity Employer

Crucibl is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Crucibl welcomes applications from candidates requiring visa sponsorship. Sponsorship eligibility for exceptional candidates is determined during the offer process.

## About Crucibl

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Crucibl is building an AI-powered strategic intelligence system that replaces episodic consulting with continuous, automated analysis for large enterprises.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage – raised $10M)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: Not publicly available
- **Founders**: Nidhi Shanbhag (CEO), Daniel Kurka (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI-powered strategic intelligence / automated data analysis for business decision support
- **Target customers**: B2B, large enterprises (Fortune 500)
- **Mission or purpose**: “Strategy that never sleeps” – embed continuous AI-driven intelligence directly into organizations so the capability stays, compounds, and scales.

## Products & Services
- **Crucibl Platform**: A SaaS system that ingests structured company data, links entities and relationships, continuously runs scenarios, and generates insights and briefs for human review. Users can query tables to get analytical results (e.g., marketing, pricing, risk assessment) that would normally cost six figures in consulting fees. Key specs: 38ms latency, 14.2M edges in the knowledge graph, unlimited uptime.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: $10M in seed funding raised (from Tier 1 VCs, led by Khosla Ventures)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Khosla Ventures (sole institutional investor per Tracxn)
- **Growth Signals**: Described as profitable and growing fast; working with Fortune 500 clients; actively hiring multiple roles (MTS, Applied Scientist, AI Strategist); strong customer pipeline.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Continuous intelligence** – unlike episodic consulting engagements, Crucibl runs 24/7, constantly updating models and generating insights.
- **Speed and scale** – 38ms query latency, 14.2M+ edges in a linked entity graph.
- **Structured, governed ingestion** – ingests everything the company emits, gates access, and links every decision to prior context.
- **Human-in-the-loop** – outputs briefs for human judgment, blending AI speed with executive oversight.

## Strategic Focus
- Scale the platform to more Fortune 500 clients.
- Deepen the knowledge graph (memory) and reasoning capabilities.
- Build out the founding team with high-agency engineers and applied scientists.
- Transition from stealth to public presence while maintaining a high-trust customer base.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as a “cracked, high-agency founding team” – emphasis on ownership, speed, and impact.
- **Work model**: Hybrid (San Francisco office); roles are listed as “Hybrid” for engineering and research positions.
- **Perks**: Working directly with founders in a stealth, well-funded startup; solving huge problems for the “real economy”; strong pipeline of customers ensures stability.
- **Engineering culture**: Focus on systems, memory, reasoning, and user experience. Roles include Member of Technical Staff (MTS), Applied Scientist, and AI Strategist.

## Sources
1. [crucibl.ai](https://www.crucibl.ai/) – Company website
2. [crucibl.ai/hiring](https://www.crucibl.ai/hiring) – Hiring page with founder info and seed funding details
3. [linkedin.com/company/crucibl-ai](https://linkedin.com/company/crucibl-ai) – LinkedIn company page (size, industry)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/crucibl](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/crucibl) – Current job openings and location
5. [tracxn.com](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/crucibl/__-QumaFOxc6BwRX_r6do-3jLuQfDlY58G7R2CcXACit0) – Tracxn profile (funding, competitors, description)

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