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title: 'Applied AI Strategist at Thread AI'
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# Applied AI Strategist at Thread AI

- **Company:** Thread AI
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2025-11-30
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/thread-ai/9b580432-b3d3-455a-a619-e41548826e5c

## Job description

Thread AI Thread AI is focused on building an AI-native workflow orchestration engine looking for dedicated individuals to join its growing team. Our goal is to make infrastructure simple for enterprises and public sector agencies seeking to get the most from AI. Headquartered in New York, our growing team is a group of AI, product, and engineering experts, who have a track record of creating and executing against complex workflows and infrastructure.

## About The Role

As an Applied AI Strategist at Thread AI, you will work as the connective tissue between our composable AI infrastructure and the complex realities of our customers' businesses. You will join a driven team of Applied Engineers to deploy our platform against the most critical operational challenges enterprises face today. Your mission is to synthesize disconnected workflows and raw ambition into a clear understanding of what the problem is, how AI agents can solve it, and where the measurable impact lies. You will immerse yourself in our customers' most intricate processes, architecting AI solutions that transform how they work. This role requires a curious and analytical approach, a sharp intuition for value-oriented agentic workflows, and a strong degree of user empathy to ultimately empower our customers to build better.

No two days are the same, but you can expect to:

- Deep-Dive Discovery: Go onsite and meet with customer stakeholders to understand the critical bottlenecks they face and locate high-leverage opportunities for AI automation.
- Solution Architecture: Use the Lemma platform to build customized agents and workflows. You will be hands-on with the tools, configuring logic and integrations to solve specific user problems.
- Technical Integration: Work closely with our Applied AI Engineering team to assist customers to connect APIs, datasources, and models easily into the Lemma platform.
- User Enablement: Lead training sessions to ensure that the AI solutions are meeting user needs and having a concrete impact on their operations.
- Strategic Reporting: Present the results of deployments and proposals for future roadmap items to audiences ranging from technical leads to C-suite executives.
- Product Feedback Loop: Embed with our Software Engineering and Product Design teams to incorporate "field intelligence" into the core Thread AI platform.
- Scope & Scale: Build and deliver demos to new and existing customers, scoping out potential engagements in new verticals.

## What We Value

- First-Principles Thinking: Team members who aren’t satisfied with surface-level answers and will dive into the details of the data and the logic behind the AI.
- Mission First: Low ego because the outcome—customer success and product stability—matters more than who gets the credit.
- Ambiguity Tolerance: Extraordinary ability to confront open-ended problems in unstructured environments where the "right answer" hasn't been defined yet.
- Technical Aptitude: Comfort with technical concepts (APIs, data structures, model capabilities) and a willingness to learn the Thread platform inside and out.

## Compensation

$145,000 - $200,000 + Equity

Applicant must be a U.S. citizen or national or U.S. lawful, permanent resident.

This is a full-time, in-person position based at our New York City office.

## About Thread AI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Thread AI builds Lemma, a composable AI orchestration infrastructure and workflow platform that enables enterprises to safely deploy governed, reliable AI agents in mission-critical operations.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed + Series A funding)
- **Headquarters**: New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Angela McNeal (CEO) and Mayada Gonimah (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI infrastructure / enterprise software
- **Target customers**: Regulated industries, Fortune 500 enterprises, public sector agencies, and any organization running business‑critical processes that require audit, control, and reliability.
- **Mission**: Bridge the gap between powerful AI models and production operations by providing controlled autonomy – letting AI agents act independently within clearly defined operational boundaries.

## Products & Services
- **Lemma** – A composable AI orchestration infrastructure and workflow builder. Key features include:
  - Drag‑and‑drop workflow builder plus code‑first SDK and API access (REST, gRPC, GraphQL, SFTP).
  - Built‑in security and governance: SOC 2 Type 2, HIPAA, GDPR, CJIS compliance; AES‑256 encryption at rest, TLS in transit; PII redaction; full audit trails.
  - Glass‑box observability with complete traceability for every agent decision and system access.
  - Dynamic workflow planning and execution supporting non‑deterministic, multi‑step agentic paths.
  - Human‑in‑the‑loop guardrails for critical decision points.
  - Deployment flexibility: VPC, on‑premises, or multi‑tenant SaaS.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$26M** across two rounds
- **Notable Investors/Partners**:
  - Seed round (Oct 2024): $6M led by **Index Ventures** (5 investors)
  - Series A (Jul 2025): $20M led by **Greycroft** (6 investors)
  - Additional seed investor in 2023
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew **+75% YoY** to 24 employees.
  - LinkedIn followers grew **+191% year‑over‑year** (3,213 followers).
  - Powering production AI in Fortune 500 operations and public sector agencies.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Founding team** – Former Heads of AI/ML Product and Engineering at Palantir Technologies, bringing deep experience deploying large‑scale data systems in the world’s most demanding environments.
- **“Controlled Autonomy” architecture** – Enables autonomous agents to operate within defined guardrails, satisfying both builder flexibility and enterprise compliance.
- **Enterprise‑grade compliance out‑of‑the‑box** – SOC 2 Type 2, HIPAA, GDPR, CJIS – no need to retrofit governance later.
- **Vendor‑agnostic composability** – Connects existing systems without replacing them (REST, gRPC, GraphQL, SFTP, SDKs).
- **Glass‑box observability** – Every workflow versioned, traced, and audit‑ready from first deployment.

## Strategic Focus
- Safely deploying AI in regulated environments where failure has real business consequences.
- Reducing infrastructure complexity so builders can prototype and productionize on a single platform without rebuilding.
- Maintaining strict data control: customers own their data and agents; no vendor lock‑in.

## Why Work Here
- **Founding story** – Built by AI leaders who left Palantir to solve one of AI’s hardest problems: reliable, governed deployment of agents.
- **Engineering culture** – Emphasizes “deep work, engineering excellence, and solving real‑world enterprise challenges.”
- **Growth trajectory** – Rapidly growing (24 employees, +75% YoY) with strong investor backing; early hires have significant impact.
- **Location & flexibility** – Office in New York, NY. Roles listed for New York; not explicitly remote/hybrid but open positions span engineering, sales, operations.
- **Notable perks** – Engineering‑first environment, opportunity to shape the infrastructure layer for enterprise AI.

## Sources
1. [threadai.com – Platform page](https://www.threadai.com/platform)
2. [threadai.com – Company page](https://www.threadai.com/company)
3. [linkedin.com – Thread AI Company Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/thread-ai)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com – Open positions at Thread AI](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/thread-ai)

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