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title: 'Storytelling at Simile'
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# Storytelling at Simile

- **Company:** Simile
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-08-18
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/simile/25447eb8-a05e-4aba-92e4-698a6b5636d4

## Job description

## About the Company

Simile is The Simulation Company. We simulate human behavior to keep people at the center of the decisions that shape the world. With AI, anyone can create a product, a campaign, a policy, or a script — the bottleneck has moved upstream. The hard question is no longer whether you can create something, but what to create, for whom, and how to bring it to life. Those are fundamentally human decisions, and they shouldn't be left to chance or handed off to an algorithm. We're building the infrastructure to understand human behavior at scale and to represent humans in an increasingly agentic world. Our mission is to simulate all eight billion people on earth.

We launched five months ago. Since then we've grown revenue 5x, built a new foundation model for human behavior that has run tens of millions of simulations for F100 enterprises, trained a first-of-its-kind confidence model that predicts the accuracy of every simulation, and released the first product that lets organizations verifiably predict the future. The world's leading companies use Simile to make business-critical decisions — from consumer leaders like CVS Health and Wealthfront to professional services organizations like Deloitte and Gallup — strategizing product launches, entering new markets, and forecasting earnings calls.

We've raised over $200M at a $2B post-money valuation led by Greenoaks, with Index Ventures, Hanabi, A*, Bain Capital Ventures, and CVS Health Ventures. We've grown from a small home in Palo Alto to a global team of 50+, and we're building a team of the best researchers, engineers, designers, and operators in the world. The future is too important to be left to chance.

## About the Role

Simile has a story that almost no one else can tell. We have built the first AI simulation of society, and we are pioneering an entirely new category of technology. The science is real, the ambition is enormous, and the implications touch nearly every consequential decision made in the world. What we need now is the voice to match.

This role owns how Simile shows up to the world. You will craft and evangelize our external narrative, decide what we say and when we say it, and make sure the story of what we are building reaches the people who need to hear it. You will set the editorial vision and run the engine behind it, and you will do it hands-on: writing, directing, and shipping.

In this role, you will:

- Own the external narrative: Craft and evangelize the company story. Develop a clear, opinionated point of view on what Simile is building and why it matters, and make sure that narrative is consistent everywhere we show up.
- Set the beats: Identify the monthly and quarterly moments we want to lean into, and build the calendar that turns a roadmap into a story the market follows.
- Land the opportunities: Find and act on press, conference, and podcast opportunities. Decide which ones are worth chasing, build the relationships, and get us in the room.
- Win the lists and the publications: Make sure Simile is well represented in customer-facing publications and lands on the lists we want to be on. Know which ones matter and which ones are vanity.
- Keep the blog alive: Run an active company blog with a post every one to two weeks, largely through ghostwriting in the voices of our founders and team.
- Act as creative director: Own the creative on every video we launch as a company, from concept to final cut.
- Ship and polish: Set a high editorial bar while moving fast.
- Reach the decision-makers: Identify and act on opportunities to engage enterprise leaders, making sure our narrative reaches the audiences whose attention compounds for the business.

## Requirements

Must Haves

- Exceptional creative taste and a point of view: You have a strong instinct for what is original and emotionally true, and a track record of work that reflects it. We will care more about this than your years of experience.
- A portfolio you can show: Published or produced work, ideally including pieces you ghostwrote or shaped in someone else's voice. We will read and watch it closely.
- Ability to find the truth inside a technical subject: You can locate the emotional or cultural truth inside complex, technical work and communicate it without reaching for clichés.
- Creative courage: You are willing to challenge familiar conventions and pursue new playbooks rather than defaulting to what B2B brands usually do.
- Comfort in ambiguity at early stage: Experience doing this work without an established playbook, ideally where you built the system rather than inherited it.

Nice to Haves

- A multidisciplinary creative practice: You think through image, motion, interaction, space, or experience, and can direct collaborators across those disciplines.
- Enterprise empathy: An instinct for what enterprise leaders and decision-makers actually care about.
- Relationships you can activate: Existing press, podcast, and conference connections you can put to work from day one.
- A feel for new categories: Experience telling the story of a technical or research-driven product, especially in AI or a net-new category.
- Proof you understand distribution: A personal audience or platform that shows you grasp reach, not just craft.

## Compensation & Benefits

At Simile, we provide competitive compensation packages that include base salary, equity, and comprehensive benefits.

- Salary Range: $200,000 – $300,000 USD
- Note: Final offers are based on experience, specialized skills, interview performance, and relevant training.
- Equity: Grants are available for eligible roles, subject to board approval.
- Health & Wellness: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Time Off: Flexible time off policies to support work-life balance.

Our Process We prioritize thoughtful conversations and clear examples of past work. Our hiring journey is designed to help both sides align on fit, working style, and expectations.

Reapplication Policy: To ensure a fair and thorough evaluation for all applicants, Simile observes a 90-day waiting period before reconsidering candidates for the same role.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion Equal Opportunity: Simile is an equal opportunity workplace. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds and identities, valuing an environment where everyone can contribute authentically.

Accommodations: If you require support or reasonable accommodations during the application process due to a disability, please let us know. We are happy to assist.

## About Simile

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Simile builds AI-powered simulations of human behavior, creating digital twins of real people to help enterprises predict outcomes and de-risk decisions.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: Palo Alto, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2025 (spun out of Stanford research)
- **Founders**: Joon Sung Park (CEO), Michael Bernstein, Percy Liang

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Enterprise AI Simulation, Decision Intelligence, Market Research Technology
- **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise (Fortune 500 companies, including CVS Health, Gallup, Telstra, Wealthfront, Suntory)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Simulate our uncertain world" — to give organizations the ability to preview the effects of decisions before triggering the cause.

## Products & Services
- **Simile Simulation Platform**: An AI-powered platform that creates high-fidelity digital twins of real people, enabling enterprises to simulate human behavior at scale. Used for product testing, focus groups, earnings call rehearsal, litigation forecasting, and policy change modeling. The platform can predict ~80% of analyst questions on earnings calls and allows companies to test user interface changes, marketing campaigns, and policy shifts before real-world rollout.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding — $100M (Series A, February 2026)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Index Ventures (lead), Hanabi, A*, Bain Capital Ventures (BCV), Fei-Fei Li, Andrej Karpathy, Adam D’Angelo (Quora), Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), Scott Belsky (A24). Customers include CVS Health, Gallup, Telstra, Wealthfront, and Suntory.
- **Growth Signals**: Named to the inaugural Forbes AI 50 Brink List (April 2026); 26 employees with +12.5% monthly headcount growth; website traffic of ~815K monthly visits growing +41.2% month-over-month; LinkedIn following of 5,696 growing +8.7% monthly.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Pioneering Research Roots**: Founded by the Stanford team behind the landmark "Smallville" experiment (2023), which demonstrated that generative AI agents could simulate realistic human social behavior — giving Simile a deep research moat.
- **High-Fidelity Digital Twins**: Unlike generic LLM-based personas, Simile builds models based on real human data (interviews, transaction logs, scientific texts), creating agents that closely mirror actual human decision-making.
- **First-Mover in Enterprise Simulation**: Already deployed with Fortune 50 clients (CVS, Gallup, Telstra) for high-stakes use cases like earnings call rehearsal, litigation forecasting, and product testing — a nascent but rapidly growing category.
- **World-Class Backing**: $100M from top-tier investors (Index, BCV, A*) and angel investors including AI luminaries Fei-Fei Li and Andrej Karpathy, providing both capital and credibility.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling the Simulation Model**: Expanding from hundreds of thousands of real human data points toward a goal of simulating the world's entire population (~8 billion people).
- **Foundation Model Development**: Building a general-purpose foundation model that predicts human behavior in any situation, at any scale.
- **Enterprise Adoption**: Deepening partnerships with Fortune 500 companies across industries (healthcare, telecom, financial services, consumer goods) to embed simulation into core decision-making processes.
- **Product Expansion**: Moving beyond current use cases (focus groups, earnings calls, litigation forecasting) into broader enterprise planning and policy simulation.

## Why Work Here
- **Cutting-Edge AI Research**: Work at the intersection of generative AI, human behavior modeling, and large-scale simulation — a field pioneered by the founding team at Stanford.
- **High-Impact, Early-Stage**: Join a well-funded ($100M) Series A startup with only 26 employees, offering significant ownership and influence from day one.
- **World-Class Team & Advisors**: Backed by AI legends Fei-Fei Li and Andrej Karpathy, with a founding team of Stanford CS professors. Colleagues come from top AI companies (Scale AI, Figma, Cresta, Hebbia).
- **Real-World Impact**: Your work directly helps Fortune 500 companies make better decisions — from improving healthcare at CVS to shaping public opinion research at Gallup.
- **Culture & Location**: Palo Alto-based (hybrid likely given the team is 72% US-based). Technical team makes up 28% of headcount. Fast-growing with +12.5% monthly employee growth.
- **Notable Perks**: Work on one of the most technically ambitious problems in AI (simulating human behavior at global scale) with a team of world-class researchers and engineers.

## Sources
1. [simile.ai](https://simile.ai)
2. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/simile](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/simile)
3. [LinkedIn - Simile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/simile-ai-inc)
4. [Observer - Fei-Fei Li and Andrej Karpathy’s New A.I. Bet](https://observer.com/2026/02/simile-100m-startup-backed-fei-fei-li-andrej-karpathy/)
5. [SiliconANGLE - AI digital twin startup Simile raises $100M](https://siliconangle.com/2026/02/12/ai-digital-twin-startup-simile-raises-100m-funding/)

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