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Strategist, Agent Development - Tech, Media & Telecom

Own the development of AI agents for leading brands in telecommunications, media, and technology at Sierra in San Francisco.

Location
San Francisco, CA
Compensation
Not disclosed
Level
mid
Type
full time · On-site

Posted by employer 5 days ago

First seen on Joblaze 3 days ago

Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago

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Skills & Technologies

What you'll build

  • Own the Agent Development Life Cycle
  • Be the trusted strategic advisor to enterprise leaders
  • Partner with the customer’s working teams
  • Directly impact product
  • Surface unmet needs from customer work

Must have

  • Customer obsession
  • Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills
  • Technical aptitude
  • Track record of running multiple complex projects

Nice to have

  • Experience building or deploying AI/LLM agents
  • Founding team member or operator experience
  • Degree in Computer Science or related field
  • Client-facing consulting experience

AI in the day-to-day

Transform customer interactions with AI agents that handle thousands of conversations daily.

Requirements

Education
Bachelor's degree

Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, years of experience, visa sponsorship.

Benefits

Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits Flexible (unlimited) paid time off Retirement Plan Lunch and Snacks Fertility and family building benefits Life Insurance and Disability Benefits Parental Leave

Joblaze summary

In the role of Strategist for Agent Development at Sierra, the individual is responsible for guiding the lifecycle of AI agents, from initial design through to deployment and ongoing optimization. Key skills include a strong understanding of technical concepts, strategic problem-solving, and the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. This position is well-suited for someone with experience in telecommunications, media, or technology, particularly those who have a background in client-facing roles or AI development. Sierra's focus on customer relationships and its collaborative culture further enhance the strategic impact of this role.

Joblaze insights

  • Listed 3 days ago — first seen on Joblaze September 25, 2026. Last confirmed on Sierra's careers page September 27, 2026.
  • This exact title is also open at 1 other location at Sierra: San Francisco, CA.
  • AI/ML appears in 52% of 454 comparable mid ai/ml roles in United States.

Quick facts

Is the Strategist, Agent Development - Tech, Media & Telecom role remote?
No — this is an on-site role in San Francisco, CA.
Where is the role based?
Sierra is hiring for this position in San Francisco, CA.
What's the tech stack?
Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AI/ML.
What seniority level is this role?
Sierra targets mid-level candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?
Full-time for this Strategist, Agent Development - Tech, Media & Telecom role at Sierra.

From the original posting

About the Tech, Media & Telecom team

  • We work with some of the world's most influential and recognizable companies, from global telecommunications providers and leading media brands to technology platforms that power businesses worldwide.

  • We build agents for the moments that matter, helping our customers rise to the occasion when service disruptions, major product launches, or global events like the World Cup drive millions of customer interactions.

  • We bring Sierra’s Horizon vision to TMT by building agents that transform the entire customer relationship:

    • Telecommunications: Turn one of the most frustrating customer experiences into one of the most personal, with agents that understand each subscriber, optimize their plan and savings, anticipate opportunities to add value, and earn their loyalty over time.

    • Media: Turn every subscription into an ongoing, personalized relationship, with agents that help each subscriber get the most from their experience through the right content, offer, plan, and support from their free trial through retention.

    • Technology: Bring the white-glove customer experience traditionally reserved for the largest enterprise accounts to every customer, helping them adopt the product, discover new ways to get value, expand their usage, and successfully renew.

What you'll do

As an Agent Strategist, you own how Sierra’s AI agents come to life for our customers — from first pilot to a production agent handling thousands of conversations a day. You sit at the intersection of product, building agents and customer-facing work, and stay just as close to the technology as you are to the people you build for. You transform a customer’s thorniest, highest-stakes problems into agents that measurably move their business.

  • Own the Agent Development Life Cycle. Take agents from initial scope through conversation design, tooling, and evaluation, to launch and continuous iteration in production — translating business goals into an agent that outperforms, and tuning relentlessly until it’s the best version of itself in the real world. You’ll have real ownership and autonomy over the outcome.

  • Be the trusted strategic advisor to enterprise leaders. Sit shoulder-to-shoulder with our customers’ executives, understand what success actually means to their business, and shape the AI strategy that gets them there.

  • Partner with the customer’s working teams day to day. Run working sessions, troubleshoot the agent as issues come up, and make the calls that keep the build on track for launch.

  • Directly impact product. Surface unmet needs from your customer work, and feed them back to research and platform to shape where Sierra goes next.

Example projects

These are the kinds of projects strategists on our TMT team work on:

  • Scope and launch a subscription-retention agent for a telecommunications or media company, then tune it to save more at-risk customers while preserving trust and brand voice.

  • Launch a top-of-funnel sales agent for a telecommunications provider that qualifies prospects, recommends plans and devices, and converts interest into new subscriptions.

  • Build a new-subscriber onboarding agent that activates service, ports numbers, configures devices, and reduces early-life churn.

  • Create a proactive, long-running agent that detects service or account issues, reaches out across channels, and manages resolution before the customer contacts support.

  • Develop a media growth agent that drives content discovery, trial conversion, plan upgrades, and subscription renewal.

  • Partner with Product to develop capabilities for TMT-scale traffic, including low-latency voice, multilingual experiences, proactive communications, and resilient performance during major launches or service events.

What you’ll bring

  • Customer obsession. Genuine energy being in front of customers — understanding their business and needs, thriving in complex organizations, and building trusted relationships.

  • Communication. Clear, direct, and persuasive across technical and non-technical audiences.

  • Strategic problem-solving in ambiguity. Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills to break down complex problems, spot risks early, and adapt as things change fast.

  • Technical aptitude. Comfortable engaging directly with technical concepts — reading API documentation, understanding data models and system architecture, and following engineering tradeoffs in a design discussion.

  • Ownership and delivery. A track record of running multiple complex, high-visibility projects at once and driving them to outcomes.

  • Interest in telecommunications, media, and technology. Experience in telecom, streaming and digital media, enterprise or consumer technology, or subscription businesses — and familiarity with customer care, billing, identity, content, or technical support systems — is a strong plus.

Even better...

  • Experience building or deploying AI/LLM agents in production — hands-on with the tools behind them (eval frameworks, agent tooling, RAG, prompt engineering) — working closely with technical counterparts.

  • You’ve been a founder, founding team member, or operator — you know how to balance craft, ownership, and speed.

  • A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience — and/or an MBA or comparable experience at the intersection of technology and business.

  • Client-facing consulting, solutions, or strategy experience in a technically complex environment.

Our values

  • Trust: We build trust with our customers with our accountability, empathy, quality, and responsiveness. We build trust in AI by making it more accessible, safe, and useful. We build trust with each other by showing up for each other professionally and personally, creating an environment that enables all of us to do our best work.

  • Flexible (unlimited) paid time off

  • Life insurance and disability benefits

  • Retirement plan dependent on country of employment

  • Parental leave

  • Fertility and family building benefits through Carrot

  • Free alphorn lessons

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