- Location
- San Mateo, California, United States
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Employment
- Full time
- Level
- Mid level
- Posted
- 4 August
About this role
About Us:
Fireworks is the platform for specialized intelligence, enabling companies to build, train, and serve AI models tailored to their own data, workflows, and products. Founded by the team behind PyTorch and backed by AMD, Atreides, Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures, Lightspeed, NVIDIA, Sequoia Capital, and TCV, Fireworks powers production AI with hundreds of state-of-the-art open models across text, image, embedding, audio, and multimodal workloads. Today, Fireworks is a Series D company valued at $17.5 billion, bringing together an ambitious, collaborative team that's building the future of enterprise AI.
The Role:
Fireworks AI is looking for a Strategic Projects Lead to drive high-impact, cross-functional initiatives. We’re looking for a high-agency operator to wear many hats at the intersection of Engineering, Product, and GTM. You’ll be part of the Fireworks product organization where you’ll be an expert in Fireworks’ products and customers. You’ll use that knowledge to drive high-priority, end-to-end projects across the company.
Key Responsibilities:
Identify and create new strategic capabilities for Fireworks, like new GTM motions or standardized GTM playbooks
Build deep relationships with customers and lead strategic customer engagements from initial sale to long-term success
Determine product roadmap needs and instrument solutions end-to-end
Own and drive cross-functional initiatives from definition to execution, like partnership creation and model launches
Minimum Requirements:
We’re hiring smart hungry people at a variety of experience levels - 1+ years of experience in a high-ownership, fast-paced environment (consulting, product management, software or banking)
Entrepreneurial mindset - excitement about wearing many hats and ability to identify issues and execute quickly
Fluency to engage with senior stakeholders in client and partner organizations
Technical fluency in AI, ML infrastructure, or cloud platforms
Proven track record of leading complex technical or cross-functional initiatives
Analytical capability and comfortability driving decisions quantitatively
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Bias toward action and high accountability
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience working on ML infrastructure, inference systems, or AI platforms
Experience supporting enterprise or strategic customers
Prior experience in infrastructure, DevEx, or performance optimization initiatives
Experience operating in high-growth startup environments
Why Fireworks?
Solve Hard Problems: Tackle challenges at the forefront of AI infrastructure, from low-latency inference to scalable model serving.
Build What’s Next: Work with bleeding-edge technology that impacts how businesses and developers harness AI globally.
Ownership & Impact: Join a fast-growing, passionate team where your work directly shapes the future of AI - no bureaucracy, just results.
Learn from the Best: Collaborate with world-class engineers and AI researchers who thrive on curiosity and innovation.
Fireworks AI is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all innovators.
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About Fireworks AI
Fireworks.ai offers generative AI platform as a service. We optimize for rapid product iteration building on top of gen AI as well as minimizing cost to serve. https://fireworks.ai/careers
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