Business Development

About Us

Sieve is a multi-modal lab curating the world's highest-quality training datasets — spanning video, audio, images, text, and 3D. We combine exabyte-scale data infrastructure and novel multimodal understanding techniques that push the frontier of foundation models. Video alone makes up 80% of internet traffic, and across modalities, data has become the enabling medium powering creativity, communication, gaming, AR/VR, and robotics. Sieve exists to solve the biggest bottleneck in the growth of these applications: high-quality training data.

Sieve is one of the most capital-efficient teams in AI — roughly 30 people serving the world's leading AI labs across every major data modality. You'll join early, own problems end-to-end, and watch your work ship directly into the models defining the frontier.

As the first business development person, you'll build and deepen relationships across frontier AI labs, emerging model companies, and the broader data ecosystem. You'll identify new labs to work with, develop relationships with additional groups inside existing customers, and recognize emerging opportunities where Sieve can help.

You’ll report directly to the CEO and work closely with our GMs and COO. Your job is to find the right people, create high-value conversations, shape opportunities early, and pull the right internal and external levers to help them progress. Our GMs will own commercial scoping, pricing, and closing.

You’ll also own the near-term strategy and execution for programs that create inbound demand, including events, conferences, ecosystem partnerships, and marketing initiatives.

• Build trusted relationships with researchers, data leaders, product teams, and executives at frontier AI labs and emerging model companies
• Identify and engage new labs while opening relationships with additional teams and buying centers inside existing customers
• Map the organizations that matter: understand who is working on which models, modalities, capabilities, and data problems
• Stay close to changes in model training, post-training, evaluations, RL environments, and multimodal research to recognize where new data needs are emerging
• Develop clear opportunity theses that connect a lab's research priorities or model limitations to Sieve's data and infrastructure capabilities
• Create and facilitate high-value conversations between external stakeholders and the appropriate Sieve GM
• Prepare internal teams with the context they need, including stakeholder maps, research priorities, customer needs, relevant Sieve capabilities, and recommended next steps
• Remain involved after the initial introduction, using relationships, follow-ups, references, events, executive engagement, and other strategic levers to help opportunities progress
• Work with the CEO, GMs, and COO to prioritize the relationships and opportunities that matter most
• Own the strategy and execution for selective programs that generate inbound demand, including executive dinners, research events, conference presence, ecosystem partnerships, content, and other creative initiatives
• Represent Sieve at industry events and in the communities where AI researchers, data leaders, founders, and investors spend time
• Build a strong view of the AI data market, including emerging customer needs, competitor activity, organizational changes at labs, and new categories Sieve should pursue
• Maintain a clear, lightweight system for tracking important relationships, active opportunities, and next steps

• Deep familiarity with the frontier AI lab and AI data ecosystem, with an existing network or demonstrated ability to build trusted relationships within it
• Experience in strategic business development, partnerships, investing,…