AI Content Strategist, Product.ai
Research
$250-350k
OTE
$160-210k
BASE
OTE: Total first-year comp
5 days a week in office ( Santa Monica, CA)
Verification layer for AI commerce
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Verification layer for AI commerce
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$250-350k
OTE
$160-210k
BASE
OTE: Total first-year comp
5 days a week in office ( Santa Monica, CA)
21-100 employees
Company mission
To separate genuine product knowledge from the flood of AI-generated marketing noise now dominating the internet.
Role
Who you are
- You reason about numbers the way a good editor reasons about sources: what would make this wrong, what is the honest denominator, what time window the claim covers
- You state those without being asked
- You can feel the difference between a finding and a query artifact, and when your model of the data is wrong you update fast
- You write clearly, because on a team this small the written study is the meeting
- You go to the data first
- Agents are your research staff: warehouse queries, research sweeps, and verification passes run through them; you direct the machinery
- But you can do every step yourself: the pull, the sanity checks, the draft, the pitch note
- That hands-on skill is what lets you trust, or reject, what an agent hands back
- You have published data stories that stand on numbers you pulled yourself
- You found the story, wrote the piece, and called the source, whether on a newsroom data desk, in a data journalism program, on a research team that published real studies, or on a beat you ran yourself with a scraper and a spreadsheet
- You don't need to have run the desk
- "We scored ten thousand machine-generated answers against a rubric" sounds like a project you want to run
- We judge the artifact and the reasoning wherever you did the work, and there is no degree to check
- If the work above reads like yours but your resume is unconventional, apply anyway. We hire on the work and the reasoning, not the pedigree
What the job involves
- We sit on one of the largest first-party records of online savings anywhere: years of robot-run checkouts, code tests, and shopper behavior across hundreds of thousands of stores. When we turn a slice of that record into a study, it gets cited
- Our studies earned hundreds of pickups and brand mentions across our two brands this year, and that coverage is where our citations in AI answers come from
- The distribution behind it is widening: proactive story pitches, plus a standing reactive lane where reporters come to us for savings data. It now needs studies faster than we can publish them. This seat exists to be that supply
- Every citation makes Product.ai a source those engines trust about a purchase, and that, not traffic, is how we intend to win. It is the first seat on this desk. The studies are yours, and you help shape the standards and the beat
- The System You'll Need to Model:
- Data-driven public relations as a supply chain. Proprietary first-party data becomes a citable study; the study rides two distribution lanes, proactive pitches and reactive reporter queries, into press coverage and AI answers
- Every serious research-communications shop runs this loop. Ours runs on data nobody else has, and the study is the unit of leverage
- A real warehouse with real traps, and a moat that was measured rather than scraped. The estate is BigQuery-resident: Search Console, GA4 behavioral events, affiliate commissions, code-test outcomes
- Large estates lie to the careless through settlement lags, event-taxonomy breaks, and dishonest denominators, so the craft is finding the trap before the number goes to print. What you print stands on checkouts we measured ourselves, ground truth rivals cannot buy
- Two citation markets with different physics. Journalists are pitch-driven and relationship-gated; AI answer engines are retrieval-driven and quotability-gated. Being named and being cited are separate outcomes in both, and a study that wins one can lose the other
- Agents as research staff, and verification as the craft that makes them usable. Warehouse pulls, research sweeps, and first drafts run through agents here; the job is proving what they hand back
- What a golden check looks like for a research claim, which tests catch a silent join fanout or a survivorship artifact, when you re-pull a number by hand. Generation is the cheap part. The verdict is yours, and an unverified agent number in print is the one unrecoverable mistake in this seat
- Cortex, the newsroom you publish inside: the shared AI brain that runs the company and the product family we sell, it answers its own questions from more than 8,600 documents
- A newsroom data desk like this ran three people in 2023; the agent tooling is why it is one seat here. The company moves weekly, nobody hands you a brief, and reading where the system is going is part of the job
- What You Will Own:
- Studies, end to end. From warehouse query to published study to the story brief a pitch rides on: four to six first-party data studies a month across SimplyCodes and Product.ai, so neither distribution lane ever idles
- Some are flagship studies; the rest are fast-turn data answers for reporters and answer engines. Working rates, code-test outcomes, shopper behavior, survey panels
- The craft you must already own: SQL on real, messy data, statistical honesty about denominators, time windows, and what a number can claim, and ledes an editor would keep
- What you grow into here: a production warehouse and its traps, agents as your research staff, adversarial verification as a production discipline, and AI-engine quotability as a designed property of what you publish
- Primary reporting. Expert interviews, shopper panels, merchant conversations, with one live reporting thread open at all times, because "we spoke with 10 AI-shopping experts" is a story class no rival can scrape
- The measured checkout record stays the ground-truth spine; interviews and panels supply the human context, and every study states which kind of evidence each claim rests on
- The canonical stat surfaces. The numbers the press and the answer engines quote, kept fresh, sourced, and honest
- A stale stat is a broken promise with our name on it. When a study calls for social copy, you supply the data moment; our brand and content team owns that channel
- The seat, chartered. You work directly with Dakota Nunley, our Head of Search Product, who also runs the research program and its beat, and you take on more of it as you ship
- Within your first quarter you co-sign a seat charter anchored to one number that proves the seat works: published studies that clear a stated method bar, at the cadence this page promises
- You share the citation count with the distribution lanes; the studies are yours alone
- The charter also writes down what you publish on your own authority and what your lead reads first, because a wrong number in print is the expensive mistake here, and the compute is cheap
Application process
- We don't run traditional editorial interviews. We evaluate demonstrated performance on work-relevant tasks, in four steps
- Async video screen. Brief and on your own time, about fifteen minutes. We want to see how you think, not how you present
- Calls with company stakeholders. Short calls with the operators you would publish alongside
- Conversation with the founder. How you find a story in a dataset, where the honest denominator lives, and where you push back
- Paid work trial. Three days, paid, on real work in our real environment: a small first-party dataset, find the story, write the study. It stress-tests stack fluency, statistical honesty, and judgment in one artifact
- We watch how you get grounded, how you verify what agents hand back, whether the lede survives contact with the data, and whether your self-assessment is honest
Our take
Artificial intelligence has come on strides in recent years, but many assistants still struggle with relatively simple tasks. For example, AI-powered shopping assistants have frequently been found to supply conflicting information regarding prices, product specifications and more.
Product.ai is building what it calls the verification layer for AI commerce, to combat inaccurate and misleading product overviews. The platform can do things like check whether coupons actually work, verify the latest prices, and decipher whether claims about products are true.
Formerly known as Demand.io, the company's earlier focus was on creating innovative eCommerce experiences, but its rebrand to Product.ai in 2026 cemented its pivot to creating the truth layer for eCommerce. This mission answers a growing problem for consumers, as increasing AI marketing noise drowns out true reviews - meaning there should be ample opportunity for Product.ai to make an impact.
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Company benefits
- Full health coverage: All premiums covered for you and your family. Medical, dental, vision.
- Daily catered lunch: For the LA team. One less thing to think about during the workday.
- Unlimited PTO: That we actually expect you to use. Recharge is not optional, it is structural.
- Remote flexibility: An LA headquarters with full remote support. Work where you do your best thinking.
- Free garage parking and commuter assistance
Company HQ
Sawtelle, Los Angeles, CA
Leadership
Michael Quoc
(Founder & CEO)Experience as Senior Product Manager for Yahoo! Inc. from 2002 to 2006 and as Director of New Products from 2006 to 2008.
Brian Stanback
(Chief Architect)A software Engineer with a passion for building highly interactive web applications. Brian has over 15 years of experience as a Web Developer, Software Architect, and Database Engineer.
Jimmy Doheny
(Director of Operations)Jimmy joined Product.ai in 2017 as a Partner Marketing Manager. They then moved into the role of Senior Manager of Revenue Operations in 2019 and Director of Operations in 2021.
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