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First AI agents were information aggregators, trusted to search and summarize. Now they're trusted to advise on key decision-making. Increasingly, they're becoming autonomous buyers: agents that shop, evaluate, and transact on behalf of humans.\nWhen AI is the audience, how it perceives your value proposition becomes one of the most consequential things a company can understand about itself.\nWe apply the principles of AI interpretability research to study how models actually think about companies, and underneath the surface noise we find remarkably stable beliefs, formed from the proof points a company has put into the world (often inadvertently).\nCompanies starting to take this seriously are realizing something uncomfortable: in an AI-evaluated market, marketing claims without substance to back them up don’t work anymore. Conversely, companies that deliver on their value proposition have unbounded opportunity to reach and acquire new buyers. AI agents are judging every brand's value promise, and are teaching humans how to do the same.\nAbout Unusual\nUnusual is the AI interpretability platform for marketing and GTM teams. We help companies shape how AI models actually think about their brand and value proposition.\nWhy this role exists\nEvery company has a unique path to get ready for the rapidly approaching future of agentic buying. When agentic buying arrives for their industry, a company’s ability to thrive will depend on their ability to (1) understand how AI agents evaluate them, (2) enable AI agents to interact with their business, and (3) make the right strategic bets that continually refine their value proposition as perceived by AI.\nWe build the platform and we apply the methodology directly alongside companies and consultancies. Being at the forefront of the practice of AI brand management, we are committed to learning alongside our partners and sharing what we learn. This role exists to be the trusted voice on the ground with each client; the person who turns the platform and methodology into decisions that move the business.\nWho we're looking for\nYou're a strategic problem-solver who wants to work on critical problems. You can hold your own across the table from a CMO, CRO, or CEO, and you can push on the assumptions behind their most consequential decisions. You're already using tools like Claude Code to do your work better, and you want a role where that orientation is the work itself.\nYou want the leverage that comes from learning and teaching a practice that's category-defining, with a research team that's done the work to make this approach possible and a platform already producing insights no one else can.\nWhat you'd own\nYou'd be the engagement lead for a portfolio of companies who want to shape how AI models perceive their brand and value proposition. That means:\nRamping quickly on each client's business and operating model so they want you in the room when strategic GTM decisions are being made\nTranslating our interpretability analyses, grounded in each client's business reality, into clear and actionable moves on content, positioning, and proof points\nOperating at the leadership level, bringing the clarity that helps client executives act\nUsing Claude Code and our internal platform to generate analyses, prototype features, and contribute back to the systems your teammates rely on\nCapabilities we look for\nStakeholder mapping. You can read a room, see the dynamics, and figure out how to deliver value in a way that lets every stakeholder win.\nFirst-principles communication. You can write a tight brief and walk a CEO through it without losing the room or oversimplifying. You can also write it for a senior IC who'll do the implementation work.\nAI-native orientation. 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