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What AI-Native Companies Hire For – and How to Show It

30 min
Oct 27, 2025 1:00 PM
Virtual (Zoom)

In this video

What you'll learn

How do you shape your resume and public persona?

AI-native companies are extremely competitive -- getting in starts at your positioning and presence in the world.

Sound AI-native in interviewswithout buzzwords

Talk how they talk: outline guardrails, evals, RAG, token budgets, pricing – with clear ways to map these terms to you.

Decode the AI-native hiring rubric by function

PM, Eng, Design, Data, GTM – see how teams are evaluating you for AI-relevant skills and exposure. Then, adapt.

Why this topic matters

First party (OpenAI, Anthropic) and third party (Perplexity, Zapier, Harvey) AI companies care deeply about fit. Whether you're applying to a model‑maker or to an AI‑centered startup, you have to show industry literacy, familiarity with the constraints of these companies, and proper role‑specific analogies in your storytelling. These roles are competitive af – let's get you ready!

You'll learn from

Sherveen Mashayekhi

Sherveen Mashayekhi

Founder & CEO @ Free Agency, AI Product Leader & Investor

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