What AI-Native Companies Hire For

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

Hosted by Sherveen Mashayekhi

Mon, Oct 27, 2025

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AI Fluency Bootcamp

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AI Fluency Bootcamp

Sherveen Mashayekhi

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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

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

Sherveen has been an AI product leader and founder in tech for over a decade, but more importantly, is a long‑time obsessive about startups.

He's a first adopter of AI tools and sits in exclusive circles of founders + venture capitalists building the cutting edge of applied AI products. As the founder and CEO of Free Agency (backed by investors like Maveron, Bloomberg Beta, Kevin Durant, and Kygo), he now helps tech professionals navigate the modern hiring landscape, with clients landing roles at companies like OpenAI, Amazon, and Stripe.

He's the host of three shows + podcasts about early stage tech: The Feedback Loop, Three Course Founders, and The Sherveen Show, where he talks multiple times a week with the most exciting technologists, CEOs, and investors building the future.

See more: https://youtube.com/@sherveenshow

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