About the job
Thinking Machines Lab brings together scientists, engineers, and innovators with a track record in developing widely used AI products and open-source projects. The team has contributed to tools like ChatGPT, Character.ai, Mistral, PyTorch, OpenAI Gym, Fairseq, and Segment Anything. The company’s mission centers on advancing collaborative general intelligence to help people achieve more with AI tailored to their needs.
Tinker, the company’s fine-tuning API, enables researchers and developers to adapt advanced AI models to their own data and algorithms. By handling the infrastructure, Tinker allows users to focus on customization, opening up capabilities that were once limited to a few specialized labs. As Tinker’s customer base and feature set grow, the team is focused on building a scalable platform and supporting an expanding community.
Role overview
The GTM Strategy & Operations Lead will build and refine the commercial structure for Tinker. This person will design strategies and processes that turn organic product adoption into a consistent, scalable revenue stream. The role involves shaping how Tinker’s fine-tuning capabilities are packaged, priced, launched, and sold across different customer segments. Collaboration with product, engineering, and research teams is central to the work.
Tinker is designed for technically sophisticated users. The GTM lead must be comfortable discussing training infrastructure and understand how developers evaluate and adopt new tools.
What you will do
- Develop and execute commercialization strategies for Tinker, including pricing, packaging, and launch plans based on market and competitor analysis.
- Create go-to-market approaches tailored to different types of customers.
- Manage partnerships to expand Tinker’s reach and open new channels for demand.
- Design and oversee customer pilots, onboarding, and expansion playbooks to move accounts from testing to production use.
- Produce commercial playbooks to help customer-facing engineers and FDEs position and sell Tinker effectively.
- Set and track success metrics for launches and GTM projects, running experiments to test assumptions about pricing and product packaging.

