Terra API (YC W21) Hiring: Applied AI Strategist(Health Intelligence)
What this role actually is This is not “market research.” No 60‑page decks. No generic “digital health is big” observations. This is a continuous loop: market → signal → implication → decision → shipped product. Your job is to keep Terra’s roadmap and GTM pointed at the sharpest opportunities across AI × health, using: - live conversations with users and near‑users, - Terra’s own data and product surfaces, - and the messy, high‑resolution context everyone else ignores. What you’ll do You will: - Obsess over the people building on health data and AI Talk to founders, PMs, engineers, ops people, and researchers building on top of wearables, labs, and longitudinal health data. Extract what they’re actually trying to achieve, where they’re stuck, and what they’d pay for if it existed. - Turn chaos into sharp segments Break the world into concrete, actionable segments like “AI assistants for metabolic health decisions” or “B2B platforms embedding Terra‑like health memory.” For each one: what they need from Terra, how big it is, and how fast we can move. - Spot early product patterns from Terra’s own signals Read our usage, logs, support threads, builder questions, and integration patterns. Turn that into: “these are the workflows emerging on Terra; here’s the product that would make them 10x easier.” - Live where our builders live Hang out in the places our users actually are: GitHub, AI forums, communities, niche health and bio circles, Telegram / Discord, X threads. Pull out early weirdness and translate it into “here’s a bet we should place.” - Feed the team with decision‑grade direction For product: what to build, in what order, and which segments to explicitly ignore for now. For GTM: which users and use‑cases to prioritize this quarter, and what language will actually land. - Ship clear, small artifacts Short memos, briefs, Looms-whatever works-as long as it’s clear. One screen, on
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What we do Terra is the infrastructure layer for health data access. Health data is trapped across hundreds of siloed sources: wearables, sensors, health apps, medical devices, blood tests, team systems, and clinical platforms. Every source has its own authentication, permissions, schema, latency, edge cases, and reliability problems. Terra abstracts all of that into one platform. We give companies a single way to connect to health data, normalize it, stream it, analyze it, and build products on top of it. Today, Terra powers some of the top health companies in the world, as well as leading AI labs building the next generation of health intelligence. We deliver more than 30 billion activities per year through infrastructure built for scale, security, and reliability. Vision The future of health is extreme personalization. Health will move from care plans to goal setting: living to 120, winning the Olympics, becoming sharper, reversing disease, or performing at the top of any field. AI will help people understand themselves, predict outcomes 10 years ahead, and choose what they want to become. To do that, AI needs continuous, permissioned, real-world health data from every source. Terra is building the infrastructure that makes this possible.
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