Business Value Strategist
LangChain is hiring a Business Value Strategist in San Francisco, United States. It pays $210k-$240k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on LangChain.
Level's read on this job
- Level rates this role Works on AI ●●●○: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- Tools and skills the posting cites include LangGraph, Clay and AI agents.
- Level lists 99 other open roles at LangChain.
- The role was posted in the last few days.
AI in this role
At LangChain, our mission is to make intelligent agents ubiquitous. We build the foundation for agent engineering in the real world, helping developers move from prototypes to production-ready AI agents that teams can rely on. We began as widely adopted open-source tools and have grown to also offer a platform for building, evaluating, deploying, and operating agents at scale.
With $125M raised at Series B from IVP, Sequoia, Benchmark, CapitalG, and Sapphire Ventures, we’re at a stage where we’re continuing to develop new products, growth is accelerating, and all team members have meaningful impact on what we build and how we work together. LangChain is a place where your contributions can shape how this technology shows up in the real world.
Today, our platform includes LangSmith (Observability, Evaluation, Deployment, Fleet, and Sandboxes), our open source frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph, and Deep Agents), and the newly launched LangSmith Engine for autonomous agent improvement. We have 100M+ monthly open source downloads, 6,000+ active LangSmith customers, and 5 of the Fortune 10 use LangSmith in production (+ 35% of the Fortune 500 overall), including teams at Klarna, Clay, Coinbase, Workday, Lyft, Cloudflare, Harvey, Rippling, Vanta, LinkedIn, Monday.com, Nvidia, and Bridgewater.
About the role
At LangChain, Business Value Strategists are trusted thought partners that help our most strategic enterprise customers get the most value out of LangSmith.
This is a multi-disciplinary role that sits at the heart of sales, deployed engineering, finance, product and operations.
You’ll partner directly with customers to understand their production agent use cases and broader business goals. You’ll work alongside sales & deployed engineering to measure, quantify and articulate the value of customer agents on LangSmith, grounded in usage trends and data. You’ll build financial models that capture the return on investment (ROI) on building agents on LangSmith, and work closely with key customer stakeholders to align on, iterate and track the ROI case over time, to ensure our largest customers are very successful. You’ll also craft the playbook that will serve as the foundation for scaling Business Value practice globally.
This is a high-impact role on the agent frontier, working hand-in-hand with the world’s largest enterprises, and helping them define & scale their agent strategy on LangSmith.
This role is based in San Francisco or New York.
What you'll do
Work closely with customers to understand their production agents, how they use LangSmith, and the business objectives they're solving with agents
Build a deep understanding of how customers are using LangSmith, which products they are using and why, specific agent use cases, product success stories & feedback, to serve as the baseline for the business value case
Use customer data to measure agent-bespoke outcome results such as time saved, lower costs, incremental revenue etc. to quantify the impact of agents built on LangSmith
Communicate the business value case to customer executives, with clear ROI models and defensible assumptions
Partner with account executives to turn ROI findings or gaps into customer success plans to drive adoption
Work with product & operations teams to connect usage data with customer results and impact, and help surface those insights directly into LangSmith
What we're looking for
7+ years in value engineering, consulting, strategic finance, investing, or business operations, with experience at a high-growth B2B company
Experience working directly with enterprise customers and senior decision-makers to influence significant investments
Strong analytical and financial modeling skills
Hands-on experience building and using agents, and the curiosity to keep experimenting
Strategic judgment and creativity: you ask good questions, find opportunities, and make clear recommendations with incomplete information
Salary: $210,000-$240,000
Compensation Philosophy:
We offer competitive compensation that includes base salary, variable compensation for relevant roles, meaningful equity, benefits, and perks.
We are hiring for this role across a range of scope, and the compensation band reflects that. Your offer depends on what we learn about your impact, craft, leadership, and communication during the interview process. We will tell you early where you’re tracking and talk comp with you before offer stage. Team members in the EU, UK, and APAC receive locally competitive benefits aligned with regional norms and regulations.
BenefitsBenefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage, flexible vacation, a 401(k) plan, meals on in-office days in the US and more.
How we rate this
Business Value Strategist at LangChain rates 67 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
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