About Us
Artificial Societies (societies.io) helps Fortune 500 organisations understand how real-world audiences think, feel, and respond — without the cost, delay, or limitations of traditional research. We build large-scale simulated populations grounded in real-world data, enabling clients to test messages, strategies, and concepts. Our clients love the ability to receive insights backed by millions of responses in hours rather than months, and to access previously inaccessible audiences (e.g. investors, CEOs, opinion leaders).
We're backed by Y Combinator, Point72 Ventures, and Kindred Capital, with over 100 months of capital runway, and work with leading organisations across technology, financial services, communications, and public affairs.
We're a lean and highly effective team. We move fast, hold a high bar, and trust each other to own outcomes end-to-end. The culture is collaborative but low-ego: ideas win on merit, not seniority.
The Role
We're looking for a sharp, motivated strategist at the start of their career to join us and work directly with the founders and our Principal Client Strategist. You'll help deliver simulation research for some of the most important companies and firms in the world — learning fast and taking on real responsibility from day one.
Our clients include leading advisory firms, global communications consultancies, and Fortune 500 organisations. They bring us questions that shape boardroom strategy: how will policymakers react to this announcement? Which narrative will move investor sentiment? How will public opinion shift after a crisis? You'll help shape those questions into rigorous, compelling research programmes that clients trust and act on.
This is not a project management role. Even at this level, you'll need to exercise genuine strategic thinking — helping design studies, interpret complex results, and translate outputs into actionable recommendations. You'll grow quickly alongside the founders, with a clear path to owning client relationships independently.
What You'll Do
- Help plan research — work with the founders and senior team to take client briefs and design simulation studies: define the audience, structure the methodology, identify the right dimensions to measure, and determine what success looks like. You'll develop your instincts for asking better questions than the client thought to ask.
- Execute simulations — work directly with our state-of-the-art simulation engine and AI agents to build and run simulations that are impossible in traditional research. You'll interface with AI tools daily to conduct studies, iterate on approaches, and push the boundaries of what's possible with simulated research.
- Support delivery — help own the client relationship from study design through to final presentation. Analyse results, distil them into clear strategic narratives, and contribute to presentations for senior stakeholders. You'll progressively take on more ownership of client deliverables as you grow.
What We're Looking For
- 0–3 years of relevant experience. You may be coming from a consultancy, research agency, advisory firm, or similar environment — or you may be an exceptional graduate. What matters is the quality of your thinking.
- Research aptitude. You have exposure to or strong interest in research methodology, experimental design, or social science. You understand — or are eager to learn — how to design studies and interpret results critically.
- Strong analytical thinking. You can take an ambiguous problem and start structuring it into a clear approach. You're comfortable with data, comfortable with ambiguity, and good at finding the narrative in the numbers.
- Intellectual curiosity about human behaviour. Our work sits at the intersection of AI and how people think, feel, and decide. You find this genuinely interesting, not just commercially useful.
- Comfortable with AI tools. You already use AI to work faster and better, or you're eager to. You'll be working directly with AI agents daily, and we expect you to push the boundaries of what's possible.
- Ownership mentality. You don't wait to be told what to do. You see what needs to happen and you make it happen. You care about the outcome, not the process.
Logistics
- Location: London, in-office. We build better together, and this role is no exception.
- Salary: £60,000 – £100,000 depending on experience.
- Equity: Up to 0.1%.
Why Join Now
This is a rare opportunity to join an early-stage company where you'll learn faster than anywhere else. You'll work directly with the founders, advise exceptional clients, and build expertise in an entirely new category of research. If you want to accelerate your career at the intersection of AI and human behaviour, this is the role.