Andrew Quillen
Head of AI @ Spotify | OpenAI alum | Coaching your breakthrough into top AI
4,710 min coached
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Studied at Yale School of Management
Worked at OpenAI
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Andrew's Offerings
Custom hourly · $300/hr
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Andrew’s Break Into AI Careers Qualifications
Coaches professionally
Experience level: Executive
100+ people coached for Break Into AI Careers
Andrew has helped clients get into these companies:
I have led AI and product teams at OpenAI, Spotify, and Coinbase, working across NLP, recommender, and generative systems using tools such as OpenAI API, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Hugging Face, LangChain, TensorFlow, PyTorch, JAX, scikit-learn, Pandas, NumPy, Vertex AI, Azure AI, AWS SageMaker, and custom LLM pipelines. I coach professionals to position themselves as AI-ready talent by designing projects with tools like AutoGPT, Replit, GitHub Copilot, Streamlit, and vector databases such as Pinecone and FAISS. Clients I’ve worked with have launched prototypes, automated workflows, and advanced into roles in applied AI, product, and leadership. A few examples of client projects and results from my coaching include: 1. Helped a senior data analyst transition into an applied AI role using LangChain and GPT-based tools; landed a promotion within six months. 2. Guided a PM into an AI product leadership role at a Series B startup. 3. Coached an engineer through building a generative AI project that led to interviews at Meta.
Andrew can help with:
Cover Letters
Interview Prep
Job Search Strategies
LinkedIn Review
Networking Strategy
Resume
Salary Negotiation
Skill Building
Andrew also coaches for Build with AI, AI Services, AI & ML Engineering, and Blockchain & Crypto. View all.
About Andrew
About Andrew Breaking into AI, or moving into more senior roles in the field, is difficult because much of the advice available online has very little to do with how hiring decisions are actually made or how AI teams operate once you are inside them. I have spent my career inside those environments. I worked during the early GPT-2 and GPT-3 era at OpenAI, led AI product experience at Spotify, and later worked on AI strategy at Coinbase. I work with people who want judgment, not another playbook. Sometimes that means figuring out which roles genuinely fit your background. Sometimes it means understanding why your current approach is not working. And sometimes I will tell you that the opportunity you are chasing is the wrong one. I am not interested in convincing anyone to work with me. I will not chase you after a conversation, manufacture urgency, or turn every interaction into a longer engagement. If you want my perspective and you are ready to do something with it, come find me. And if I think you do not need me, I will tell you that too. https://www.andmaverick.com/
Why do I coach?
There were points in my career when I genuinely did not know what the next move was. A handful of people gave me something far more valuable than encouragement: their judgment. They told me what they saw, what I was missing, and where I had more opportunity than I realized. Some of those conversations changed my life. I coach because I know what that kind of access can be worth, and I do not think access to it should always depend on what someone can afford. Some of the people I most want to help may never pay me anything. Paid or not, the deal is the same. I will tell you what I think, bring everything I know to the conversation, and trust you to decide what to do with it.
Work Experience
Founder and Chief AI Strategist
AndMaverick
November 2024 - Present
AI Strategy Consultant
Coinbase
January 2022 - May 2024
Interviewer
This was a part-time (10–15 hrs/week) strategic consulting role that I held while at Spotify. AI, Large Language Models (LLM) and +12 skills
Head of AI
Spotify
August 2021 - October 2024
Hiring Manager
AI, Large Language Models (LLM) and +20 skills
Content Strategist
OpenAI
September 2016 - August 2021
Interviewer
Executive Messaging , AI and +12 skills
Infrastructure Manager
Stripe
June 2013 - May 2016
Interviewer
Content Infrastructure , Product Innovation and +4 skills
Andrew was also given offers to work at
OpenRouter
Anthropic
Kraken
Mistral AI
Databricks
xAI
Safe Superintelligence
Education
Yale School of Management
Executive MBA
2017 - 2020
Vanderbilt University
Bachelor of Science - BS, Cognitive Science
2010 - 2013
Activities and societies: Sigma Alpha Epsilon - Tennessee Nu Chapter
Andrew was also personally admitted to
Harvard Business School
University of Cambridge
Denison University
Stanford University
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Andrew has helped Leland clients get into Stanford Graduate School of Business
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