Software engineer
- Location
- San Francisco
- Type
- Full time
- Compensation
- $150k-$200k
- Posted
- 2 days ago
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Fin/AI agent operations (25%): our customer-facing AI agent resolves routine questions correctly and the quality-adjusted automation rate holds or improves month over month. Owns resolution quality, deflection with quality gates, topic configuration, prompt and behavior tuning, and escalation-to-human design.
Help Center content ownership (40%): accuracy and AI-readiness of the Help Center as the shared knowledge layer feeding customer self-service and every AI surface. This role is the owner of every published article, where ownership means accountability for every published word, not typing them: AI drafts, this role structures, verifies, and publishes. Owns the taxonomy, article templates, and AI-retrieval writing standards, the Guru collections, the drafting pipeline, and the verify-and-publish workflow with Tier 1. Nothing ships to the knowledge layer without passing this role’s quality bar.
The content flywheel (20%): every detected wrong or missing AI answer becomes a published fix. Triage AI-failure reports from the shared intake queue, trace each to root cause (retrieval failure, content defect, or product-truth gap), route product-truth gaps to their owner, and report gap-closure velocity.
Launch readiness (10%): no release ships without its support content ready. Hold the support seat in release planning and prepare Help Center articles, Fin topics, and frontline teams before go-live.
Operability (5%): no single point of failure. Maintain the runbooks, configuration documentation, and measurement baselines, and keep a trained second for every critical system. Documentation is part of done.
R&D owns the AI knowledge-base architecture and the in-product AI (Amaya) knowledge stores, with a separate role scoped to that work. This role is their closest consumer: it keeps the knowledge layer they read from accurate and feeds architecture gaps back to them.
Leadership owns org-wide AI-native strategy and internal AI consolidation. This role informs those calls with ground truth from the operation.
Support tier leads own ticketing platform administration and support workflows. This role designs the AI handoffs that land in them.
This role owns the Guru collections and keeps them accurate and AI-ready, since Guru's AI answers from them.
New cross-team AI initiatives start with your manager, so they get prioritized before work begins.
Quality-adjusted automation rate: AI resolutions with no human takeover, no negative feedback, no reopen.
Knowledge gap closure rate: speed from detected wrong/missing answer to published fix, weighted by impact. Top articles are proactively owned and current, not just reactively fixed.
Escalation precision: when the AI hands off to a human, it lands in the right place with full context.
Operability: every critical system has current runbooks and a functioning second; no single point of failure.
Partner trust: tier leads, content, and product partners would say this function makes their work easier.
3–5+ years in support operations, CX operations, knowledge management, or conversational AI operations, with hands-on ownership of a production AI agent (Intercom Fin strongly preferred; Ada, Forethought, Decagon, or similar also relevant).
A proven content engineer: customer-facing help content you owned end to end, plus taxonomy, content verification workflows, structured authoring, and writing for AI retrieval, not just human readers.
An experimenter's method: hypothesize, test small, measure, then scale. Comfortable with AI-assisted workflows as a daily practice.
Strong analytical habits: you can trace a wrong AI answer through retrieval, content, and product behavior to root cause, and you show your work.
Collaboration as a first-class skill: you raise concerns early, directly, and through agreed channels; you disagree openly, commit fully, and treat peers' domains with the respect you expect for yours.
You build systems, not dependencies: your instinct when you become the only person who can do something is to document it and train a second.
This role touches systems that many teams depend on, which makes judgment about scope as important as technical skill. The people who thrive in it:
This role's Total Rewards package includes participation in an annual discretionary company bonus program, equity awards, and comprehensive benefit and wellbeing offerings.
We offer amazing benefits that align with our values and culture at 15Five. Your Health & Wellbeing Medical, dental, vision with 15Five cost subsidy Employer paid Short-Term, Long-Term Disability, and Term LifeFamily planning support with enhanced medical plans and consultation programs Inclusive Benefits Stipend Access to mental health and wellness resources Your Life Flexible Time Off Program Generous paid leave for new parents Military leave Paid Company Holidays Sabbatical Program Your Future 401K with 4% Matching after 6 months Your Work Life Remote work Work with experts in leadership, culture, and personal development For more information see: Our Mission, Vision, & Values -https://www.15five.com/about Our People and Culture -https://www.15five.com/about/careers Our Personal & Professional Development Resources -https://www.15five.com/resources/content-library Reading over the role description and feeling like you don’t check every box? That’s okay; if you think you have what it takes but don’t necessarily meet all the criteria, please apply—you could be exactly who we are looking for! 15Five follows equitable hiring practices. Our compensation programs are designed to attract, motivate, and retain talented employees who are highly engaged, high performing, and have an exceptional impact on the business and our customers. The salary range displayed on each job posting reflects the target for new hire salaries for the role across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by budget allocated for the role and additional factors, including job-related competencies and skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in US job postings do not reflect added total compensation including equity or benefits. In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire.