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Software engineer
- Location
- San Francisco
- Type
- Full time
- Compensation
- $150k-$200k
- Posted
- 2 days ago
Join a team building useful software. Work closely with engineering and design to turn new ideas into products.
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Product Builder (Forward Deployed)
- Type
- Full time
- Compensation
- $150k-200k
- Posted
- 4MO AGO
About the role
Product Builder (Forward Deployed)
LocationSF + customer on-site TypeFull-time Team4-person teamJob description
Brief is the product strategy agent for product teams. We aggregate business context (decisions, customer research, work pipeline, team knowledge) and make it legible to both people and AI agents through chat, Slack, CLI, and voice.
We believe the boundaries between product, design, and engineering are dissolving. The scarce resource is no longer engineering hours; it's taste, judgment, and the conviction to ship. So we hire Product Builders who wear all three hats and own whole things. From "what should this even do?" to "it's shipped, it feels right, and customers love it."
This is the forward-deployed shape of that role. We have several massive enterprise opportunities in front of us (teams up to the Fortune 500) and each one is as much about people and change management as it is about technology. Your job is to deploy Brief and a new way of building into those companies: wire it into their context, win the skeptics, and drive a measurable step-change in product velocity.
Think of it as a PM / management consultant who loves to build. You'll learn, directly from our founder, the product methodology he's used to roughly 2x product velocity across 20 years, and you'll be responsible for deploying, evangelizing, and driving it through real organizations.
About the role
- Embed with enterprise customers. Sit with their technical founders, PMs, and engineering leaders. Understand their context, their politics, and what's actually slowing them down.
- Deploy Brief into messy reality. Wire it into each customer's decisions, research, and work pipeline so their people and agents build with specificity instead of guessing.
- Lead change management. This is the hard part and the whole point. You'll move organizations off habits they've had for years, patiently, without breaking trust.
- Evangelize the methodology. Teach our product practice, the why behind it, so it sticks after you leave the room. Facilitate workshops, win over skeptics, build internal champions.
- Close the loop to product. Turn what you learn in the field into the sharpest product feedback we get. Breadth in the field becomes depth in the roadmap.
- Build, hands-on. You won't just advise. You'll prototype, configure, and demonstrate. Fluent enough in modern AI development to show, not tell.
About you
- Product management fluency. You can speak conversantly about PM methodology and practice: prioritization, discovery, velocity, the whole craft... and you've lived it, not just read about it.
- Consulting-grade people skills. An excellent, patient facilitator and communicator. You can read a room, surface the real objection, and move a group to a decision.
- Change management is your edge. You've driven adoption of a new way of working inside an organization that resisted it and made it stick.
- Technical credibility. You don't need to be a career engineer, but you build hands-on and can hold the technical constraint, the user's frustration, and the business model in your head at once.
- Up-to-date and hands-on with AI development. You use Claude/Cursor/etc. as a daily workflow and can demonstrate the frontier, not just describe it.
- Enterprise comfort. You're credible in the room with senior stakeholders at companies up to the Fortune 500, and unfazed by long, multi-threaded deals.
- High ownership. You treat each deployment like it's your own company's success on the line.
Why you should apply
You're shaping the future of product development - AI agents that have product judgment, not just coding ability
- Product impact You directly affect how teams build products
- Extreme ownership You'll own each deployment and have direct impact on every team.
- Direct user feedback Talk to users weekly.
- Shape the category We're defining what "product intelligence for AI coding" means. You'll help figure it out.
- Need lots of structure and defined requirements
- Want to "build it right" before shipping
- Uncomfortable with AI coding tools
- Pure Product Management focus
Compensation
Salary$150k-200k Equity0.5-1.5% (early team member grant) BenefitsUnlimited PTO Visa sponsorshipAt this time, we cannot sponsor work visas. Applicants must be authorized to work in the US.Work environment
In-person, in our San Francisco office (plus travel to client offices). We're a high trust get-shit-done team, so locking in at home is fine, but the industry and product move too fast for fully remote.
How to apply
Email hello@briefhq.ai with:
- Resume or a portfolio of deployments / transformations you've led
- A short note on a time you changed how an organization worked: what resisted, and how you moved it
- 1-2 sentences on: "Product Builders sit at the intersection of product, people, and technology. Where are you strongest, where are you weakest, and how do you compensate?"
We are not accepting unsolicited resumes or submissions from external recruiters or agencies for this role.
Brief is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse team. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, including women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, and veterans. We believe diverse perspectives make us better at serving our customers.
