Ajax
Product & Engineering
DesignEngineer
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“Design Engineer at Ajax. Skills: Product development, Customer problem solving. Talk to customers. Build solutions”
What You'll Achieve.
Achieve 0% customer churn; Win pilot projects
Industry & Context.
Root cause analysis
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
2+ years experience building products, Design portfolio or github
Nice to Have
Experience with LLMs for people
What You'll Do.
Talk to customers, Build solutions, Figure abstractions, Contribute to team composition, Interview candidates
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Interview every candidate
Full Job Description
WHAT WE’RE BUILDING White collar businesses depend on fragile, time consuming data entry to plan, record, and execute work. Client services firms (~$10B TAM) are especially dependent on this broken process: lawyers, accountants, and consultants need to faithfully track their time in order to get paid. Lawyers spend an hour per day tracking their time, and fail to account for 20% of their work. Ajax frees hardworking professionals to do their jobs by passively capturing, analyzing, and preparing the reports they owe their boss/client/whoever. Our results speak for themselves: - 0% Customer Churn: we have never lost a firm (70% is considered good) https://chatgpt.com/share/694c0787-79b4-8001-8cb5-3074bd6a5f1c - Customers say things like - “I’m going to leave my husband for Ajax” - “I was so bad at time tracking that I was going to have to switch careers until I found you” - “This is somewhere between 5,000 and 10,000 better than what I was doing before” - “This is the easiest money I’ve ever spent” THE ROLE WHO YOU ARE - An engineer with a design portfolio, or a designer with a github - With >2 years of experience building and iterating on live products - Who wants to work to make these crazy LLMs useful for real people WHAT YOU’LL DO - Talk to customers, figure what problems they have, and build the solutions - Figure out the right abstractions for a firm intelligence platform atop our timetracking - Meaningfully contribute to team composition: every eng interviews every candidate YOU’LL EXCEL HERE IF - Your reward function is customer happiness (stolen verbatim from our 2nd engineer). - You want ownership - that means shipping your ideas and owning the results. - You like adventure. We’re solving an unsolved problem, so we need to be brave and rigorous in exploration. The optimal number of unsuccessful experiments is higher than 0. WORKING AT AJAX HOW WE WORK, IN PRACTICE Here’s a real sprint we had in November: 1. During a pilot with an important firm, the GTM team
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