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# Design Engineer at Confido

- **Company:** Confido
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-08-26
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confido/3155bda4-fdb2-487f-a0ec-719cd876a726

## Job description

Confido is the AI infrastructure powering modern CPG — the platform that 200+ brands like OLIPOP, Simple Mills, Dr. Squatch, and Tropicana use to run everything from deductions to production planning. Finance, accounting, sales, and operations, unified in one system for the first time.

We're growing 5x year over year with a small team in New York City; the people who join now will shape the product, the culture, and the company itself.

If you want your work on shelves everywhere — and outsized ownership while you build — we'd love to meet you.

## THE ROLE

We're building the operating system for CPG brands, covering demand planning, finance, accounting, and sales in one platform. Design here means owning real surface area across a complex, interconnected product, not shipping buttons in isolation.

We're a small team that moves fast, communicates directly, and sweats the details. You'll work closely with product and engineering to define not just what things look like, but how the whole experience fits together.

## What you'll do

- Shape the strategic direction of product and feature roadmaps, not just execute them
- Build working prototypes early, put them in front of real customers, and use what you learn to reshape the feature before it's fully built outearly, put them in front of real customers, and use what you learn to reshape the feature before it's fully built out
- Partner tightly with engineering and product to define, prototype, and ship—often all in the same week
- Sweat the details, the hundreds of small decisions that make a complex operator tool feel effortless instead of overwhelming
- Take validated patterns and refine them directly in code, contributing back into the design system
- Find ways to ship great work under real constraints. Scrappily, not sloppily

## What you bring

- 3–5 years of experience across both design and front-end engineering, ideally in B2B SaaS, enterprise tools, or complex workflow products
- A portfolio that demonstrates strong product thinking, polished craft, and the ability to make hard problems feel simple
- Track record of seeing large, ambiguous projects through from zero to shipped
- Active use of tools like Cursor and Claude Code, with clear opinions on how to get high-quality output from them
- A strong eye for design, with deep care for layout, motion, affordances, and visual polish
- Direct communication style; you influence through the quality of your thinking, not org chart position

You'll stand out if you

- Ship opinionated work and defend it with taste and data
- Active, non-gimmicky use of AI tools in your day-to-day workflow
- Interest in defining interaction patterns for how people work alongside AI agents
- Treat ambiguity as an invitation, not a blocker
- Stay current on AI research and tools, shown in your design process
- Designed for financial, enterprise, or other domains that require complex systems thinking previously
- Have experience in high-growth startups

Learn more about Design at Confido here https://wooded-maxilla-fc0.notion.site/Design-at-Confido-357061e1396480c585d8fd795b43d186

## 🌴 PERKS + BENEFITS

- Equity — own a meaningful piece of the company you’re helping build
- Fully paid health coverage through Aetna — we cover 100% of employee premiums
- Top-tier dental and vision coverage through Guardian
- Carrot Fertility Pro — comprehensive fertility and family-forming support
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave
- Unlimited PTO — plus regular 4-day holiday weekends we actually take
- 401(k) through Vestwell
- Paid relocation support — we’ll help you make the move to NYC
- Fully equipped workspace from day one — laptop, monitor, keyboard, and a $200 stipend to personalize your setup
- Team perks — catered Friday lunches, team dinners, and unlimited coffee + snacks featuring products from the brands we work with

Confido provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

## About Confido

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Confido provides an AI-powered, unified back-office platform for CPG brands, automating workflows from cash application and deduction management to demand forecasting and production planning.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Not publicly listed on the company website or LinkedIn; the founding team includes operators with CPG experience.

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Software Development / AI Infrastructure for Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG)
- **Target customers**: B2B; Finance, Accounting, Sales, and Operations teams at CPG brands, from emerging startups to category leaders.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Reimagine back-office software for CPG and power modern brands with AI infrastructure that connects finance, accounting, sales, and operations on a single platform." [confidotech.com](https://www.confidotech.com/about)

## Products & Services
- **Confido Platform (AI Infrastructure for CPG)**: An end-to-end, AI-powered platform that serves as the single source of truth for accounting, finance, sales, and operations teams. It connects 50+ critical data sources (retailers, distributors, ERPs, accounting systems) and automates the entire retail accounting workflow.
- **Cash Application**: Automates cash application with AI-driven document aggregation, data extraction, and invoice matching, reducing manual hours and clerical errors. Claims 99% accuracy in data extraction.
- **Deduction & Dispute Management**: Automates deduction management, categorization, and dispute resolution in a single system.
- **Trade Promotion Management (TPM)**: Plan, track, and analyze trade promotions with clear visibility into spend and ROI, integrated with sales forecasting.
- **Demand & Supply Forecasting**: AI baselining to detect lift, measure demand, and plan with confidence, feeding a supply plan that keeps operations, sales, and finance aligned.
- **Real-Time Retail Analytics**: Track sales, stores, and DC inventory with full transparency; customize reports, build charts, and share insights.
- **Data Aggregation & ERP Sync**: Connects directly to 50+ critical data sources, including leading retailers, distributors, ERP platforms, and accounting systems. Syncs records at any level of granularity.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of $20.0M (Series A led by Footwork, Seed led by Watchfire Ventures)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Footwork (Series A lead), Watchfire Ventures (Seed lead), Nikhil Basu Trivedi (Board Member). Trusted by 200+ leading CPG brands including OLIPOP, Simple Mills, Dr. Squatch, and Tropicana. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/confidotech)
- **Growth Signals**: 5x YoY growth in 2025; 200+ CPG brands managing $20B+ in revenue on the platform; headcount grew 192% YoY to 45 employees; 29 active job postings (monthly job posting growth of +16.0%, yearly growth of +314.3%). [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/confidotech)

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-Mover in AI for CPG Back-Office**: Positioned as the "first automated financial operations for CPG," creating a category-specific AI infrastructure that connects finance, accounting, sales, and operations on a single platform.
- **Purpose-Built for CPG**: Unlike generic ERP or accounting software, Confido is built specifically for the unique workflows of CPG brands (deductions, trade spend, retailer data, demand planning), offering deep integrations with 50+ critical data sources including KeHE, UNFI, and Walmart.
- **High Accuracy & Time Savings**: Claims 99% accuracy in AI-driven data extraction and an average of 85% time savings for accounting, finance, and sales teams, with customers reporting 400+ hours saved per month and 2-3 FTE saved in headcount. [confidotech.com](https://www.confidotech.com/)
- **Rapid Growth & Traction**: 5x YoY growth in 2025, trusted by 200+ brands managing $20B+ in revenue, and a 192% headcount growth rate in the last year. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/confidotech)

## Strategic Focus
- **Product Expansion & Depth**: Continue building out the end-to-end platform, connecting more data sources, and deepening AI capabilities for forecasting, deduction management, and cash application.
- **Scaling the Team**: With 29 active job postings and a 314% yearly increase in job postings, the company is aggressively scaling its engineering, sales, and GTM teams to support rapid growth.
- **Market Leadership**: Cementing its position as the "AI infrastructure for CPG brands" by expanding its customer base (200+ brands) and deepening integrations with major retailers and ERP systems.

## Why Work Here
- **High-Growth Environment**: The company is experiencing explosive growth (5x YoY, 192% headcount growth), offering significant career acceleration and impact for early employees.
- **Mission-Driven & Impactful Work**: Employees directly build the "single source of truth" for finance, accounting, sales, and operations teams at major CPG brands, solving a real, painful problem in a massive industry.
- **Culture & Values**: Emphasizes "Pioneership" (first automated financial ops for CPG, "first in the role" mindset) and "Gumption" (proactive, results-driven team). [confidotech.com](https://www.confidotech.com/about)
- **Remote/Hybrid/Office Policy**: Offers relocation support for moves to New York City, suggesting a strong NYC office presence. [confidotech.com](https://www.confidotech.com/careers)
- **Notable Perks**: Top-decile salary and equity with compensation transparency; company-covered medical, dental, and vision; flexible time off; 401K plans; team celebrations and outings. [confidotech.com](https://www.confidotech.com/careers)
- **Engineering Culture**: Technical team makes up 18% of the workforce (13 people), with a Head of AI and a CTO. The company is actively hiring for Senior Software Engineer, Software Engineer, and Senior Product Manager roles. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/confidotech)

## Sources
1. [confidotech.com](https://www.confidotech.com/)
2. [confidotech.com](https://www.confidotech.com/about)
3. [confidotech.com](https://www.confidotech.com/careers)
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/confidotech)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Confido)

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