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title: 'Founding Design Engineer at Virio'
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# Founding Design Engineer at Virio

- **Company:** Virio
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $150k–$250k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-05-14
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/virio/27f44ff7-0cd1-4672-b54b-5be5c7d1f7e8

## Job description

## DESIGN ENGINEER

Location: San Francisco (in-person, in-office, full-time ONLY)

Compensation: $150k-$250k base + top of market equity

## ABOUT VIRIO

Virio is solving an unsolved problem: how do you produce perfect content? The best human strategist researches the space, finds the angle, and knows your goals and constraints — but they're capped by the hours in a day and one human career's worth of expertise. An agent isn't.

But reasoning this good is only as valuable as it is legible. Fortune 500 executives and founders running $100M+ companies won't put their name on content they can't see, steer, and trust — so the product has to be an interactive surface where they can watch the agents work, shape the strategy, and feel why each choice was made. The interface is what gives companies the trust to deploy non-deterministic content across hundreds of employees.

We're backed by operators from LinkedIn, YouTube, HubSpot, Rippling, and Google. The team is almost 100% ex-founders and VCs from Yale, UC Berkeley, Stripe, and more. And we've consecutively added $1M ARR/mo because everyone and their co-founder wants what we're selling.

This problem doesn't have a playbook. We're looking for a Design Engineer to own the interface end to end - to design and implement the canvas through which complex agent reasoning becomes something humans can see, steer, and trust.

## WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Design generative interfaces that rethink what's possible—not incremental tweaks, but genuinely imaginative approaches to how people interact with AI-driven products
- Lead with product intuition: understand what users need before they ask, and imagine interfaces that make complex interactions feel natural and delightful
- Own features end-to-end: from design concept through implementation to launch—you're the keeper of the vision through every stage
- Build frontend components and systems that scale: write clean, maintainable code that doesn't constrain future ambition
- Collaborate seamlessly with engineers and users: make design and implementation work together, not against each other
- Read between the lines to imagine 10x better solutions: your taste and judgment are core to what we ship
- Contribute to the core product roadmap and help define what gets built next

## WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE

- You ship interfaces that users don't just use—they choose to use, and they're surprised by how natural they feel
- You identify friction in the product experience and solve it with imaginative design and thoughtful implementation
- You balance speed with quality—you ship fast without compromising on the details that matter
- Your code is clean and intentional; your design pushes thinking forward while remaining accessible
- You take full ownership—you don't wait for someone else to solve problems you see

## TRAITS THAT THRIVE AT VIRIO

- High agency & self-direction – Acts without waiting for requirements or detailed instructions
- Small-team intensity comfort – Comfortable working intensely and closely with a small, high-output team
- Unorthodox problem solving – Sees non-obvious paths forward and challenges conventional approaches
- Quality-driven execution – Detail-oriented with high standards for correctness and quality
- Low ego & accountability – Takes full ownership and accountability for outcomes

## BENEFITS

- Competitive total compensation aligned to impact and ownership
- Meaningful equity upside as part of the founding team
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) plan
- All working meals covered
- Relocation support for San Francisco
- Company-wide annual off-site
- Direct access to founders and leadership
- High ownership, high trust, and fast career progression alongside world-class client partners
- In-person culture with deep commitment to excellence

This is a full-time, on-site role based in San Francisco with the team coming in 6 days/week. We do not offer hybrid or remote positions.

## About Virio

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Virio is an AI-powered B2B content marketing and lead generation platform that writes and publishes LinkedIn content for every employee at a company, turning executives into industry influencers and LinkedIn into a predictable GTM channel.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Startup)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed on the website or LinkedIn.

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: B2B Marketing Technology (MarTech), AI-driven Content Creation, Lead Generation
- **Target customers**: B2B companies, specifically vertical SaaS companies with high ACVs; Enterprise companies with large employee bases.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To make every employee generate pipeline in their sleep by turning LinkedIn into the #1 revenue channel. The company's thesis is that "EGC is the new UGC" (Employee Generated Content is the new User Generated Content).

## Products & Services
- **Virio Platform**: An AI-powered content engine that combines "Agentic Deep Research" and "The Human Touch." The AI agent crafts posts about breaking news, ABM pipeline targets, and ICP topics. A human Content Engineer reviews and calibrates the GTM strategy weekly. After approval, Virio posts the content automatically on LinkedIn. The service targets specific ICPs and simulates reactions to optimize for engagement.
- **Content Engineering Service**: Virio pairs each client with a world-class content expert who learns the company's marketing initiatives and sales targets. This service is designed to replace or augment in-house content teams and agencies.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed. The company is in a growth stage.
- **Key Metric**: The company reports generating **$110M+** in pipeline and **42M+** impressions for its clients. It has a headcount of **29 employees** (as of mid-2025) with a **+433.3% headcount growth year-over-year** and **+185.8% growth over the last 12 months**. [salaryguide.com](https://salaryguide.com/companies/virio), [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/virioai)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Backed by executives from **Notion, Rippling, and HubSpot**, as well as the biggest creators on LinkedIn. [virio.ai](https://virio.ai/)
- **Growth Signals**: The company has 13 active job postings (a **+160% quarterly increase**), indicating aggressive scaling. It has a strong focus on vertical SaaS, a market with high ACVs and few content voices, making it easy to dominate. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/virioai)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary Data & Benchmarking**: Unlike in-house teams or ChatGPT, Virio benchmarks against thousands of posts and dozens of companies, learning what works in B2B content. It analyzes sales calls, pipeline data, and market benchmarks to engineer content.
- **Talent Density**: The company claims to pay **$500K+ packages** to elite operators who work in-person in San Francisco, creating a high-performance culture that agencies and in-house teams can't match.
- **Vertical SaaS Focus**: The platform is specifically optimized for vertical SaaS companies where there are few voices in the space, making it easy to become a trusted operator and close high-ACV deals.
- **Outcome-Based Model**: Virio guarantees a **3x ROI** and focuses on verifiable performance (targeting ABM accounts, simulating reactions, magnifying brand).

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling the Go-To-Market Team**: The company is actively hiring for Enterprise Account Executives (Cybersecurity, Devtools/Data Infra), Founding Account Managers, and a Chief of Staff, signaling a push into enterprise sales and vertical expansion. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/virio)
- **Product Development**: Building out the "AI marketer" to handle more complex content strategies and integrate deeper with LinkedIn's algorithm. The company believes LinkedIn is shifting from a recruiting platform to an ads platform, creating a massive opportunity for organic content.
- **Hiring for Scale**: Open roles for a Founding Recruiter, GTM Engineer, and Design Engineer suggest a focus on building the internal infrastructure to support hypergrowth.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: High-performance, in-person culture based in **San Francisco**. The company emphasizes working "around the clock" with elite operators. The environment is described as intense and results-driven.
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: **On-Site**. All employees work from the San Francisco physical office. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/virio)
- **Compensation**: Very high compensation packages, with roles like Head of Content and Head of GTM paying **$280K - $520K** base salary, and roles like Founding Growth paying **$140K - $260K**. [salaryguide.com](https://salaryguide.com/companies/virio)
- **Notable Perks**: Working directly with top-tier B2B talent and creators. Opportunity to be a founding member of a rapidly growing startup backed by leaders from Notion, Rippling, and HubSpot.
- **Engineering Culture**: The company is looking for a "Founding GTM Engineer" and "Design Engineer," suggesting a tight-knit engineering team that builds directly for the GTM motion. The tech stack includes React, Webflow, HubSpot, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, and Figma. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/virioai)

## Sources
1. [virio.ai](https://virio.ai/)
2. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/virioai)
3. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/virio)
4. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/virio)
5. [salaryguide.com](https://salaryguide.com/companies/virio)

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