--- title: 'Founding Designer at Automat, Inc.' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/founding-designer-automat-inc-san-francisco-rcnwrjxm1mme' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-12' --- # Founding Designer at Automat, Inc. - **Company:** Automat, Inc. - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2025-05-09 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/automat/5c9a8eae-0705-48b6-9b7a-8d752146feb0 ## Job description Founding Designer ​​Who is Automat? Automat was founded by a diverse group of creative technologists from teams like Google Creative Lab and Samsung’s Innovation Think Tank. We're building a future where intelligent agents run real business operations, not just support them. Automat Workforce puts AI coworkers directly inside a company's existing tools to handle day-to-day operational work, and our Studio platform gives customers a fully managed way to build, deploy, and monitor their own agents and automations. We believe that building automations will be as simple as showing a coworker an workflow to automate: Imagine a skillful automation developer sitting over your shoulder, turning your most boring workflows into reliable, deterministic automations that execute in seconds. Come help us build this. Practically - we're redefining Enterprise AI Agents RPA (Robotic Process Automation) and Intelligent Document Processing (IDP), developing the necessary tooling and infrastructure to incorporate the advancements of AI into practical, real-world applications. ## The Role We’re looking for a designer who will play a critical role in designing Automat’s platform and creating a brand language through every surface of the Automat experience. You’ll work directly with our co-founder CEO, Lucas Ochoa and need to have better design taste than he. (did he write this, he may have yes) The ideal candidate will have deep technical skill in design and an appreciation for excellent engineering. Ideally you’ve previously combined both in order to build brilliant products experiences and materials that are balanced, efficient, and work perfectly in their time and context. We’re trying to find the 2025 software equivalent of the mid century designers Plywood. If this sounds interesting, please help us do that. You’re a great fit if you… - Have great taste - Can solve ambiguous problem spaces through making - You’ve thought about apple products a lot - and say 99 No’s for every Yes - have prior experience in a fast-moving, high-growth setting - Have taken experiences end to end: from concept to production - are inspired by the new creative possibilities that AI interactions enable and are eager to invent. - On occasion clean the [metaphorical toilet](https://youtu.be/oP45EdNznOY?feature=shared&t=200) Likely Behaviors: - Dream in Figma auto layout - You’re “vibe-coding” prototypes for your design ideas - Are visually and therefore viscerally offended when you see poorly spaced type or an improperly nested corner radius - Are meticulous about keeping your design portfolio up to date (only kidding) Bonuses - You care about good writing - Have received some awards for your incredible product / design work - You’ve coded full stack apps on your own before - Know how to use Git ## About Automat, Inc. ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Automat provides an AI-driven robotic process automation (RPA) platform that uses click-based AI agents to automate complex workflows across enterprise systems, replacing brittle and expensive legacy RPA solutions. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States - **Founded**: 2023 - **Founders**: Lucas Ochoa (CEO) and Gautam Bose (CTO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Enterprise Automation / AI-Powered RPA - **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise (Healthcare, Insurance, Banking, Manufacturing, E-Commerce, Mortgage & Lending, Operations & Shared Services) - **Mission or purpose statement**: To make work easier for everyone with one-click browser flows, using AI techniques from robotics to build automations that are 10x faster and 1/10th the price of traditional RPA. ## Products & Services - **Automat Platform (Managed AI Automation)**: A suite of AI agents that can be deployed via API or UI triggers. The platform features a proprietary transformer-based RPA engine that mimics human behavior on top of existing user interfaces, including Windows, Citrix, and web portals. It includes self-healing agents, built-in human oversight, AI document extraction (IDP), and a UI-based agent builder. - **Document Studio**: AI-powered document extraction and processing for PDFs, forms, and unstructured data. - **API-Based Automations**: Custom API endpoints for integrating automations into existing workflows and products. - **Managed Automations**: End-to-end service where the Automat team builds, tests, and validates automations based on screen recordings, process documentation, or example files. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available - **Key Metrics**: - **Total Funding**: $19.75M (across 3 rounds) - **Annual Revenue**: Not publicly available - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (Pre-Seed lead), Initialized Capital (Seed lead), Felicis (Series A lead) - **Growth Signals**: - Headcount growth of +92.3% year-over-year (from ~10 to 22 employees) - Active hiring with 9 open positions - Operates in 6 countries (US, Philippines, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Sweden) - 2,533 LinkedIn followers (+86.9% yearly growth) - SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA, and ISO 27001 certified - Alumni from top AI and robotics companies (Google, Everyday Robots, 14.ai) ## Competitive Advantages - **Proprietary Transformer-Based RPA Engine**: Unlike legacy RPA (UiPath, Automation Anywhere), Automat’s agents are built using AI techniques from robotics, enabling them to understand context, handle exceptions, and self-heal when interfaces change. - **Speed & Cost Efficiency**: Claims to be 10x faster to deploy and 1/10th the cost of traditional RPA. - **Enterprise-Grade Security**: SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA, and ISO 27001 certified with audit trails, granular permissions, and real-time monitoring. - **Managed Service Model**: Offers end-to-end automation management, not just a tool, reducing the need for internal RPA teams. - **Ex-Google Engineering Team**: Founders and early engineers have deep AI experience from Google, including work on LaMDA (Google’s conversational AI). ## Strategic Focus - **Scaling Enterprise Sales**: Currently hiring a Head of Sales and Enterprise Account Executives, indicating a push into larger enterprise deals. - **Vertical Expansion**: Targeting high-value verticals like Healthcare, Insurance, Banking, and Manufacturing with tailored solutions. - **Product Development**: Continuing to build out the AI agent platform with focus on self-healing, human-in-the-loop tooling, and observability. - **Geographic Expansion**: Already operating in 6 countries, with LATAM (Colombia, Peru, Brazil) being a notable growth region. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Described as a team of "makers who take action" — a bias for building and solving problems. The team works out of a former historic brewery in San Francisco’s Mission District. - **Remote/Hybrid/Office**: Likely hybrid or in-office based on the San Francisco headquarters and the nature of close collaboration on AI/robotics. - **Engineering Culture**: Deep technical challenges at the intersection of AI, robotics, and enterprise software. Team includes alumni from Google, Everyday Robots, and top AI labs. Engineers work on transformer-based models, computer vision, and agentic AI. - **Benefits & Perks**: Health, Dental, Vision coverage; 401K (via Human Interest); Commuter Benefits (parking, public transit); Lifestyle perks; Reliable family coverage. - **Growth Stage**: Early-stage (Series A, ~22 people) with massive growth trajectory — a chance to have outsized impact as an early employee. - **Open Roles**: 9 active positions including Software Engineer, Applied AI Engineer, Founding Designer, Enterprise Account Executive, Head of Sales, and Forward Deployed Engineer. ## Sources 1. [runautomat.com/about](https://runautomat.com/about) 2. [runautomat.com/careers](https://runautomat.com/careers) 3. [runautomat.com](https://runautomat.com/) 4. [ycombinator.com/companies/automat](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/automat) 5. 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