---
title: 'Founding Product Designer at Sentra'
canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/founding-product-designer-sentra-san-francisco-3vt3ap581mzn'
type: 'job'
last_seen: '2026-09-08'
---

# Founding Product Designer at Sentra

- **Company:** Sentra
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA / Bay Area
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-04-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sentra/9717d4c7-7500-47af-a5f5-964ae51c1258

## Job description

At Sentra we embarked on an exciting journey to build a one-of-a-kind company memory to help growing startups overcome scaling challenges. At Sentra https://www.sentra.app/app/memory, we've developed a true AI teammate that understands an organization's context, goals, and culture - offering both ICs and leaders unprecedented transparency into what's happening across the company and strategic alignment.

Sentra is backed by a16z and Together Fund, working with leaders from the top tech companies in the valley. Our goal? To never let a company lose itself as it gets bigger.

What you'll do:

- Work directly with CEO on overall strategy and decision-making about product direction
- Work with the product team to take ambiguous product ideas and turn them into clear requirements, flows, interactions, and design interfaces.
- Create flows, interactions, and designs for multi-surface products: desktop app, web dashboard, notifications, AI outputs, etc.
- Rapidly prototype ideas (Figma, interactive mocks) to test with customers
- Create and iterate on flows, prototypes, and high-fidelity visuals, as well as provide thoughtful feedback for others doing the same so you can all do your best work
- Collaborate with engineers to ensure designs are buildable, performant, and scalable
- Create reusable components, patterns, and documentation as the product scales
- Collaboratively define metrics and data points to collect and measure design effectiveness
- Run lightweight user research, usability tests, and feedback loops with real operators
- Help deliver and refine clear storytelling around product needs and opportunities
- Contribute to our design org’s culture by participating in design critiques, mentoring peers, and sharing best practices across teams

We’d love to hear from you if you have:

- 3+ years of work or equivalent experience designing UX and UI for a software product of similar scale and complexity
- Great attention to detail and a strong eye for visual craft, such as composition, typography, and layout of modern AI products
- Fluency in interaction design and prototyping in Figma and related tools, to express and refine nuanced design decisions
- A track record of independently driving design processes from discovery through launch—balancing user needs, technical constraints, and business goals
- The ability to guide decision-making with structured thinking, clearly articulated rationale, and user-centered research
- Experience with data-driven decision making in the design process, defining metrics and data points to evaluate and measure design effectiveness

While it’s not required, it’s an added plus if you also have:

- Experience designing information tools, workflows, or systems that support company operations
- Experience researching, prototyping, or building products with AI and other emerging tools to uncover new patterns for agentic experiences
- Experience with consumer applications

What we offer:

- Competitive salary and equity
- Free meals on in-office days
- UberEats credits
- Health insurance coverage (medical, dental, and vision)
- Equinox and other fitness/wellness memberships
- Transportation stipend
- Flexible time off

## About Sentra

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Sentra builds an AI-powered organizational memory layer that captures and structures every interaction, decision, and commitment across a company’s tools, making them queryable by both humans and agents.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed-stage)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2025
- **Founders**: Ashwin Gopinath (CEO), Andrey Starenky (CTO), Al Rey (CRO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Enterprise SaaS, AI Infrastructure, Productivity
- **Target customers**: B2B – teams and enterprises that want a unified knowledge base spanning meetings, messages, documents, tickets, and CRM
- **Mission**: “Enterprise General Intelligence starts with memory” – creating a shared organizational memory that enables intelligent coordination across the entire company

## Products & Services
- **[Sentra](https://www.sentra.app/)**: A cloud or self-hosted platform that ingests data from 200+ tools (meetings, chat, email, code, CRM, etc.) and builds a bi-temporal context graph. Users query the graph in plain English; agents access it via REST or MCP. Key features include factual, action, and interaction memory layers, confidence-scored identity resolution, and automated tracking of commitments and drift. It is SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certified and can be deployed in an isolated VPC or fully air-gapped on-premises.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Total Funding**: $5.0 million (Seed round, January 2026)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Led by a16z speedrun and Together Fund, with participation from Parable, Shaad Khan, Precursor Ventures, and others. [a16z speedrun](https://speedrun.a16z.com/companies/sentra) | [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/sentra-app)
- **Growth Signals**: Team of ~12–16 employees with presence in the US, Canada, and Japan. Founders and early engineers hail from MIT, Caltech, Google, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Apple, and Databricks. Sentra claims state-of-the-art performance on the MEME benchmark, scoring 40% on Cascade (field average 3%) and 43% on Absence (field average 1%).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Bi-temporal context graph**: Facts carry when they became true and when they stopped, enabling reasoning about change rather than simple retrieval.
- **No model training on customer data**: Data privacy is a core design principle; the platform does not use customer data to train AI models.
- **Self-hosted or air-gapped deployment**: Suitable for enterprises with strict data residency or compliance requirements.
- **Deep integration ecosystem**: Plugs into 200+ tools via native connectors and standard protocols (REST, MCP).

## Strategic Focus
- Become the standard memory layer for enterprises, enabling both human teams and AI agents to act on a single source of organizational truth.
- Continue expanding integrations and improving graph-based reasoning over raw language data.
- Compete with RAG-based memory systems by offering superior accuracy and temporal reasoning.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Deeply technical, research-driven environment led by multiple-time founders with academic and big-tech backgrounds.
- **Team size**: Small (12–16 people) – opportunity for high impact and ownership.
- **Investor backing**: Backed by top-tier firms (a16z speedrun, Together Fund).
- **Work policy**: Headquarters in San Francisco; distributed team across the US, Canada, and Japan (exact remote/hybrid policy not publicly specified).
- **Notable perks**: Focus on cutting-edge AI research; direct work on agentic memory infrastructure that is being cited in academic benchmarks.

## Sources
1. [sentra.app](https://www.sentra.app/)
2. [sentra.app/about](https://www.sentra.app/about)
3. [linkedin.com/company/sentra-app](https://www.linkedin.com/company/sentra-app)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/sentra](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sentra)
5. [speedrun.a16z.com/companies/sentra](https://speedrun.a16z.com/companies/sentra)

## Other roles at Sentra

- [Senior Backend Software Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-backend-software-engineer-sentra-san-francisco-g5hjb4e1jtwp) — San Francisco, CA / Bay Area
- [Machine Learning Research Scientist](https://feeny.ai/job/machine-learning-research-scientist-sentra-san-francisco-8z6rf1eprfga) — San Francisco, CA / Bay Area
- [Founding Product Designer](https://feeny.ai/job/founding-product-designer-kernel-london-y9mtrrkb4pkh) — London, United Kingdom
- [Founding Product Designer](https://feeny.ai/job/founding-product-designer-casap-new-york-d2s5h3y4bm0m) — New York, NY
- [Founding Product Designer](https://feeny.ai/job/founding-product-designer-slash-financial-san-francisco-01r3ajp7q6dx) — San Francisco, CA
- [Founding Product Designer](https://feeny.ai/job/founding-product-designer-gumloop-san-francisco-vgf07annx5ym) — San Francisco, CA
- [Founding Product Designer](https://feeny.ai/job/founding-product-designer-improbable-global-8gmtv75pq0ya) — Global
- [Founding Product Designer](https://feeny.ai/job/founding-product-designer-obviant-arlington-tvc0mrevk2zp) — Arlington, VA
- [Founding Product Designer](https://feeny.ai/job/founding-product-designer-inferact-san-francisco-8fhyc666jrb6) — San Francisco, CA
- [Founding Product Designer](https://feeny.ai/job/founding-product-designer-salient-san-francisco-y809xaazpm2f) — San Francisco, CA