--- title: 'Founding Talent Partner - Product and Engineering at Knit' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/founding-talent-partner-product-and-engineering-knit-new-york-ecjn29208p2z' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-09' --- # Founding Talent Partner - Product and Engineering at Knit - **Company:** Knit - **Location:** New York, NY - **Compensation:** $175k–$190k - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-08-13 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/knit/jobs/4369848009 ## Job description A little about us [Knit](https://goknit.com/) is the AI-native consumer research platform helping brands automate and accelerate primary research. With our Researcher-Driven AI, we’ve condensed the entire quant + qual research process from weeks into days (sometimes hours!) for 50+ enterprise brands — including Amazon, T-Mobile, Mars, NASCAR, and more. We’re on a mission to scale and democratize world-class research. From survey generation to stakeholder-ready reports, our platform is redefining how insights teams operate — and we need your help to push the limits of what’s possible. ## The role At Knit, talent acquisition is a craft. We're looking for hunters and connectors to map the market and pull the best people out of it. This is not a LinkedIn-all-day job, you'll be accountable for the team you build; not the number of messages you send. This is an in-market super-connector role, and you'll have the trust and autonomy to find talent wherever they are. We're looking for high-agency doers. We're open to career changers with a track record of building networks and getting it done. Knit is an AI-native startup with real traction and blue-chip customers. Our product and engineering team is NYC-based, high-performing, and fun. If you're looking to be creative and make your mark, we'd love to meet you. ## What you will own We're growing our team and you'll partner with leadership to own hiring AI-native Engineers and Product Managers. This isn't just filling reqs as they open. It's knowing who the great people are, and why they'd move, long before we need them. You'll have a seat at the table and the trust from leadership to deliver results the best way you see fit. ## What you'll do - Own product and engineering hiring end to end - Be outside. You'll build proactive relationships and consistently map the talent market so we're meeting talent well ahead of hiring needs - Build networks of talent. We expect much of your pipeline will come from networking, referrals, and intros - Build Knit's reputation as the place kind, ambitious people go next - Partner closely with engineering and product leadership as a trusted advisor - Ensure everyone has a great experience with Knit, whether or not they join ## About you - Recruiting is your craft. You're creative, forward-looking, always sharpening your work and testing new theories - You hold a high bar and hold out for the right person rather than the available one - A super-connector with a real network and the instinct to keep building it - Strong judgment and a nose for talent, including people from non-traditional backgrounds - Credible with engineers. You get folks excited to work here - A trusted partner to hiring teams - You work from first principles. You're oriented to the business and are creative in driving strong outcomes - You’re a builder and are comfortable with ambiguity - you're excited to build and shape a forward thinking talent function We're open to diverse backgrounds. You could be an experienced recruiter or high-agency career changer who wants to do the best work of their career. ## Benefits Upon joining the Knit team, you will receive a competitive salary, plus stock options, healthcare (medical, dental, and vision), and additional coverage, a company laptop and one-time, onboarding technology stipend, a 401(k) with company match, flexible time-off, hybrid working, catered lunch, and more! Salary In accordance with New York pay transparency requirements, the salary range for this role is $175,000 - $190,000. Final compensation will be determined based on the candidate’s level, experience, and qualifications upon joining Knit. Our Company Values We are the Championship Team. This means we: - Are 1% better every day: We approach situations with a growth mindset and ask, “How can we make the business better?” and “What would it take?” - Play to win: We set audacious goals and push ourselves to achieve them with a bias towards action  (When we see a need, we take initiative, and hold ourselves accountable to seeing it through). - Keep the main thing the main thing: Identify what has the biggest impact and prioritize to focus on it. In accordance with New York pay transparency requirements, the salary range for this role is listed below. Final compensation will be determined based on the candidate’s level, experience, and qualifications upon joining Knit. Salary Range $175,000—$190,000 USD Knit Privacy Policy [here.](https://goknit.com/privacy-policy) CCPA disclosure [here](https://goknit.com/notice-at-collection). ## About Knit ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Knit is an AI-native research agency that combines researcher expertise with autonomous AI agents to deliver decision-ready quantitative and qualitative insights faster than traditional agencies. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A; total funding $30.65M) - **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States - **Founded**: 2022 (LinkedIn data; earlier funding rounds under a predecessor entity may exist) - **Founders**: Aneesh Dhawan (Co-Founder & CEO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Market Research / Insights & Analytics - **Target customers**: B2B – primarily enterprise insights teams and research leads at global brands (Amazon, ESPN, Mars Wrigley, T-Mobile, NASCAR, Timex) - **Mission or purpose statement**: To unlock entirely new ways for the world’s most iconic enterprises to run research – enabling insights teams to operate at the speed of the business and focus on strategic thinking rather than execution. ## Products & Services - **AI-Native Research Agency (End-to-End Service)**: Researcher-driven AI platform that manages the full research lifecycle – scoping, questionnaire design, sample & fielding (own panel of 65M+ vetted respondents or bring-your-own), mixed-method quant & qual analysis, and decision-ready reporting. Studies can go from scoping to story in a week or less. - **Researcher-Driven AI™**: A methodology where a dedicated forward-deployed researcher grounds the AI in sound research design and business context, ensuring outputs are defensible and decision-ready. - **Research Context Library**: Stores past studies, brand guidelines, and business context so each new project starts smarter and learns over time. - **Survey Creation & Programming**: AI-assisted questionnaire building with quant and qual (including video questions and AI-moderated questions) in a single study. - **Automated Analysis & Reporting**: AI generates structured reports with charts, headlines, key themes, and video summaries – exportable to PowerPoint or Google Slides. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company) - **Key Metrics**: - Annual Revenue: ~$1 million (LinkedIn estimate) - Total Funding: $30.65 million (across 7 rounds) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: - Series A (August 2025): $16.1M led by GFT Ventures and Sound Ventures - Series A (September 2024): $9.0M led by Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund - Early investors: Techstars (Pre-Seed 2019) - **Growth Signals**: - Headcount: 67 employees (+65.4% year-over-year) - LinkedIn follower growth: +143.7% annually (10,511 followers) - Clients include Amazon, Mars Wrigley, NASCAR, Timex, T-Mobile, ESPN - 15 active job postings (as of mid-2026) ## Competitive Advantages - **Researcher-Driven AI**: Unlike DIY AI tools that hand off raw outputs, Knit embeds a real researcher in every project to oversee methodology, business context, and analysis – delivering agency-quality insights at platform speed. - **Speed + Quality Tradeoff Eliminated**: Claims to reduce timelines from months to a week while cutting costs vs. traditional agencies – all without sacrificing rigor. - **Unified Quant + Qual**: Single study supports both quantitative and qualitative methods (including video), providing a holistic picture automatically analyzed together. - **Context Memory**: The platform retains and applies past research context, brand guidelines, and business learning across projects, increasing efficiency over time. ## Strategic Focus - **Enterprise expansion**: Aggressively hiring for Enterprise Account Executives, Client Partners, and a Director of Enterprise Sales (West Coast / PST/MST) – indicating a push into larger accounts. - **Product-led growth**: Emphasizing a self-serve + researcher-assisted model to serve both DIY and full-service customers. - **AI capabilities deepening**: Recent departure of Head of AI (May 2026) may signal a pivot or scaling of the AI team; current job postings include Staff Full Stack Engineer and Advanced Analytics Lead. ## Why Work Here - **Culture highlights**: Described as a place where "building the next great technology to hit the insights world" relies on exceptional talent. Team is growing rapidly (+65% YoY) with a collaborative, hybrid environment. - **Remote/Hybrid policy**: Hybrid working model explicitly listed as a benefit. Offices in New York (HQ), Austin, and presence in India and Canada. - **Notable perks** (from careers page): - Competitive salary - Flexible Time Off - Healthcare Insurance - 401(k) Match - Paid Parental Leave - Company Laptop - **Engineering culture**: Recent job postings include a Staff Full Stack Engineer role; technical team comprises ~7% of headcount. Emphasis on building an AI-native research platform suggests a fast-paced, product-forward environment. - **Employer Rating**: 3.7/5.0 on LinkedIn (3 reviews), with Work-Life Balance scored 4.0. ## Sources 1. [goknit.com/about/careers](https://goknit.com/about/careers) 2. [goknit.com/](https://goknit.com/) 3. [goknit.com/about](https://goknit.com/about) 4. [LinkedIn Company Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/goknit) 5. 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