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# Game Designer - Cofounder at The General Intelligence Company of New York

- **Company:** The General Intelligence Company of New York
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-07-01
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/generalintelligencecompany/8019516d-1d4b-4322-b116-99d070b9ca0b

## Job description

## About the role

At [General Intelligence](https://www.generalintelligencecompany.com/), we’re building highly-capable autonomous agents for startups. Our goal is to enable the one-person, one-billion-dollar company.

Our product, [Cofounder](https://cofounder.co/), enables entrepreneurs to start and run companies. Using it should feel more like a company-building game where users coordinate agents, unlock roadmap nodes, run missions, build artifacts, grow departments, and make revenue go up.

We’re looking for a game designer to make Cofounder more fun, intuitive, and strategically deep.

This is a game designer role for someone with real strategy game taste. You should be familiar with the grand strategy genre as well as gameplay loops involving the genre. You understand why games like Civilization, Stellaris, Factorio, StarCraft, RimWorld, XCOM, or EVE become addictive: macro loops, micro loops, compounding strategy, progression, complexity, constraints, feedback, and reward.

Your job is to translate those instincts into product.

## What you’ll do

- Design gameplay loops for Cofounder: missions, goals, departments, progression, maps, unlocks, rewards, and recurring user actions. Translate these gameplay loops into actual direct product surface for our users.
- Turn “run your company” into clear, intuitive game mechanics users understand.
- Build compounding strategy into the product: decisions should matter, systems should interact, and progress should create new options.
- Make agent workflows feel fun, fast, and rewarding instead of abstract or confusing.
- Work with design and engineering to spec, ship, measure, and improve gameplay-driven product experiences.
- Study user behavior to optimize and identify loops.
- Push Cofounder toward the feeling of a great strategy game while keeping it useful for real companies.

## Who you are

- You have 5+ years of experience in game design, game systems design, or gameplay design.
- You have worked in the gaming industry, ideally on strategy games, simulation games, live-service games, management games, MMOs, RPGs, or other systems-heavy products.
- You have shipped player-facing gameplay systems, not just managed tasks or roadmaps.
- You deeply understand strategy games: macro loops, micro loops, progression, pacing, compounding systems, tutorials, rewards, and retention.
- You know how to balance fun, clarity, pacing, and utility.
- You care about product quality and craft.
- You are high agency.
- You have aura. If you don’t know what this means, it’s not a fit.

## How we work

In-person only in New York. You’ll be in the room with founders daily. Relocation assistance is available. High agency. We hire smart people and get out of their way. Outcomes over inputs. You’re measured on what ships and what gets better. Direct feedback. You’ll hear what’s working and what’s not; same applies in reverse. Ship fast, iterate daily. Taste matters, but perfection is the enemy of progress.

What’s different about General Intelligence? Real leverage. You will have a legitimately unlimited token budget for AI tools. No bureaucracy. You’ll be frustrated by red tape everywhere else after working here. Small, elite team. You work directly with founders and engineers building agents. Craft matters. Speed is key, but sloppiness isn’t tolerated.

## About The General Intelligence Company of New York

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: The General Intelligence Company is building AI agents that run entire businesses autonomously, enabling a one-person billion-dollar company.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage; raised $8.7M Seed round in December 2025)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States (also has an office in San Francisco)
- **Founded**: January 2025
- **Founders**: Abhishyant Khare (Cofounder, CTO) and Andrew P. (Co-founder, CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Applied AI / Enterprise Automation / Agentic Platforms
- **Target customers**: Entrepreneurs, small business owners, and anyone wanting to start or run a business using autonomous agents (B2B, SMB, solopreneurs)
- **Mission**: To enable the one-person one-billion dollar company – a world where anyone with an idea can start and run a business with AI agents.

## Products & Services
- **[Cofounder](https://cofounder.co)**: An agentic platform that lets users automate their entire business using natural language. Cofounder can handle functions like coding, customer support, marketing, sales, and cross-functional coordination. It evolved from a single-agent tool (Cofounder 1.5) to a multi-agent orchestration platform (Cofounder 2) that runs an entire company with agents.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $10.7M across two rounds:
  - Pre-Seed (May 2025): $2.0M led by Compound and Acrew Capital
  - Seed (December 2025): $8.7M led by Union Square Ventures, with participation from Acrew Capital, Compound, Scott Belsky, Yohei Nakajima, Agent Fund, Mute Ventures, and others
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Compound, Acrew Capital, Union Square Ventures, Scott Belsky, Yohei Nakajima
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Headcount grew from ~1 to 11 employees (+500% YoY) in its first year
  - SOC-2 certified (December 2025)
  - Launched Cofounder 2 (agentic companies platform) in May 2026
  - Introduced The General Intelligence Fellowship (March 2026) offering $1,000 upfront + $100/day in credits
  - Strong LinkedIn follower growth (+18.7% monthly, reaching 3,634 followers)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Full-stack business automation**: Unlike narrow AI agents that handle only one function (e.g., coding or customer support), General Intelligence is building a coordinator agent that orchestrates swarms of agents across all business functions.
- **Agent-native engineering**: The company practices what it calls “Agent Native Engineering” – engineers ship 20+ PRs daily using heavy AI tooling, enabling extreme velocity.
- **Design-forward culture**: They emphasize beautiful, functional products, not just utilitarian AI tools.
- **First-mover in “agentic companies”**: They are explicitly targeting the vision of a fully autonomous company, a frontier most AI labs are only beginning to explore.

## Strategic Focus
- **Enable the one-person billion-dollar company**: The core strategic bet is that small teams (or even one person) armed with powerful agents can run vast, complex businesses.
- **Continuous platform evolution**: From Cofounder 1.0 to 1.5 (improved memory) to Cofounder 2 (multi-agent orchestration) – rapid iteration based on user feedback.
- **Talent density**: Hiring only “founding” engineers and researchers, maintaining a flat organization with no silos, and a culture of extreme cycle time.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: 
  - “No Bullshit Meetings” – only meet when needed and with the right people.
  - “Cycle Time” is everything – ship fast, learn fast.
  - “No Backlog” – if an idea is good it will come back; otherwise it’s noise.
  - “No Silos” – flat organization, everyone works across product, engineering, and users.
  - “Design Culture” – products must be beautiful, not just functional.
  - “Speed Over Everything” and “Delete the Part” – cut anything that doesn’t add value.
- **Remote/Hybrid/Office**: Primarily in-office in New York City (HQ) with a San Francisco office. The careers page lists roles as “Full Time” with no explicit remote tag, suggesting strong in-person presence.
- **Notable perks/engineering culture**: 
  - Engineers are expected to use the best AI tooling without limits – “one of the most AI-forward companies in the world.”
  - Small, dedicated teams with intense focus.
  - High ownership – all early hires are “Founding” roles (e.g., Founding Designer, Founding Backend Engineer).
  - The company believes in “working hard and living a fulfilling life” – a balance of intensity and quality of life.

## Sources
1. [generalintelligencecompany.com](https://www.generalintelligencecompany.com/)
2. [generalintelligencecompany.com/careers](https://www.generalintelligencecompany.com/careers)
3. [generalintelligencecompany.com/about](https://www.generalintelligencecompany.com/about)
4. [linkedin.com/company/the-general-intelligence-company-of-new-york](https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-general-intelligence-company-of-new-york)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/generalintelligencecompany](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/generalintelligencecompany)

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