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# Head of Product Engineering at Plaud

- **Company:** [Plaud](https://feeny.ai/companies/plaud)
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-11-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Plaud/910f8249-4367-413f-b0ee-8aa6999ce8d6

## Job description

About Plaud Inc. Plaud is building the real-world AI interface for professionals to amplify intelligence, elevate productivity and performance, loved by over 3,000,000 users worldwide since 2023. With a mission to amplify human intelligence, Plaud captures, structures, and compounds the intelligence generated in conversations — so humans can think better, decide faster, and execute with clarity. Plaud Inc. is a Delaware-incorporated, San Francisco-based company. With GDPR, SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, and EN 18031 compliance, Plaud is committed to the highest standards of data security and privacy protection. To learn more about Plaud, please visit https://www.plaud.ai and follow along on [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/plaud_official/), [X](https://twitter.com/PLAUDAI), [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/plaudai), [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/plaudai/), and [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@PLAUDAI).

## Why You Should Join Us

Plaud is building the next generation intelligence infrastructure and interfaces to capture, extract, and utilize intelligence from what people say, hear, see, and think.

- Plaud is a bootstrapped, skyrocketing, profitable company with a $300M revenue run rate achieved in just three years.
- Define the next-gen paradigm for human-AI interaction.
- Gain exposure to cutting-edge AI for Pro tools and play a direct role in our global expansion.
- Work with passionate teammates who value innovation, collaboration, and customer success.
- Grow your career in a culture that champions continuous learning and fast career development.
- Market-competitive compensation, global exposure, and a vibrant, creativity-fueled work atmosphere.

You would lead the engineering teams behind our core product: the apps that connect to Plaud devices and record conversations, AI transcription and summaries, shared workspaces and collaboration, and admin tools for business customers. Your teams work across the US and Asia, and you'd own how fast and how well we ship one product across hardware, mobile, web and desktop.

## What you will do

- Define and drive the engineering strategy for Plaud's core product: device connection and recording, AI transcription and summaries, shared workspaces and collaboration, admin tools for business customers, and later growth. Each team builds for every customer, from free users to large enterprises.
- Lead, mentor and grow the engineering leads of every product team across the US and Asia, through hiring, coaching and a high bar for craft and delivery.
- Own engineering velocity and quality across the product teams, shortening the path from idea to shipped feature on mobile, web, desktop and the device handoff.
- Partner closely with Product, Design, Platform and Infrastructure to turn priorities into a single roadmap and dated commitments.
- Establish clear end-to-end ownership, so every service, handoff and on-call rotation has one owning team, and teams run what they build.
- Build an operating model for teams that span time zones, with written specs and a fixed daily overlap, and move each team toward a single time zone over time.
- Drive AI-native engineering across every team, including evals in CI/CD, AI-assisted development and fast experiments on AI features.
- Be the Platform team's main internal customer: use shared services instead of rebuilding them, and give regular feedback on what Platform delivers.
- Resolve technical disputes between teams quickly and in writing.

## Skills, qualifications and experience we look for

- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years leading managers of multi-team product engineering organizations (40+ engineers).
- Proven track record shipping consumer or prosumer products across mobile, web and desktop. Hardware-connected or AI-heavy products are highly preferred.
- Demonstrated success leading distributed teams across the US and Asia, with a clear operating model for teams that span time zones.
- Strong technical depth: able to review architectures, challenge estimates and unblock complex projects hands-on.
- Experience shipping LLM-powered features in production, including prompts, retrieval, evals, and cost and quality tradeoffs.
- Track record of raising delivery velocity while keeping quality and team health high, backed by metrics.
- Excellent cross-functional collaboration and communication skills with Product, Design, executives and engineers.

## What we offer

- Meaningful Ownership An Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) that gives a real stake in Plaud’s long-term success.
- High-Impact Environment Work in a fast-moving, product-driven environment where your ideas directly shape the future of AI productivity.
- Cutting-Edge AI Tools for Productivity Access to best-in-class AI tools, including Gemini, Claude Code, and other frontier AI systems to maximize engineering and execution efficiency.
- Best-in-Class Equipment Choice of top-spec laptops, high-performance workstation setups, and cutting-edge Plaud devices for all new hires.
- Team & Culture Annual company offsites, team events, and a culture that values craftsmanship, ownership, and velocity.

Disclaimer: Plaud is and will continue to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

## About Plaud

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Plaud builds an AI-powered hardware and software note-taking platform that automatically records, transcribes, and summarizes conversations to help professionals stay present and productive.
- **Entity Type**: Private (funding stage not publicly disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Not publicly listed on the website or in standard search results

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: AI-powered productivity software and consumer hardware
- Target customers: B2C (professionals, knowledge workers, medical practitioners) and B2B (teams and enterprises)
- Mission or purpose statement: "Amplify human intelligence" – building the next-generation intelligence infrastructure to capture, extract, and utilize what you say, hear, see, and think.

## Products & Services
- **Plaud Note (Hardware)**: An AI note-taking device that records conversations and uses AI to generate transcripts, summaries, action items, and key points. Award-winning hardware design.
- **Plaud App (Software)**: Companion app for transcription (112 languages), AI-powered summaries ("Plaud Intelligence"), search ("Ask Plaud"), and export/sharing/integration. Available on mobile and web.
- **Plaud Cloud**: Encrypted private cloud sync for cross-device access, with user-controlled data storage (on-device or cloud).
- **Subscription Plans**: Free tier (1,200 mins/mo transcription), Pro Plan ($99.99/year), Unlimited Plan ($239.99/year – unlimited transcription).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Over 2,000,000 users worldwide since 2023 (as of mid-2026); used in over 170 countries
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly listed. Featured in major media outlets (unspecified on site).
- **Growth Signals**: Rapid user growth to 2M+ in ~3 years; expansion from a single product to a suite with multiple subscription tiers; global office presence (San Francisco, Singapore, Tokyo, Shenzhen, Seattle, Beijing); compliance with ISO27001, ISO27701, GDPR, SOC 2, HIPAA, and EN 18031 – signaling enterprise readiness and expansion.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Hardware-Software Integration**: A dedicated hardware device for note-taking (unlike pure software competitors like Otter.ai or Fireflies.ai), enabling frictionless, ambient capture.
- **Privacy-First Architecture**: Data is never sold or used to train AI models; encryption in transit and at rest; user controls what syncs; multiple global security certifications (SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, ISO).
- **Multilingual & Multimodal**: Transcribes in 112 languages and supports multimodal input (voice, potentially more).
- **Strong Mission & Brand**: Positioned as "World's No.1 AI Note-taking Brand" with a clear philosophy around "Conversation as Intelligence."

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling the user base**: Targeting 50 million professionals by 2030.
- **Enterprise & Healthcare Expansion**: HIPAA compliance and healthcare-specific messaging ("complete charts instantly") indicate a push into medical and enterprise verticals.
- **Global Office Build-out**: Establishing engineering, product, and go-to-market teams across US, Asia, and Europe.
- **Product Depth**: Moving beyond transcription to become an "intelligence infrastructure" that captures, extracts, and utilizes all forms of human communication.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven**: The company's philosophy ("Amplify Human Intelligence") is central to its culture, and employees are likely working on a product that directly impacts how millions of professionals work.
- **Growth Stage**: Rapidly scaling from 2M to a target of 50M users, offering significant career growth opportunities.
- **Global & Remote-Friendly**: Offices in San Francisco, Singapore, Tokyo, Shenzhen, Seattle, and Beijing – suggests a distributed, cross-cultural work environment.
- **Cutting-Edge Tech**: Working on the frontier of AI (LLMs, speech recognition, hardware-software integration) with a "Pursue SOTA" (State of the Art) value.
- **Values-Driven Culture**: Listed values include "Human First," "Act from first principles," "Dare to change," "Use AI to its fullest," and "Let others thrive."
- **Perks**: One-year warranty on hardware, lifetime customer support, and a focus on data security (ISO/SOC/HIPAA compliance) indicates a mature engineering and operations culture.

## Sources
1. [Plaud.ai - Homepage](https://www.plaud.ai/)
2. [Plaud.ai - About Us](https://www.plaud.ai/pages/about-us)
3. [Plaud.ai - Our Story](https://www.plaud.ai/pages/our-story)
4. [Plaud - Careers Page](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Plaud)

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