--- title: 'Product Designer at Factory' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/product-designer-factory-san-francisco-zgd2z38resp1' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-13' --- # Product Designer at Factory - **Company:** Factory - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-04-28 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-13 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/factory/7a1dde6b-0d7c-45c8-a374-66e9f8aa0d1a ## Job description ## About Factory Our mission is to create a world where software builds and improves itself. We build the platform for self-improving software development, helping the world's largest enterprise engineering teams turn their organizations into autonomous software factories. Customers including Nvidia, Blackstone, Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), Palo Alto Networks, Adobe, and T-Mobile run Factory to ship code, review PRs, run tests, and deploy continuously - getting smarter with every cycle. In 2026, we raised $200M at a $5B valuation, bringing our total funding to over $400M. We are backed by world-class investors and operators including Khosla Ventures, Sequoia, Blackstone, Ali Ghodsi (CEO of Databricks), and Frank Slootman (Former CEO of Snowflake). ## About the Role Factory is looking for product designers that define how developers interact with autonomous software agents across Factory's CLI, desktop app, web platform, and integrations (Slack, Linear, IDE plugins). You'll work embedded with Engineering and Product, designing interfaces that make complex AI behavior feel simple and trustworthy. ## What you will do and achieve - Own end-to-end design for core product surfaces, from concept through shipped UI - Design workflows for the terminal UI, web app, desktop app, and IDE integrations - Translate complex agentic behaviors (multi-step autonomous tasks, code review, incident response) into clear, intuitive interfaces - Establish and evolve Factory's design system for consistency across all product surfaces - Conduct user research and usability testing with enterprise engineering teams - Collaborate directly with engineers and PMs to ship at high velocity ## Qualifications - 4+ years product design experience (developer tools, infrastructure, or technical B2B products a bonus) - Strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end product thinking — problem framing through polished, shipped work - Expert in Figma; mastery of design systems and component-driven workflows - Strong visual design and interaction design skills (typography, spacing, motion, polish) - Ability to work with engineers, and understand technical constraints - Experience using AI tools to translate designs into working frontend code: you should be comfortable using AI to bridge the gap between design and implementation - Bonus: experience with CLI/terminal UIs, AI-powered products This is an in-office position (5 days/week) in San Francisco (walking distance to Caltrain) ## About Factory ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Factory is an AI research lab building autonomous software development agents ("Droids") to automate and optimize the entire software development lifecycle. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series C) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States - **Founded**: 2023 - **Founders**: Matan Grinberg (CEO & Co-Founder), Eno Reyes (CTO & Co-Founder) ## Core Business - Primary industry/industries: Artificial Intelligence, Software Development, Autonomous Agents - Target customers: Enterprise engineering organizations (B2B) - Mission or purpose statement: "Bring Autonomy to Software Engineering" ## Products & Services - **[Droid]**: An autonomous software development agent that performs real engineering work across IDEs, CLI, and CI/CD environments. Handles refactors, migrations, debugging, incident response, and feature development in large codebases. Operates through a model-agnostic architecture and supports long-running processes, structured planning, and verified outputs such as PRs and deployments. - **[Factory Router]**: A product that automatically selects the right AI model for each coding task, cutting costs 20-25% while maintaining frontier model performance. ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: $1.5 billion (as of early 2026, per Series C announcement) [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/factory-2) - **Total Funding**: $220M [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/factory-2) - **Latest Funding Round**: $150M Series C (raised ~2 months ago as of July 2026) [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/factory-2) - **Notable Investors**: Sequoia Capital, Lux Capital, NEA, Abstract, MANTIS Venture Capital, 20VC [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/factory-2). Board members include AI veteran Lila Tretikov (NEA Partner) [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/factory-2). - **Notable Customers**: NVIDIA, Morgan Stanley, EY, Palo Alto Networks, RBC, Revolut, Adobe, MongoDB [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/factory-2) - **Notable Advisors**: Ali Ghodsi (CEO & Co-founder, Databricks), Aaron Levie (CEO, Box), Dev Ittycheria (CEO, MongoDB), Nikesh Arora (CEO, Palo Alto Networks), Frank Slootman (Former CEO, Snowflake), Michael Ovitz (Co-founder, CAA) [factory.ai](https://factory.ai/company) - **Growth Signals**: Rapid enterprise adoption moving beyond experimentation; appointed Marcello Gallo as CRO (formerly CRO at Sigma and Moveworks, senior sales leadership at MongoDB) [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/factory-2); appointed Madison Faulkner as Head of Strategy [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/factory-2); Headcount growing rapidly (+4% monthly on LinkedIn) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/factory-hq) ## Competitive Advantages - **Model-Agnostic Architecture**: Factory's Droids are not tied to a single AI model, allowing them to use the best model for each task and switch as the landscape evolves. The Factory Router product further optimizes cost and performance by intelligently routing tasks. - **Deep Integration**: Agents work natively within existing developer tools (IDEs, CLI, CI/CD), meaning teams don't need to change their workflows to adopt Factory. - **Enterprise-First Focus**: The company is building for large-scale engineering operations with production-grade reliability, security, and control, as evidenced by their customer list (NVIDIA, Morgan Stanley, etc.). - **Top-Tier Talent & Advisory**: The team hails from companies like Nuro, Glean, Applied Intuition, Scale AI, MongoDB, and Sourcegraph, and is advised by some of the most prominent leaders in enterprise software. - **Strong Backing**: Backed by top-tier venture capital firms (Sequoia, Lux, NEA) with a $1.5B valuation, providing significant resources and credibility. ## Strategic Focus - **Enterprise Hyper-Growth**: Scaling go-to-market with the appointment of a seasoned CRO to drive adoption among large enterprises. - **Agent-Native Development**: Championing the shift from AI-assisted coding to fully autonomous agents that own and execute complex engineering tasks. - **Cost Optimization**: Products like Factory Router demonstrate a focus on making AI-powered development cost-effective at scale. - **Platform Ownership**: Enabling enterprises to own their "software factory" with a flexible, model-agnostic platform. ## Why Work Here - **Mission-Driven**: The opportunity to "Build the tool you've always dreamed of using" and shape the next era of software engineering [factory.ai](https://factory.ai/). - **Talent Density**: The company emphasizes being a "lean and talent-dense team" that values ownership and autonomy [factory.ai](https://factory.ai/). - **On-Site Culture**: Employees work from physical offices five days a week, fostering deep collaboration. Offices are in San Francisco, CA; New York, NY; and London, England [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/factory-factoryai). - **Comprehensive Benefits**: Fully covered medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees; 401(k) and Flexible Savings Account; daily catered lunches and dinners; on-site gym; desk setup stipend [factory.ai](https://factory.ai/). - **World-Class Team**: Opportunity to learn from and work alongside engineers from top AI and software companies (Nuro, Glean, Scale AI, MongoDB, etc.) and industry legends on the advisory board [factory.ai](https://factory.ai/company). - **High-Growth Environment**: The company is in a hyper-growth phase with significant funding, a rapidly growing customer base, and a clear market need. ## Sources 1. [factory.ai](https://factory.ai/) 2. [factory.ai/company](https://factory.ai/company) 3. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/factory-factoryai) 4. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/factory-2) 5. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/factory-hq) ## Other roles at Factory - [Customer Marketing](https://feeny.ai/job/customer-marketing-factory-san-francisco-s8qt659xddm6) — San Francisco, CA - [GTM Strategy & Operations, EMEA Lead](https://feeny.ai/job/gtm-strategy-operations-emea-lead-factory-london-04qhmyzkeyzb) — London, United Kingdom - [GTM Strategy & Operations, AMER Lead](https://feeny.ai/job/gtm-strategy-operations-amer-lead-factory-san-francisco-074tw7xjmvfw) — San Francisco, CA - [Product Manager, Growth](https://feeny.ai/job/product-manager-growth-factory-san-francisco-zxmd0eyefywq) — San Francisco, CA - [Product Manager, Scale](https://feeny.ai/job/product-manager-scale-factory-san-francisco-vww1n63y35eg) — San Francisco, CA - [Manager, Solutions Engineering](https://feeny.ai/job/manager-solutions-engineering-factory-san-francisco-hh0z9a288k90) — San Francisco, CA - [Head of Developer Relations](https://feeny.ai/job/head-of-developer-relations-factory-united-states-e6nyg3wvmk1w) — United States - [Solutions Engineer, Enterprise, East](https://feeny.ai/job/solutions-engineer-enterprise-east-factory-new-york-2804649506pp) — New York, NY - [Web Designer](https://feeny.ai/job/web-designer-factory-san-francisco-87s7bradqy5y) — San Francisco, CA - [VP of Revenue Marketing](https://feeny.ai/job/vp-of-revenue-marketing-factory-san-francisco-02b2vtnxh0jb) — San Francisco, CA