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# Product Engineer (Transcription) at Granola

- **Company:** Granola
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-06-26
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-04
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/granola/31cd18b8-f208-4a48-b287-11f32c0e32dd/application

**Skills:** TypeScript, Node.js, React, Audio capture, Real-time media pipelines, CoreAudio, WASAPI, Speech-to-text models, Electron, AI/ML

> Join the founding team to build Granola's desktop transcription app, owning end-to-end features from audio capture to UI/UX. You will optimize performance, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and directly engage with users to solve transcription problems in a fast-paced startup environment.

## Job description

Product Engineer (Transcription) — Granola

Location: London

Hey! We're team Granola 👋

We're looking for an engineer who loves audio and transcription, and loves building products in a fast-paced, iterative environment.

In this role, you will make Granola the best desktop transcription app that exists. You'll be talking directly with users to understand their transcription problems. You will be part of the founding team and help unlock Granola for the next 100x users.

In this role, you will:

- Own and build our transcription features end-to-end. Things like:
- Audio capture on macOS and Windows
- Echo cancellation
- Connections to transcription providers/models
- Local transcription models
- Diarisation/attribution
- Transcription UI/UX on our desktop app
- Logging and evals so we know whether all this is working/improving!
- Feel every transcription papercut, because you’ll be using Granola for every meeting!
- Optimise the application for speed, scale, and reliability
- Interact with users to understand their problems and design solutions
- Collaborate with a cross-functional team of engineers, product managers, designers, and other members of the team to create a cutting-edge product

Your background looks something like:

- Experience with audio capture, real-time media pipelines
- Engineering experience at tech and product-driven companies
- Proficiency with TypeScript, Node.js, and React, and ideally Electron
- Comfortable dropping into native code and OS audio APIs (CoreAudio, WASAPI, …) when needed, even if you're not a low-level specialist
- Experience with speech-to-text models/providers

As a person, you…

- Are first and foremost a builder.
- Are excited to work in-person from our office in London (most of the time)
- Love working in a startup environment (you either have experience working in a startup or are really drawn to the zero-to-one phase)
- Value working with people who are kind, ambitious, and pragmatic
- Have an interest in AI/ML (direct experience not required)
- Thrive in a fast-paced environment with evolving requirements and priorities

## About the opportunity

We are living in the most exciting time for tool builders since Engelbart's demo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos in 1968. We want to assemble the best crew to build this future together, here in London. Our compensation philosophy is to pay slightly above market on salary and above market on equity.

We do our best work in person, and so our team spends time together five days per week in our new, bright, and spacious office at Old Street. We are happy to offer relocation assistance to candidates who'll be moving to London to join us.

Lastly, we think amazing talent comes from all kinds of life journeys and experiences. If what is written above speaks to you, whether you look like a fit on paper or not, please reach out.

## About Granola

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Granola is an AI-powered meeting notepad that runs locally on a user’s device, transcribing and generating structured notes from meetings without requiring a visible bot to join the call.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C)
- **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Chris Pedregal (CEO) and Sam Stephenson (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: AI-powered productivity software, Meeting Intelligence, Enterprise AI Context Layer
- **Target customers**: Primarily B2B — serving knowledge workers in sales, legal, executive functions, and enterprise teams. Named customers include Vanta, Gusto, Thumbtack, Asana, Cursor, Lovable, Decagon, and Mistral AI.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Build tools that help humans better" — the company’s goal is to make meetings more productive without intruding on human connection.

## Products & Services
- **Granola (Core Product)**: An AI notepad for back-to-back meetings. It runs locally on macOS and Windows, captures audio from the user’s computer without a bot joining the call, and uses meeting context (calendar, past notes) to generate Notion-style notes, action items, and follow-ups. Available for iPhone as well.
- **Granola Chat**: Lets users query their entire conversation history using Claude, GPT, or Gemini.
- **Spaces**: Team-oriented feature for organizing, sharing, and searching contextual notes across meetings and channels.
- **Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server**: An API layer that allows other AI tools to query Granola’s meeting context, positioning it as a "context layer" for agentic AI workflows.
- **Enterprise API**: SSO, SCIM, and consent-based data management for large organizations. The core product is free for unlimited meeting notes (notes older than 30 days require an upgrade).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: $1.5 billion (Series C, March 2026 — a sixfold increase from its $250 million valuation less than a year prior)
- **Total Funding**: Over $192 million ($67M prior to Series C, plus $125M Series C)
- **Key Metric**: High engagement and viral growth within companies — product-market fit described as "genuine" by users
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Index Ventures (led Series C), Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed, Betaworks, Firstminute Capital, and angel investors including Mike Krieger (Instagram), David Lieb (YC Partner), Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), Amjad Masad (Replit), Tobi Lutke (Shopify), Karri Saarinen (Linear), Lenny Rachitsky (Lenny's Newsletter), Des Traynor (Intercom), Soleio, and Charlie Songhurst.
- **Growth Signals**: Rapid valuation growth (6x in under a year), explicit enterprise pivot with a robust API, MCP server, and large named enterprise customer base.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Stealth recording (no bot)**: Granola is the only major meeting intelligence tool that captures audio from the user’s computer rather than sending a visible bot into the call — a key differentiator for professionals who find bots intrusive.
- **Context-layer strategy**: By offering an MCP server and APIs, Granola positions itself as a cross-platform "memory" for all AI agents and tools, rather than a siloed note-taking app.
- **High user love & viral growth**: Users report genuine product-market fit, with the product spreading virally within companies.
- **Strong design and product thinking**: Founded by a design-led team in London, with deep experience in product and engineering.

## Strategic Focus
- **Enterprise expansion**: The $125M Series C is explicitly earmarked for building out enterprise features (SSO, SCIM, consent-based data management) and winning large organizations.
- **Agentic AI integration**: Granola is investing heavily in becoming the "context layer" for other AI tools — its MCP server and APIs allow any agent to query meeting history, making it a critical data infrastructure play.
- **Growth in London & US**: Hiring across Engineering, Design, Sales, and Operations in both London and San Francisco — building out a US revenue team.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Small, tight-knit in-person team (~50 employees as of early 2026) with total ownership over your area of the product. Described as "high trust" with visionary founders. Office is beautiful, with breakfast, lunch, and dinner provided daily.
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Office-first with flexibility built in — 5 days in office by default, but flexible for life circumstances. Remote up to four weeks a year.
- **Notable Perks**:
    - Health Insurance (AXA for UK family; Aetna/Kaiser for US with dental & vision)
    - 20 weeks primary / 12 weeks secondary parental leave (fully paid)
    - 401(k) 100% match on first 3% of salary (US); 7% matching via Penfold (UK)
    - Daily fresh lunch (office)
    - Gym Boost: monthly contribution toward gym membership
    - L&D Budget: annual budget for courses, books, conferences
    - Life Insurance: 4x salary (UK); 2x up to $750k (US)
    - Income Protection: 75% salary (UK); 60% up to $12k/month (US)
    - Time Off: 25 days + bank holidays (UK); Unlimited PTO (US)
    - Commuter Benefits: tax-free bike purchase (UK); pre-tax transit/parking (US)
    - "Casa Granola" team getaway house in Majorca for offsites/deep work.
- **Engineering Culture**: AI-heavy, product-engineering focus. Roles include AI Engineer, Product Engineers (Backend, Full Stack, Windows), Design Engineer, and Security Engineer. Engineers work directly with co-founders on roadmap.

## Sources
1. [granola.ai/jobs](https://www.granola.ai/jobs)
2. [granola.ai](https://www.granola.ai/)
3. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/granola](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/granola)
4. [jobsbyculture.com/companies/granola](https://jobsbyculture.com/companies/granola)
5. [thenextweb.com/news/granola-series-c-meeting-ai-enterprise-context](https://thenextweb.com/news/granola-series-c-meeting-ai-enterprise-context)

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