--- title: 'Production Manager at White Circle' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/production-manager-white-circle-new-york-ns09sg8xf428' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-07' --- # Production Manager at White Circle - **Company:** White Circle - **Location:** New York - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-09-14 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-07 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/whitecircle/1485f916-ff39-4081-b0cb-1da649a60383 ## Job description TL;DR: We care a lot about how White Circle exists outside of the product too — from things we make for our team and customers to objects, merch, events, and physical experiences around the brand. We want to make things people actually want to keep, not standard corporate merch. ## About us [White Circle](http://whitecircle.com) is an AI Safety company building the safety, reliability, and optimization layer for AI systems. At the core of our platform are policies – simple natural-language rules that define what an AI model should and shouldn’t do. We automatically test, enforce, and continuously improve these policies at scale. - We’ve recently raised our Series A funding round, taking our total funding to $70M. Our investors include top funds, founders, and senior leaders at OpenAI, Anthropic, HuggingFace, Mistral, DeepMind, Datadog, Sentry, and others - We process over one hundred million API calls every month - We fine-tune and train our own LLMs so they run faster and cheaper than any open or proprietary model We’re a small, highly focused team. If you want to work deeply on hard problems, see your work ship to production quickly, and influence how AI safety is actually built – you’re the one we need. ## What you’ll do - Turn creative ideas from our design team into real physical objects - Figure out how to manufacture things that don't have an obvious supplier or ready-made solution - Find factories, workshops, craftspeople, printers, manufacturers, and other production partners around the world - Work with designers to choose materials, finishes, construction methods, packaging, and production techniques - Request and compare quotes, samples, prototypes, MOQs, timelines, and manufacturing options - Own production from the first prototype to the final delivery - Develop custom merch, clothing, accessories, printed objects, packaging, gifts, event materials, and weird one-off ideas we haven't thought of yet - Find ways to make something completely custom instead of defaulting to existing merch catalogues - Review samples and make sure the final result matches the original design - Manage budgets, production schedules, shipping, customs, and logistics - Build a network of great manufacturers and specialists we can work with repeatedly You'll fit in if you - Based in the US - Have 5+ years of experience in a similar role - Have experience producing physical products from scratch - Know how to find the right manufacturer when the answer isn't obvious - Are comfortable contacting dozens of suppliers, asking questions, negotiating, and figuring things out independently - Understand materials, printing, manufacturing, packaging, and production processes - Have strong attention to detail and can spot when a sample is slightly wrong - Can translate a visual idea or rough creative brief into production requirements - Can manage several suppliers and production timelines at the same time - Have good taste and understands why the exact material, weight, finish, or packaging matters - Are fluent in English A big plus - You've worked in fashion, product design, industrial design, publishing, creative production, or a design studio - You've produced unusual merch, collectibles, objects, packaging, or limited-edition products - You already have a network of factories, workshops, printers, or manufacturers in the US, Europe, or Asia - You understand garment production and can work directly with factories rather than print-on-demand merch suppliers - You've worked with brands where physical products are treated as part of the brand, not promotional giveaways ## Why White Circle - Meaningful salary and equity package - Paid time off in line with your local regulations - All the hardware, tools, and services you need - A lot of creative freedom to make things that don't look like startup merch - Team off-sites twice a year — we’ve recently been to the Alps and Saint-Tropez ## How we hire - Intro call with Talent (25 mins) - Take home test assignment - Interview with Head of Design & Creative - an additional interview with one or more team members may be added depending on the interview process ## About White Circle ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: White Circle is a control layer for AI in production, providing safety, security, evals, and performance optimization through a unified API. - **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage) - **Headquarters**: Dover, Delaware, United States (operational hub in Paris, France) - **Founded**: 2025 - **Founders**: Denis Shilov (Founder & CEO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: AI Governance, AI Security, AI Observability - **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise (companies deploying AI agents, chatbots, or LLM-powered applications) - **Mission or purpose**: To give organisations visibility into how their AI behaves, help them respond when things go wrong, and provide a unified system for improving reliability, safety and compliance. ## Products & Services - **White Circle Platform**: A single API that integrates three layers: - **Protect**: Custom low-latency guardrails for blocking unsafe inputs, preventing jailbreaks, detecting prompt injections, PII leakage, and sensitive data leaks. - **Observe**: Real-time analytics including topic classification, user behavior clustering, custom metrics, error rate analysis, sentiment analysis, and risk scoring. - **Improve**: Model routing, dynamic prompt engineering, context enrichment, and automated optimization based on labelled user feedback. - **CircleGuardBench**: A proprietary benchmark for evaluating AI moderation models across harm detection, jailbreak resistance, false positives, and latency. - **KillBench**: A benchmark of hidden LLM biases in critical decisions (life-and-death scenarios). ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric**: $11M raised in seed funding (announced May 2026) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Backed by prominent AI and technology leaders including Romain Huet (ex-Head of Product @DeepMind), Dirk Kingma (Anthropic), Guillaume Lample (Mistral), Thomas Wolf (Hugging Face), Olivier Pomel (Datadog), François Chollet (Keras), Mehdi Ghissassi (ex-DeepMind), Paige Bailey (DeepMind), and David Cramer (Sentry). - **Growth Signals**: - 21 employees (+283.3% YoY, +9.5% monthly growth) - Monthly website traffic: 32,090 visits (+682.7% yearly) - Active job postings: 6 (monthly job posting growth +20%) - SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA compliant - Operates in 7 countries (France, Russia, Netherlands, Serbia, Switzerland, Georgia, Spain) ## Competitive Advantages - **Proprietary self-adjusting models** optimized for low-latency and high performance - **Unified platform** that combines safety, security, evaluation, and performance optimization – no need for multiple point solutions - **Enterprise-grade compliance** (SOC 2 Type II & HIPAA) - **Strong network effects** from backing by leaders at OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, Hugging Face, and Datadog - **Automated red-teaming** and continuous improvement through user feedback ## Strategic Focus - Accelerate product development and expand the team across the US, UK, and Europe - Grow global customer base across healthcare, finance, hiring, and security verticals - Continue building benchmarks (CircleGuardBench, KillBench) to shape AI safety standards - Maintain deep integration with the AI open-source ecosystem ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: “Smart, friendly, and fun” team with a strong engineering and research focus (43% technical staff) - **Location**: Based in Paris, France with a hybrid work model (office + remote) - **Benefits**: - Strong salary - 20 paid days off (plus ability to take more for recovery) - Free education (company covers learning costs) - Team offsites several times a year - **Open roles** (June 2026): QA Engineer, Product Engineer (Backend), DevOps Engineer, Product Designer, AI Engineer (Audio), Data Engineer - **Impact**: Build the future of AI safety at a well-funded, high-growth startup with world-class investors ## Sources 1. [whitecircle.ai](https://whitecircle.ai) 2. [whitecircle.ai/careers](https://whitecircle.ai/careers) 3. [LinkedIn – White Circle](https://www.linkedin.com/company/whitecircle) 4. [Tech.eu – White Circle lands $11M](https://tech.eu/2026/05/12/white-circle-lands-11m-to-help-companies-secure-ai-systems/) ## Other roles at White Circle - [Design Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/design-engineer-white-circle-new-york-qk0d186844we) — New York - [Communications Designer](https://feeny.ai/job/communications-designer-white-circle-new-york-ey2w1jd32xf0) — New York - [DevRel Lead (Developer Relations)](https://feeny.ai/job/devrel-lead-developer-relations-white-circle-global-wbzmpkvykeb1) — Global - [Content Lead](https://feeny.ai/job/content-lead-white-circle-new-york-a57fyake800m) — New York - [Talent Lead](https://feeny.ai/job/talent-lead-white-circle-san-francisco-4r6c7dgw1p84) — San Francisco, CA - [Finance Lead](https://feeny.ai/job/finance-lead-white-circle-new-york-s3jtsbzkwt7f) — New York - [Web Designer (Communication)](https://feeny.ai/job/web-designer-communication-white-circle-new-york-3v7jkx8gskhf) — New York - [Recruiter (Research)](https://feeny.ai/job/recruiter-research-white-circle-new-york-1vekq2rdfrvz) — New York - [Senior Data Labeler](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-data-labeler-white-circle-paris-vtp78vea9yp4) — Paris, France - [Multimodal ML Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/multimodal-ml-engineer-white-circle-paris-kd1xveq65a91) — Paris, France