--- title: 'Software Engineer, Growth - Rime Ai at Unusual Ventures' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/software-engineer-growth-rime-ai-unusual-ventures-san-francisco-s5p7jbey688a' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-09' --- # Software Engineer, Growth - Rime Ai at Unusual Ventures - **Company:** Unusual Ventures - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-06-25 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/unusual/0d58768b-9ca2-4af6-9b46-56534da5b3f1 ## Job description Rime is a foundation modeling company that builds voice AI for enterprises running customer experiences at scale. Our models are purpose-built for high-volume conversational deployments, engineered for the accuracy, performance, and deployment flexibility that production environments actually demand. We started from a different premise than the rest of the field: build voice AI for human connection, not slop. Before we trained a single model, we built our own corpus: full-duplex, studio-quality conversational speech of normal people, recorded and annotated by linguists. It's why our models are unparalleled in naturalism, and it's why enterprises pick Rime when pilots need to make it to production. ## Role Overview We're hiring a Software Engineer to own Rime's API growth. You'll take the lead on a React-based web app refining the vision of the codebase, building engagement and funnel features, and making it a reliable platform for our PLG business. You'll also work with data tooling to give the business visibility into what's working. This role sits at the intersection of frontend craft, growth engineering, and backend API work, and is a direct lever on how Rime acquires and converts customers. ## What You'll Own - Own the Rime web app: Lead our React/TypeScript web presence, transforming it from a "needs work" codebase into a high-performance, scalable application. - Drive Growth: Build the conversion flows, onboarding experiences, and CTAs that turn casual visitors into power users. - Master the Data: Architect the analytics pipelines and instrumentation that give us crystal-clear visibility into the entire user funnel. - Partner on Strategy: Work side-by-side with our growth product manager, marketing, and sales partners to ship work that actually moves the needle. ## What We're Looking For - Full-Stack Fluency: Experience in the TypeScript/Node.js ecosystem and can own features from end to end. - Bias towards Action and Autonomy: You act quickly on insights, preferring to show rather than tell. - Growth Engineering: You’ve built and optimized signup flows, activation loops, and conversion funnels that drive real results. - Data-Driven Execution: You measure, track, and optimize the features you build. Familiarity with A/B testing frameworks and experimentation infrastructure. - Product Instinct: You prioritize user behavior and conversion as highly as code quality, building solutions that serve both the user and the business. ## Nice to Have - Experience with growth tooling (Segment, Metronome, Amplitude, Mixpanel, PostHog, or similar). - Experience at an early-stage startup. ## Why Join Rime - Direct ownership of a high-visibility surface that's central to how Rime grows. - Collaborate closely with founders, marketing, and salesMeaningful equity upside at an early stage. - High ownership, high standards, low bureaucracy. At Rime, we... - Are outliers - Cut through the hype to focus on the craft - Move fast with agency and freedom - Maintain a growth mindset, finding joy in the struggle - Do the right things, knowing that it'll lead to making money If that sounds like you too, you'll be a great fit for Rime! ## About Unusual Ventures ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: A venture capital firm that provides hands-on operational support and a dedicated engagement model to help technical founders of enterprise AI software startups achieve product-market fit. - **Entity Type**: Private (venture capital fund) - **Headquarters**: Menlo Park, California, United States - **Founded**: 2018 - **Founders**: Jyoti Bansal and John Vrionis ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Venture Capital / Financial Services, with a focus on seed-stage enterprise AI software startups. - **Target customers**: Technical founders of early-stage startups (B2B through founders). - **Mission or purpose statement**: “Raise the bar for what founders should expect from their venture investors” and give technical founders the best odds of finding product-market fit. ## Products & Services - **Unusual Venture Capital**: Seed-stage investment in enterprise AI software startups. - **Unusual Founder Services**: A team of full-time operators embedded with portfolio companies to execute customer discovery, go-to-market strategy, and product-market fit work. - **Unusual Academy**: An immersive program where founders work side by side with Unusual’s founders and expert operators. - **Community & Events**: Quarterly founders events, founder academy, monthly intimate dinners with customer prospects, and go-to-market tools. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not applicable (private fund; not publicly disclosed). - **Key Metric**: 20 employees (as of latest data); 51,647 LinkedIn followers (+16.5% yearly); 10 active job postings (+100% yearly). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: LPs are primarily non-profits (hospitals, foundations, HBCUs). Portfolio companies include Rime (powers nearly 100 million phone calls/month for clients like Mayo Clinic, Dialpad, Upstart, and Asurion). Co-founder Jyoti Bansal is one of only 16 people to build two companies surpassing $100M in revenue (AppDynamics and Harness). - **Growth Signals**: Portfolio companies raise follow-on rounds at valuations “significantly above industry averages.” The firm has seen a 100% increase in job postings year-over-year. ## Competitive Advantages - **Full-time operator model**: Unlike traditional VCs, Unusual embeds dedicated operators who do the work alongside founders, not just advise. - **Concentrated portfolio**: Makes a small number of investments each year, giving each founder full attention. - **Proven founders**: Jyoti Bansal (AppDynamics, Harness) and John Vrionis (30+ billion-dollar outcomes) bring deep first-hand experience. - **The Unusual Method**: A purpose-built framework for product-market fit, refined through thousands of customer conversations. - **LP alignment**: LPs are primarily non-profits, creating a “forces for good” ethos. ## Strategic Focus - Continue investing in seed-stage enterprise AI software startups. - Expand the Unusual Method and Founder Services to increase portfolio success rates. - Build a close-knit, supportive founder community to drive repeatable PMF. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: “Forces for good” – employees work with a mission-driven team committed to founders through the hard phases. 5.0/5.0 employer rating (1 review) with high marks for work-life balance, compensation, and career growth. - **Work environment**: Small team (20 people) with high impact. Offices in Menlo Park (HQ) and San Francisco; team also distributed across the US and Australia. Remote/hybrid policy not explicitly stated, but the presence of multiple offices suggests flexibility. - **Notable perks**: Opportunity to work alongside top technical founders and industry veterans; direct involvement in the product-market fit process; exposure to a concentrated portfolio of cutting-edge AI startups. - **Career path**: Roles across venture operations, sales, finance, and programs. The firm actively hires for roles that support portfolio companies (e.g., Founding Account Executive, VP of Engineering, Software Engineer) as well as internal functions (e.g., Director of Programs, VP of Sales). ## Sources 1. [unusual.vc](https://www.unusual.vc/our-story/) 2. [unusual.vc](https://www.unusual.vc/team/) 3. [unusual.vc](https://www.unusual.vc/founder-services/) 4. [jobs.lever.co/unusual](https://jobs.lever.co/unusual) 5. 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