--- title: 'Staff Design Engineer at Campfire' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/staff-design-engineer-campfire-san-francisco-r5e9924pprg4' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-09' --- # Staff Design Engineer at Campfire - **Company:** Campfire - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-09-17 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-09 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/campfire/89f392f0-5ada-471f-aa4b-3f9deaedf9be ## Job description Please note: This role is in-office in San Francisco at our headquarters working with the entire company five days per week. We are not open to remote candidates. ## About Us Campfire builds modern ERP software for finance teams — bringing accounting, close, and reporting workflows into one fast, intuitive system. We're a small, senior team obsessed with craft, speed, and making complex financial software feel simple to use. ## About the Role🌟 We're looking for a Staff Design Engineer to help shape the core experience of Campfire's ERP platform. You'll take on our thorniest, highest-leverage design problems — the ones that touch multiple teams, span complex workflows, and require deep systems thinking. This is a senior individual-contributor role: you'll set design direction, raise the bar for craft across the team, and partner directly with engineering and product leadership to ship work that materially changes how finance teams operate. You'll have significant ownership over ambiguous, cross-cutting problems (think: reimagining the general ledger experience, or designing a coherent system for how data flows between modules) rather than a single feature area. 💼 We Need Someone Who - Own end-to-end design for complex, ambiguous problem spaces spanning multiple product areas — from framing the problem to shipping and iterating post-launch - Partner with product and engineering leads as a peer, shaping roadmap and strategy, not just executing against a spec - Design for dense, data-heavy workflows (tables, ledgers, reconciliation, reporting) in a way that stays clear and fast to use - Strengthen and evolve Campfire's design system and interaction patterns so the product feels coherent as it grows - Mentor other designers, give sharp critique, and raise the craft bar across the team - Talk directly to customers — finance and accounting teams — to ground design decisions in how they actually work - Drive design reviews and help the team make faster, better-informed decisions 👥 Ideal Candidate - 8+ years of product design experience, with a track record of owning complex, high-impact product areas end to end - Experience designing for data-dense, workflow-heavy software (fintech, ERP, dev tools, B2B SaaS, or similar) is a strong plus - Strong systems thinking — you can zoom out to see how a feature fits the broader product, and zoom in on pixel-level details - A portfolio that shows range: 0-to-1 work, and rigorous iteration on existing systems - Excellent communication skills; you can build alignment with engineers, PMs, and executives, and explain design rationale clearly - Comfort working in ambiguity, with incomplete requirements, and evolving your own scope - Prior experience at an early- or growth-stage startup, with a bias toward shipping over perfecting in isolation - Able to code your own prototypes (HTML/CSS and enough JavaScript to build interactive, functional mockups) 📢 Let's Connect Think you're the perfect fit? We're excited to meet you! Reach out, share your story, and let's explore how you can ignite change at Campfire. ❤️‍🩹 Benefits We provide top decile benefits including 100% premium coverage for employees and 80% coverage for dependents with comprehensive healthcare and dental care options. ## About Campfire ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Campfire is an AI-native Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platform that automates accounting workflows — including transaction categorization, bank reconciliation, revenue recognition, and reporting — for mid-market and enterprise finance teams. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series B) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States (also New York office) - **Founded**: 2023 - **Founders**: John Glasgow (CEO/CFO) and Paul C Nichols (CTO) are key executives; founding team details are not publicly disclosed. ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Accounting & Finance Software / Enterprise SaaS - **Target customers**: B2B – mid-size to enterprise companies (50–5,000 employees), including SaaS, usage-based, consulting, and transaction-heavy businesses - **Mission / Purpose**: “Superpower your accounting team” – Campfire aims to multiply what finance teams can do by automating manual, repetitive tasks so they can focus on strategic business drivers rather than spreadsheets. ## Products & Services - **Core Accounting (General Ledger)**: Multi-entity consolidation with 180+ currencies, global compliance support, and real-time sync. - **Revenue Automation**: Revenue recognition for any billing model (SaaS, usage, etc.). - **Close Management**: Built-in close checklists, flux analysis, account reconciliations, and autonomous reconciliation. - **Reporting**: Real-time dashboards with drill-down to any transaction. - **AI Assistant (Ember)**: Conversational AI that answers questions, detects anomalies, auto-categorizes transactions, performs cash forecasting, and more. - **Integrations**: 100+ natively built integrations (e.g., Ramp, Rippling, Salesforce) plus 1,200+ granular permission controls. All offerings are cloud-based SaaS with API endpoints for custom workflows. ## Market Standing - **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company) - **Key Metric**: Total Funding = **$103.6M** (as of late 2025); Annual Revenue = **$3.9M** (LinkedIn estimate) - **Notable Investors**: Accel, Ribbit Capital (led Series B), Foundation Capital, Y Combinator, Capital49 (Airwallex) - **Growth Signals**: - Headcount grew **+800% year-over-year** to 81 employees - 25 active job postings (monthly postings down 7.4% but quarterly up 525%, yearly up 1,150%) - Customers include Replit, Decagon, PostHog, Advisor360 - LinkedIn followers grew +341.4% year-over-year ## Competitive Advantages - **AI-native foundation**: Autonomous reconciliation, auto-categorization, anomaly detection, and conversational reporting built into the core product – not bolted on. - **Depth for scaling**: Multi-entity, multi-currency (180+ currencies), unlimited entities, and granular permission controls ideal for global high-growth companies. - **Integrated ecosystem**: 100+ native integrations and 1,200+ permissions, reducing manual data entry and spreadsheet reliance. - **Domain expertise**: In-house support from accountants who have closed books themselves. - **Enterprise readiness**: Policies, roles, approval workflows, and comprehensive compliance support. ## Strategic Focus - **Product expansion**: Continuing to add AI capabilities (Ember assistant, flux analysis, cash forecasting) and deepen core accounting features. - **Global scaling**: Supporting international subsidiaries and compliance (EMEA, Australia presence) while growing headcount across sales, customer success, and engineering. - **Talent acquisition**: Aggressively hiring (25+ open roles) across sales, customer success, engineering, and implementation – particularly looking for people who want “real ownership” in a hyper-growth startup. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Described as “hyper-growth startup” where employees get “meaningful responsibility from day one.” The team includes alumni from Deloitte, PwC, NetSuite, Brex, Rippling, and other top finance/tech companies. - **Work model**: In-office (on-site) – offices in San Francisco and New York City. - **Notable perks**: Not detailed in search results, but the company emphasizes a driven, ownership-minded environment and the chance to “do the kind of work that moves your career forward.” - **Engineering culture**: 13% of staff in technical roles, with a focus on building AI-first solutions. The CTO (Paul C Nichols) leads a team that includes AI engineers. ## Sources 1. [Campfire AI](https://campfire.ai/) 2. [Campfire Careers](https://campfire.ai/careers) 3. [Campfire Jobs on Ashby](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/campfire) 4. [Built In – Campfire Company Profile](https://builtin.com/company/campfire) 5. 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