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# Staff Product Designer at Agtonomy

- **Company:** Agtonomy
- **Location:** South San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $175k–$225k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-11-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/agtonomy/aaf2568b-e3e4-49e9-8ca5-57f6a534e5ab

## Job description

## About Us

Agtonomy brings intelligent automation to agriculture, turf, and other demanding industries through Physical AI and software services. By partnering with trusted equipment manufacturers, we deliver factory-fit technology that transforms industrial machines into smart, efficient solutions built for safety and performance. Our team combines expertise in technology, product development, and industry knowledge to address critical challenges like labor shortages, sustainability, and productivity. We’re looking for people who want to work in a collaborative, fast-moving environment where their ideas can make a real impact.

## About the Role

As a Staff Product Designer, you’ll shape how people put autonomous machines to work in the real world. You’ll own the experience across mobile and tablet apps, web tools for analytics and reporting, and emerging interfaces like voice, helping teams direct machines, understand their performance, and keep work moving. You’ll define how humans and autonomous systems work together, rebuild our information architecture around how operators work day to day, and bring field insight and a point of view to the roadmap. You’ll partner with our Creative Director: they own brand and visual design, you own the user experience, and together you shape how the product looks and feels. We encourage you to lead with AI to explore faster and to prototype and communicate ideas. Your judgment shapes the final design.

## What You'll Do

- Own the core workflows of running an autonomous fleet of industrial machines: set up a site, plan and dispatch work, supervise and intervene, resolve a stop or fault, review outcomes.

- Define how people will direct our machines next, including voice and agent interaction, and get the first steps onto the roadmap.

- Shape our platform strategy: what belongs on phone, tablet, and web, what to consolidate or drop, and how new modes of interaction change each.

- Help decide what we build, alongside product owners and the executive team.

- Design a unified information architecture, object model, and shared vocabulary for human and machine that engineering adopts in code and that carries into new domains without a redesign.

- Write the interaction guidelines and specs that let engineers and AI tools get it right without you in every review.

- Work with our Creative Director to carry our visual language into the product, so it looks and works as one.

- Lead on-site user research with operators across domains, and turn those insights into design direction.

- Provide fast, clear direction on in-flight design questions while protecting time for long-term work.

## What You'll Bring

- You’ve owned the information architecture and user journeys for at least one complex product, end to end.

- You have strong design judgment and can explain why one structure serves users better than another.

- You write well. Your specs and rationale stand on their own, and you can get consistent results out of AI tools.

- You’ve designed mobile and web as one system, and you know how to handle spotty connectivity and the edge cases that come up in the field.

- You’ve done hands-on UX research, ideally in the field. You’re comfortable spending days on site with operators and turning what you see into decisions the team can act on.

- You’re fluent in current AI design tools and know where they fall short.

- You’ve worked directly with engineers, and your patterns have shipped in code.

- You like startup pace, with lots of ambiguity and quick decisions, and you also enjoy helping the organization grow up.

What Makes You a Strong Fit

- Voice, conversational, or agent-based interaction design, especially in hands-busy, eyes-busy environments.

- First or only designer at a startup, or experience across more than one industrial domain.

- Experience designing for people who supervise or direct machines or high-stakes systems: robotics, autonomous vehicles, fleet, industrial, medical, aviation, or similar.

Benefits: 100% covered medical, dental, and vision for the employee (cost plus partner, children, or family is additional) Commuter Benefits Flexible Spending Account (FSA) Life Insurance Short- and Long-Term Disability 401k Plan Stock Options Collaborative work environment working alongside passionate mission-driven folks! Our interview process is generally conducted in five (5) phases: Hiring Manager Interview (Video, 45 minutes) Portfolio Deep Dive with our Creative Director (Video, 60 minutes) Panel Interviews (On-site: portfolio presentation to the panel, followed by interviews with product and engineering leaders, 45 minutes each) Final Interviews (On-site: CEO, CFO, CTO, 30 minutes each) References and Decision

## About Agtonomy

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Agtonomy is a smart automation company that embeds AI-driven software and physical intelligence into industrial equipment to help growers and operators tackle labor shortages, improve efficiency, and manage rising costs.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States (with a secondary office in South San Francisco)
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Tim Bucher (CEO & Co-Founder), Valerie Syme (Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industries**: Automation Machinery Manufacturing, Agriculture Technology (AgTech), Robotics, AI
- **Target Customers**: B2B — growers, farmers, and operators in agriculture, turf, and other off-road industrial sectors
- **Mission Statement**: "To create automation that empowers, not replaces. Our solutions are designed to fit naturally into existing workflows, making it easier to get more done with fewer resources while preserving the human expertise that defines great work."

## Products & Services
- **Agtonomy Platform**: A unified platform that allows farmers to monitor, automate, and manage fleets of vehicles through an app, providing insights and control over farm operations.
- **TeleFarmer™**: A software platform and mobile app that enables farmers to plan, assign, and monitor field tasks remotely, providing tele-guidance for agricultural operations.
- **Autonomous Solutions**: Systems designed to handle labor-intensive tasks such as mowing, spraying, and transporting in challenging terrains — available on both diesel and electric platforms.
- **Smart Farm Task Ecosystem**: Connects self-driving tractors with farm tools to autonomously execute tasks, enhancing efficiency and sustainability.
- **Smart Take-Off (STO)™**: A plug connector that facilitates power and data transfer between tractors and tool attachments, improving energy efficiency and safety.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Total Funding**: $73M across 7 rounds, including:
  - Seed Round (Sep 2021): $4.0M (3 investors)
  - Series A (Dec 2023): $22.5M (led by Momenta Ventures, 4 investors)
  - Corporate Round (Jun 2023): led by Doosan Bobcat
  - Venture Round (Apr 2026): 1 investor
- **Annual Revenue**: $17.5M (estimated)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Doosan Bobcat, Momenta Ventures, Cavallo Ventures, Allison Transmission Holdings
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew +32.7% YoY, reaching 59 employees
  - Expanding internationally in 2025 beyond the western United States
  - Active hiring with 5 open positions as of latest data

## Competitive Advantages
- **Embedded OEM Partnerships**: Agtonomy's technology is factory-fit into equipment from brands like Doosan Bobcat, giving it a distribution moat that's hard for pure-play robotics startups to replicate.
- **Physical AI Expertise**: The company uses field-proven physical AI (computer vision, sensor fusion, autonomy stacks) built for complex, real-world environments — not just controlled labs.
- **Dual Platform Strategy**: Offers both diesel and electric platforms, making the technology accessible to a wider range of customers without forcing a full fleet transition.
- **Operator-Centric Design**: Unlike fully autonomous-only players, Agtonomy builds for "hybrid autonomy" where operators retain command, which increases trust and adoption in conservative industries like agriculture.

## Strategic Focus
- **International Expansion**: Actively expanding beyond the western United States into new global markets in 2025.
- **Multi-Industry Pivot**: While rooted in agriculture, the company is growing to serve turf, construction, and other off-road industries — broadening its total addressable market.
- **Talent Acquisition**: Investing heavily in technical talent (per active job postings for ML engineers, data engineers, and software engineers) to strengthen its AI and autonomy capabilities.
- **Product Depth**: Building out the analytics and insights layer (Lead Data Engineer role) to provide more value from operational data.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Mission**: Agtonomy's team describes itself as "a powerhouse of innovators, engineers, and field experts united by a bold vision." The company emphasizes practical, real-world impact rather than abstract robotics research.
- **Work Policy**: **Hybrid** — employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work, with a typical expectation of 4 days per week on-site in South San Francisco.
- **Perks**:
  - Unlimited PTO policy
  - Competitive salaries (e.g., Software Engineer: $129,341/yr, Firmware Engineer: $143,456/yr, Creative Director: $128,122/yr)
- **Engineering Culture**: Strong technical stack (Python, TypeScript, Go, Flutter, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Kubernetes, Terraform) and a team with deep robotics/AI experience from top companies like Kitty Hawk, Cruise, Saildrone, Outrider, and Kodiak.
- **Team Composition**: 46% of employees are in technical roles; the company has a lean, high-impact structure with significant senior and director-level talent.
- **Growth Trajectory**: High YoY headcount growth (+32.7%) and active hiring signal a company in expansion mode — good for career growth.

## Sources
1. [agtonomy.com](https://www.agtonomy.com/about)
2. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/agtonomy)
3. [crunchbase.com](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/agtonomy)
4. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/agtonomy)
5. [jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/agtonomy)

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