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Product Builder (Forward Deployed)

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$150,000–$200,000San Francisco, CAOn-site

Deploy Brief into enterprise customers' decisions, research, and work pipelines

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At a glance

Posted base pay

$150K–$200KBelow the median

The work

Builds what the customer runs

Balance

  1. Mostly building
  2. Mixed
  3. Mostly pre-sales or support

Project stages

  1. Pre-sales (not covered)
  2. Proof of concept
  3. Implementation
  4. Operations (not covered)

Travel Required, amount not stated

Coding
Configuration only
Builds for
External customers
Level
Senior
Role
Technical lead

What they ask for

Tools

  • Brief
  • Slack
  • CLI
  • AI development
  • voice interfaces
  • product context systems

Visa

  • No visa sponsorship

Less common in FDE jobs

  • Coding work: Configuration only13%
  • On-site37%
  • Covers proofs of concept40%
  • Individual contributor or manager: Technical lead50%

Share of US FDE postings that state each fact.

The job description from a16z speedrun

Posted by a16z speedrun on

Job Description

Brief is the context navigator for product teams. We aggregate business context (decisions, customer research, work pipeline, team knowledge) and make it legible to both people and AI agents through chat, Slack, CLI, and voice.

We believe the boundaries between product, design, and engineering are dissolving. The scarce resource is no longer engineering hours; it's taste, judgment, and the conviction to ship. So we hire Product Builders who wear all three hats and own whole things.

This is the forward-deployed shape of that role. We have several massive enterprise opportunities in front of us (teams up to the Fortune 500) and each one is as much about people and change management as it is about technology. Your job is to deploy Brief and a new way of building into those companies: wire it into their context, win the skeptics, and drive a measurable step-change in product velocity.

About The Role

  • Embed with enterprise customers. Sit with their technical founders, PMs, and engineering leaders.
  • - Deploy Brief into messy reality. Wire it into each customer's decisions, research, and work pipeline.
  • - Lead change management. Move organizations off habits they've had for years, patiently, without breaking trust.
  • - Evangelize the methodology. Facilitate workshops, win over skeptics, build internal champions.
  • - Close the loop to product. Turn what you learn in the field into the sharpest product feedback we get.
  • - Build, hands-on. Prototype, configure, and demonstrate.

About You

  • Product management fluency.
  • - Consulting-grade people skills.
  • - Change management is your edge.
  • - Technical credibility.
  • - Up-to-date and hands-on with AI development.
  • - Enterprise comfort.
  • - High ownership.

Compensation

Salary: $150k-200k

Equity: 0.5-1.5% (early team member grant)

Benefits: Unlimited PTO

Visa Sponsorship: At this time, we cannot sponsor work visas. Applicants must be authorized to work in the US.

Work Environment

In-person, in our San Francisco office (plus travel to client offices).

Brief is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse team.

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Pay and conditions

Posted pay
$150,000–$200,000
Pay details

$150K – $200K • 0.5% – 1.5%

Location
San Francisco, CA
Work arrangement
On-site
Employment type
Full-time
Visa sponsorship
Not available
Travel
Travel required, amount not stated

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