Job Description

Brief is a product management agent swarm that gives AI coding tools product judgment.

We're a 2-person founding team using Cursor/Claude to ship at 10x velocity. Here's what we're building:

AI coding assistants made you 10x faster at writing code. But they can't answer product questions:

• "Should we build this feature?" (they don't know your strategy)
• "Why did we reject real-time collaboration?" (they have no memory)
• "What do our users actually need?" (they can't read research calls)
• "Is this the right priority?" (they don't understand your velocity or constraints)

We're building the missing product intelligence layer.

Instead of just making developers faster, we're enabling a new way of work that blends product, design, and engineering. When you ask Claude a question in your IDE, Brief's agent swarm runs in the background:

• StrategyAgent extracts your vision and goals from roadmaps and docs
• ResearchAgent synthesizes user needs from customer calls
• VelocityAgent calculates what your team can actually ship
• DecisionAgent remembers what you tried before and why it failed
• WorkAgent knows what's in flight and what's blocked

Your AI coding assistant now has product judgment, not just coding ability.

The Technical Challenge

This isn't just CRUD. You're building:

• Agent orchestration - State machines that coordinate multiple LLM agents with different specializations, handling failures and synthesizing results
• Real-time context synthesis - Event-driven architecture processing webhooks from GitHub, Linear, Notion, Slack, extracting semantic meaning from unstructured data
• Conversational interfaces - Chat UIs with branching logic, extraction agents, and background orchestration that feel natural but are technically complex
• MCP protocol implementation - We shipped production MCP integration 2 weeks after Anthropic launched the spec. You'll be extending it as the protocol evolves
• Multi-source intelligence - Combining signals from code (GitHub), work (Linear), strategy (Notion), and conversations (Slack) into coherent product context

What We've Shipped

• Conversational onboarding with state machines and extraction agents
• VelocityAgent that calculates team throughput from GitHub commits
• Decision Intelligence that remembers rejected features and why
• Real-time Work Pipeline synthesis across all your tools
• Strategic Context Engine that extracts vision and goals from documents
• MCP integration so Cursor/Claude can access all of this

About The Role

You'll own entire agent systems end-to-end:

• Build new agents - Design and implement specialized agents (FeatureAgent, TechDebtAgent, etc.) with LLM-powered reasoning
• Agent infrastructure - Improve orchestration, add monitoring, optimize context windows, handle edge cases
• Integration layer - OAuth flows, webhook handlers, MCP servers, API design
• Full-stack ownership - React/Next.js frontend, PostgreSQL schemas, background jobs, streaming responses
• Product collaboration - Talk to users weekly, understand their workflows, make product decisions about what agents to build next

About You

Must Have:

• 4-8 years building web applications with end-to-end ownership
• Strong TypeScript fluency
• Experience with async/event-driven architecture
• AI-native mindset: Heavy Cursor/Claude/Copilot user who's felt the pain of AI tools lacking product context
• Experience integrating with third-party APIs (OAuth, webhooks)

Strongly Preferred:

• Built conversational UIs or chat interfaces with complex state
• Worked on developer tools or infrastructure products
• Experience with LLM APIs (Anthropic/OpenAI) and prompt engineering
• Next.js 15 and PostgreSQL expertise
• Understanding of product management workflows

Bonus:

• Contributed to open source developer tools
• Built MCP servers or Claude Desktop extensions
• Experience with Inngest or similar orchestration tools
• Shipped features that required product judgment, not just technical execution

Our Stack

Frontend: Next.js 15, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Radix UI

Backend: Next.js API routes, Inngest, PostgreSQL/Supabase

AI/ML: Anthropic Claude, OpenAI GPT-4, Vercel AI SDK, MCP

Integrations: GitHub, Linear, Slack, Notion, Fireflies, Fathom

Infrastructure: Render, Supabase, Clerk, Sentry

Why You Should Apply

• You're building the future of product development - AI agents that have product judgment, not just coding ability
• Technical depth + product impact - Complex agent orchestration that directly affects how teams build products
• Extreme ownership - You'll design, build, and ship entire agent systems. Your code goes to production daily.
• Direct user feedback - Talk to users weekly. See your agents make real product decisions in their workflows.
• Shape the category - We're defining what "product intelligence for AI coding" means. You'll help figure it out.

What Won't Work:

• ❌ Need lots of structure and defined requirements
• ❌ Want to "build it right" before shipping
• ❌ Uncomfortable with AI coding tools
• ❌ Pure frontend or pure backend focus

Compensation

Salary: $140k-180k (based on experience and location)

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. We're a high trust get-shit-done team, so locking in at home is fine when needed, but the industry and product move too fast for fully remote.

How to Apply

Email [email protected] with:

1. Your GitHub profile
2. Resume
3. What product decision you wish your AI coding assistant could make (1-2 sentences)

We read every application and respond within a few days.

We are not accepting unsolicited resumes or submissions from external recruiters or agencies for this role.

Brief is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse team. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, including women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, and veterans. We believe diverse perspectives make us better at serving our customers.

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