Global Product R&D Center - San Francisco

Plaud • San Francisco, CA

5h • Hybrid

About The Position

Plaud is building the world's most trusted AI work companion for professionals to elevate productivity and performance through note-taking solutions, loved by over 1,500,000 users worldwide since 2023. With a mission to amplify human intelligence, Plaud is building the next-generation intelligence infrastructure and interfaces to capture, extract, and utilize what you say, hear, see, and think.

Plaud Inc. is a Delaware-incorporated, San Francisco-based company pushing the boundary of human–AI intelligence through a hardware–software combination. With ISO 27001, ISO 27701, GDPR, SOC 2, HIPAA, and EN 18031 compliance, Plaud is committed to the highest standards of data security and privacy protection.

To learn more about Plaud, please visit https://www.plaud.ai and follow along on Instagram, X, Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube

Why You Should Join Us
Plaud is building the next generation intelligence infrastructure and interfaces to capture, extract, and utilize intelligence from what people say, hear, see, and think.
Plaud is a bootstrapped, skyrocketing, profitable company with a $250M revenue run rate achieved in just three years.
Define the next-gen paradigm for human-AI interaction.
Gain exposure to cutting-edge AI for Pro tools and play a direct role in our global expansion.
Work with passionate teammates who value innovation, collaboration, and customer success.
Grow your career in a culture that champions continuous learning and fast career development.
Market-competitive compensation, global exposure, and a vibrant, creativity-fueled work atmosphere.

Requirements

• 3–5 years of experience in internet and/or AI product development, with hands-on experience delivering 0→1 demos and 1→N production launches.
• Strong ability to translate ambiguous requirements into executable solutions, with clear trade-offs between technology and user experience and ownership through closed-loop execution.
• Data-driven mindset: capable of forming testable optimization hypotheses based on logs, instrumentation, and evaluation results.
• Fluent in both English and Mandarin, with the ability to collaborate efficiently with engineering, evaluation, and design teams across multiple time zones.
• Able to independently driving complex initiatives and owning outcomes.

Nice To Haves

• Hands-on productization experience in areas such as LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and multimodal conversational systems.
• Experience building comprehensive evaluation frameworks that integrate offline metrics, online metrics, and user-facing metrics.
• Strong familiarity with prompt design, as well as alignment, safety, controllability, and quality assurance practices.
• Proficient with prototyping and analytics tools, with a particular focus on leveraging modern AI-powered tools to improve the quality and efficiency of product design.

Responsibilities

• Led the end-to-end product design and delivery of Ask across three layers—single Note, Project, and global—covering solution architecture and user journey design.
• Drove iterative improvements and achievement of SOTA user experience by leveraging evaluation pipeline metrics, interaction metrics, and user research VOC.
• Orchestrated cross-functional collaboration across engineering, evaluation, design, and data teams, aligning priorities and execution cadence to ensure high-quality launches.
• Continuously explored and validated new capabilities, including multi-turn conversations, multimodality, proactive Pulse, and Shortcuts.
• Established reusable methodologies and assets, including metrics frameworks, data feedback loops, and experimentation paradigms (A/B testing, staged rollouts, and regression evaluation

Benefits

• Meaningful Ownership An Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) that gives a real stake in Plaud’s long-term success.
• High-Impact Environment Work in a fast-moving, product-driven environment where your ideas directly shape the future of AI productivity.
• Comprehensive Health & Retirement Benefits Top-tier medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents, supported by a generous employer subsidy, plus a 401(k) retirement plan with company matching for full-time employees.
• Time Off & Workplace Benefits Unlimited PTO, plus 13 paid holidays, 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents, a hybrid work model with a minimum of three in-office days per week, and access to high-quality office snacks, drinks, and equipment.
• Cutting-Edge AI Tools for Productivity Access to best-in-class AI tools, including Cursor, GPT models, Gemini, Claude, and other frontier AI systems to maximize engineering and execution efficiency.
• Best-in-Class Equipment Choice of top-spec laptops, high-performance workstation setups, and cutting-edge Plaud devices for all new hires.
• Team & Culture Annual company offsites, team events, and a culture that values craftsmanship, ownership, and velocity.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed