Ambrook

Title: Design Engineer Location: New York/ San Francisco Department: Design Hybrid Employment Type Full time Job Description: Compensation $140K – $210K • Offers Equity We believe in pay equity and transparency. At Ambrook, salary is set by level and location—two people at the same level in the same location will be paid the same, regardless of background or negotiation. Posted ranges reflect our SF and NYC pay bands. Job descriptions often list a range of levels, since we know great people can be at different points in their careers, and we want to meet you where you are. Ambrook helps American family-run businesses become more profitable and resilient. From volatile markets to climate shifts, independent operators face mounting pressure. While sustainable investments often yield the best long-term returns, they require financial clarity and capital that fragmented legacy systems can’t provide. We are rebuilding the financial infrastructure that independent operators rely on. By replacing paperwork with modern tools for accounting, banking, and spending, Ambrook gives owners the data they need to prove viability to lenders and the next generation. We empower the stewards of land and labor to make confident investments in their future. We’re a Series A startup backed by Thrive Capital, Dylan Field, and Homebrew. We’re looking for early team members to help us untangle the intersection of American industry, climate, and the economy. The opportunity Ambrook is building a world-class team that values design and craft. Joining a strong founding team of designers and engineers, you’ll help drive our technical decisions and influence our product direction for years to come, with the goal of making agricultural and industrial businesses more resilient and profitable. Read here to hear more from our co-founder Dan about this role and what we’re looking for in a candidate. ​​You'll own - Product craft: Beautiful, performant interfaces that solve real problems for agricultural operators - Design systems: Component libraries, interaction patterns, and design tokens that enable consistent experiences - User experience: Translating complex financial workflows into intuitive, accessible interfaces - Technical implementation: High-quality frontend code that brings designs to life Responsibilities - Ship beautiful, functional experiences — Design and build user-facing features from concept to production, translating complex agricultural finance workflows into interfaces that feel natural for ranchers and farmers - Own our design system — Build and evolve component libraries, interaction patterns, and design tokens that work seamlessly across web and mobile platforms - Champion product craft — Establish quality standards and processes that ensure every feature we ship solves real problems elegantly - Scale our frontend architecture — Lead improvements to design system infrastructure, development workflows, and tooling as we grow - Collaborate across disciplines — Work with design on visual standards, product on feature requirements, engineering on technical architecture, and directly with customers on real-world usage - Shape what we build — Influence product direction through user research insights, design explorations, and deep understanding of agricultural operations About you - 3+ years building high-quality web and mobile experiences - Design system ownership: You've built or worked extensively with component libraries and understand both the technical and human challenges - Strong design instincts: You can spot when something feels off in a UI and create high-fidelity prototypes in Figma - Advanced frontend skills: Clean, performant code with solid grasp of data structures, async programming, and modern development workflows - Mission-driven: Excited to solve real problems for people who work the land and help family-run businesses become more profitable and resilient - Comfortable with ambiguity: You thrive when balancing user needs, business requirements, and technical constraints to create elegant solutions - Collaborative by nature: Sitting at the center of design and engineering, you work well across disciplines to get things done - Bonus: Experience at fast-moving startups, building financial products, or working with React, TypeScript, React Native, and Next.js Our Tech Stack - Frontend: Next.js / React application written in TypeScript - Mobile: React Native & Expo for iOS and Android - Infrastructure: Google Cloud Platform - Data: Firestore & Google Cloud SQL for storage, BigQuery for analytics - Design: Figma for design, custom component library for implementation Benefits - Competitive salary - Health insurance - 401(k) with matching contribution - Flexible vacation time - Flexible work hours - Work-from-home/remote office stipend - Wellness stipend - Professional development stipend Our values - Reach Understanding – We are driven by curiosity and empathy to learn about our customers, team, and world. - Real Talk – We create space for ourselves and others to be straightforward, vulnerable, and accountable. - Be Proactively Resourceful – We are internally motivated and externally empowered to identify opportunities and solve problems. - Derisk Thoughtfully – We lean into the biggest risks we face as a company and put in the work to address them systematically. - Find the Positive-Sum – We believe in creating incentive structures that align the needs of our company, our customers, and our planet.

• Own a portfolio of high priority customer relationships, ensuring their financial systems are set up for insight and action. • Advise customers on how to leverage their financial data to make better decisions—whether it’s breakeven pricing, enterprise profitability, or loan readiness. • Build repeatable processes, documentation, and automated workflows that contribute to a scalable service model. • Grow customer relationships over time, identifying expansion opportunities and collaborating with sales when appropriate. • Build deep product fluency by immersing yourself in our software, services, and internal tools to speak with confidence and clarity to customers • Shadow priority customer and design partner onboarding calls and start building your own relationships with producers • Get up to speed on how Ambrook serves customers with multi-entity operations, complex reporting needs, or evolving business structures • Audit existing team workflows to identify highest-leverage automation opportunities. • Begin building agents or automations to streamline at least one core repetitive workflow. • Own onboarding for new mid-market customers, designing solutions and ensuring successful implementation • Proactively identify common pain points and create documentation, tools, or processes to address them, including agents that remove > 30% of manual effort from core workflows • Become a trusted partner to producers by helping them unlock insights from their financial data • Shape the customer journey, contributing to retention and expansion strategies that turn satisfied users into vocal advocates • Act as a bridge between the customer and the broader team, surfacing insights to influence marketing, support, and product development. • Fully own a book of business across full-service and mid-market customers, driving retention and satisfaction • Move beyond onboarding and monthly check-ins to run substantive customer business reviews, helping customers understand enterprise profitability, benchmark performance, and make forward-looking operational and financial decisions. • Partner with Product, Design, and Engineering teams to shape new features and improvements based on customer needs • Own enhancements to data and automation infrastructure that help the team focus on the highest value activities for customers • Develop a point of view on what 'full service' looks like at scale, contributing to how Ambrook evolves its advisory offering over time. • Pilot new playbooks for onboarding or expansion with high-opportunity accounts.

• Represent Ambrook for customers navigating our product • Master the product inside and out • Learn the ins and outs of agricultural bookkeeping • Improve the customer experience by sharing patterns, feature requests, and product feedback

• Represent Ambrook for customers navigating our product • Master the product inside and out • Learn the ins and outs of agricultural bookkeeping • Improve the customer experience by sharing patterns and product feedback

Ambrook’s mission is to help family-run American businesses become more profitable and resilient. Operators across American agriculture and industry face increasing pressure from record-breaking droughts, rising input costs, and unpredictable markets. The best long-term investments, like efficient irrigation and grazing rotations, support both the land and the bottom line. But even when the payoff is clear, these changes need upfront capital and financial clarity that's hard to come by. Business owners work with fragmented records and outdated tools. They can't easily see what's working or prove viability to a lender, partner, or the next generation. Ambrook is rebuilding the financial infrastructure that independent operators rely on. We replace paperwork and legacy systems with modern tools for accounting, banking, invoicing and spending. Tools built for people who spend more time in the field than in the office. Our platform gives producers the financial clarity they need to make confident investments in their land, their operation, and their future. Our customers are the backbone of the real economy. They are stewards of land, labor, and legacy. We're giving them the ability to invest in stronger, more durable businesses. When they do, they build generational resilience across America. We started with farmers and ranchers across the country. Now we're expanding quickly to other American industries. We're a Series A startup backed by top investors like Thrive Capital, Dylan Field, Homebrew, Designer Fund, and BoxGroup. We're looking for early team members who want to untangle the knotted intersection between American industry, climate, and the economy. The opportunity We're building a growth engineering function to accelerate Ambrook's revenue through product experiments and GTM systems. This role will drive measurable growth across acquisition, activation, and retention by running experiments, building instrumentation, and creating leverage for our commercial team. This is a metric-driven growth engineering role. You'll ship to learn, hand off what works, and move fast on the next experiment. As part of a newly formed growth engineering team, you'll help establish our experiment cadence and work across marketing, sales, and operations to find and unlock growth levers. We're looking for someone who we can count on to... Design and ship high-impact experiments across the funnel (acquisition, activation, retention.) Build instrumentation and dashboards that enable fast, data-informed decisions. Create GTM systems that multiply commercial team impact. Optimize conversion funnels from acquisition to activation. Balance quick iterations with scalable solutions – ship MVPs, validate, then productionize with partner pods. Live in the data to spot trends early and translate findings into actionable experiments. Required Skills and Experience 3+ years software engineering experience with demonstrated growth or product impact Fluent in TypeScript and React; comfortable shipping frontend experiments quickly Strong SQL and analytics skills Comfortable working across teams (marketing, sales, ops) and shipping without perfect information Ability to translate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders Nice to have Strong experience in A/B testing and data analysis Experience with analytics tools and infrastructure, funnel optimization, and conversion rate optimization Within 1 month you'll... Map our growth tech stack (Statsig, Segment, BigQuery, HubSpot) and existing data flows Analyze key funnels and identify 2-3 high-impact experiment opportunities Ship your first lightweight experiment and measure results Establish key relationships across teams Set up your first dashboard to track a core growth metric Within 3 months you'll... Run a structured experiment cadence with clear hypotheses and exit criteria Build GTM systems infrastructure that unblocks commercial team velocity Present experiment learnings and impact to leadership Own the graduation process — hand off a successful experiment to partner pods for long-term ownership About you Strategic thinker with a mix of creativity and analytical rigor Ship to learn : You're comfortable with experiment code that gets thrown away—validation comes before perfection Comfortable with ambiguity : Self directed and can prioritize when everything feels urgent and balance quick wins with longer-term bets Cross-functional : You build relationships with non-technical teams and translate between business goals and technical execution Excited to build software that makes industries like agriculture more sustainable and profitable Bonus: SEO implementation, knowledge of agriculture, finance, or climate tech, marketing automation platforms and working with design systems. Our Tech Stack Frontend : Next.js / React application written in TypeScript, Expo on mobile Hosting & Storage: Google Cloud, Firestore and Postgres Data & Insights: BigQuery & Hex Growth stack : Google Analytics, Segment and Statsig

• Own creative production including day-to-day marketing assets across performance ads (static and motion), social media content, landing pages, sales enablement, and one-offs from our team. • Own UGC management including creator relationships, content strategy, and creative direction. • Manage daily operations and lightweight management of social media accounts. • Teach design thinking and creative best practices to cross-functional peers, elevating the team's visual literacy and brand standards. • Teach content creators how to authentically and accurately represent Ambrook's brand and benefits and communicate with other operators. • Learn Ambrook’s customers, product, and the finance ecosystem. • Improve brand consistency across channels through scalable design systems and documentation. • Improve sales and marketing enablement through creative workflows, templating systems, and asset production velocity. • Within 1 month, deeply understand Ambrook's product, customers, and value proposition through hands-on creative work and maintain campaign schedules. • Within 3 months, run performance marketing asset production independently and demonstrate measurable impact on creative velocity and campaign performance.