About the role
What Artisan Is
We're building AI employees. Not chatbots. Not copilots. Autonomous digital workers that do real jobs.
Our first, Ava, is an AI BDR used by hundreds of companies. She researches leads, writes and sends emails in a customer's voice, runs multi-step outbound sequences, manages her own deliverability infrastructure, self-optimizes over time, and handles objections and meeting booking. She's not a tool someone uses. She's a teammate.
We're a YC W24 company, have raised $35M+ from investors including Y Combinator, and are at $8M+ ARR. Right now we're building Ava 2.0, a step change in what an AI employee can do. The engineering problems are hard and the surface area is enormous.
The Role
Artisan isn't a single product. It's an entire working platform that replaces the sales stack. That means CRM, inbox, dialer, lead database, campaign engine, website visitor tracking, and AI agent management, all in one product. The frontend is where all of this comes together for the user.
The design bar is high. We build dense, information-rich interfaces with calm clarity. Think Ramp, not Salesforce. Every view needs to surface the right data without visual noise, handle complex workflows without feeling complex, and make working alongside an AI employee feel natural.
You'll own the frontend architecture and set the standard for how Artisan is built on the client side. This is a staff-level role. You won't just ship features. You'll define how the team builds UI.
What that looks like concretely:
- Multi-product frontend architecture. Artisan ships dozens of products as a unified platform. You'll build and maintain the component systems, routing, state management, and shared infrastructure that make this feel like one product, not seven.
- Real-time, data-dense interfaces. Users manage thousands of leads, monitor live AI activity, review email sequences, and track campaign performance. The UI needs to render large datasets performantly, update in real time, and remain usable at scale. Tables, filters, search, dashboards, activity feeds. This is the core of the product experience.
