Work with us

We are a team of creative problem solvers focused on leveraging AI to make everyday life better for everyone.

We’re actively looking to fill the following roles on our team. If you believe that there’s a place here for you, don’t hesitate to get in touch. Apply by sending an email with your resume and Github or portfolio link to jobs@xokind.com.

Backend Software Engineer

As a Backend Software Engineer (specific title is flexible based on seniority and areas of expertise) your primary responsibilities will be to design and implement robust, performant services supporting our mobile and web applications. You will be architecting, developing, testing, deploying, and maintaining these services in close collaboration with a small, passionate team consisting of a frontend engineer, designer, AI experts and a product manager. As an early Engineering hire, this role offers tremendous leadership and growth potential, and you will end up shaping and owning a significant portion of the codebase. Further, as a very early hire in the overall company you would own a significant equity stake and there is potential for you to influence and be involved in all aspects of the company’s activities and future direction.

Responsibilities

  • Designing, implementing, deploying, testing and maintaining various containerized scalable services written in Python/Go
  • Building APIs among services and integrating with 3rd party APIs
  • Designing large-scale data processing and ETL pipelines, managing and persisting state via file/object stores, databases, and caches
  • Setting up instrumentation to support monitoring, logging, and tracing of network connected services
  • Providing strategic input and help in setting technical direction

 

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience developing scalable yet performant software systems in a high level programming language like Go, Python, Java, C++
  • Familiarity with modern, cloud native technologies like Kubernetes, Docker, Prometheus, Redis, Linkerd, Helm, gRPC
  • Strong CS fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, OO design.
  • Utilization of cloud services (DBs, object storage, message queues, API gateways, functions, container orchestrators, VPCs) from at least one major provider like GCP, Azure, or AWS
  • A continuous growth mindset, a can-do attitude and an immense pride in and joy from tackling challenges
  • Agile, product-focused mentality to build products that users will love
  • Strong communication and time-management skills
  • Agile, startup mentality (e.g. Lean Startup, YC, GV Sprint)
  • Desire to succeed, and help build successful products and companies

 

Frontend Software Engineer

As a Frontend Software Engineer, your primary responsibilities will be to turn wireframes and conceptual mockups into a fully-functioning and consistent reality for our end users. You will be architecting, building, testing, deploying, and maintaining components/screens for iOS and Android devices as well as the web. You will also collaborate directly with a team of Machine learning engineers, backend engineers, a designer, and a product manager to build the product. In an early stage startup, this role also offers tremendous leadership and growth potential for you to influence and be involved in all aspects of the company’s activities and future direction.

Responsibilities

  • Designing and architecting the constituent components of a modern cross-platform mobile app
  • Writing the code and associated unit/integration/functional/performance tests necessary to build confidence in your implementation
  • Assisting with middleware/backend service integration (interest and ability permitting)
  • Prepping and validating release builds, writing corresponding documentation
  • Maintaining and supporting releases post deployment
  • Developing and maintaining the company website
  • Providing strategic input and help in setting technical direction

 

Requirements

  • 2+ years of experience developing complex, mobile applications for iOS or Android using Flutter and one or more of the following: React Native, Swift, Kotlin
  • Deep understanding of Bloc and Provider for state management
  • Experience working with remote data via REST or gRPC, third party libraries, and APIs
  • Experience working with Firebase or other NoSQL databases
  • Shipped at least 1 app to the iOS App Store and/or Google Play Store
  • Solid understanding of HTML, CSS, Javascript. Exposure to popular JS libraries and frameworks like React, glitter, D3, Bootstrap.
  • Strong CS fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, OO design.
  • Utilization of cloud services (DBs, object storage, message queues, API gateways, functions, VPCs) from at least one major provider like GCP or AWS
  • An immense pride in your craft, a continuous growth mindset, a can-do attitude
  • Strong communication and time-management skills

 

Machine Learning Engineer/Data Scientist

As a Machine Learning Engineer/Data Scientist (specific title is flexible based on the level of experience) your primary responsibilities will be to design, develop and deploy ML models to enable capabilities of our product, understand user preferences and delight users with intelligent algorithms. You will bring your expertise in AI and creative problem solving skills to tackle challenges and opportunities in defining our data and modeling strategies. You will also collaborate closely with a team of AI experts, software and platform experts, a designer, and a product manager to build the product. As an early Machine learning and Data Science hire, this role offers tremendous leadership and growth potential, and you will end up shaping and owning a significant portion of the ML algorithms. Further, as a very early hire in the overall company you would own a significant equity stake, and there is potential for you to influence and be involved with all aspects of the company’s activities and help shape its overall future.Are you a Machine learning expert who is passionate about machine intelligence and also excited to bring ML and AI to solve problems for end-users during their decision-making and planning process? Then please get in touch!

Responsibilities

  • Bring creative problem solving to the company’s technology and product development
  • Develop, deploy and optimize machine learning models to enable product capabilities and improve user experience
  • Develop data collection strategy, apply state-of-the-art or develop unique AI models (computer vision, natural language processing, knowledge graph etc.) for information and knowledge extraction
  • Build, test and improve recommendation algorithms to surface the most relevant information and options for users
  • Build, test and improve optimization and planning algorithms for the use case
  • Integrate the models with various data source APIs and the backend infrastructure
  • Work in close partnership with Product, Engineering and Design functions to actively and continuously identify opportunities to leverage Machine Learning to drive user engagement, understand user behavior and apply AI to delight users

 

Requirements

  • Advanced Degree (PhD and/or Masters) in a quantitative field such as Machine Learning /AI, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics
  • 2+ years of hands-on experience with AI, ML, data science and analytics
  • Familiar with latest AI research and data science advances
  • Familiar with Python, ML cloud services, and various DL frameworks and ML packages
  • Intellectual curiosity and desire to learn new technologies
  • Excellent interpersonal skills, strong partnership and collaboration skills

 

DevOps Engineer

As a Devops Engineer (specific title is flexible based on seniority and areas of expertise) your primary responsibilities will be to write software to provision, manage, deploy, and monitor our infrastructure and data. You believe in creating a culture of reliability via repeatable automation and secure best practices. Collaborating closely with the rest of the technical team (data scientists and software engineers), you will help setup and manage CI/CD, data processing and storage pipelines, kubernetes clusters, the rollout of backing services, monitoring dashboards, and help support and troubleshoot when incidents arise. As an early Engineering hire, this role offers tremendous leadership and growth potential, and you will end up shaping and influencing a significant portion of the infrastructure/codebase. Further, as an early hire in the overall company you would own a substantial equity stake, with the ability to be involved in many aspects of the company’s activities and help mould its overall future.

Responsibilities

  • Managing, expanding, securing, and supporting infrastructure provisioning code
  • Managing, expanding and improving CI/CD software and automation
  • Designing, updating and monitoring our cloud resources, encompassing kubernetes clusters, various databases and stores, ETL pipelines, IAM policies, and so on
  • Providing strategic input and help in setting technical direction

 

Requirements

  • 3+ years experience building and running services from a major cloud service provider (GCP preferable)
  • Demonstrated utilization of provisioning software/tools like terraform, ansible, cloud formation, chef
  • Familiarity with deploying and administering kubernetes clusters, and containerized services/applications
  • Solid understanding of linux configuration, performance tuning, and troubleshooting skills
  • Good grasp of TCP/IP and network routing fundamentals, load balancers, proxying, and VPC’s
  • An immense pride in your craft, a continuous growth mindset, a can-do attitude
  • Strong communication and time-management skills

 

Director of Marketing

XOKind is looking for its first full-time marketing hire. This is your chance to join an exciting team at the earliest stage. Travel is going to be back in a big way in 2021, and we’ve recently launched our flagship app Una in beta. Una is an amazing new tool for people to better plan their trips. The XOKind team has a proven track record of using AI to build and power next-generation technology, having sold their previous startup Nervana Systems to Intel for a 9-figure exit. We just need someone like you to grow users and build a brand that people trust when they travel. As the Director of Marketing, you’ll work closely with the company founders to ensure product-market fit; define user journeys; and drive user growth through content marketing, user advocacy, and paid acquisition.This role combines strategic thinking with an execution mindset. We’re looking for someone who can understand business and product strategy and turn that into specific marketing tactics. You’ll be excited to experiment and iterate, while providing feedback and guidance for the product team based on what our users say and do. You’ll invest time and energy into understanding our users, their goals, and their journeys through our product and competitors’. And you’ll be committed to creating an amazing experience inside and outside the product for everyone.As a leader at an early stage startup, you will get significant ownership/equity and visibility. The role includes benefits such as health/dental/vision insurance, 401k, HSA (depending on health plan choice), and PTO/holidays. Location is flexible within the USA.

Responsibilities

  • Help with product development through segmenting users and conveying their needs to the product team.
  • Driving user growth through word of mouth, SEM, and paid channels.
  • Defining a unique user journey outside product and creating the assets/experience to facilitate this journey.

 

Product Marketing
  • Audience definition
  • Personas and customer segmentation
  • Positioning and messaging
  • Market research and competitive intelligence
  • Social media promotion (advertising)

 

Content/brand Marketing
  • Social media content (organic)
  • Influencer marketing
  • Website and SEO marketing, including blogs
  • Email marketing

 

Requirements

  • Driven, strategic and scrappy
  • High attention to detail
  • Likes the product and excited to help drive its direction (try it out on the App/Play stores!)
  • Experience at a seed or Series A tech company.
  • Experience in consumer/lifestyle/mobile app development.
  • Accountability for user growth and talking to users.
  • Expertise with analytical understanding of users, including familiarity with customer-journey software such as Mixpanel, Segment, and Mailchimp.
  • Experience in travel industry (desirable).
  • Work closely with our contractors to manage social and paid channels.

 

UX/UI Designer

As the UX/UI Designer your primary responsibilities will be to design modern, easy to use mobile and web interfaces that enable our users to discover, plan and book itineraries all from a single place. You will collaborate directly with a team of AI experts, engineers, and a product manager to build the product. We expect you to have a keen understanding of how people use their devices to research and plan travel and leisure, and experience with the latest design software and wireframe tools. The role offers tremendous potential for product impact as well as growth into broader leadership positions within the company.

Responsibilities

  • Develop modern, intuitive, and engaging interactions and visual designs for mobile and web
  • Design graphic user interface elements like menus, tabs and widgets, as well as navigation components like buttons and search fields
  • Develop style standards on fonts, colors and images
  • Create wireframes and prototypes that clearly illustrate how the app will function and look
  • Make UI and UX adjustments based on team and user feedback
  • Participate in the development process from definition, through design, build, test, release, and maintenance
  • (A plus but not required) Depending on your interest and ability, translate your designs into front-end code
  • Provide strategic thinking and leadership

 

Requirements

  • Portfolio of design projects and proven ability to deliver high quality designs to your teams and customers
  • Passion for taking complex human decisions, simplifying the steps and reducing cognitive labor
  • Strong knowledge of wireframe tools (e.g. Figma, InVision, etc.) and design software (e.g. Sketch, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, etc.)
  • Strong communication and time-management skills
  • Strong graphic design skills, with a good understanding of typography, intuitive layouts and palate development
  • Understanding of Apple’s human interface design guidelines, Android design and other mobile platform designs, including Google’s material design
  • Associate’s degree or higher in interaction design, human-computer interaction, cognitive science or another design-related field

 

Digital Marketing and Growth Manager

As the Digital Marketing and Growth Manager your primary responsibilities will be to increase customer acquisition, activation and retention through a combination of growth and digital marketing strategies. This includes designing and implementing innovative digital campaigns, interacting with customers via digital channels, creating and promoting interactive and engaging content, and expanding the opportunities for revenue through marketing partnerships and influencer campaigns. You will work closely with product, design, and engineering. As the first member of our team to focus on digital and growth marketing, this role offers tremendous potential for future leadership opportunities within the company.

Responsibilities

  • Wear the digital and growth marketing hats within the company, to drive steady growth in user acquisition, activation and retention.
  • Create and manage digital marketing campaigns and strategies, including social media budget planning, content creation, and implementation schedules.
  • Ensure consistency in our marketing messages by working cross-functionally with product, engineering and design.
  • Manage influencers and partner marketing campaigns.
  • Collect and analyze data on customers’ interactions with our digital campaigns and unique visits to our website and app. Use this data to report progress back to the team, and to inform and adjust our marketing strategy.
  • Grow our social media presence on new social media platforms as well as existing ones (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn..).
  • Research and monitor competitive marketing strategies.
  • Create engaging copy and graphic content for our website and social media pages, and contribute to the development of our brand’s voice.

 

Requirements

  • At least four years of professional digital marketing experience and at least two years in a growth-focused marketing role
  • Deep knowledge of social media platforms
  • Proven ability to collect and analyze data to make strategic recommendations
  • Strong verbal, written and visual communication skills with a strong track-record of contributions in content creation (visual and written) for web and social. Please send us samples.
  • Attention to detail and creative problem solver
  • Degree in Communications, Marketing or a related field
  • Experience in the travel industry is a plus, but not required
  • Experience in a growth-related role at a startup is a plus, but not required

 

Product Manager

XOKind is looking for a seasoned and passionate product manager to join the team working on Una Travel, our flagship app that is currently in beta and available on the App Store and Google Play Store, with a quickly growing user base. This is your chance to join a dedicated, creative and collaborative team of designers, engineers and data scientists, at an exciting stage in our company’s growth. The founding team has a proven track record of using AI to power next-generation technology, having sold their previous startup Nervana Systems to Intel for a large exit.Travel is coming back in a big way – people long to get away more than ever but still expend a huge amount of effort to turn their travel dreams into a reality. Una is revolutionizing how people discover, plan and book their travel. Collaborative, personalized and all in one, it’s your travel agent and concierge, on demand. The Product Manager will drive exciting new features on our roadmap to help deliver increasing value to the user. You’ll work closely with the company founders, including the VP of Product, to shape the roadmap; assess trade-offs; define user journeys; continuously drive product-market fit; and accelerate user growth.This role combines strategic thinking with an execution mindset. We’re looking for someone who is scrappy, can wear multiple hats, quickly understands our business strategy and can make timely, strategic decisions while navigating trade-offs.You’ll invest time and energy reaching out to our users to better understand them. You’ll also engage with our partners as the product ambassador. You’ll be comfortable using data to understand in-app behavior and will develop strategies to continuously improve our metrics. You’ll be committed to creating an unmatched experience inside Una, and you’ll collaborate with marketing to ensure that the experiences outside Una fit together well with the in-product experience.As a team member joining at an early stage, you will get significant ownership/equity and visibility. The role includes benefits such as health/dental/vision insurance, 401k, HSA (depending on health plan choice), and PTO/holidays. Location is flexible within the USA, and we also have offices in San Diego, CA.

Responsibilities

  • Develop a deep understanding of our users’ motivations and pain points
  • Contribute to the product roadmap and align on product priorities with business, engineering, and design
  • Use data and insights to create a strategy and features that drive engagement and revenue
  • Clearly define product requirements that capture the vision and key elements of new features, always striving for the best customer experience
  • Clearly communicate through writing and presentations

 

Requirements

  • Driven, strategic and scrappy
  • Able to see the big picture while also able to innovate down to the details
  • 2+ years of experience in consumer, mobile product management
  • BA/BS preferred, MBA a plus
  • Successfully launched mobile software features, working closely with designers and engineers
  • Excellent communicator with technical & design teams
  • Accountability for driving user growth and gathering user insights (in a continuous loop leveraging the Sprint design methodology)
  • Expertise with using data to understand customers (including familiarity with customer-journey and analytics software such as Mixpanel/Amplitude, Braze, Intercom)
  • Passionate about travel and improving the broken experience that travelers currently experience today
  • Excellent writing skills to be leveraged for in-product messaging as well as messages for our marketing and PR team

 

Bonus

  • Experience at a seed or Series A tech company
  • Experience in Travel and/or AI/ML
  • Marketing experience and skills in social media content marketing, community building, influencer management and/or performance marketing
  • Partnerships/BD experience/interest
  • Experience with project management software such as Asana
  • Experience/familiarity with Figma or another visual design tool
  • Experience managing or running customer support