Product Builder, Owner.com
AI Acceleration
Online ordering and restaurant marketing system
Open for applications
Online ordering and restaurant marketing system
201-500 employees
Open for applications
201-500 employees
Company mission
To give independent restaurants the infrastructure tools they need to compete with larger corporations.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of experience building and shipping software products
- You've worn multiple hats: thought like a PM, built like an engineer, and cared about UX like a designer
- Strong TypeScript experience; comfortable across our frontend (React, Next.js) and/or backend (Node.js, MongoDB) stacks
- AI-native in how you work: you use AI tools to move faster, write better code, and explore solutions you couldn't have reached alone
- A track record of shipping things end-to-end that you're proud of
- Genuine customer empathy: you've talked to users directly, not just read their support tickets
- Unusually high agency: you identify problems, make a call, and move without waiting to be asked
- Collaborative at your core: past colleagues in product, design, and business would speak highly of how you work with them
- You think in systems: you understand how your work fits the larger product vision, and you actively contribute to the technical frameworks the whole team builds on
- Experience at a product-focused startup or high-growth technology company
What the job involves
- Independent restaurants are in a fight for their survival, up against chains with unlimited marketing budgets, loyalty platforms, and enterprise tech teams. We exist to change that. We build AI-driven technology that puts the power of a Fortune 500 tech stack into the hands of an owner-operator running tables on a Tuesday night
- To get there, we need a new kind of builder
- The best builders we know move fluidly between product thinking, engineering, and design because they love the whole game. AI has fundamentally changed what one person can build with great taste, technical excellence, and genuine customer empathy — and we're building a team of those people
- You'll help us solve one of the most important problems in tech right now: how to use AI to work 10x more effectively. That means establishing Owner as a leader in practical AI adoption, improving how we build across product, engineering, and design, and raising the bar for how we serve customers
- You'll ship tools and workflows that eliminate busywork and make your coworkers' jobs measurably better — working alongside some of our most senior engineers and the GTM teams that want to move faster
- If you've been quietly doing parts of the PM's job and the designer's job while still writing code — and loving every minute of it — this role was written for you
- Own problems, not tickets. Talk directly to restaurant operators. Find the real friction. Define what we should build next. Build it
- Go end-to-end. Design the experience, architect the system, write the code, and own the outcome. You're accountable for the full arc from insight to shipped product
- Move fast, deliver excellence. AI lets us build 10x faster than we could a few years ago. You use that leverage to drive product excellence
- Shape our product direction. Your intuitions about what customers need should influence our roadmap, not just your next sprint. We want product thinkers, not ticket closers
- Hold the bar for craft. Clean, maintainable code. Intuitive, beautiful UX. Independent restaurant owners deserve great software, and you'll be the one making sure they get it
- Be a user whisperer. Build relationships with operators. Bounce ideas off them. Know them by name. Iterate with them in real time
Our take
The Pandemic caused a major upheaval in the US restaurant industry. Smaller operations struggled to stay afloat amidst brick-and-mortar closures, and as the demand for home delivery soared their margins were tightened further by hefty third-party delivery app charges. Add to that the fact that consumers become customers of the delivery app, not the restaurant itself, and it’s a development that has spelt real trouble for independent locales. Owner has set out to level the playing field.
Owner’s platform provides independent restaurants with the infrastructure they need to take control of their business without deferring to third-party apps like GrubHub and Deliveroo. It offers marketing, online ordering, and support solutions to over 10,000 restaurants across the U.S. The company has taken impressive first strides, too: they have a 7 figure run-rate, over 105% monthly revenue retention, and helped restaurants avoid millions in online order platform fees.
It’s a hugely attractive proposition for independent business owners, and research suggests it’s a winning idea for consumers too. Over 60% say they’d prefer to deal with restaurants directly, but historically the infrastructure simply hasn’t been in place to do so. With Owner seeing impressive traction by tripling its customers between 2023 and 2024, it's unsurprising that its 2025 funding is being channelled into engineering and design teams, alongside the development of new tools.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
May 2025
$120m
SERIES C
Jan 2024
$33m
SERIES B
Total funding: $185.7m
Company benefits
- Work from anywhere: Our flexible policy lets you work from wherever you want.
- Equity in Owner: All full-time employees in eligible countries receive pre-IPO equity in Owner.
- Benefits to support your success: We set you up for success where you are and where you’re going.
- Healthcare Coverage: We offer comprehensive health, dental and vision plans.
- Unlimited PTO: Your schedule, your choice. We give our team members full empowerment to choose the time they want to work, and don’t micro-manage working hours.
- Team retreats: We love building real friendships with everyone that we work with, so we do several retreats per year – to deepen our friendships, celebrate our wins, and plan our future.
Company HQ
Presidio of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Adam Guild
(Co-Founder & CEO)Thiel Fellow, Forbes 30 Under 30 List.
Dean Bloembergen
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously Co-founder and CTO at Marble Technologies, Forbes 30 under 30.
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