Vice President of AI Engineering, Wonderly
AI business software for service SMBs
Posted today
AI business software for service SMBs
1-20 employees
Posted today
1-20 employees
Company mission
To empower service SMBs to grow and compete with AI by automating sales, operations, and customer communication in one platform.
Role
Who you are
- You are a technologist at heart
- Your dream vacation is tinkering and building something new. Every couple months you have a new side project. If you do not tinker, you cannot have taste
- You are someone who keeps up with technology for fun. If I pulled up your youtube feed, it would be littered with tech talks
- You explore new ways of building purely for the craft
- You’re able to work startup hours because work is fun. This is the type of career someone would have to pay you to not do
- You’re someone who’s guided engineering orgs before, and you know the importance of a steady hand. That doesn’t mean you’re afraid to make big calls when necessary
- You’re someone who’s thought deeply about engineering strategy. You have strong opinions about the SDLC, and how it changes in the age of AI
- Above all, you’re deeply practical. The world is a messy place. You work with the world how it is, not how it should be
What the job involves
- Wonderly is building the first enterprise grade dark software factory. We have 50 internal tools (and growing) built this way, and we are rapidly improving our own development methods based on feedback from this development process. We are extremely reluctant to use external vendors; with our internal tools factory, we have replaced ~50 vendors (and more will be replaced soon). We do this for three main reasons:
- Margin
- Software is entering a low-margin era. Most of our customers’ margins are only 30-40%, and as a result, we cannot pay frivolously for vendors that we could easily replicate in-house ourselves
- With AI, the cost of building – and yes, maintaining – these tools in-house has dramatically decreased. Every dollar that we can save is a dollar more we can invest on behalf of our customers
- Operational excellence
- Stitching together well known tools can quickly bootstrap you to an MVP in terms of business and engineering processes, but as you scale, you’ll find yourself tied down to the lowest common denominator of what each of these tools allow you to do. As a result, you’ll naturally adopt sub-optimal processes, and this will drive down your operational excellence
- Every operational mistake costs our customers real money. We cannot afford for this to happen. As we rapidly scale, we must have maximum flexibility to choose the best process first, and build the tooling to enable that process after the fact
- Software revolution
- As AI continues to eat software and its production lifecycle, we need to have a semi-production environment to push the boundaries. We need a place where we can experiment without risking customer outages. I say semi-production because everything can work in a toy sandbox environment. Our internal tools on the other hand have real customers, real traffic, and numerous edge cases. It is complex enough to give a real sense of whether this will work without immediately putting our end customers at risk
- Many of the architectural and AI coding decisions we took in production were first started in our internal tools test bed
- Your role is the ultimate culmination of both the tinkering in internal tools and the maturity of actual production. We need both to co-evolve with each other. We’re looking for someone who is bringing technical excellence (real money is on the line here!) first and foremost, but can also peer into the future for what’s coming and position Wonderly for the AI native era
- You are capable of holding two opposing view points simultaneously: AI is going to change everything, and yet, most of what it produces today continues to be slop
- And your answer to the above paradox is ultimately going to be your roadmap in this company
Our take
Large companies deploy custom-built agents for everything from sales and marketing to customer support. However, SMBs don’t have the capital, manpower, know-how or time to develop these business-accelerating tools. Wonderly, formerly Motion, is out to change that with its end-to-end AI platform for service businesses.
Currently working with SMBs across a diverse range of industries, Wonderly’s product offers web-building services, AI lead generation, sales, project management and communication tools, all for B2C companies looking to boost their revenue.
Since rebranding from its project management app, Motion, Wonderly has expanded its concept of time-saving for businesses and, in just two years, has created a tool that’s attracted hundreds of customers. Operating on the principle that “if you can explain your business to a neighbor, you can turn on Wonderly”, it’s created what could be a game-changer for the B2C and SMBs out there that feel the AI boom has left them behind.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Sep 2025
$38m
SERIES C
May 2023
$14m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $65.1m
Company benefits
- Competitive Salary and Equity
- Health Benefits
- Generous PTO
- Work from Home Equipment
- 100% Remote Friendly
- Annual COmpany Off-sites
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Harry Qi
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously a Quantitative Trader at Optiver, where he started his career as a Trading Intern.
Ethan Yu
(Co-Founder & COO)Was a Quantitative Trader at DRW and Citadel, after a Software Engineering Internship at Facebook.
Omid Rooholfada
(Co-Founder)Previously a Software Engineering Intern at Facebook and Optimizely.
Chander Ramesh
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously a Software Engineer at Mighty, Stripe and Skip Scooters.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Wonderly
- Wonderly is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone is treated with respect and given equal opportunities. We do not discriminate based on gender identity, race, ancestry, disability, religion, sexual orientation, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We welcome and encourage all qualified candidates to apply for our job openings.
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