About Humanize
Behind every business decision is a person — what they want, what they would tell a friend, or why they quietly left. But actually talking to them has always been too slow and expensive to do often. Everything else is a guess.
AI started to change that — but most tools stopped at surveys or one-off interviews. Useful, but lacking interaction. Real insight comes from conversation: people riffing off each other, challenging assumptions, saying the thing they didn't plan to say.
Humanize powers AI-moderated group conversations with real people and translates what they said into the tools where decisions actually happen. We're building a world where the customer's voice is always in the room — not only when someone commissions a study.
Where We Are
- Funded. We just closed our pre-seed, with participation from Sovereign's Capital, Hearst Ventures, and Cubit Capital, plus angels including Jason Karp, Brett Hurt, Dan Kloiber, and Jesse Pujji.
- Founders. Multiple prior exits between us, including companies built to $1B+ valuations.
- Traction. Live with paying customers and growing rapidly month-over-month. We're heads-down on product, not press — happy to share specifics under NDA.
Location & Logistics
- Hybrid / Remote-friendly — NYC office overlooking the city near Columbus Circle, with a distributed team
- Reports to: CTO
- Visa: We're not able to sponsor work authorization at this time
About the Role
We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer who ships with urgency but doesn't cut corners. Someone who spots a bug, opens a ticket, and fixes it — without waiting for anyone to ask. Someone who resolves ambiguity before it slows the team down. You'll own features end-to-end, from system design to production.
What You'll Do
- Build and improve the AI voice agent that moderates live group conversations — turn-taking, cross-talk, silence, and the moment someone says the thing they weren't going to say
- Work on real-time systems — live audio/video, per-participant transcription, session orchestration
- Extend our AI analysis pipeline — sentiment, theme extraction, and structured output the rest of the company actually uses
- Build the agents that find the right people to talk to — recruitment, screening, and panel quality
- Evolve our data layer — migrations, security policies, type-safe query patterns