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What they do

Attentive sells an AI marketing platform. Brands use it to send each shopper personal messages by SMS, RCS (richer text messages), email, and push notification. More than 8,000 brands in over 70 industries use it, such as Crate and Barrel, Urban Outfitters, and Carter's. Attentive is building a marketing agent that plans, sends, and improves campaigns toward marketers' goals.

What they value

• Default to action: move fast and with purpose.
• Be one unstoppable team: support each other as champions.
• Champion the customer: their success is Attentive's success.
• Act like an owner: take responsibility for Attentive's success.
• Trust people to bring their own ideas.
• Inclusion as part of how they work every day.

Where they hire

20 of 27 roles are in New York, and the others are in the US, London, and Sydney. Office roles are hybrid, with three days a week in the office, Tuesday to Thursday. One analytics role is fully remote, for people who live in the US. No posting mentions visa sponsorship.

Teams and roles

Engineering is the largest group, with 11 roles. Customer success and sales have five roles each. Product has two.

• Data platforms: engineers who build the systems that collect shopper events and keep a profile of each shopper. One streaming team handles over 2 million messages each second.
• Cloud platform: the platform runs on Kubernetes in AWS. Roles build shared tools that make it easier and safer for teams to run their services.
• Marketing agent: a director builds the engineering systems for the new marketing agent.
• AI developer experience: a director builds two teams. One gives engineers AI tools and agent workflows. The other helps staff outside engineering build their own apps with AI.
• Applied science: a head of data science leads a team that uses experiments, machine learning, and AI.
• Sales and customer success: account directors, sales development representatives in New York and Sydney, and support roles in the US and London.

Most US roles give pay ranges. Senior software engineers get $178,400 to $267,600, and staff software engineers get $208,000 to $312,000.

What they look for

Most software engineer roles ask for five to eight or more years of work on backend or distributed systems. Most ask for Java or a similar language, and some ask for Kubernetes and AWS. Data roles ask for experience with large volumes of event data. Two engineering roles ask for use of AI coding tools. One of them names Claude Code and Cursor.

The head of data science role asks for a master's degree or PhD, or equal industry experience. It also asks for eight or more years in data science, and Python and SQL. Account director roles ask for seven or more years in a closing sales role and travel of up to 25 percent.