Product Engineer

LeaderFactor is a leadership-development company. We don't sell one-off workshops or a content library — we build an integrated system that produces measurable behavior change: proprietary frameworks, validated assessments, application tools, and a platform that reinforces what leaders learn long after the training event. We're a small, high-trust team based in Lehi, Utah, working with enterprise organizations worldwide.

You'll join a small product team building and owning our customer-facing platform and internal AI-native tooling. There's no layer between you and the work, and no separate CTO: product and engineering are one function. You will report to the CPO. You'll take ambiguous problems, turn them into well-scoped solutions, ship them, instrument them, and iterate on what users actually do.

This is a high-ownership seat. What you build is in front of customers quickly, and you'll own meaningful work outright.

We build with AI coding agents (Claude Code) as the default. Your leverage here doesn't come from typing every line. It comes from product judgment about what to build, the ability to direct an agent to build it well, and the technical judgment to rigorously review what it produces — catching the bugs, security gaps, and data-isolation mistakes before they ship.

• Get close to the customer voice — run user interviews, talk to clients and prospects, and learn how leaders actually use what we build.
• Evaluate the market and competitive landscape, and form a point of view on what we should build next and why.
• Turn that research into vague problems worth solving, then into shippable, well-scoped product work — and ship it end-to-end.
• Own key product surfaces and improve adoption.
• Direct AI coding agents to build features, and review the output to a high standard before it merges.
• Design reliable APIs, services, and internal tooling that scale with usage.
• Instrument analytics and observability so we understand behavior, measure impact, and diagnose issues fast.
• Keep delivery healthy — CI/CD, environments, performance, security, uptime — so we can release frequently and safely.
  

Our platform runs in the javascript ecosystem - React Router 7, Express, and Postgres.

• Strong product sense. You make good calls about what's worth building, scope ambiguity into something shippable, and instrument what you ship. This is the top of the list.
• A self-starter who owns outcomes. On a team this small, you set a lot of your own direction and drive work to done without being managed through it. You're a problem-solver by reflex.
• Enough engineering fundamentals to self-review reliably. You don't need to be a senior engineer, but you must be able to direct AI coding tools and judge their output well — spotting correctness, security, and data-isolation issues on your own, so your work doesn't need re-reviewing line by line.
• Clear written communication.
• Strong emotional intelligence and the ability to thrive in a close, collaborative team.
• Alignment with our RISE values: Respect, Integrity, Skill, and Effort.
  

We weigh these together — the less professional experience you have, the more we lean on relevant education or a demonstrable body of shipped work, and vice versa.

• Experience: Roughly one to three years building real software professionally, ideally on a product team where you saw features through to customers — and you're ready for dramatically more ownership than that experience usually comes with.
• Education (preferred): We like backgrounds that pair product and business judgment with genuine technical ability. That includes blended technical-business master's degrees (Information Systems Management, Information Systems, or similar), an MBA with a technical background, and product-adjacent degrees like Human-Computer Interaction. It also includes entrepreneurship and product-management backgrounds — especially hands-on, build-real-things programs like Sandbox — when paired with enough technical ability to ship and self-review. A bachelor's in computer science, software engineering, or information systems is a strong technical foundation on its own.
• Open to nontraditional paths. If you've shipped real products another way — your own startup, freelance work, a serious portfolio — and can clear the bar on product judgment and self-review, the credential matters less to us than the evidence.
  

• Your work has direct, visible impact — no diffusion of responsibility across a giant org.
• Scope and responsibility you'd typically wait years for elsewhere; we hire people we expect to grow with us.
• A manager invested in your growth, on a close-knit team that prioritizes coaching and real interaction.
• Competitive compensation, comprehensive healthcare, paid time off, paid parental leave, a 401(k) contribution, and a Kiln membership for your remote days.
• Our Book Report Program (we reimburse any book you read and summarize) and sponsored upskilling for relevant training and conferences.
• Meaningful work — we help leaders and organizations around the world, and we treat personal development as a core purpose, not a perk.

LeaderFactor is an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law.