AI agents for marketing and sales
Writer
An AI agent platform for enterprise marketing and sales teams, built on its Palmyra models. Its agents run campaigns, write on-brand content and prepare sales work within each company’s brand and compliance rules.
- Based in San Francisco, New York and London
- 500 people
- Founded 2020
- 48 open roles
Jack’s take, why it stands out
“Writer builds the AI agents that big companies trust with their brand, and more than 300 enterprises run over 15,000 of them. London matters here: the CEO calls it home, and the COO runs the EMEA hub from there. Worth knowing: its last funding round was in November 2024.”
Jack’s take on Writer
The questions candidates ask me about a company, answered for Writer
Signed contracts passed $50M in 2025
Signed contracts. Writer hasn’t said whether it reached the $100M target, and it declined to share revenue in April 2026.
Existing customers spend 60% more each year on average.
In mid-2025, new customers and bookings in one quarter were double its previous best.
No layoffs reported.
Valuation nearly quadrupled to $1.9B in 2024
ICONIQ
Premji Invest
Radical Ventures
Insight Partners
Balderton
Salesforce Ventures$326M raised in all. There has been no new round since November 2024.
Customers Accenture and Vanguard are also investors.
The team grew to about 500 people in 2025
Worldwide
In EMEA
In April 2025 it planned to reach 600 people by the end of that year. It has hubs in San Francisco, New York and London, and offices in Chicago and Austin.
Key leaders
May HabibCofounder and CEO
Waseem AlShikhCofounder and CTO
Brian O’ReillyCOO, leads the EMEA hub in London
Melio
Andy ShorkeyChief revenue officer, joined 2024
OneTrust
Diego LomantoChief marketing officer, joined 2024
Ada
Roger KopfmannCFO, joined 2024
CoupaMay and Waseem met over a tweet about machine translation and built the translation startup Qordoba together before Writer. May now calls London her home city. Chief customer officer Mina Alaghband, who joined in January 2026, left in September.
A hybrid, high-ownership place to work
The pace. May has called its customer success team a no-excuse culture, focused on customers’ results. Its sales roles ask for comfort with ambiguity and making decisions on incomplete information.
Values. Connect, challenge and own. It asks everyone to think like an owner and not to shy away from disagreement.
Where. Hybrid, with time in the office and remote work when needed. Hubs in San Francisco, New York and London.
Time off. Generous paid time off plus company holidays. In the UK, 16 weeks of paid parental leave for every parent.
Ownership. Stock options, wellness and learning stipends, and company-wide and team offsites.
More than 300 enterprises run over 15,000 agents on it
QualcommSaves 2,400 hours a month across marketing, legal and other teams.
VanguardRebuilt marketing work with agents after mapping emails that took 37 steps and 16 handoffs.
Vodafone UKSearch rankings rose 30% and content engagement doubled.Customers include 3 of the 5 largest US banks and 4 of the 5 largest US health insurers.
What candidates tell Jack
“Writer is a product I’d be proud to hang my hat on.”
Is there a role for you?
48 open roles, straight from Writer’s careers page. Hiring in the US (37) and the UK (11). Pick a place and an area for Jack’s read and the roles.
Jack’s read for engineering, product and design
17 open roles
- 52% lower average cost for Writer’s agent on Palmyra X6, its new flagship model, released in August.
- London roles cover agents, generative AI, security, design engineering and product, hybrid from the London hub.
Our hiring guides: pay, time to fill and who gets hired
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Jack’s read for sales and marketing
14 open roles
- COO Brian O’Reilly built the EMEA team from 4 people to more than 40 in a year, and runs it from London.
- Customers in Europe include AstraZeneca, Currys and Vodafone.
- Strategic account executives sell to companies with more than 8,000 staff, on 8 to 18 month deals.
Our hiring guides: pay, time to fill and who gets hired
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Jack’s read for ai delivery and customer success
13 open roles
- 15,000+ agents now run at more than 300 enterprise customers.
- Transformation and adoption leads work with customers’ leaders to put agents into daily work, and deployment engineers build them.
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Jack’s read for legal, people and operations
4 open roles
- CFO Roger Kopfmann joined from Coupa in 2024, one of four senior hires that year.
- Offices in San Francisco, New York, London, Chicago and Austin.
One or two new roles most weeks
New roles each week worldwide, July to October 2026, from our daily checks of its careers page. Most of October’s jump was customer success roles posted again under new titles.
Closed roles43 since late June
The most recent, as of November 5, 2026.
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About this page
Jack & Jill isn’t Writer’s recruiter. The open roles come straight from Writer’s public careers page and refresh through the day. Company facts come from Writer’s own announcements and named press, linked on each card, and were last checked on November 6, 2026. Jack’s take is Jack & Jill’s own.