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Our goal is to automate the knowledge work of BizOps so one exceptional operator can deliver the leverage of an entire team, as Ramp and Rippling have done for Finance and HR.\nOur platform combines passive process mining with a living ontology that maps how work happens across people, systems, documents, decisions, and outcomes. It connects structured and unstructured data trapped in fragmented, duplicative, and legacy enterprise systems, then turns that context into automated workflows and AI agents.\nWe are an early-stage company tackling a difficult product and technical problem at high speed. You will work directly with founders and engineers, make decisions with incomplete information, ship, and own the results. The pace, rate of change, and standards are high.\nThe mandate\nOwn design at Echelon. Turn complex enterprise data and workflows into clear, polished product experiences, and establish a design direction the team can trust. 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