Every few decades, a small group of people reimagine how software works. We think this is one of those moments. And we're hiring the team to make it happen.
At item, we're building a place for people to come and define the era of human-agent collaboration. That takes a specific kind of person. Regardless of your background or specialty, we look for people who act like founders — who own problems end to end, raise the quality bar for everything they do, and re-imagine how work should be.
We're a scrappy team of high-agency individuals. Driven by the mission, biased toward action, committed to craft. We move fast, trust each other to do what's right, and hold a high bar for everything we ship.
The biggest leaps in computing have never come from big teams. They came from a few people who cared more than they were supposed to, and had fun while doing so.
If this sounds like you, we'd love to talk. Here's how we hire and how we work:
Item's mission is to empower every company to run like a Fortune 500, regardless of size or headcount. To get there:
We work like founders. You own your problem completely, from zero to one. You move fast, bias toward action, and ask for forgiveness, not permission. When you're wrong, you own it, fix it, and compound the learnings. Everyone here acts like the company is theirs—because in a real way, it is.
We care, a lot. About our customers, about what we ship, about each other, about every detail. It's the first thing you'll notice about this team, everyone here genuinely gives a damn — and the craft in our product reflects it.
Everyone here raises the craft bar. Not because someone asked them to, but because that's the kind of people they are. We believe the best work happens when you're surrounded by people who take their craft as seriously as you take yours, and that energy is contagious.
We build what's next. We're not here to make incremental improvements on what already exists. We're reimagining how companies will work in an agent-first world — and we build it and run on it every day.
Iteration over perfection. We don't expect to get it right the first time. We iterate, not because we're unsure, but because we know that's how good becomes great. Every cycle makes the product sharper and the team stronger.
We build for our customers. We work alongside them, understand their businesses, and build software they can rely on for decades to come. When you do that well, you don't need to tell people about it, our customers do it for us.