Designer
About the job
- The candidate must have at least 5 years of design experience spanning web, product or user experience, and brand.
- The candidate must have a strong portfolio demonstrating shipped website work and product user experience work, rather than only concept work.
- The candidate must have expert-level fluency in Figma and be comfortable with prototyping tools and modern web design patterns.
- The candidate must have working knowledge of HTML and CSS and understand how design work is handed off to engineering.
- The candidate must demonstrate excellent attention to detail and a high quality bar.
- Own the end-to-end design and ongoing evolution of audiohook.com, from information architecture to visual design, copy collaboration, and conversion optimization.
- Design landing pages, sales collateral, social graphics, event materials, and pitch decks.
- Improve homepage and key landing-page conversion by a measurable amount within six months of hiring.
- Lead user experience design for the Audiohook product, partnering with Product and Engineering to turn complex advertising workflows into clear, intuitive interfaces.
- Conduct user research, usability testing, and design reviews based on real customer behavior.
- Partner with Engineering to ship pixel-accurate work and continuously raise the quality of the live product.
- Build and maintain a design system that scales across web, product, and marketing surfaces.
- Steward Audiohook's visual identity and evolve it as the brand matures.
- Present design work and rationale in product and leadership reviews.
- Communicate clearly and proactively in a remote-first environment.
- Experience designing for business-to-business software as a service or advertising technology.
- Ability to ship simple front-end changes directly.
- Experience building or contributing to a design system from scratch.
- Experience in a startup or high-growth company.
- Comfort using artificial intelligence tools to explore directions, generate assets, and accelerate iteration.
About the company
Audiohook runs a performance advertising platform brands and agencies use to buy podcast, streaming audio, and digital radio inventory. An advertiser sets a conversion goal and a target cost per conversion, and the platform buys across fragmented supply to hit it, using audience and contextual signals, podcast transcription to keep placements brand-safe, and reinforcement learning to move bids in flight. Results land in dashboards backed by an attribution model built for audio rather than borrowed from display. Unlike the impression-based buying that dominates the channel, advertisers pay only for verified conversions, so a campaign that does not convert generates no invoice. The company's goal is to make audio measurable enough for direct-response budgets by tying every dollar to an outcome.
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Podscan analyzes 70,000 episodes daily, creating a larger training set for targeting models.
- Arvid Kahl joined Audiohook, speeding Podscan roadmap execution and technical integration.
- Carrie Legner became Head of Revenue in October 2025, supporting enterprise sales expansion.
What critics are saying
- Free Podscan access commoditizes Audiohook's data advantage and pressures pricing within 12 months.
- Triton Digital's Sounder and The Trade Desk integration intensify competition for contextual buyers.
- Dependence on podcast ad demand leaves Audiohook exposed if brands shift budgets to CTV.
What makes Audiohook unique
- Audiohook's August 24, 2026 Podscan acquisition pairs buying with free podcast intelligence.
- Jordan Bentley's platform bills conversions, not impressions, across podcasts, streaming audio, and digital radio.
- February 15, 2024 Sounder and March 2026 Barometer partnerships strengthen episode-level contextual safety.
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Benefits
Remote Work Options
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Health Insurance
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Meal Benefits
Phone/Internet Stipend
Unlimited Paid Time Off
Hybrid Work Options
Bi-annual Corporate Offsites
Company News
Audiohook Corporation has acquired Podscan Inc., an AI-powered podcast monitoring platform that analyses over 70,000 podcast episodes daily. The transaction closed on 24 August 2026. Following the acquisition, Audiohook is making the majority of Podscan's podcast intelligence available to the industry at no cost. Creators, podcast networks, and publishers can access transcripts, brand-suitability analysis, and contextual segments for free. Advertisers can also use Podscan at no cost to monitor brand mentions, context, and sentiment across podcast content. Podscan founder Arvid Kahl has joined Audiohook, where he will oversee the platform's technical transition and future development. The platform evaluates content across various signals including brand suitability, contextual categories, brand mentions, and sentiment.
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Audiohook acquires Podscan and opens data to industry. Sep 30, 2026 | TVN Staff Save this article for later! Login or create a Free Member Profile to bookmark it. Audiohook Corp. has acquired Podscan Inc. and is making most of the podcast intelligence platform's data available to the industry at no cost. The deal closed Aug. 24, according to Audiohook. The company said the move will give advertisers, creators, podcast networks and publishers broader access to transcripts, brand-suitability analysis and contextual segments tied to the shows they represent. Audiohook said Podscan analyzes more than 70,000 podcast episodes a day, scanning for brand mentions, contextual categories, brand suitability and sentiment. The company said the scale of the platform gives users visibility into a medium where the volume of new content has made broad analysis difficult. "Audiohook has always been focused on pushing this industry forward by giving advertisers better data, greater transparency and the intelligence they need to make more informed decisions," said Jordan Bentley, Audiohook CEO. "When we began working with Podscan, we immediately recognized the quality and sophistication of what Arvid had built," Bentley said. "Bringing Podscan into Audiohook allows us to combine our strengths and make this intelligence even more valuable." Bentley said the company will make much of the data available free to the industry because more transparency helps brands, creators, networks and publishers make more confident decisions. Podscan founder Arvid Kahl has joined Audiohook and will oversee the technical transition and future development of the platform. "As a founder, you think very carefully about what the next chapter should look like for something you've built from the ground up," Kahl said. "Joining Audiohook gives us the resources and expertise to accelerate the roadmap, expand the platform's capabilities and build things that would have taken us much longer to accomplish independently," Kahl added. Podscan by Audiohook is live and available now. The company said users can create a free account at Podscan.fm.
Carrie Legner joins Audiohook sales team.
Barometer, a contextual AI engine and Audiohook, an independent ad platform, have launched a brand suitability framework for audio advertising with the objective of bringing clarity and consistency to brand standards in podcasting.