Vice President of Marketing, Inworld AI
$250-350k
+ Bonus + Equity
Office located in Mountain View, CA
AI-powered characters for virtual environments
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AI-powered characters for virtual environments
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$250-350k
+ Bonus + Equity
Office located in Mountain View, CA
101-200 employees
Company mission
To transform static software into living AI systems that autonomously evolve to better serve their users.
Role
Who you are
- Seasoned leadership: 10+ years of marketing leadership experience at high-growth, early-stage startups or established technical SaaS/infrastructure companies
- Launch excellence: A demonstrated track record of running major product launches that directly accelerated developer adoption and revenue growth
- Strategic mindset: Experience scaling developer-first ecosystems and a deep understanding of usage-based business models
- Ambiguity to clarity: The ability to thrive in fast-moving environments and see constant market shifts as opportunities to define new standards
- Technical fluency: A strong product or engineering background with the ability to design and implement technically driven growth systems
- Education: BA/BS degree or higher; technical degrees are a significant plus
What the job involves
- We are looking for a visionary VP of marketing to define a new category and position Inworld as the default model and infrastructure provider for the next generation of realtime AI applications
- While the first wave of AI focused on text-based task automation, we are leading the next wave: the shift toward natively realtime, multimodal AI–human interactions that were previously impossible to build
- With a world-class product, high technical credibility, and hundreds of thousands of developers already on the platform, Inworld is leading this shift. Your role is to amplify our momentum and awareness, and orchestrate the growth engine to scale Inworld 100x
- Team building & GTM leadership: Build, lead, and scale a high-impact marketing organization, partnering closely with sales, product, and engineering to accelerate our hybrid PLG and sales-assisted revenue motions
- Positioning, messaging & narrative: Define and own clear, differentiated positioning and company narrative that translates complex AI and research breakthroughs into compelling customer value across all go-to-market touchpoints
- Product marketing & sales enablement: Own product launches, pricing and packaging, and sales enablement for the Inworld family of products
- Developer marketing & advocacy: Build and nurture a developer-first ecosystem through documentation, community, events, and advocacy across all major developer touchpoints
- Demand generation: Build and operate a repeatable demand engine focused on high-quality pipeline, turning customers into advocates through proof points, references, and feedback loops that drive acquisition, retention, and expansion
- Content & thought leadership: Establish category authority through high-impact technical content, benchmarks, case studies, and thought leadership that builds trust with sophisticated buyers
- Growth & conversion: Optimize the end-to-end marketing funnel from first touch to activation, to convert interest into qualified opportunities using data-driven experimentation
- Marketing analytics & operations: Establish scalable, AI-first marketing operations, analytics, and infrastructure to measure impact, inform strategy, and support long-term growth
Our take
Dialogue writing for video games has traditionally been a matter of branching conversations based on player input, but this is a time-consuming and complicated process. In modern virtual environments which can contain thousands of characters, the need to save on costs means that conversations with many characters can be shallow and repetitive. Inworld AI's solution allows for the creation of unique and flexible interactions for even the most minor characters, based on just a few descriptive sentences.
Since launching, Inworld has quickly grown from an AI-character startup into one of the key players powering consumer AI. Its early work with companies like Xbox, Disney, and NBCUniversal helped provide the value of real-time AI experiences, and now a wide range of media companies, game studios, and fast-growing startups are building on its platform.
Now, with the recent release of Inworld Runtime, the company is taking an even bigger step. By opening up the internal system they originally built to handle huge, real-time consumer workloads, Inworld is positioning Runtime as the go-to backend for any team looking to scale from an idea to millions of users. Its adaptive graphs, automated MLOps, and one-click experiments remove most of the painful engineering work that usually slows teams now. And for Inworld, this turns Runtime into more than just a product, it becomes the core of the company's future.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Aug 2023
$50m
SERIES A
Aug 2022
$50m
SERIES A
Total funding: $117m
Company HQ
Mountain View, CA
Leadership
Ilya Gelfenbeyn
(Co-Founder & Executive Chairman)Previously co-founded API.AI (now known as Google Dialogflow), a developer platform for building conversational experiences, and served as its CEO before Google acquired the company in 2016. The company also built Assistant.ai, the highest-rated independent voice assistant in the world with 40M+ users. Ilya was also the Founding Head of the Google Assistant Investments program at Google.
Michael Ermolenko
(Co-Founder & CTO)Michael has extensive experience in leading AI teams and led Machine Learning Development at API.ai and the Dialogflow NLU/AI team at Google.
Kylan Gibbs
(Co-Founder & CEO)Kylan has a background in turning advanced AI into products that naturally interact with humans. They came from DeepMind, where they led products for Conversational AI and Generative Models. Prior, Kylan worked on enterprise Machine Learning projects at Bain & Company.
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