Head of Design, Character.ai
$150-300k
Salary paid on a bi-monthly basis. Offers Equity
Office located in Menlo Park, CA
AI natural language chatbot
Open for applications
AI natural language chatbot
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$150-300k
Salary paid on a bi-monthly basis. Offers Equity
Office located in Menlo Park, CA
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower everyone with Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of relevant experience building strategic partnerships, with at least 5 years directly managing people and teams, and ideally at a consumer software company
- Experienced in leading, building, mentoring, inspiring and coaching a team of Product Design experts at a global Product company
- Strong understanding of the Design ecosystem and proven ability to work collaboratively with engineering, marketing and other teams to design and deliver awesome products
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical design and consumer facing product concepts to cross-functional teams and external stakeholders
- Excellent judgment and creative problem-solving skills
- Expert knowledge of the AI landscape/ecosystem
- If you have a passion for creating innovative AI experiences, and you’re enthusiastic to lay the groundwork for our product teams to harness the power of AI, then we want to hear from you!
What the job involves
- As Head of Design, you will be responsible for developing and executing our design strategy across all products and platforms
- You will lead the creation of innovative design solutions and strategies that enhance user experience, shape visual narratives that align with our business objectives, and ensure design and brand consistency across all Character.ai Product platforms
- You will oversee the entire design process, from concept to execution, collaborating closely with Leadership, Engineering, ML/Research, Marketing, Operations and Legal teams
- Reporting directly to the CPO, you will play a pivotal role in Character.AI’s leadership team, driving design excellence and fostering a culture of creativity and collaboration
- You will lead, mentor, and inspire a team of talented designers, fostering a culture of creativity, collaboration, and excellence
Our take
Search engines have long been a boon to productivity, but a long period of heavy advertising, content and SEO spam and malicious actors have limited the effectiveness of traditional keyword searching. Recently, conversational AI assistants have arrived, allowing non-specialists to navigate an increasingly difficult sea of data and return with relevant information, presented in a usable and sometimes very entertaining way.
Character.ai is one of the more recent entries in this increasingly crowded field that has only grown more heated since the public release of ChatGPT in late 2022. However, compared to Microsoft and OpenAI's offerings, Character.ai stands out with a more playful personality - its bots can mimic the voices of celebrities, historical persons and popular characters. This has led to users spending vastly more time interacting with Character.ai's bots compared to the competition: nearly three times longer on average than with ChatGPT, for instance.
Following a period of rapid user growth, Character.ai closed a major funding round at a valuation exceeding $1 billion. While it is currently enjoying meteoric success, in the longer term, Character.ai's challenge is to develop a funding model that will give it the staying power it will need to compete against OpenAI and other major firms in the market. A solution it is currently exploring is research-based partnerships with large companies such as Musk's xAI and Meta.
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Company
Funding (1 round)
Mar 2023
$150m
SERIES A
Total funding: $150m
Company HQ
Menlo Park, CA
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Leadership
Noam Shazeer
(CEO)Previously worked at Google for almost 20 years as a Software Engineer then Principal Software Engineer.
Daniel De Freitas
(President)Before co-founding Character.ai was a Senior Staff Software Engineer for Google. Prior to that, they were a Software Engineer at Microsoft.
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