People Operations/Human Resources Lead, Inworld AI

$170-250k

+ Bonus + Equity

Google Workspace
Senior and Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Mountain View, CA

Inworld AI

AI-powered characters for virtual environments

Job no longer available

Inworld AI

AI-powered characters for virtual environments

101-200 employees

B2CB2BArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseGamingDesignSaaSVirtual Reality

Job no longer available

$170-250k

+ Bonus + Equity

Google Workspace
Senior and Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Mountain View, CA

101-200 employees

B2CB2BArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseGamingDesignSaaSVirtual Reality

Company mission

To transform static software into living AI systems that autonomously evolve to better serve their users.

Company mission

To transform static software into living AI systems that autonomously evolve to better serve their users.

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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Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Aug 2023

$50m

SERIES A

Aug 2022

$50m

SERIES A

Total funding: $117m

This company has top investors

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.