Product Designer, Character.ai
$150-350k
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
$150-350k
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
- 8+ years of product design experience (experience designing complex workflows, consumer apps, social apps, or AI-first products preferred)
- Strong portfolio showcasing user-centric design thinking, polished UI craftsmanship, and innovative interaction paradigms
- Proven track record of executing end-to-end on large and complex products or a series of products in ambiguous environments
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams and influence without authority
- Passion for crafting scaled, highly impactful, safe and beneficial artificial intelligence technologies to enable new possibilities
- Experience with prototyping, especially using front-end code (e.g. HTML/CSS/JS) preferred
What the job involves
- In this position, you’ll own multiple product areas and be responsible to help shape product directions, prototype new concepts, and own design end-to-end through implementation
- You’ll be comfortable balancing insights from users, data, and product vision to craft coherent and elegant solutions that bring the most value to users
- You’ll collaborate closely with the leadership team, product engineering and research & data science to execute on important initiatives as well as work with other functions including marketing and community to deliver your work to users in the most impactful way possible
- Develop high-fidelity user interfaces and user experience designs across desktop and mobile
- Collaborate closely with engineers, research science, leadership, marketing, community and other partners
- Manage multiple ongoing projects & initiatives, and effectively prioritize work in a fast-paced and quickly changing environment
- Help to continue to develop, maintain, and evolve Character’s brand, design system and language
- Help establish a culture and development processes for best in class product design and quality
- Communicate and craft every detail of new product features from idea to user experience, to pixel-perfect execution
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
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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