Lead of Product Strategy & Operations, Character.ai
$150-300k
+ Equity
AI natural language chatbot
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AI natural language chatbot
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$150-300k
+ Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower everyone with Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
Role
Who you are
- Successful candidates for this role will have a deep understanding of the product landscape, including trends, players, technologies, and underlying dynamics
- Masters’ degree or equivalent in business, marketing, analytical, engineering, or other related quantitative discipline (e.g. MBA)
- 8+ years of experience in management consulting, strategy, finance, business operations, corporate strategy, investment management, product management, or similar at a leading startup, tech/media company and/or strategy consulting
- Experience working in an ambiguous and rapidly changing environment
- Quantitative, analytical and conceptual problem solving skills combined with business acumen
- Experience structuring and solving product problems, and influencing product decisions to move insights to action
What the job involves
- The Character.AI Strategy & Operations team focuses on our highest priorities, solving complex, ambiguous problems that span early state growth initiatives, investing in our largest product or business areas, making major operational or organizational changes, and assessing strategic rationale for Character.AI external investment opportunities
- Throughout, the team provides analytics-based insights, ensures cross-functional alignment of goals and execution, helps Character.AI teams drive the most important strategic initiatives, and advises our senior leadership on the best path forward
- They will partner with cross-functional teams and executives, and communicate their insights and recommendations to product leaders and executives
- In this role, you will work closely with the Character.AI leadership team as well as leaders across the product, engineering, research, and business organizations to help chart the long-term direction for Character.AI
- Work on the priorities of Character.AI’s leadership and determine how to best solve the company’s opportunities and challenging problems
- Structure, launch, and drive strategy workstreams including developing hypotheses, designing work plans, conducting analysis (including financial models), analyzing market / competitive trends, assessing business drivers and operating metrics, synthesizing recommendations on business decisions, and catalyzing launches with cross-functional teams
- Provide analytics and decision support for the planning and steering of the business
- Prepare presentations and communicate findings to Character.AI’s leadership and the broader organization
- Work with cross-functional teams to align on recommendations, financial and headcount investments, and launch plans
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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Insights
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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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