Senior Product Marketing Manager, Character.ai
3-5 days a week in office (Menlo Park, CA)
AI natural language chatbot
Job no longer available
AI natural language chatbot
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
3-5 days a week in office (Menlo Park, CA)
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower everyone with Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
Role
Who you are
- 5 - 10 years developing and executing successful product marketing strategies in the consumer space
- You’ve created and executed product management processes, such as product ideation, roadmapping, and development
- Attention to detail with a trained editorial eye for accuracy and look and feel
- Ability to bring a product to life through storytelling, consistent brand, and design
- Experience growing a broad audience via social channels to a significant size
- Experience working in a startup and/or dynamic environment
What the job involves
- If you’ve ever wanted to be the first product marketing manager in a hypergrowth start-up, this is that opportunity
- In the midst of your usual start-up chaos, you’ll be building. You’ll be laying the groundwork for how we launch products at Character for the foreseeable future
- You’ll be partnering with Character’s founders, leaders, and PR leads to create aligned and focused messaging
- And ultimately, you’ll be bringing the story of our consumer AI product to life for the world
- You’ll want to start by developing a deep understanding of our product, its features, and its benefits for our users
- Build the plane while flying it: You’ll be launching, while building long term strategic plans that will help create the structure this function will need as we scale
- Create and own the marketing plans that align with our product roadmap
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment and consistency in messaging
- Create and execute long term strategic campaigns that promote the product, drive new users, and amplify our brand
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 needs 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 benefits
- Top-notch health coverage for you & your family, with majority of the premium covered
- đź’° We invest in your future with a generous 401(K) contribution
- 🍼 New parents, we've got you covered with incredible paid leave -up to 20 weeks
- 🌴 4 weeks of PTO to explore, unwind & come back recharged
- 🍽️ Daily in-office catering plus a monthly Doordash stipend to help keep you fueled no matter where you are
- ✨ Monthly wellness stipend to support you in your health journey
Company HQ
Menlo Park, CA
Leadership
Karandeep Anand
(CEO)Previously Board Advisor at Character and Brex. Also worked as Vice President and Head of Business Products at Facebook and was a Partner Director at Microsoft.
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