Product Manager, Character.ai
Engagement
$150-350k
Office located in Menlo Park, CA
AI natural language chatbot
Job no longer available
AI natural language chatbot
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$150-350k
Office located in Menlo Park, CA
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower everyone with Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of deep consumer product management experience working on open ended product spaces
- Strong track record building and launching successful, high growth products from 0 -> 1 at scale
- Ability to deliver on product execution focusing on both the short term and long term
- Strong understanding of AI industry, in terms of competitors and incumbent strategies
Desirable
- Technical degree and/or prior software engineering experience
- Experience building products with voice interfaces is ideal
- Experience with social and messaging apps is ideal
- Experience with monetization for consumer subscriptions is nice to have
- Startup experience while leading a Product Management team is nice to have
What the job involves
- The Product Team will help achieve our goal of building a humanity scale product with billions of users by developing experiences that deliver on our mission to give everyone access to AGI
- As a Product Manager, you will work across multiple disciplines to develop new products and features from 0->1, and deploy, test and iterate to scale from 1->n
- This Product Manager will help influence Character.ai product engagement experience interacting with our Characters
- This Product Manager will be responsible for our Character scenarios and expanding those scenarios to new groups of users to help make characters usable and useful for anyone around the world
- Execute on the product vision/ideation, collaborate on strategy, and implementation of ambiguous and open ended product experiences that utilize the cutting-edge capabilities of our current and future models
- Collaborate with users, engineering, design, community, and marketing to bring cutting-edge AI applications into the best product experience
- Partner with data science to test and measure quality of the product experience to make informed decisions about the success and evolution of our products to delight users
- Drive cross-functional product deployment, release coordination, and product improvement
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 Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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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
- 💰 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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