Lead Growth Product Manager, Character.ai

$150-300k

Plus equity

Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Menlo Park, CA

Character.ai

AI natural language chatbot

Open for applications

Character.ai

AI natural language chatbot

101-200 employees

B2CArtificial IntelligenceProductivityEntertainment

Open for applications

$150-300k

Plus equity

Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Menlo Park, CA

101-200 employees

B2CArtificial IntelligenceProductivityEntertainment

Company mission

To empower everyone with Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

Role

Who you are

  • 10+ years of deep consumer product management experience working on open ended product spaces
  • 3+ years working on user growth or subscription growth
  • 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
  • Technical degree and/or prior software engineering experience

Desirable

  • Experience with monetization for consumer subscriptions
  • Startup experience

What the job involves

  • The Lead Growth Product Manager will help the Growth Product Engineering Team achieve our goal of scaling the product to billions of users by developing experiences that deliver on our mission to give everyone access to personalized AI
  • As a Lead Growth Product Manager, you will work across multiple disciplines to grow the user base
  • 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

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Company

Funding (1 round)

Mar 2023

$150m

SERIES A

Total funding: $150m

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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