Staff Product Analytics Engineer, Runway
$200-260k
Salary applicable for US based candidates, may vary in other locations
AI-powered creativity tools
Be an early applicant
AI-powered creativity tools
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$200-260k
Salary applicable for US based candidates, may vary in other locations
201-500 employees
Company mission
To ensure that anyone anywhere can tell their stories.
Role
Who you are
- This role is for someone who has a combination of strong technical and data background and experience in understanding the needs of cross-functional partners across every team
- You have the ability to take raw data and build tools and platforms on top of it for people to self-serve what they need
- 4+ years of experience working as a data analyst, engineer, scientist or similar, where your primary responsibility involved working heavily with product data
- 4+ years of experience with SQL, ETL, python, and data modeling
- Collaborative mindset and communication skills; Comfortable working directly with sales, product, finance, and engineering teammates
- You can translate data needs into solutions, gather context needed to unblock yourself, and build tooling that any teammate is comfortable using
- Understanding of best practices for data modeling, manipulation, transformation, and maintaining privacy
- An added bonus if you have experience as a founding product data analyst or first hire in a data role
What the job involves
- This role is for our first-ever product analytics engineering hire, and a fundamental and critical part of the team for a market-defining company in its early stages
- We’re looking for a passionate product analytics engineer to ensure every team at Runway uses data to be as effective as possible in their role
- You’ll deeply understand what data we have, how we can better use it, and how to leverage AI tooling both for yourself and our teams to provide speed-of-thought data insights across the company
- You’ll be excited to combine prior expertise with the rapidly changing areas of ML, tooling integrations, and our product data in order to do so
- Own the data infrastructure and pipelines for business critical product and user data
- Conceptualize and build best-in-class internal tools enabling others to increasingly self-serve data needs
- Take an AI-first approach to scaling Runway’s data tooling and use. You’ll provide the two necessary things that today’s AI systems lack – trust and total context – so data can help drive key decisions in the right direction
- Work with sales and finance to ensure billing, revenue recognition, margin analysis, and other key financial metrics are accurate as products and go to market motions rapidly develop
- Work with product and engineering to ensure critical usage data is available and interpreted in useful ways
- Collaborate with with trust and safety teams on signals for detecting misuse or abuse
- Collaborate with marketing and studios teams to help measure impact of all marketing initiatives
- Build and maintain our data pipelines and third party tools that others use for dashboarding and analysis
Our take
Runway is revolutionising content creation and video editing with machine learning, harnessing the expansive capabilities of web-based tools. At the forefront of this transformation, the startup offers a suite of AI-powered editing tools tailored for designers, artists, and creators, setting itself apart in an industry dominated by enterprise-focused software solutions.
The company has rapidly gained recognition among some of the world's largest brands, including R/GA, New Balance, Google, and IBM, by appealing directly to creative professionals. This approach has not only solidified Runway's position in the market but also facilitated its integration into the design curricula of esteemed institutions such as NYU, RISD< and MIT.
In a testament to its growing influence and success, Runway achieved unicorn status in 2023 following a landmark $100M funding round, which valued the company at $1.5B. This milestone not only reflects investor confidence but also positions Runway to expand its innovative tools and further democratise access to advanced video editing capabilities globally.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
112% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Feb 2026
$315m
SERIES E
Apr 2025
$308m
SERIES D
Total funding: $861.5m
Company benefits
- 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage: We cover 100% of medical, dental and vision for our US employees AND their dependents. Based on the plans selected, we have complimentary mental health benefits and a free One Medical membership
- Unlimited days of PTO: We have unlimited PTO with a minimum of 15 days a year. We also have a paid sabbatical program after employees have been with Runway for 3 years and again after 5 years. And of course, we can't forget about Summer Fridays
- 401k Matching, 3% matching: Plan for the future! We provide a 3% 401K match for our US based employees
- Remote $250 stipend: All of our employees outside of commuting distance to the office, can expense up to $250 per month on co-working spaces, lunch or groceries, and internet connection
- Donations supporting our community: Beyond our employees, we have a commitment to our communities. Every quarter, Runway employees choose an organization for the company to support through a donation
- Custom setup, tech setup stipend: In addition to the choice of laptop, all employees get a stipend to customize their tech set up as they want
- Parental leave for all parents: We offer 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave plus a gradual return to work plan. This coverage is for all parents, regardless of how a child is brought into the family
- L&D $600 stipend: We’re investing in our employees’ long term growth by giving every employee $600 per year to spend on their personal or professional development. That means conferences, courses, and books, oh my!
- Wellness $600 stipend: We set ambitious goals and work hard to achieve them, so we believe it’s important to invest in employees’ mental and physical health. The $600 annual wellness stipend can be used for anything from therapy sessions to gym memberships
Company HQ
Civic Center, New York, NY
Leadership
Anastasis Germanidis
(Co-Founder & CTO)Trained as a Backend Engineer, they have held roles at Zocdoc, Chartbeat, and Quantcast as well as working as a Machine Learning Researcher in Computer Vision for IBM.
Alejandro Matamala-Ortiz
(Co-Founder & CDO)Previously co-founded Deenty, an online booking platform for dentist appointments.
Cristóbal Valenzuela
(Co-Founder & CEO)Worked as a Researcher at New York University from 2018 to 2019. Also spent time as a Professor at the UAI School of Design.
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