Product Manager - Engagement

About the role

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

Responsibilities

• 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

Job Requirements

• 8+ years of deep consumer product management experience working on open ended product spaces, ideally Social and Messaging apps experience
• 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

Nice to Have

• 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

About Character.AI

Founded in 2021 by AI pioneers Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, Character is a leading AI company offering personalized experiences through customizable AI 'Characters.' As one of the most widely used AI platforms worldwide, Character enables users to interact with AI tailored to their unique needs and preferences.

Noam co-invented core LLM tech and was recently honored as one of TIME's 100 Most Influential in AI. Daniel created LaMDA, the breakthrough conversational AI now powering Google's Bard.

In just two years, we achieved unicorn status and were named Google Play's AI App of the Year – a testament to our groundbreaking technology and vision.

Ready to shape the future of AGI? 🚀

At Character, we value diversity and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. As an equal opportunity employer, we firmly uphold a non-discrimination policy based on race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, or disability. Your unique perspectives are vital to our success.