For years, avatars have been something you watch. You write a script, we render a video, someone presses play. That model has taken AI video a long way but it has a ceiling. A video can't answer a question. It can't read the room. It can't role-play a tough conversation and adapt when you push back.
We're changing that. Interactive Avatars listen, talk, and respond in real time; inside your product, your website, or your internal tools. You bring the logic and the language model; we power the avatar layer: the speech, the expression, the listening, the sense that there's someone actually there.
It's early. Interactive Avatars is in closed beta today, and the teams building on it are pushing it into places we didn't expect - AI sales reps, always-on support agents, interactive trainers, onboarding guides. We're hiring a Product Manager to own it and take it from beta to a platform that thousands of developers build on.
This is a role with real scope. You'll help define what a real-time avatar API should be, the surface developers integrate against, the experience end users feel, and the commercial model that makes it a business. You'll work directly with the engineering and research teams building the real-time avatar stack, and with the design partners already live in the beta.
Задачи
Owning the end-to-end Interactive Avatar API
This is the developer-facing surface (SDK, integration patterns, docs), the real-time experience quality, and the path from closed beta to general availability, and defining what the roadmap looks like over the coming cycles
Getting close to the developers and teams building on the beta: understanding how they integrate, where the API fights them, which real-time behaviors make or break the experience, and what "production-ready" means to them
Translating that understanding into a clear product direction. What to build, in what order, and why, and keeping the team aligned as the strategy evolves
Working closely with the engineering and research teams building the real-time avatar stack
contributing clear specs, sound judgment on trade-offs (quality vs. latency vs. cost), and the context that helps them build the right thing the first time
Partnering with go-to-market and commercial teams to define how the API is packaged, priced, and sold - a real-time API has a fundamentally different business model from batch video, and shaping that is part of the job
Defining and tracking the metrics that tell us whether the product is working across adoption, integration success, real-time quality, reliability, and the commercial signals that prove it's a business
Требования
You've owned a developer-facing product before like an API, an SDK, or a platform and you know that the product is the developer experience
You understand that adoption is won or lost in the first hour of integration, and that trust is won or lost the first time something breaks in production
You build accordingly
You're comfortable in a space where the roadmap isn't fully formed
You don't need a clean brief to get started
You can talk to developers, watch them integrate, synthesize what you see, and come back with a point of view
You're also honest about what you don't know and willing to update when the evidence changes
You care about the detail, and you can hold a quality bar for something subjective and hard: a real-time avatar either feels present and responsive or it feels off, and the difference lives in latency, interruption handling, expressiveness, and consistency
You know how to make that bar concrete and defend it
You think commercially
A new API isn't just a technical surface
It's a business, and you have instincts (or scar tissue) around how developer products get adopted, packaged, and monetized
5+ years in product, with direct experience owning a developer-facing API, SDK, or platform product. The vertical doesn't matter, the platform depth does
Comfortable operating in an early-stage, 0→1 environment where discovery and delivery happen in parallel and the roadmap is still being shaped
Strong technical fluency: you can hold a credible conversation with engineers about real-time systems, latency, and integration trade-offs, and make good calls without needing every answer handed to you
Strong written communication: you can write a spec, a strategy doc, or an API design rationale that others can act on without a follow-up conversation
Real-time / streaming media, conversational AI, or applied-AI product experience is a strong plus but not a prerequisite
Instinct for the commercial side of a developer product - adoption, packaging, and monetization is a plus
Based in Seattle or open to regular in-person time
the team is Seattle-anchored and that time matters
Условия
You will be compensated well with a generous salary and equity
You get 25 days of annual leave + local holidays
Regular team offsites where you’ll get to collaborate with the product & engineering team in person
Work from home budget
Work from anywhere policy of 60 days per year
Generous referral scheme
Enhanced parental leave - maternity leave includes 16 weeks at full pay, and paternity leave includes 5 weeks at full pay (if your country’s government scheme offers more generous support, you receive whichever is greater—our enhanced policy or the local statutory benefit)
PECIFIC TO USA
Medical Insurance
Vision and Dental Insurance
Mental Health Support
(FSA’s, HSA’s, and Commuter)
Life Insurance
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