Staff / Principal Product Manager, Cinematica

About the role

Ali, our founder and CEO, sets company priorities. You own the ideas. You will spend part of every day researching competitors, the industry and our users to generate new feature ideas, and you will keep a live Top 3 list of the highest-impact ideas for your area, a new idea only enters by beating one already on it.

What you'll do

• Own the Cinematica roadmap end to end, adaptation, shot generation, character and style consistency, music, editing and quality evaluation, and decide what gets built first, what gets cut, and what waits
• Turn a production process that today depends on individual judgement into a platform other people can run: our own studio first, then storytellers beyond Inkitt
• Define what "good" looks like for an Inkitt story on screen, write it down, and hold the line on it
• Build the evaluation system behind that bar: rubrics, benchmarks, blind comparisons and human review loops, so quality becomes something the team can measure and argue about with evidence rather than taste alone
• Own the model and prompt strategy, and the buy-versus-build calls underneath it, with engineering, design, analytics and user research
• Drive improvements through their entire product lifecycle: ideation, specification, development, release, analysis and iterations
• Run a tight iteration loop: ship, watch what viewers actually do, diagnose precisely what failed, feed it back into the pipeline, measure the delta
• Work shoulder to shoulder with our Creative Director and AI-Video Production team, your first users, turning craft judgement into systems that hold up without any one person in the room

What they're looking for

• 6+ years of professional experience at a fast growing tech company, building creative prosumer/enterprise tools or AI-powered products. We measure years on the job, not years holding a “product manager” title.
• A roadmap you owned outright: you set the sequence, you decided what didn't get built, and you can explain what that cost and why it was right
• Demonstrable taste. You can watch two pieces of generated video, articulate precisely why one is better, and turn that judgement into a rubric someone else can apply without you
• Proven track record owning the quality of creative output at scale, and building the systems that measured it, benchmarks, human eval, blind comparisons, A/B, plus a point of view on where automated metrics stop being...
• You have made things yourself, not only managed people who make things. Be ready to walk us through something you personally produced, a shipped feature, a film, a reel, a side project
• Exceptional analytical skills where you can quantify both qualitative/quantitative data to make product and strategic decision - i.e. Advanced SQL skills
• Self starter that can deliver results with limited supervision and thrives in a fast-paced environment
• Strong product intuition and UX design sensibilities, with a user centric mindset

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