Product Manager, Interactive Avatars (Staff/Principal-level)

Job summary

Responsibilities

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.

• 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…
• 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…
• 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.
• 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…

What they're looking for

• 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…
• 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.