Cartesia

Cartesia

Product Manager / Former Founder, New Initiative

*HQ - San Francisco, CA · Exec

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 68 days ago
DatabricksMachine LearningSystems EngineeringResearchLeadership

About the role

  • We're looking for someone to operate as the CEO of this initiative.
  • You'll be the dedicated PM on this product, with the scope to shape strategy, run discovery, spar with research, and push deals to close alongside GTM.
  • Shape go-to-market alongside the GTM team, from positioning to pricing to which segments we go after first

Responsibilities

  • Own the initiative's roadmap, strategy, and execution pace - translate customer evidence into strong, opinionated bets and kill work that isn't worth doing
  • Drive cross-functional alignment across research, engineering, design, and GTM as a peer - without relying on formal authority
  • Our team combines deep expertise in model innovation and systems engineering paired with a design-minded product engineering team to build and ship cutting edge models and experiences.
  • We're funded by leading investors at Index Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners, along with Factory, Conviction, A Star, General Catalyst, SV Angel, Databricks and others.
  • We're fortunate to have the support of many amazing advisors, and 90+ angels across many industries, including the world's foremost experts in AI.
  • you've led R&D + GTM + design as a founder and can do it again here as a peer; a strong written communicator who produces primers, narratives, and POVs that travel on their own
  • You'll own the initiative end to end and report directly to the Head of Product.
  • 🦖 Your own personal Yoshi

Requirements

  • Execution velocity and ownership: a deep bias to ship, comfort with ambiguity, and a track record of setting the pace for the people around you
  • Deep working knowledge of modern AI/ML systems and the tradeoffs that matter in production - or a clear track record of getting to expert-level in a technical domain within weeks

Nice to have

  • Already a credible external voice in applied AI - or clearly capable of becoming one and excited to
  • Built a real-time or applied AI product previously
  • Prior PM time at a high-velocity AI lab or infra company (Anthropic, OpenAI, etc.)
  • Technical degree or prior engineering experience
  • Note: Cartesia participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with Form I-9 information to confirm employment eligibility after hire.
  • 🏢 In-office policy: We're an in-person team based out of offices in 🇺🇸 San Francisco, 🇬🇧 London and 🇮🇳 Bangalore.
  • Your Recruiter will work with you to understand your visa sponsorship needs from the first call.
  • 🚢 We ship fast.

Compensation

  • 💰 Compensation Competitive base salary alongside attractive equity package.

Benefits

  • 💰 Compensation Competitive base salary alongside attractive equity package.
  • 🩺 Health Insurance Fully covered medical insurance along with dental and vision for you and your family.
  • 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 Parental Leave 9 weeks paternity & 12 weeks maternity leave
  • 🚆 Commuter Allowance A monthly stipend to help you get to and from the office.
  • 🏖️ Flexible PTO Take as much time as you need to recharge your batteries.
  • We consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected status.

Company info

  • you've personally driven early customer acquisition at a previous company, can run a discovery call solo, walk a technical buyer through architecture, and push a deal to close alongside GTM
  • Cartesia is hiring a Product Manager to lead a new initiative at the company - a 0→1 product effort building on top of our foundation models. We're looking for someone to operate as the CEO of this initiative.
  • Cartesia is hiring a Product Manager to lead a new initiative at the company - a 0→1 product effort building on top of our foundation models.
  • Run customer discovery personally and partner with GTM to close the early wave of customers
  • Our mission is to architect AI that learns from and interacts with the world like humans do.

Equal opportunity

  • equal opportunity employer.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • We provide visa sponsorship support and assess each circumstance on a case-by-case basis.
  • However, visa sponsorship is dependent on many factors, including the role you are applying for, and the location you are going to be based, and so we can't always guarantee success.
  • Your Recruiter will work with you to understand your visa sponsorship needs from the first call.
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