Founding Chief Product + Innovation Officer – GenAI OS for Cinematic Production

Bright Theory AI; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in cinematic intelligence seeks a Founding Chief Product and Innovation Officer. This role involves building a groundbreaking AI-native operating system for storytelling, focusing on platform architecture, GenAI systems, and user experience design. The position starts fractional with founder-level equity, evolving into a full-time executive role as the company scales.

Benefits

Founder-level equity

Path to full-time executive seat

Qualifications

• 10+ years of product and engineering leadership in creative software or GenAI platforms.
• Experience in companies like OpenAI, Adobe, or Unity.

Responsibilities

• Architect a scalable, multimodal operating system for creators.
• Lead design and implementation of cinematic interfaces.
• Collaborate on product vision and technical storytelling.

Skills

Leadership

API Design

MLOps

Collaboration UX

Systems Thinking

Job description

Founding Chief Product + Innovation Officer – GenAI OS for Cinematic Production

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Quick look:

• Founding Role
• Remote First
• Fractional to Start
• Founder-Level Equity (no salary for prototype phase)
• Extraordinary product solving big problems in the GenAI storytelling space

Bright Theory is a cinematic intelligence company building the creative infrastructure of the future.

We are creating an intelligent operating system for storytelling, unifying generative AI, real-time collaboration, rights-aware production, and data-backed creative workflows into a single platform, not just a productivity layer.

Not another tool. A fully reimagined operating system for tomorrow's creators, studios, and storytellers.

We are early in our journey, but the opportunity is massive. We are now looking for a product visionary who will help bring this system to life.

The Opportunity:

We are hiring a Founding Chief Product and Innovation Officer, a deeply technical product leader with proven experience building large-scale creative platforms, GenAI-native systems, and elegant user experiences.

This is not a feature roadmap. This is a platform blueprint. You will help define the foundational architecture, model orchestration, collaboration systems, and experience design for a product that could become as essential to GenAI storytelling as Figma is to design or Unity is to gaming.

This begins as a fractional role (10 to 15 hours per month) with founder-level equity and no salary during the prototype phase. Both scope and compensation will grow significantly as we raise capital and scale the platform.

You will shape the future of GenAI-powered storytelling, not through slides, but through software.

What You Will Lead

• Platform Architecture and Infrastructure
• Architect a scalable, multimodal operating system for creators, studios, and content teams
• Design backend systems that support ingestion, editing, versioning, and distribution of video, audio, and script-based media
• Define an extensible API and plugin model using GraphQL or OpenAPI to enable third-party tool integrations
• Build a system that supports both synchronous (WebRTC, Socket) and asynchronous collaboration at production scale
• Select and optimize infrastructure primitives (Supabase, Vercel, Firebase, Fly.io, edge runtimes) for global performance and security

• GenAI Systems Integration
• Orchestrate GenAI pipelines that integrate prompt-to-script LLMs, text-to-speech models, and video generation tools
• Deploy both proprietary and open-source models (GPT-4, Claude, Whisper, Runway, ElevenLabs, Mistral) with clear performance evaluation metrics
• Implement retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), token budgeting, caching, and model-switching logic for speed and cost efficiency
• Design semantic search and vector database infrastructure (e.g., Pinecone, Weaviate) for IP discovery and creative asset organization
• Build systems for AI authorship, traceability, and version control to preserve creative ownership

• UX and Interface Design
• Lead the design and implementation of interfaces that are cinematic, intuitive, and built for high-velocity creative collaboration
• Collaborate with design teams to create a unified experience system across dashboards, editing flows, and feedback environments
• Translate technical layers into expressive, low-friction user interactions that support flow and iteration
• Set the UX bar to match or surpass platforms like Notion, Descript, Vimeo, and Figma

• Strategic Product Leadership
• Collaborate closely with the founder on product vision, system strategy, and technical storytelling
• Build and mentor a product organization of engineers, researchers, and designers who operate with conviction and care
• Drive platform-level decisions that reflect long-term defensibility, cross-market adaptability, and creative excellence
• Operate as a cultural leader and hands-on architect through early-stage build and market validation

Who You Might Be

• 10+ years of product and engineering leadership across creative software, media infrastructure, or GenAI platforms
• Built and scaled zero-to-one platforms with multiple technical layers (LLMs, real-time systems, collaboration UX)
• Experience in companies such as OpenAI, Runway, Adobe, Notion, Vimeo, Unity, Netflix, Fable, Apple, or early-stage equivalents
• Deep fluency in API design, model orchestration, MLOps, media processing, and multi-tenant architecture
• Experience building for global user bases with high concurrency and complex permission systems
• You lead with humility and taste. You think in systems. You execute with clarity.

What You’ll Help Shape

Bright Theory is not a point solution. It is a foundation.

Together we will build:

• The first AI-native creative operating system for the next era of filmmaking and storytelling
• A modular platform that scales across modalities, markets, and use cases
• A beautiful interface that creators trust and technologists respect
• A system that enables faster workflows, deeper insights, and creative ownership in the age of generative content

Compensation

• Fractional to start (10 to 15 hours per month)
• No salary during the prototype phase
• Hours, equity, and compensation grow significantly as capital milestones are met
• Founder-level equity and long-term executive seat
• Path to full-time Chief Product or Chief Innovation Officer

Seniority level

• Executive

Employment type

• Other

Job function

• Product Management and Marketing
• Industries: Technology, Information and Internet

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