Principal Product Manager - AI Entertainment Platform

Inkitt; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k plan

Health benefits

Professional coaching

Team-building events

Unlimited access to Galatea and CandyJ

Self-development budget

Charity donation at 1 year

Free lunch in office

US Class Pass + Berlin gym access

Dog-friendly offices in SF and Berlin

Job summary

Inkitt, a fast-growing AI-native entertainment company in San Francisco, is seeking a Senior Product Manager for Cinematica to own end-to-end roadmap from adaptation to post-production, turning creative judgment into scalable systems and defining quality standards.

You will partner with our Creative Director and AI-Video team, ship features, run experiments, and measure impact on retention and conversion. A track record shipping creative tools at scale and strong SQL skills are essential.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional experience at a fast-growing tech company.
• Own a roadmap and explain what that cost and why it was right.
• Turn a judgement into a rubric others can apply.
• Proven track record owning quality of creative output at scale (benchmarks, human eval, blind comparisons, A/B).
• Have hands-on experience shipping features, not just managing people.
• Advanced SQL skills for quantitative decision making.
• Self-starter who thrives with limited supervision in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong product intuition and UX design sensibilities with a user-centric mindset.
• Willing to roll up your sleeves to make things successful.
• Ability to work with cross-functional stakeholders to determine first-class solutions.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Educate and influence cross functional stakeholders and leadership to secure buy-in on the roadmap, and communicate your hypotheses and results to team members and leadership.
• Make quality legible: report it as a number that moves, and connect it to what it does for retention and conversion.

Skills

Roadmap ownership

Advanced SQL

User-centric design

Cross-functional collaboration

Analytical skills

Self-starter

Job description

Inkitt, a fast-growing AI-native entertainment company in San Francisco, is seeking a Senior Product Manager for Cinematica to own end-to-end roadmap from adaptation to post-production, turning creative judgment into scalable systems and defining quality standards.

You will partner with our Creative Director and AI-Video team, ship features, run experiments, and measure impact on retention and conversion. A track record shipping creative tools at scale and strong SQL skills are essential.