Head of Engineer Product
Pika is an active AI creative platform for generating and editing video, images, and audio, with a creator-facing app and an API offering.
Funding history
About Pika
Pika, operated by Mellis, Inc., provides a generative-AI platform through its websites, mobile apps, APIs, and third-party platforms. Its current product covers video, image, and audio creation/editing and offers access to first-party Pika and third-party models through an aggregated API platform.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will set the technical vision and strategy for user-facing products, lead and scale engineering teams, oversee scalable systems, own the technical roadmap, and align technical solutions with product, design, and ML needs.
Requirements
- Engineering leadership
- Product engineering
- System architecture
- Distributed system
- API
- Cloud infrastructure
- AWS
- GCP
- Kubernetes
- Software architecture
- Technical roadmap
- Resource planning
- Mentorship
- Communication
Responsibilities
- Set and communicate product engineering technical vision and strategy
- Lead, mentor, and scale engineering teams
- Architect and oversee scalable, high-performing systems
- Partner with product, design, and ML teams on technical solutions
- Guide technical decision-making, technology selection, and process improvement
- Champion software quality, rapid iteration, and product experience standards
- Own the technical roadmap, resource planning, and milestone delivery
- Represent engineering in executive discussions
Benefits
- Equity
- Health benefits
- Monthly stipends
- Company retreats
