Video editing is the final frontier of software tools moving to the cloud. We’re making the next generation of modern creator tools to enable everyone to share their story online. Join us at Kapwing on our mission to help marketing, communications, and media teams make more and better video content faster.
Everyone is a creator. The problem, however, is that today’s tools get in the way of expressing our creativity fully. Especially when it comes to video, the gap between an idea and a video is wide enough that it’s hard to even start.
Our mission at Kapwing is to empower digital storytellers and the creative teams they work within. Kapwing is a video creation hub that makes marketing and communications teams 10x faster in creating video content together. Millions of creators every month choose Kapwing to tell their story and bring their ideas to life.
Our vision is to build a modern, collaborative video editing platform that serves as the go-to tool for anyone creating video for work. Being in the browser allows us to turn video editing, a traditionally heavyweight, time consuming workflow, into a joyful, collaborative, and fully-featured experience. We believe that we can use technology to augment the video editing and content creation experience, and we’ve already started on this path with a wide array of templates, applications of artificial intelligence, and new pipelines for exporting and video processing.
While software is the core of our product, being creative is the core of our work. Every team at Kapwing, from engineering to content to customer success, values trying new things, moving quickly, and helping creators in new ways. Join us on our journey to democratize creative tools and invent the future stack of video creation.
We’re looking for a talented Product Leader to design amazing products for digital storytellers and creative teams leveraging generative AI and collaborative web surface. This role is full-time and based in San Francisco with some in-person work requirements. Reports directly to the CEO.
Requirements
- 4+ years managing product managers. Familiar with setting up product rituals, defining expectations for Product Managers, interviewing PMs, and setting performance expectations for junior-senior PMs.
- 8+ years of experience managing consumer products, SMB SaaS, or PLG productivity products
- Passionate about video and the storytelling domain. Loves creative software, generative AI, video creation applications and cloud productivity tools.
- Rigorous product skills: Can sketch designs, prioritize, create PRDs and roadmaps, make presentations, critique UX proposals, create dashboards, and achieve cross-functional buy-in
- Entrepreneurial: Experienced with small teams, ambiguous problems, and 0 to 1 product development and innovation. Relates products to business impact.
- Product launch and monitoring: Experience launching products, either solo or in partnership with a marketing team. Familiar with SEO, PR, Content Marketing, and other
- Data driven: Encourages healthy debate and represents others not in the room. Seeks outside feedback, research, and data to inform decisions
- Experience working with executives and managing cross-functional relationships. Strong oral communication and presentation skills.
- Technical degree, MBA or advanced degree is a plusBased in San Francisco (or able to relocate)
- Work authorization in the USA, no sponsorship required.
Preferred Qualities and Skills
- Has been a former founder or grew with a company from <100 people
- Experience recruiting product organization (recruited, onboarded PMs)
- Built products for marketers or creators
- Reported directly to a CEO or as a C-Suite executive before
- Familiar with Amplitude, Figma, GPT, and MERN stack web development
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the product roadmap, ensuring alignment with the company’s strategic objectives
- Develop and execute product plans that meet user needs and drive business growth. Motivate and inspire the product org to move in the same direction.
- See around corners for future generative AI products. Conduct market research and competitive analysis to identify market trends and opportunities for product innovation.
- Prioritize rigorously to give the team focus. Align our work with user impact.
- Lead a world-class product organization: Manage and mentor a team of 3 product managers, providing guidance and support in order to achieve challenging goals
- Partners with engineering to research, prototype, and develop innovative technologies
- Monitor product performance and user feedback, making data-driven decisions to continuously improve product features and user experience.
- Cross-functional and executive alignment: Work directly with engineering leads, the Head of Marketing, and the CEO to set up launch impactful products.
- Champion Kapwing’s mission and vision with the team
$190,000 – $260,000 a year
Our Values
Done is better than perfect: Trying new things quickly matters at Kapwing. We’ve always believed that the best way to learn is to try to put something out there, and then iterate and improve it over time.
Get better everyday: We strive for excellence and we value our craft of writing quality software. At work, we want to challenge ourselves to improve every day.
Have fun: We don’t take ourselves too seriously here at Kapwing. We’re a product that people use to make all sorts of silly memes.
Inclusion matters: We take pride in our diverse team and a safe and inclusive community at work. We’re a female-founded, female-led company. We actively make sure our office (virtual or not) is a safe space for everyone.
Speak up: Kapwing is a place where different stories and opinions are valued. We want kind debates, because we know that they will lead us to the best product.
Think original: We love change – and we never want to get stuck in one way of doing things. We embrace what’s relevant at any given time.
Benefits
Health: Kapwing offers competitive health, vision, and dental insurance for Kapwingers and dependents. We have multiple plans and providers to choose from.
Time off: We keep reasonable hours, and when it’s time to rest, we take that seriously. We offer flexible time off and ask our team to take 2-4 weeks off each year.
401(k): We help Kapwingers plan for retirement with a sponsored 401(k) program.
Free Lunch: Kapwingers order lunch together when working in the office and enjoy free snacks, soft drinks, and Friday boba.
Office: We have a gorgeous office space in SF with a private roof deck, exposed brick, and tons of live plants. For our New York City employees, we lease an office space in a lovely, light-filled coworking space in Bushwick.
Parental Leave: We offer paid time off for new parents to focus on the things that matter most.
Team Events: We have in-person team events in our downtown office including dinners, weekly happy hours, creative workshops, holiday parties, and more. Historically, we’ve also done hiking trips, ski trips, picnics, and neighborhood art crawls as a team.
Equipment: We’ll give you a new Mac laptop and help provide other office equipment that you need to do your best work.
Flexible hours: We have a hybrid work policy, with our SF and NYC office available 24/7 and required in-person attendance on Tuesdays and Thursdays. We also have flexible hours for balanced schedules that fit around employee constraints and preferences.
Hiring process
Our hiring process is designed for candidates to learn about our company just as much as it is for our team to learn about a candidate. Most candidates will start with a short intro phone call , and depending on the team, a sample project or skills-based interviews will be scheduled afterwards. For SF and NYC job seekers, we invite candidates onsite final interview to meet some of the team and see Kapwing’s office, or we do the “onsite” virtually if you prefer.
Throughout our interview process, we strive to have empathy, communication, and professionalism.
Our Company
Kapwing is a Series-A stage startup backed by top investors including CRV, Kleiner Perkins, Shasta Ventures, and Village Global. You can learn more about our company and the faces on our team by visiting our careers page, reading our popular blog, subscribing on YouTube, or following us on Instagram.
The positions that are currently open at Kapwing are constantly being updated. We also know that the best candidates don’t always fit into a role description. If you feel excited about joining us on our mission, please reach out to us with how we could be a good fit.