Head of Product | Frontier AI Lab || $600k base plus Equity

Head of Product | Frontier AI Lab

$600k base plus Equity

Hybrid @ Palo Alto

We're building general-purpose world models, causal, interactive, real-time simulations of reality. Not video generation. Not image synthesis. A persistent world state that agents can actually operate within.

We're a small team, backed by top-tier VCs and strategic investors including NVIDIA. Our founders previously built and sold an autonomous vehicle company, and our research team comes from DeepMind, Tesla, Waymo, Meta, and Apple.

This is the first product hire: There's no product org, no existing playbook, no established category to copy. World models are the next platform shift after LLMs, and nobody has figured out the product layer yet. That's the job.

What you'll actually do:

→ Define how an entirely new technology reaches users, developers, and enterprises

→ Work directly with the CEO and CTO to translate frontier research into products people pay for → Run product discovery across gaming, simulation, robotics, and entertainment to find the highest-leverage use cases

→ Build the product function from zero — process, team, culture

→ Own the API and developer experience strategy as we move from model to platform

→ Make the hard calls on what ships and what waits

You should be:

→ A product leader who's done a genuine 0→1 build at a venture-backed startup — not inherited a roadmap, built one

→ Technically deep enough to read a paper, challenge an architecture decision, and earn credibility with ML researchers

→ Experienced shipping developer-facing products (APIs, SDKs, platforms)

→ Comfortable with the tension between research timelines and market windows

→ A clear communicator who can represent product to investors, partners, and customers

Nice to have: Background in computer vision, generative AI, simulation, gaming, or robotics. Prior experience at an AI lab or frontier model company.