Product Manager, Core Product

Character.AI is building what comes after television, after gaming, after social media.
We're creating a new medium—one where anyone can bring a character to life and share it with millions. Our platform is already one of the largest consumer AI products on Earth. Millions of people use Character every day to talk, play, learn, and create. Now we're building the tools and formats that will define what entertainment looks like for the next decade.

The company has scaled rapidly to tens of millions of monthly active users, reached unicorn status within roughly two years, and was named Google Play’s AI App of the Year, reflecting both mainstream adoption and strong cultural relevance.

Product Overview

The Core Product team owns the foundational experiences that define Character.AI identity and long-term differentiation:

- Conversations: Long-form, emotionally engaging interactions powered by frontier language models.

- Characters: Creation, discovery, and interaction with AI characters that feel alive and distinct.

- Creative & Creator Tools: Systems that empower users and creators to expand the content ecosystem.

The product challenge is not simply making AI work, but translating rapidly evolving model capabilities into polished, intuitive, and magical consumer experiences that keep users engaged for hours at a time.

Role Overview: Product Manager, Core Product

This role shapes the heart of Character.AI As a Product Manager on Core Product, you will own the experiences that users spend the most time with—conversations, characters, discovery, and creation.

The role sits at the intersection of AI research, engineering, design, and entertainment, requiring exceptional product intuition and the ability to operate in high ambiguity. Success is measured less by short-term metric spikes and more by sustained session depth, emotional engagement, and product quality.

Key Focus Areas

- Emotional R...