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title: 'Head of Growth at Pika'
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# Head of Growth at Pika

- **Company:** Pika
- **Location:** Palo Alto, CA
- **Compensation:** $160k–$250k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-07-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/pika/ab076a0a-8abc-4110-a0ab-a56e276ac891

## Job description

## About the Role

We're looking for a Head of Growth with a passion for creative AI and user empowerment to help us shape the future of video creation. You’ll turn first-time visitors into lifelong Pika creators, owning the growth levers that drive activation, retention, and monetization. Through bold experimentation, rapid iteration, and hands-on product changes, you’ll directly influence how millions discover, create, and stay inspired with Pika.

## What You’ll Do

- Own the entire growth journey: from acquisition and activation to crafting retention loops and creative, user-centric monetization paths.
- Conceptualize, launch, and analyze rapid-fire experiments (A/B tests, feature flags) with an eye toward out-of-the-box creative impact.
- Build and champion a deep understanding of our users—how they create, what motivates them, and how our creative AI can unlock their potential.
- Collaborate daily with world-class engineering, design, marketing, and data teams to deliver bold, high-impact growth initiatives.
- Set up and evolve the metrics and dashboards that reveal what truly powers user creativity—double down on what works, swiftly sunset what doesn’t.

## What We’re Looking For

- 2–5 years in product management or growth, ideally at a consumer or PLG company where experimentation is in your DNA.
- Relentlessly analytical: fluent in SQL and analytics tools, with a strong bias for insights that fuel creative product direction.
- Fast to ship, fast to learn: you thrive on velocity, creative risk-taking, and rapidly learning from real-world results.
- Deep product intuition: you know how to balance ambitious near-term growth bets with sustaining long-term creative ecosystems.
- Crystal-clear communicator: you can champion a bold new idea—or pivot away from one—fast and persuasively.

## Nice to Have

- Experience with consumer subscription, freemium, or creator monetization models.
- Familiarity with creative AI, generative media products, or creator-economy platforms.
- Background at an early-stage or hypergrowth startup where creativity and speed rule.

## What We Offer

- Competitive salary in the thriving creative AI space
- Equity in a high-growth startup shaping the landscape of generative creativity
- Comprehensive health benefits, monthly stipends, company retreats
- A collaborative office culture in Palo Alto—where we build, iterate, and celebrate creativity together

## About Pika

At Pika, our mission is to make video creation radically seamless, deeply intuitive, and universally accessible. We’re reimagining how everyone can express their creativity through video, driven by the latest advances in AI. Our culture is inventive, collaborative, and deeply focused on impact. Join us in Palo Alto, CA (office 3–5 days a week) to help push the boundaries of creative technology and empower the next generation of creators.

## About Pika

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Pika is an AI-native creative platform that enables users to generate, edit, and transform videos—and now "birth" persistent AI agents—from text, images, and voice.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: Palo Alto, California, United States (also has an office in Mountain View, CA)
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Demi Guo (CEO), Chenlin Meng (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Generative AI / AI Video & Agent Platform
- **Target customers**: B2C (creators, social media users, marketers) and B2B (developers via Pika API and MCP)
- **Mission or purpose**: To make video creation accessible to everyone, and now to give everyone a "creative partner" AI agent

## Products & Services
- **Pika Video App**: The core product—an AI video generator that turns text prompts, images, and videos into new clips. Supports styles (3D animation, anime, cartoon, cinematic) and effects like "squish it, melt it, cake-ify it."
- **Pika Agent**: A persistent, portable AI agent that users "birth" and own. Multi-modal (text, voice, image, video) and lives across platforms. Users can train it to have personality, memory, and voice—essentially a creative co-pilot.
- **AI Trendmaker**: A feature that lets users hop on viral video trends with just a selfie and a sound.
- **Pika API**: Hosted API for developers to integrate Pika's video generation capabilities into their own apps and workflows.
- **Pika MCP**: Model Context Protocol for connecting agents to external tools and data.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (estimated at ~$470M post-money based on Series B terms)
- **Total Funding**: $135M across 4 rounds
  - Pre-Seed (Jan 2023): $15M led by Nat Friedman & Daniel Gross
  - Seed (May 2023): Amount undisclosed
  - Series A (Nov 2023): $35M led by Lightspeed Venture Partners
  - Series B (Jun 2024): $80M led by Spark Capital
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Spark Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew 27.4% YoY to 59 employees
  - Monthly website visits: ~1.87M (global rank #25,677)
  - Talent sourced from top AI labs (TikTok, Jane Street, Runway, Kling AI, Snap Inc.)
  - 1 active job posting (Head of Engineering) as of mid-2026
  - Launched Pika Agent and Pika API in 2025-2026, expanding beyond video generation into agentic AI

## Competitive Advantages
- **"Birth and own" agent model**: Pika is pioneering the concept of a user-owned, persistent AI agent that evolves with the user—different from one-off chatbot interactions.
- **Multi-modal creative platform**: Combines video generation, agent capabilities, and trend tools in one ecosystem.
- **Strong early traction and talent density**: Raised $135M quickly from top-tier investors; alumni from TikTok, Runway, Jane Street, and other elite tech firms.
- **Small, high-leverage team**: ~59 people operating globally with a "small, dynamic team" culture that values efficiency and ambition.

## Strategic Focus
- **Agent-first future**: Pika is shifting from "just a video tool" to an agent platform where users create and own their AI creative partner.
- **Platform expansion**: Opening up via API and MCP to integrate with external apps and workflows.
- **Global reach**: Operating in 19 countries with a distributed (but Palo Alto-centric) team.
- **Continued R&D in generative video**: Improving realism, style variety, and real-time generation.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Pika describes itself as "small, dynamic" and values "efficiency, collaboration, and creativity." They seek "intellect, work ethic, and ambition."
- **Remote/Hybrid**: Not explicitly stated, but the team is distributed across 19 countries (with the US hub in Palo Alto/Mountain View). Likely hybrid or flexible.
- **Notable perks**: The careers page emphasizes "career growth in a culture that fosters both individual and collective development." They also champion an inclusive culture.
- **Engineering culture**: Tech stack includes Python, TypeScript, Kubernetes, TensorFlow, React, and more. The team has strong representation from top AI labs and trading firms. The open role is Head of Engineering, suggesting they need a senior leader to scale.
- **Impact**: You'd be building the infrastructure for a new category of "owned AI agents" and state-of-the-art video generation—working on cutting-edge generative AI.

## Sources
1. [pika.art](https://pika.art/) – Official website
2. [pika.art/careers](https://pika.art/careers) – Careers page
3. [LinkedIn (Pika Labs)](https://www.linkedin.com/company/pika-labs) – Company data, headcount, funding, talent
4. [Craft.co](https://craft.co/pika-art) – Company summary, locations, sectors
5. [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/pl/app/pika-ai-self-agent/id6758411447) – Pika Agent app details

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