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title: 'Product Designer at Pika'
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# Product Designer at Pika

- **Company:** Pika
- **Location:** United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-14
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/pika/cc4dffe4-2cad-4287-a28b-b875ee35b541

## Job description

## About the Role

We're looking for a Product Designer to help drive the next creative leap at Pika. In this high-impact, hands-on role, you'll shape the core experience of our generative AI platform, empowering millions of creators to bring bold ideas to life with powerful, intuitive design. If you love the intersection of technology and creativity, you'll thrive here.

## What You'll Do

- Own and lead design projects from concept to polished execution across mobile and web for a key area of our creative platform.
- Collaborate closely with talented product managers, engineers, and researchers to turn visionary ideas and AI advancements into delightful, accessible user experiences.
- Develop product strategies, refine interaction patterns, and push bold ideas from prototypes to shipped features.
- Define and uphold visual language, design systems, and user flows that inspire creativity and align with users’ needs.
- Connect directly with creators and the Pika community to understand how our tools empower expression—and how we can go further.
- Communicate design intent through storytelling, prototypes, and clear rationale, inspiring collaboration through clear and concise dialogue.
- Balance systems-thinking with attention to detail—obsessing over fonts, type scales, consistent palettes, spacing, and animation, while delivering coherent and practical solutions.
- Advocate for real people and a user-centric approach, always designing with empathy and impact in mind.

## What We're Looking For

- 3–5+ years of experience in product design (UI/UX), with a portfolio of shipped mobile apps.
- Proven track record of leading UX and visual design, showing both your creative thinking and execution.
- Comfort with Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines and system-level design.
- Ability to quickly visualize, prototype, and iterate on new ideas in fast-paced environments.
- Expertise in developing robust, consistent design logic that maps to users’ mental models.
- Strong collaborator able to debate ideas with reason, foster alignment, and build strong relationships across teams.
- Passionate about using technology and design to empower creators and spark new forms of expression.

Bonus Points

- Experience designing creative tools, social media platforms, or games.
- A degree in design or related field (not required).
- Design-engineering chops, high-fidelity prototyping, or animation skills.
- Based in or around Palo Alto, CA.

## What We Offer

- Competitive salary at the frontier of AI
- Equity in a rapidly growing creative AI startup
- Comprehensive benefits, monthly creative stipends, and team retreats
- Flexible remote work, or join us in our vibrant Palo Alto office—where inspiration, ambition, and fun all come together

## About Pika

Pika is reimagining creative expression with AI. We’re building breakthrough tools to make video creation radically intuitive, lightning-fast, and accessible to everyone. Our culture thrives on smart people, great teamwork, and a shared passion for shaping the future of creativity. We're open to remote team members, or you can join us at our Palo Alto HQ (in-office 3–5 days a week) to help invent what’s next in creative AI.

## 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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