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title: 'Product Lead - USA at Inworld'
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# Product Lead - USA at Inworld

- **Company:** Inworld
- **Location:** Mountain View, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-06-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-06
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/inworld-ai/71328e09-d549-46d3-b242-7dc9e447e388

## Job description

## About Inworld

Inworld is a research lab of top researchers and engineers, building the world’s top-ranked realtime voice models.

Today our models are the #1 ranked realtime voice models in the world. They are used to power the largest consumer-facing AI applications available, across categories like health, fitness, learning, therapy, companions, customer experience and media; representing 100s of millions of end users. Our work spans areas like research and development of state-of-the-art models, optimizing realtime inference, and creating best-in-class APIs and products that allow developers to engage their users.

We’ve raised more than $125M from Lightspeed, Section 32, Kleiner Perkins, Microsoft’s M12 venture fund, Founders Fund, Meta and Stanford, among others. Our technology has powered experiences from companies such as NVIDIA, Microsoft Xbox, Niantic, Logitech Streamlabs, Wishroll, Little Umbrella and Bible Chat. We’ve also been recognized by CB Insights as one of the 100 most promising AI companies globally and have been named one of LinkedIn’s Top 10 Startups in the USA.

## Your Impact

You will lead the development of Inworld’s realtime models and products to empower developers to effortlessly build the next generation of consumer-facing AI applications. This role is both strategic and hands on. You will set direction, make hard prioritization decisions, and personally ensure we ship products developers love and trust. You will collaborate with AI researchers and engineers to turn cutting-edge AI capabilities into reliable and scalable developer experiences. Your work will directly shape how the world builds and deploys real-time AI.

In this role, you will:

- Drive product vision and strategy for Inworld’s products to enable the future of consumer scale AI applications
- Get hands on with code, both manually and with AI to not only develop prototypes but ship new production features and products in collaboration with engineering
- Translate complex AI capabilities and technical constraints into clear, developer friendly product experiences
- Work closely with C-level executives and industry leaders to align our product vision with business goals
- Partner with AI researchers and engineers to bridge technical innovation with real-world developer needs
- Synthesize partner and ecosystem feedback into clear product requirements and a prioritized roadmap, leading pre- and post-launch execution

You might be a good fit if you have:

- BA/BS degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or a similar technical field
- 6+ years of product management experience and an exceptional track record of building 0→1 developer products in high growth environments
- Excitement about building the default infrastructure for real-time AI at consumer scale. This includes the multimodal models, pipelines, and tools needed to power the next generation of AI applications
- Comfort owning outcomes rather than just roadmaps, with strong product judgment in ambiguous problem spaces
- Founder level mindset with the ability to spot gaps, propose solutions, and move work forward without waiting for direction
- Hands-on builder. You use AI coding tools to navigate the codebase, mock up features, run experiments, and pull your own data
- A passion for learning and staying up-to-date with the latest advancements in AI and its applications

In-office location: Mountain View, California, United States. Candidates must be based in the SF Bay Area or willing to relocate (you will be working on-site in our South Bay office a few days a week).

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $230,000 - $400,000 + bonus + equity + benefits.

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## About Inworld

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Inworld AI is the realtime AI company that builds voice AI systems—spanning speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and LLM routing—designed to feel as human as it sounds for consumer-facing applications.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series-stage undisclosed; raised $125M+)
- **Headquarters**: Mountain View, California, USA (with additional presence in Vancouver, Canada)
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Kylan Gibbs (Co-founder & CEO), Ilya Gelfenbeyn (Co-founder & CSO), Michael Ermolenko (Co-founder & CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Artificial Intelligence – realtime voice AI infrastructure and research
- **Target customers**: B2B (developers building AI-native applications), B2C (via customer applications such as companions, language learning, interactive media), and Enterprise (Fortune 500 brands like NVIDIA, NBCU, Logitech Streamlabs)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "To transform static software into living AI systems that autonomously evolve to better serve their users."

## Products & Services
- **Realtime TTS**: Top-ranked realtime text-to-speech on the Artificial Analysis Realtime TTS Arena. Models include `inworld-tts-2` (research preview, 100+ languages with cross-lingual voice identity), `inworld-tts-1.5-max` (GA, 15 languages), and `inworld-tts-1.5-mini` (GA, lower latency). Supports voice cloning from 5–15 seconds of audio. [inworld.ai](https://inworld.ai/)
- **Realtime STT**: Speech-to-text with multi-provider transcription (Inworld, Groq Whisper, AssemblyAI, Soniox) and voice profiling (age, pitch, emotion, vocal style, accent). [inworld.ai](https://inworld.ai/)
- **Realtime API**: Full-duplex voice conversations over a single WebSocket session (STT + LLM + TTS), OpenAI Realtime protocol compatible. Ships in days, fails in fewer places. [inworld.ai](https://inworld.ai/)
- **Realtime Router**: Routes to 220+ LLMs through one OpenAI-compatible endpoint across two tracks: 3P (external providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google) and 1P (Realtime Inference). [inworld.ai](https://inworld.ai/)
- **Realtime Inference**: Inworld-hosted, optimized open-source models (Gemma 4, DeepSeek V3.2/V4, MiniMax-M2.5) built for consumer-scale cost and realtime latency. [inworld.ai](https://inworld.ai/)
- **Compute**: Managed GPU for committed high-volume customers requiring predictable latency. [inworld.ai](https://inworld.ai/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – Over $125M raised
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Lightspeed Venture Partners, Section 32, Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, CRV, Stanford University, Intel Capital, Microsoft M12, Meta, Samsung NEXT, LG Technology Ventures, Bitkraft. Customers include Status by Wishroll, Bible Chat, Talkpal, Particle, Luvu, NVIDIA, NBCU, and Logitech Streamlabs. [inworld.ai/resources/what-is-inworld-ai](https://inworld.ai/resources/what-is-inworld-ai)
- **Growth Signals**: Status by Wishroll reached 1M users in 19 days on Inworld with a 95% AI cost reduction. Bible Chat scaled from 2M to 20M characters/week with an 85% TTS cost reduction. Talkpal serves 5 million language learners using Realtime TTS. [inworld.ai/resources/what-is-inworld-ai](https://inworld.ai/resources/what-is-inworld-ai)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Product-oriented research lab**: The founding team led product for LLMs at DeepMind and built Dialogflow (Google). Maintains a research organization with backgrounds from Google, DeepMind, Meta, Apple, Cruise, Microsoft. [inworld.ai/resources/what-is-inworld-ai](https://inworld.ai/resources/what-is-inworld-ai)
- **Top-ranked realtime TTS**: Ranked #1 on the Artificial Analysis Realtime TTS Arena. [inworld.ai](https://inworld.ai/)
- **OpenAI Realtime API compatibility**: Developers can migrate by swapping the endpoint and auth credentials, lowering switching costs. [inworld.ai/resources/what-is-inworld-ai](https://inworld.ai/resources/what-is-inworld-ai)
- **Full stack of voice infrastructure**: From STT to LLM routing to TTS and managed compute, all in one platform—eliminating the need to stitch together multiple vendors. [inworld.ai](https://inworld.ai/)

## Strategic Focus
- **Realtime AI for consumer-facing applications**: Doubling down on companions, character chat, roleplay, customer support voice agents, sales/SDR agents, phone agents, and language learning. [inworld.ai](https://inworld.ai/)
- **Cost reduction at scale**: Consistently driving down AI costs for customers (e.g., 95% reduction for Wishroll, 85% for Bible Chat) to enable free-tier consumer economics. [inworld.ai/resources/what-is-inworld-ai](https://inworld.ai/resources/what-is-inworld-ai)
- **Enterprise expansion**: Offering on-premise deployment, HIPAA/BAA compliance, EU and India data residency, and dedicated account management. [inworld.ai/resources/what-is-inworld-ai](https://inworld.ai/resources/what-is-inworld-ai)

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: "A passionate engineering-minded team" where "technical depth is a requirement for deep empathy with our customers." The company states that no matter the role, they only hire technical people. [inworld.ai/careers](https://inworld.ai/careers)
- **Autonomy and impact**: Employees are empowered with autonomy to work across research and engineering, drive product strategy, and "leave their mark on an entire industry." [inworld.ai/careers](https://inworld.ai/careers)
- **Remote/Hybrid/Office**: Not explicitly stated on careers page, but headquarters are in Mountain View, CA, with a presence in Vancouver, Canada. Active job postings are location-specific (e.g., US-based roles). [inworld.ai/careers](https://inworld.ai/careers)
- **Notable perks/engineering culture**: Focus on research and open-source contributions (github.com/inworld-ai). The company describes itself as a "product-oriented research lab" with a strong emphasis on shipping realtime AI products. [inworld.ai/resources/what-is-inworld-ai](https://inworld.ai/resources/what-is-inworld-ai)

## Sources
1. [inworld.ai](https://inworld.ai/)
2. [inworld.ai/careers](https://inworld.ai/careers)
3. [inworld.ai/resources/what-is-inworld-ai](https://inworld.ai/resources/what-is-inworld-ai)
4. [LinkedIn – Inworld AI](https://www.linkedin.com/company/inworld-ai)
5. [Datanyze – Inworld AI Company Profile](https://www.datanyze.com/companies/inworld-ai/559637359)

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