Runway is a research company pioneering new tools for human imagination. Runway has been at the forefront of multi-modal AI systems ensuring that the future of content creation is accessible, controllable and empowering for creatives. Runway’s mission is to ensure that anyone anywhere can tell their stories. We believe that deep learning techniques applied to audiovisual content will forever change art, creativity, and design tools.
Runway is leading a shift to generative media that is unlocking an unprecedented level of creative potential. The invention of the camera 200 years ago forever changed our world – AI is a new kind of camera that will reshape storytelling forever and lead to full feature films that are entirely generated.
About the role
We’re building a tool that makes content creation easy and accessible for all types of creatives. Runway has an actively engaged and growing community of artists and creators all over the world, and we aspire to provide best in class support to our users.
We are looking to bring on a Head of Support to be the voice of Runway and help grow our Support function in order to service our growing number of users. Someone who is technically inclined, eager to learn (more) about design tools, and has a strong bias towards action would thrive in this position.
What you’ll do
- Set clear goals regarding SLA based on customer tiers and be accountable for hitting these consistently as a team
- Iterate on a forecast and capacity model in order to build a high performing support team at the right pace
- Optimize the use of Zendesk and other tools in order to drive efficiency and productivity and avoid repetitive manual tasks
- Be comfortable going from tackling 100 tickets a day to working on building automations or project managing feature requests. You should be able to stretch across IC and management tasks regularly based on what the team needs
- Deep experience and skills when it comes to building automations
- Work closely with our product team to translate customer feedback into actionable product updates and improvements and project manage these from start to finish
What you’ll need
- Previous experience working in a hyper growth organization in a support function
- Deep experience implementing and/or customizing Zendesk to drive operational excellence across a growing team
- Great project management skills with a bias towards action
- Experience building and managing a diverse and high performing team
- Nice to Haves: Some level of programming skills
Runway strives to recruit and retain exceptional talent from diverse backgrounds while ensuring pay equity for our team. Our salary ranges are based on competitive market rates for our size, stage and industry, and salary is just one part of the overall compensation package we provide.
There are many factors that go into salary determinations, including relevant experience, skill level and qualifications assessed during the interview process, and maintaining internal equity with peers on the team. The range shared below is a general expectation for the function as posted, but we are also open to considering candidates who may be more or less experienced than outlined in the job description. In this case, we will communicate any updates in the expected salary range.
Lastly, the provided range is the expected salary for candidates in the U.S. Outside of those regions, there may be a change in the range, which again, will be communicated to candidates.
Salary range: $140,000-$200,000
Great things come from great teams. We’d love to hear from you.
We’re committed to creating a space where our employees can bring their full selves to work and have equal opportunity to succeed. So regardless of race, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, origin, ability, age, veteran status, if joining this mission speaks to you, we encourage you to apply.
More about Runway
- Runway Research
- Runway's AI Film Festival
- Creative Dialogues Series
- Runway Studios
- Our Behaviors and Company Mission
We're excited to be recognized as a best place to work Crain's | InHerSight | BuiltIn NYC | INC
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What We Do
Runway is a research company pioneering new tools for human imagination. We've been at the forefront of multi-modal AI systems ensuring that the future of content creation is accessible, controllable and empowering for creatives. Our mission is to ensure that anyone anywhere can tell their stories.
Runway is leading a shift to generative media that is unlocking an unprecedented level of creative potential. The invention of the camera 200 years ago forever changed our world – AI is a new kind of camera that will reshape storytelling forever and lead to full feature films that are entirely generated.
Over the last five years, we’ve raised funding from top-tier investors and partners including Amplify, Coatue, Compound, Felicis, Google, Lux, NVIDIA, and Salesforce. Our team consists of creative, open minded, caring, and entrepreneurial individuals from all walks of life. We aspire to build incredible things which starts with building an incredible team, so we’d love to hear from you!
Why Work With Us
At Runway, we're building a unique team of people from diverse backgrounds who elevate one another.
We value non-traditional backgrounds.
We value ideas that are deemed “impossible.”
We value the small rituals that define and will continue to define our culture.
We aspire to build incredible things, which starts with building an incredible team!
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