About Inworld
At Inworld, we believe that the benefits of AI should extend beyond business workflows to the applications and experiences that we enjoy every day. We began by pushing the frontier of lifelike, interactive characters for games and entertainment, pioneering realtime conversational AI at scale. Today, we apply that expertise to provide the multimodal models, pipelines and tools needed to build and evolve consumer-scale, real-time conversational AI applications across learning, health, social, assistants, games and media.
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
We're looking for a visionary VP, Growth who is equally hands-on in driving the market expansion and accelerating adoption across the developer ecosystem. This is a critical, cross-functional leadership role that will own the entire growth funnel, from developer awareness and acquisition to engagement and retention. You will be the architect of a technical growth engine, integrating product, engineering, and marketing to drive sustained developer adoption, accelerate activation and retention, and translate product adoption into revenue growth.
What you’ll do
Lay the foundation for and build a scalable, technically-driven growth function
Develop and execute strategies to create, engage, and grow our audience across marketing channels (Google, Linkedin, Meta, Reddit, X, etc.) and all possible developer touchpoints
Partner with product and engineering leadership to influence roadmap prioritization based on growth opportunities and user insights
Build a thriving developer ecosystem, fostering community engagement and advocacy
Coordinate high-impact product launches that generate significant visibility, leveraging newsletters, podcasts, press, publications and other outlets
Create viral campaigns leveraging product capabilities to reach and convert developers
Lead SEO, content strategy, and performance marketing initiatives, using insights from product usage and data to inform messaging, campaigns, and positioning
Build and maintain marketing infrastructure, tracking, dashboards, attribution tooling
Oversee technical content, from blog posts and landing pages to demo scripts and onboarding flows
What you’ll bring
Former founder, seasoned growth leader, or executive with experience scaling early-stage, high-growth companies
Strong product or engineering background with technical fluency, able to design and implement technically driven growth systems
Proven success building and leading growth teams, driving adoption, and scaling developer or product-led ecosystems
Track record of running product launches and campaigns that directly accelerated adoption and revenue
Thrive in ambiguity and see constant change as opportunity, not obstacle
Naturally spend nights and weekends hands-on with the latest technical innovations
Bring ideas and solutions, not org charts and territory-building
Consider marketing as a product surface that can be engineered and automated
Prior exposure to a product-led growth strategy and usage-based business model
BA/BS degree or higher, with technical degrees a plus
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 base salary range for this full-time position is $250,000 - $320,000 + bonus + equity + benefits.
Top Skills
What We Do
Inworld is a fully integrated platform for AI characters that goes beyond large language models (LLMs) – by adding configurable safety, knowledge, memory, narrative controls, multimodality, and more.
Inworld uses advanced AI to build generative characters whose personalities, thoughts, memories, and behaviors are designed to mimic the deeply social nature of human interaction. The Inworld platform lets you create characters with personality and contextual awareness to keep them in-world and on brand. Integrations make it easy for developers to deploy characters into immersive experiences, while scale and performance are optimized for real-time experiences.
We are a team of experts that have pioneered conversational AI platforms and generative models at API.AI (acquired by Google and renamed Dialogflow), Google and DeepMind. We are continuing to build out our incredibly talented team, with experts in generative language models, emotions, speech synthesis, multimodal interaction, design, and 3D animation.
Inworld is backed by top-tier investors including Section 32, Intel Capital, BITKRAFT Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, First Spark Ventures, The Venture Reality Fund, CRV, Meta, Microsoft’s M12 fund, Micron Ventures, LG Technology Ventures, NTT Docomo Ventures, and SK Telecom Venture Capital. Inworld was one of six companies selected for the 2022 Disney Accelerator. Prominent angels include Twitch Co-Founder, Kevin Lin; Oculus Co-Founder, Nate Mitchell; Animoca Brands Co-Founder, Yat Siu; The Sandbox Co-Founder, Sebastien Borget and NaHCO3, the family office of Riot Games Co-Founder, Marc Merrill.
