Product Growth

Astrocade is an AI technology company building super-intelligence for the interactive world, delivered through a breakout consumer platform.

Today's frontier models can write, reason, and generate video. None can build a world you can step into and act on. Interactive world models are one of the defining problems on the path to ASI, and the foundation of the next great consumer platform. Interactivity is the holy grail of content: not something you watch, but something that responds to you. We're further ahead than anyone: the only team building the intelligence and the platform together, and both are already live.

Our social UGC platform lets anyone create and play interactive experiences through natural language. And it's one of the fastest-growing consumer products in the world, with over 30 million users in just months since launch. Creators bring to life games, companions that remember and grow with them, learning experiences that adapt like a great tutor, and social worlds built with friends. The platform also powers our research with data no video dataset contains: millions of creators prompting and refining gives us paired data of human intent and the worlds that fulfill it, and every play session produces ground-truth, action-labeled interaction data at scale. All of it flows back into our models, and research ships to real players in days, spinning a flywheel no one else can build.

We are a small team from Google Research, Meta, FAIR, Character.ai, and Stanford, led alongside Fei-Fei Li, with frontier-scale compute and direct ownership of core model problems. We are backed by Sequoia Capital, Google, NVIDIA, and luminaries including Eric Schmidt and Jerry Yang.

The next foundational AI company will be built where world models meet a billion players. We're the rare place where frontier research and a breakout consumer platform are one company, and where your work ships to millions, not to a paper. Come build it with us.

Growth at Astrocade is not a single funnel - it is two sides of a platform that have to grow together. Creators need a reason to build here. Players need a reason to stay. As our product growth hire, you will help own the strategy, experimentation, and analytics foundation that helps both sides move, while developing a deep understanding of user behavior, motivations, and friction points across the ecosystem. This role sits at the intersection of product, data, design, and engineering, turning insight into action for creators and players alike.

This is a hands-on IC role with a clear path to more ownership as we scale. We believe in hiring smart, curious people who are excited to learn and grow. If you’re excited about this role but don’t meet every single qualification, we’d still love to hear from you.

• Own product growth across acquisition, activation, engagement, retention, and expansion for both creators and players

• Identify the highest-leverage opportunities across creator and player funnels, and prioritize ruthlessly. Finding the right balance between the priorities of both players and creators and when making product decisions.

• Build a deep understanding of users through data, experiments, feedback, and direct observation

• Think in systems: evaluate how growth decisions affect different users, surfaces, and loops, and flag unintended consequences before shipping

• Run rigorous experiments and turn insights into shipped product improvements

• Partner with engineering and design to build onboarding, discovery, viral, and activation experiences

• Improve the creator journey from first visit to first published game, reducing friction and accelerating time-to-value

• Define core metrics, communicate the why behind recommendations, and document decisions and learnings clearly

• Use and own agentic tools to automate workflows, uncover insights, and scale what works
  

• Have a strong track record of shipping experiments, features, or systems that moved key metrics such as activation, retention, engagement, or conversion

• Are deeply curious about users and can combine data with judgment, direct user understanding, and product sense

• Are highly fluent in data and analytics: comfortable with product analytics tools, experiment design, and translating ambiguous behavior into actionable insight

• Have strong product sense - you can spot high-leverage opportunities, scope tight MVPs, and ship without overthinking

• Thrive in ambiguity and are energized by building from zero rather than optimizing what already exists

• Communicate clearly and document exceptionally well - you can explain the “why,” define the goal, outline tradeoffs, and leave behind recommendations that cross-functional partners can execute against independently

• Are a strong cross-functional collaborator - you've worked closely with engineering, design, marketing, and data teams

• Want to grow into a team leadership role as the growth function scales

• Experience growing a two-sided marketplace, creator platform, or consumer social product

• Familiarity with viral growth mechanics and community-led growth loops

• Experience building a growth function from scratch at an early-stage company

• Comfort working on AI-integrated product experiences

• Competitive salary, meaningful equity, and performance bonus.

• 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and eligible dependents.

• Flexible PTO and unlimited sick time.

• $650/month AI Tools budget to use on the tools that help you do your best work.

• $500/month Lifestyle Benefit for wellness, fitness, meals, house cleaning, and more.

• $200/month Fun Benefit to spend on hobbies, travel, games, concerts, or whatever brings you joy.

• Up to 16 weeks paid parental leave for birth parents and 12 weeks for non-birth parents, plus a $1,500/month childcare benefit.

• $2,000 workspace setup allowance and $200/month commuter benefit.

• Daily breakfast, lunch, and dinner on in-office days, plus regular team events and offsites.

• 401(k) retirement plan through Human Interest.
  

Join us to help build the future of interactive entertainment!