Twelve Labs

Lead Product Manager (Video Agent & Application)

United States

Not SpecifiedCompensation
Senior (5 to 8 years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, EntertainmentIndustries

Lead Product Manager (Video Agent & Application)

Employment Type: Full-Time Location Type: On-Site Salary: [Salary information not provided]

Who We Are:

At TwelveLabs, we are pioneering the development of cutting-edge multimodal foundation models that have the ability to comprehend videos just like humans do. Our models have redefined the standards in video-language modeling, empowering us with more intuitive and far-reaching capabilities, and fundamentally transforming the way we interact with and analyze various forms of media.

With a remarkable $107 million in Seed and Series A funding, our company is backed by top-tier venture capital firms such as NVIDIA’s NVentures, NEA, Radical Ventures, and Index Ventures, and prominent AI visionaries and founders such as Fei-Fei Li, Silvio Savarese, Alexandr Wang and more. Headquartered in San Francisco, with an influential APAC presence in Seoul, our global footprint underscores our commitment to driving worldwide innovation.

We are a global company that values the uniqueness of each person’s journey. It is the differences in our cultural, educational, and life experiences that allow us to constantly challenge the status quo. We are looking for individuals who are motivated by our mission and eager to make an impact as we push the bounds of technology to transform the world. Join us as we revolutionize video understanding and multimodal AI.

About the Role:

Twelve Labs is on a mission to build the most powerful video understanding infrastructure. As part of this journey, we are hiring a Lead Product Manager (Video Agent & Application) to spearhead the development of our first-ever video editing agent application. This role is ideal for a builder who thrives at the intersection of technical innovation and user-centered design.

You’ll lead a lean, high-impact team of engineers and designers to shape the end-to-end experience of our video agent workflow. You’ll define and execute product strategy, build MVPs, talk directly with users, and identify core features that solve meaningful problems. You’ll also partner closely with our science team to surface technical opportunities and steer research toward impactful directions.

We’re looking for someone who thrives in ambiguity, moves fast with focus, and cares deeply about customer problems. If you’re passionate about defining a new category of intelligent video tools and building products that people love to use, we’d love to meet you.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead the initiative to launch TwelveLabs’ first intelligent video agent workflow and application designed to solve real customer problems.
  • Drive product discovery and design efforts, from ideation through execution, ensuring tight alignment across engineering, design, and science teams.
  • Develop a strong point of view on the evolving landscape of video agents identifying when to build, buy, partner, or contribute to help Twelve Labs stay ahead.
  • Engage directly with customers and power users to understand pain points, validate ideas, and synthesize feedback into a compelling roadmap.
  • Own the product lifecycle end-to-end, including internal testing, user onboarding, post-launch iteration, and continuous improvement.
  • Champion strategic differentiation by identifying and building technically ambitious features that serve as long-term moats.

Qualifications:

  • You’ve built complex UX-centric applications.
  • You have 5+ years of product management experience and have shipped products with technical depth, ideally those that incorporate generative AI or machine learning.
  • You’re deeply customer-focused. You obsess over understanding users, conducting discovery, and crafting solutions that solve real problems, not just building cool tech.
  • You love creating new product categories. You’re drawn to white space, comfortable with ambiguity, and skilled at translating vague ideas into clear direction and execution.
  • You care about craft. You believe that user delight comes from sweating the details and delivering thoughtful, intuitive experiences. You’re quality-obsessed but efficient and pragmatic.

Application Instructions:

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Skills

Video understanding
Product management
User-centered design
Technical innovation
Team leadership
MVP development
User research

Twelve Labs

AI system for video content understanding

About Twelve Labs

Twelve Labs focuses on artificial intelligence and video understanding by developing a system that analyzes videos to extract key features like actions, objects, and speech. This information is transformed into vector representations, enabling fast semantic search within large video datasets. The company differentiates itself by providing a platform that is faster and more effective than many existing models, allowing developers and product managers to easily integrate its technology through an API. Twelve Labs aims to make all videos searchable, enhancing the way businesses utilize video content.

San Francisco, CaliforniaHeadquarters
2021Year Founded
$104.2MTotal Funding
EARLY_VCCompany Stage
Enterprise Software, AI & Machine Learning, EducationIndustries
51-200Employees

Risks

Increased competition from emerging AI startups in video understanding.
Rapid AI advancements require continuous innovation, straining resources.
Potential over-reliance on key investors like SK Telecom and Databricks.

Differentiation

Twelve Labs offers a comprehensive AI system for multimodal video understanding.
Their technology transforms video content into vector representations for fast semantic search.
The platform's API allows easy integration into clients' systems with minimal effort.

Upsides

Growing demand for AI-driven video analytics in education, healthcare, and security sectors.
Recent $30 million funding enhances technology development and strategic partnerships.
Collaboration with cloud providers boosts scalability and efficiency of video processing.

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