Full-Time
Founding Product Designer
Posted on 1/17/2025
Pika
51-200 employees
AI-powered video creation and editing tools
Compensation Overview
$175k - $275k/yr
Palo Alto, CA, USA
Hybrid
 UI/UX & Design (1) |
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- 3+ years of experience in UI/UX design, with a portfolio showcasing user-centered, visually polished work.
- Experience designing social apps, creative tools, or highly interactive experiences for users.
- Ability to think critically about product ideas and collaborate on go-to-market strategies.
- Ideally, an active social media user who enjoys expressing creativity online.
- Proficiency in modern design tools, strong attention to detail and ability to translate requirements into functional designs.
- Experience in a fast-paced startup environment is a plus.
- Execute high-quality UI/UX designs, from wireframes to polished interfaces.
- Collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, and the creative team to refine and implement product features.
- Conduct user research, usability testing, and feedback analysis to inform and iterate on designs.
- Contribute to a scalable design system, ensuring consistency across the product.
- Create intuitive and visually compelling experiences that enhance user engagement.
Pika.art builds an online platform that turns ideas into videos using AI. It offers text-to-video, image-to-video, and video-to-video transformations so users can create, edit, and extend videos with simple text commands. The product works through AI-powered video generation and editing tools accessible in a browser-like interface, enabling users to modify scenes, extend runtimes, and resize canvases without deep technical skills. Pika differentiates itself by targeting a broad range of creators—from casual meme makers to professional filmmakers—with a user-friendly, text-driven workflow and a subscription-based model that likely includes premium features for advanced tools. The company’s goal is to democratize video creation by making powerful AI-assisted video production accessible and customizable to everyday users and professionals alike.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Series B
Total Funding
$135M
Headquarters
Palo Alto, California
Founded
2023
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Raised $135M at $470M valuation, attracting Balenciaga, Fenty, Vogue brands.
- Pika 2.2 delivers 10-second 1080p videos with Pikaframes keyframe transitions.
- Adobe Firefly integrates Pika 2.2, expanding reach to professional creators.
What critics are saying
- Runway Gen-3 Alpha Turbo erodes users with 7x faster, realistic videos now.
- OpenAI Sora captures filmmakers with Hollywood-grade fidelity post-2025 release.
- Meta Movie Gen locks Instagram creators, obliterating Pika's network in 6 months.
What makes Pika unique
- Pika 2.0 integrates user-uploaded characters, objects, scenes via Scene Ingredients.
- Pikaffects enable physics-defying effects like Squish It, Melt It for social clips.
- TikTok-style social network shares AI-generated videos from 16.4 million users.
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↑ 17%Demi Guo, a 27-year-old entrepreneur, launched the AI video app Pika in April 2023, targeting Gen Z users. After leaving her Ph.D. program at Stanford, Guo raised $135 million, valuing Pika at $470 million and attracting 16.4 million users. Pika's Predictive Video feature allows users to create videos from selfies, emphasizing personal expression. Competing with OpenAI's Sora and Meta's Vibes, Pika focuses on creativity and emotional storytelling for a digital-first audience.
Pika Labs launches tiktok-style social network for ai-generated videos.
Pika, an AI-powered idea-to-video platform, announced it has raised $55 million in cumulative funding. The latest investment round was led by Mike Mignano, former CEO of Anchor and now a Partner at Lightspeed. Pika's CEO and Cofounder, Demi Guo, impressed investors with her technical achievements and focus on building a community.
About a year ago, Pika launched its 'Squish It' tool.
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More. Lightricks, the company behind popular creative apps like Facetune and VideoLeap, announced today the release of its most powerful AI video generation model to date. The LTX Video 13-billion-parameter model (LTXV-13B) generates high-quality AI video up to 30 times faster than comparable models while running on consumer-grade hardware rather than expensive enterprise GPUs.The model introduces “multiscale rendering,” a novel technical approach that dramatically increases efficiency by generating video in progressive layers of detail. This enables creators to produce professional-quality AI videos on standard desktop computers and high-end laptops instead of requiring specialized enterprise equipment.“The introduction of our 13B parameter LTX Video model marks a pivotal moment in AI video generation with the ability to generate fast, high-quality videos on consumer GPUs,” said Zeev Farbman, co-founder and CEO of Lightricks, in an exclusive interview with VentureBeat. “Our users can now create content with more consistency, better quality, and tighter control.”