Full-Time
Workplace Experience Specialist
Confirmed live in the last 24 hours
Character.AI
51-200 employees
AI platform for creating virtual characters
Junior, Mid
Menlo Park, CA, USA
You match the following Character.AI's candidate preferences
Employers are more likely to interview you if you match these preferences:
- Oversee lease renewals, negotiations, and scoping out new office spaces.
- Manage and facilitate office moves, strategically partnering with stakeholders to forecast headcount and budget.
- Ensure the safety and security of employees and visitors, including compliance with state and federal safety and sanitation regulations.
- Respond to emergencies and develop comprehensive emergency response plans.
- Inspect facilities regularly to ensure compliance with codes and regulations.
- Manage contractors and vendors, including landscapers, food vendors, and maintenance services.
- Negotiate contracts to secure the best products and deals.
- Proactively manage the workplace budget, working closely with finance to maximize spending efficiency while keeping employee experience a priority.
- Oversee lease renewals, negotiations, and scoping out new office spaces.
- Manage and facilitate office moves, strategically partnering with stakeholders to forecast headcount and budget.
- Ensure the safety and security of employees and visitors, including compliance with state and federal safety and sanitation regulations.
- Respond to emergencies and develop comprehensive emergency response plans.
- Inspect facilities regularly to ensure compliance with codes and regulations.
- Manage contractors and vendors, including landscapers, food vendors, and maintenance services.
- Negotiate contracts to secure the best products and deals.
- Proactively manage the workplace budget, working closely with finance to maximize spending efficiency while keeping employee experience a priority.
- Develop and maintain food programs, ensuring a variety of meals, snacks, and more are provided within budget.
- Proactively communicate office updates, including maintenance schedules, outages, and other relevant information.
- Create a workplace environment that encourages employees to enjoy their time in the office.
- Lead the planning and execution of company-wide events, including Travel Week, and team offsites, while collaborating with the EA and People team to ensure these events are engaging, informative, and foster a sense of community.
- Partner with leaders and the People team to ensure effective use of resources for remote employee engagement.
- Manage and activate engaging Slack channels to boost morale and keep employees informed and connected.
Character AI provides a platform that allows users to create and manage virtual characters with distinct personalities. These characters can engage with users in a realistic way, enhancing interactions in various digital settings. The platform is utilized by game developers to create immersive characters that improve gameplay, as well as by businesses to develop virtual customer service agents that offer a more personalized experience compared to traditional automated systems. Character AI differentiates itself from competitors by focusing on the depth of personality and engagement of its virtual characters. The company's goal is to transform digital interactions by making them more engaging and human-like, catering to a wide range of clients in the growing AI market.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Series A
Total Funding
$145.9M
Headquarters
Menlo Park, California
Founded
2021
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Google's acquisition highlights Character.AI's cost-efficient scalability.
- Testing games on the platform could boost user engagement and retention.
- The growing AI market offers significant growth opportunities for Character.AI.
What critics are saying
- Legal issues from harmful interactions could damage Character.AI's reputation.
- Increased competition from DeepSeek and other AI platforms poses a threat.
- Privacy-focused AI models may attract users away from Character.AI.
What makes Character.AI unique
- Character.AI offers unique, customizable virtual characters for diverse applications.
- The platform supports dynamic interactions, enhancing user engagement in digital environments.
- Character.AI's neural language models enable creativity and language learning.
Help us improve and share your feedback! Did you find this helpful?
Benefits
Flexible Work Hours
Growth & Insights and Company News
6 month growth
↓ -4%1 year growth
↑ 4%2 year growth
↑ 0%OpenAI'ın CTO'su Mira Murati'nin şirketten ayrıldığını daha önce sizlere aktarmıştık. Bir süredir gözlerden ırak olan Mira Murati, şimdi yeni yapay zeka girişimi Thinking Machines Lab ile karşımızda. Paylaşılan bilgilere göre Thinking Machines Lab'in amacı, yapay zeka sistemlerini daha yaygın olarak anlaşılır, özelleştirilebilir ve genel olarak yetenekli hale getirmek.Şirketin açıklamasına göre Thinking Machines Lab, tamamen otonom sistemler yerine insanların yapay zeka ile çalışmasına yardımcı olan ürünler geliştiriyor:“Herkesin yapay zekayı kendi benzersiz ihtiyaçları ve hedefleri için çalıştıracak bilgi ve araçlara erişebildiği bir gelecek inşa ediyoruz.”Thinking Machines Lab, “insanlarla iş birliği içinde çalışan” ve “insan uzmanlığının tüm yelpazesine uyum sağlayabilen ve daha geniş bir uygulama yelpazesine olanak tanıyan” “multimodal” sistemler oluşturmaya odaklanmayı planlıyor.Thinking Machines Lab'in çalışmalarının temel ilkelerinden biri de yapay zeka güvenliği olacak. Şirket, yayınladığı modellerin kötüye kullanımını önleyeceğini ifade ederken, düzenli olarak teknik araştırma ve kod yayınlama sözü veriyor. Bu anlamda Thinking Machines Lab'in operasyonlarını şeffaf bir şekilde yürütmesi bekleniyor.Thinking Machines Lab ekibiMurati, girişimin ekibini yapılandırmak için çalışmalarına devam ediyor. Murati, kısa bir süre önce OpenAI kurucu ortağı John Schulman'ı araştırma başkanı olarak işe aldı
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More. Thanks to Her and numerous other works of science fiction, it’s pretty easy to imagine a world in which everyone has their own personalized AI assistant — a helper who knows who we are, our occupations, our hobbies, our goals and passions, our likes and dislikes…what makes us “tick,” essentially.Some AI tools today offer a fairly bare bones, limited version of this functionality, such as ChatGPT’s memory feature and CharacterAI. But these still rely on your information flowing up to corporate servers outside of your control for analysis and processing. They also don’t allow for many third-party transactions, having your AI assistant make purchases on your behalf.For those especially concerned about privacy, or who want an AI model that actually retrains itself to adapt to the user’s individual preferences — making a unique AI assistant unlike any in the entire world — you’re kind of on your own.Until now: a new startup called PIN AI (not to be confused with the poorly reviewed hardware device the Ai Pin by Humane) today emerged from stealth to launch its first mobile app, which lets a user select an underlying open source AI model that runs directly, largely on their smartphone and remains private and totally customized to their preferences. Built with a decentralized infrastructure that prioritizes privacy, PIN AI aims to challenge Big Tech’s dominance over user data by ensuring that Personal AI serves individuals—not corporate interests.Founded by AI and blockchain experts from Columbia, MIT, and Stanford, PIN AI is led by Davide Crapis, Ben Wu, and Bill Sun, who bring deep experience in AI research, large-scale data infrastructure, and blockchain security
Just two months after its successful debut, Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has skyrocketed to become the world’s second most popular AI chatbot. According to website tracking firm SimilarWeb, DeepSeek.com now sees more daily visits than Google’s Gemini and Character.AI.This comes just over a week after DeepSeek overtook ChatGPT to become the top-rated free app on Apple’s U.S. App Store. The buzz around DeepSeek skyrocketed after reports showed its V3 model outperforming Meta’s Llama 3.1, OpenAI’s GPT-4o, and Alibaba’s Qwen 2.5 in third-party benchmarks—all while being significantly cheaper.Deepseek Overtakes Google GeminiGoogle Responds to the CompetitionBut Google isn’t backing down. Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet, dismissed DeepSeek’s models as less efficient than Google’s. “The cost of actually using it is going to keep coming down, which will make more use cases feasible,” Pichai said.On February 5, Google also expanded its Gemini 2.0 lineup with several new AI models, featuring the much-anticipated Pro Experimental alongside the budget-friendly Flash and Flash Lite
Friend, a startup creating a $99, AI-powered necklace designed to be treated as a digital companion, has delayed its first batch of shipments until Q3.Friend had planned to ship devices to pre-order customers in Q1. But according to co-founder and CEO Avi Schiffman, that’s no longer feasible.“As much as I would liked to have shipped in Q1 of this year, I still have refinements to do, and unfortunately you can only start manufacturing electronics when you are 95% done with your design,” Schiffman said in an email to customers. “I estimate that by the end of February, when our prototype is complete, that we will begin our final sprint.”An email I sent out to all Friend preorder customers: pic.twitter.com/wUPR0OhpI4 — Avi (@AviSchiffmann) January 20, 2025Friend, which has an eight-person engineering staff and $8.5 million in capital from investors including Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas, raised eyebrows when it spent $1.8 million on the domain name Friend.com. This fall, as part of what Schiffman called an “experiment,” Friend debuted a web platform on Friend.com that allowed people to talk to random examples of AI characters.Reception was mixed. TechRadar’s Eric Schwartz noted that Friend’s chatbots often inexplicably kicked off conversations with anecdotes of traumas, including muggings and firings. Indeed, when this reporter visited Friend.com Monday afternoon, a chatbot named Donald shared that the “ghosts of [his] past” were “freaking him the f— out.”My experience with Friend’s chatbots
Character AI, a startup that lets users chat with different AI-powered characters, is now testing games on its desktop and mobile web apps to increase engagement on its platform.The games are available to Character AI’s paid subscribers and a limited set of users on the free plan. For this initial release, the company developed two games, Speakeasy and War of Words.Users who have access to the games can go to any of the characters they are chatting with in the browser and tap on the new controller icon. Users can then play the games with the existing characters. The app shows a pop-up to users to start a new chat for games so their previous conversation with that character stays the same.In Speakeasy, users have to get the chatbot to say a particular word without using five listed words. For instance, if you have to make the bot say “croissant” without using listed words like pastry, butter, bake, French, and flaky.Image Credits:Character AIIn War of Words, users have to duel with the character, and an AI referee decides who won a particular round over five rounds.Character AI said that this is the company’s way of making the service more entertaining. “Our goal as an AI entertainment company is to find ways to make the Character AI experience even more fun and entertaining