Full-Time

Engineering Manager

Frontend

Confirmed live in the last 24 hours

Runway AI

Runway AI

201-500 employees

Develops multimodal AI tools for creatives

AI & Machine Learning

Compensation Overview

$290k - $340kAnnually

Senior

Remote in USA

Category
Engineering Management
Software Development Management
Required Skills
React.js
TypeScript
Requirements
  • 1+ year of experience in a team lead or engineering manager role
  • 4+ years of industry experience in a frontend engineering role
  • Skills translating leadership goals into actionable tasks to be synthesized and distributed to your team
  • Empathetic and inclusive leadership style
  • Experience with Typescript and React
  • Strong interest in writing robust and maintainable client-server architectures and APIs
  • Ability to rapidly prototype solutions and iterate on them with tight product deadlines
  • Strong communication, collaboration, and documentation skills
Responsibilities
  • Lead a talented frontend engineering team and keep pushing the boundaries of content creation at a fast speed
  • Develop and deploy state-of-the-art AI-driven product features while offering technical mentorship
  • Work weekly with leadership and the engineering team as a whole to review and set priority around goals
  • Build and grow a team of skilled engineers from diverse backgrounds
  • Engage and retain engineers and make feelings of inclusion and psychological safety a top priority
  • Improve the performance, security, reliability, and code quality of our products

Runway Research develops multimodal Artificial Intelligence systems that enhance human creativity. Their tools can transform text into images, create new images from existing ones, and generate videos from text, allowing creative professionals like filmmakers and brands to produce visual content without traditional filming. This capability makes content creation faster and more cost-effective. Runway Research differentiates itself in the generative AI market by offering a comprehensive suite of tools that can also perform tasks like frame interpolation and custom AI training. The company aims to empower clients to tell their stories in innovative ways while operating on a subscription or usage-based pricing model.

Company Stage

Series C

Total Funding

$232M

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

2018

Growth & Insights
Headcount

6 month growth

11%

1 year growth

48%

2 year growth

208%
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What believers are saying

  • Growing demand for AI-driven video editing tools among filmmakers and content creators.
  • Launch of AI talent network connects AI filmmakers with brands and agencies.
  • Partnerships with major studios like Lionsgate indicate acceptance of AI in filmmaking.

What critics are saying

  • Intense competition from Google's Veo 2 and OpenAI's Sora in AI video generation.
  • Meta's Movie Gen entry may pressure Runway to innovate rapidly to maintain position.
  • Vimeo's AI video platform launch could dilute Runway's market share.

What makes Runway AI unique

  • Runway offers a unique AI-powered video editing platform for creative professionals.
  • The company specializes in multimodal AI systems for transforming text into images and videos.
  • Runway's tools enable intuitive visual interfaces for synthetic video manipulation and editing.

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