Product Manager, Audio/Video

About Smartcat

Smartcat is on a mission to become the wall-to-wall Language AI platform, addressing the diverse needs in multilingual content for various user personas within global enterprises. 

Smartcat is uniquely positioned within the $100+ billion multilingual content industry, which is currently served by tens of thousands of agencies. This results in a highly fragmented and inefficient supply chain, high costs, unacceptable turnaround times, and quality issues. Using highly qualified internal resources to translate or create multilingual content (insourcing) solves the quality problem for enterprises, but if done manually, it can't solve for scalability, high cost, and slow turnaround.

Smartcat changes the ROI equation in favor of insourcing with its Language AI platform for enterprise end-users. It delivers high-quality, instantaneous AI translations or generates new content in any language by tapping into a customer-specific multilingual content library. The AI output is further refined through human editing by the client's internal reviewers or experts from the Smartcat's embedded global marketplace of linguists and content editors. This AI output continuously improves through the editing feedback loop, ensuring consistent and customer-tailored results.

More than 1,000 global companies including ~20% of the Fortune 1,000 trust Smartcat to communicate their innovations and ideas all over the world.

As a dynamic Series C company, Smartcat is growing at 130% YoY, thanks to the high and quick ROI it delivers to global enterprises. It's well-funded by notable VCs, and is capital efficient, offering a unique blend of hyper-growth potential with downside protection and the capacity for long-term planning and strategy.

Mission

Smartcat positions itself as the central hub for managing your enterprise's multilingual content, seamlessly integrating diverse content assets. We offer convenient AI translation / content generation + Human review workflows to ensure best quality and faster turnaround.

Your mission will be to own one of our most exciting and fast growing business-critical tracks, related to translation and AI-based processing of audio, video and subtitle files. You will work directly with clients to understand their pain points, ensure product-market fit, own the process of tracking usage data, define product improvement hypotheses, planning both a long-term roadmap and the day-to-day work to drive adoption, retention and expansion of translation and content generation volumes related to audio and video. You will act as an entrepreneur whose goal is to achieve the breakthrough with all possible means, and will grow your part of the business, measured in the volume of words processed through the platform.

Within 3 months, your outcomes will be

• You will have a product roadmap defined for the next quarter for the technical areas of the product you're responsible for, and own this roadmap and delivery schedule further.
• For each feature we ship and for each larger improvement track that spans multiple product areas, you will have a definition of key performance indicators and be accountable for their growth.
• Together with the BI analyst, you will own dashboards to track your KPIs, as well as monitor other data sources and feedback channels, to inform your next steps and rapidly iterate to improve product performance.
• Together with the designer, you will own a process of developing new features, conducting customer interviews and ensuring proper execution with the engineering teams.
• Together with the Director of Product, you will align on the product strategy, get a solid understanding of how our product works, and establish a reliable product discovery & execution process.

Requirements

• Outstanding achievement as a product manager for B2B SaaS platforms with a focus on product-led growth.
• At least 5 years of experience working as a product manager.
• Exceptional, native-level English, both written and spoken.
• Exceptional communication skills to interact with colleagues, customers, and partners.
• Experience working on projects related to video/audio processing is a strong plus.
• Experience working on customer-facing user interfaces (either in B2B or B2C products) is a strong plus.
• Knowledge of modern developments in ML/AI related to video and audio processing (transcription, speaker diarization, text-to-speech) and overall technical background is a strong plus.
• Knowledge of a localization industry is a strong plus.
• Growth-oriented mindset.
• Integrity, full commitment, and a strong sense of ownership.
• Experience working in a highly intense startup environment, requiring extreme focus, a sense of urgency, and persistence to break through.
• Openness to feedback and alternative opinions and ideas.
• Comfortable working with remote teams across time zones. 
• Easy-going personality, high tolerance to cultural differences.

Why joining Smartcat might be your best move so far

• Fully remote team
  We are a global team of 200+ enthusiastic people spread across 30+ countries. We have been fully remote since 2020, with some locations populated with more Smartcaters than others, such as Boston, NYC, SF, the Bay Area, London, and Lisbon.
• Innovating a $100 Billion industry
  Smartcat’s innovative approach towards multilingual content, taps into a $100B industry. Our platform enables enterprise end users to stop using traditional outsourcing methods, and start enjoying an easy-to-use, AI-powered SaaS, that delivers immediate high-quality results, at a fraction of the cost.
• High impact role enabling innovation and inclusion in organizations
  You will enjoy building with us. You will drive changes in how an old-fashioned global language industry operates while improving how hundreds of thousands of people work and millions of people exchange knowledge and ideas worldwide. 
• Join the rocketship to scale-up 10x and beyond together
  We are looking for someone to become an integral part of our team and play a crucial role in the most exciting part of our journey: transitioning from a post-Series C startup to a company exceeding $100M in ARR and $1B in valuation. Our journey isn’t for the faint of heart. We are growing at 130% YoY, thanks to our strong product-market fit and high-performing team, and plan to accelerate from here. 
• Smartcat Culture: Where Diversity Meets High Performance
  At Smartcat, we are committed to building a culture that highlights respect and appreciation for each individual's unique background and perspective, while maintaining a strong focus on results and clear, honest and direct communication. We believe in welcoming everyone and fostering an inclusive environment where team members can be their authentic selves at work. Our commitment to diversity and inclusion is steadfast, and we stand firmly against discrimination and harassment.