Pika
Head of Engineer, Product
US remote · Remote · Director · Full-time · Posted Sep 15, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years of progressive engineering experience, including significant time managing and scaling product engineering teams.
About the job
Leads the strategy, architecture, and delivery of engineering for Pika’s user-facing products, while scaling teams and aligning engineering with product, design, and ML.
What you'll do
- Set the technical vision and roadmap for product engineering across Pika’s platforms.
- Lead and mentor multiple engineering teams and oversee scalable, reliable, secure systems.
- Partner with product, design, and ML leaders on technical decisions, launches, and cross-functional alignment.
What they ask for
- Significant experience managing and scaling product engineering teams.
- Track record of technical leadership developing and launching complex user-facing web or mobile products.
- Experience building and scaling distributed systems, APIs, and cloud infrastructure.
- Mastery of system and software architecture for high-traffic, media-rich, or AI-powered applications.
Nice to have
- Experience with generative AI, creative tools, or large-scale collaboration platforms.
- Background in high-growth startups or high-ambiguity environments; open source, hackathon, or competitive coding experience.
Tools
Python, Go, Node.js, Postgres, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP
AI focus
Leads product engineering for AI-powered creative tools; generative AI experience is a nice-to-have.
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