Wonder Studios · 21 hours ago
Product Manager - Story Engine
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$150K/yr - $150K/yr
3+ years expWonder Studios is an AI-native creative studio and product company focused on building tools for high-quality original content. They are seeking a Product Manager for Story Engine, a core creative surface that helps teams create and iterate on film, animation, and AI-generated media. The role involves defining product strategy, leading product discovery, and ensuring cross-functional alignment to deliver a reliable and innovative product.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)FilmMedia and EntertainmentMusic
Responsibilities
Articulate the product vision for how Story Engine evolves across pre-production → production → post → transmedia
Turn company goals and production needs into a clear, sequenced roadmap with measurable outcomes
Design new product surfaces that unlock fundamentally faster and more expressive ways for creatives to build, iterate, and ship stories in the AI era
Ensure Story Engine becomes trusted and stable as a production tool—not just exciting demos
Keep Engineering, Creative/Production, and customer-facing stakeholders aligned on what matters
Define the north star for Story Engine and communicate it simply to the team and stakeholders
Lead product discovery: customer interviews, shadowing, rapid prototyping, and validation with real productions
Partner with Engineering + Design to ship end-to-end features: clear specs, crisp tradeoffs, tight feedback loops, great UX
Establish the product operating cadence: quarterly direction, monthly milestones, weekly priorities, demos, and learning loops
Build the metrics & instrumentation plan: activation, retention, time-to-first-output, iteration velocity, quality/reliability indicators
Define and drive the product requirements and decision framework for the core platform primitives that make Story Engine powerful—partnering with Engineering on architecture and implementation
Drive launches: internal rollouts with productions + external releases with clear positioning and narrative
Evolve Story Engine from a beloved internal production tool into a sticky, client-facing product—with the reliability, onboarding, permissions, and value packaging required to scale as a B2B SaaS platform
Qualification
Required
3–5+ years in product (or equivalent) with experience owning a core surface end-to-end
Shipped products in one or more of: creative tools, collaborative software, media pipelines, developer tools, or AI-native workflows
Can run discovery deeply (not performatively): you care about workflows, constraints, edge cases, and what actually ships
Strong product craft: UX judgment, prioritization, crisp writing, and the ability to make tradeoffs without thrash
Technically fluent: you can partner with engineers on architecture, data models, reliability, and integration patterns
Thrive in early-stage environments: ambiguity, speed, directness, and high ownership
Preferred
Experience building tools for film/animation pipelines, game production, or serious creator workflows
Familiarity with asset graphs, versioning/lineage, collaboration models (roles/permissions), or timeline-based editing
Prior experience at pre-seed/seed or as a founding PM / early product leader
Strong POV on how generative tools fit into real production (not just prompts, but iteration + review + reuse)
Benefits
Equity
Company
Wonder Studios
Wonder Studios is an AI-centric creative production studio that produces films across entertainment and advertising.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$15MKey Investors
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2025-10-23Seed· $12M
2025-04-14Pre Seed· $3M
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