Director, Real-Time Video

Runway

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$280K - $350K USD

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Job Description

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• Director will build Runway's Real-Time Video business from initial design partners through production scale, owning avatars and validating market fit in this early-stage role. • Key responsibilities include recruiting design partners, defining developer experience and API integration strategy, validating unit economics, and aligning cross-functional teams around priorities. • Ideal candidates have experience with developer-facing products/APIs, understand B2B2C dynamics, excel at early-stage market validation, and have strong quality standards. • Remote position open across North America with offices in NYC, San Francisco, and Seattle; salary range $280,000-$350,000 depending on experience. • Runway is building AI world models to advance scientific discovery, robotics, and creative storytelling, with a team-focused culture committed to diversity and pay equity.

We are building AI to simulate the world through merging art and science.

We believe that world models are at the frontier of progress in artificial intelligence. Language models alone won’t solve the world’s hardest problems – robotics, disease, scientific discovery. Real progress requires models that experience the world and learn from their mistakes, the same way that humans do. And this kind of trial and error can be massively accelerated when done in simulation, rather than in the real world.

World models offer the most clear path to general-purpose simulation, changing how stories are told, how scientific progress is made and how the next frontiers of humanity are reached.

Our team consists of creative, open minded, caring and ambitious people who are determined to change the world. We aspire to continuously build impossible things and our ability to do so relies on building an incredible team. If you are driven to do the same, we'd love to hear from you.

About the role

*Open to hiring remote across North America— we also have offices in NYC, San Francisco and Seattle.

You'll build Runway's Real-Time Video business from design partners to production scale. This is an early-stage role. You'll find design partners, support them through deployment, and validate the market before scaling.

Responsibilities

Own the Real-Time Video business, starting with avatars
Find and support design partners through production deployment
Define developer experience and integration strategy
Validate unit economics and quality positioning
Shape product direction based on partner feedback
Align engineering, design, and research partners around priorities
Grow the team as the market validates

What We're Looking For

Experience with developer-facing products or APIs
Understands B2B2C dynamics
Comfortable with early-stage market validation
Strong taste for quality

Runway strives to recruit and retain exceptional talent from diverse backgrounds while ensuring pay equity for our team. Our salary ranges are based on competitive market rates for our size, stage and industry, and salary is just one part of the overall compensation package we provide.

There are many factors that go into salary determinations, including relevant experience, skill level and qualifications assessed during the interview process, and maintaining internal equity with peers on the team. The range shared below is a general expectation for the function as posted, but we are also open to considering candidates who may be more or less experienced than outlined in the job description. In this case, we will communicate any updates in the expected salary range.

Lastly, the provided range is the expected salary for candidates in the U.S. Outside of those regions, there may be a change in the range, which again, will be communicated to candidates.

Salary range: $280,000-$350,000

Working at Runway

Great things come from great teams. We’d love to hear from you.

We’re committed to creating a space where our employees can bring their full selves to work and have equal opportunity to succeed. So regardless of race, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, origin, ability, age, veteran status, if joining this mission speaks to you, we encourage you to apply.

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Company:
Runway
Location:
Remote
Work Location:
Remote
Experience Level:
Senior
Source:
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Status:
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