Kino AI

Kino automatically organizes footage to make video editing faster.

Chief of Staff

$130K - $180K / 0.50% - 1.50%
Location
San Francisco, CA, US
Job Type
Full-time
Experience
Any (new grads ok)
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Luke Igel
Luke Igel
Founder

About the role

About your work

You will wear many hats (recruiting, sales, marketing, ops, finance, etc.). This is a non-exhaustive list of initial responsibilities:

  • Constant pulse on current leads and customers
  • “Constant vigilance” approach to new leads / studios / producers. You are actively hunting for our next best customer through every medium and network possible.
  • Create new decks, new marketing materials proactively as needed
  • Lead recruiting
  • Maintain CRM
  • Conduct market analysis exercises (incl. identifying market opportunities, market sizing, competitive analysis)

About you

  • You are proactive - you anticipate problems before they arise, you know what questions you’ll be asked and have prepared responses before they’re asked, you predict what the company will need next and proactively outline what it is and the steps for how we’ll get there
  • You ruthlessly prioritize - you work closely with the CEO to prioritize what’s important and what can wait
  • You have high degrees of ownership - you want a problem solved end-to-end and will do everything to make it happen
  • You are fast - you maintain a high quality at a top speed, you communicate when things will be done and stick to those deadlines
  • You are curious - you are an elite analytical and conceptual problem solver, intentionally build and maintain relationships, love to learn about our unique industry, onboard quickly onto tools the team uses and constantly think about how we could be operating better

What we offer

  • Work alongside world class engineers and applied researchers
  • Make your mark; this is a very new codebase heavy customer usage.
  • Impact on a product that will change the entertainment industry
  • Interact daily with some of the most important entertainment brands
  • Unlimited PTO

About the interview

If invited, this role requires an in-person work trial in San Francisco, as this is an in-person role. If this is not possible for you, please send an explanation. We are strong believers in an in-person culture!

About Kino AI

Kino AI is building tools and training models to organize video. We serve top movie and TV studios, and we make editing more productive and enjoyable.

We're a deeply technical team from MIT, SpaceX, AWS and Citadel Securities. We're backed by Y Combinator, AI Grant, and many others.

Kino currently has more demand than it can handle. We need more engineers, deeper integration within current firms, and greater reach across the industry.

Kino AI
Founded:2022
Team Size:3
Location:
Founders
Luke Igel
Luke Igel
Founder