Product Manager - Dream Machine

Luma AI

Luma AI

Product
Palo Alto, CA, USA
USD 150k-300k / year + Equity
Posted on Jul 29, 2025

Location

Palo Alto, CA

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Hybrid

Department

Product

Compensation

  • Estimated Base Salary $150K – $300K • Offers Equity

Our mission is to build multimodal AI to expand human imagination and capabilities.

We believe that multimodality is critical for intelligence. To go beyond language models and build more aware, capable and useful systems, the next step function change will come from vision. So we are working on training and scaling up multimodal foundation models for systems that can see and understand, show and explain, and eventually interact with our world to effect change.

Dream Machine is an early step to building that. Try it here https://dreammachine.luma.ai

Your Mission as One of Our First Product Managers

Why This Role Now, Bring Creative-Pro Expertise to Luma

As one of Luma’s first Product Managers dedicated to Dream Machine, you’ll own the roadmap for our flagship multimodal foundation-model creative platform. We’re continuing to move from research into product with zero existing PM function, so you’ll be the domain expert who accelerates us by bringing your deep knowledge of professional creative workflows and prior in-market consumer product launches. Your leadership will:

  • Seed Luma’s PM best practices around creative tools

  • Turn early traction into product-market fit for professional creators

  • Structure cross-functional teams to execute with speed and clarity

You’ll have high agency to define what delight looks like for creative professionals and translate that into shipped features. Massive equity upside and a chance to build at the frontier of AI.

What You’ll Create & Lead

  • Define and drive Dream Machine’s end-to-end product vision and roadmap, grounded in professional creator workflows

  • Validate what to build next by speaking directly with creative professionals, synthesizing those insights into actionable features

  • Lead cross-functional teams (engineering, design, research) to deliver polished creative tools under tight timelines

  • Assess project risks in a chaotic, fast-moving environment and bring clarity through structured milestones

  • Drive product-market fit for a consumer-grade, pro-capable creative platform via rapid iteration on usage and retention metrics

  • Act as the key communicator across stakeholders to align priorities and keep the train on track

  • Champion maker-style prototyping and hands-on UX craftsmanship to set the standard for delightful interactions

  • Influence the research agenda by marrying user insights with foundational model capabilities

  • Foster a culture of structured curiosity and problem-solving

What You’ll Bring

  • 3+ years shipping consumer-facing creative or editing tools (web or mobile) aimed at professional creators.

  • Demonstrated expertise in professional photo and video workflows

  • Hands-on UI/UX chops, you can prototype flows, mock up micro-interactions, and drive pixel-level polish

  • Strong user research and feature-discovery skills, have run at least 20 interviews or usability studies and turned insights into roadmap pivots

  • Excellent risk assessment, prioritization, and project management skills in ambiguous environments

  • Track record of metrics-driven launches, setting up funnels and iterating activation or retention loops from day one

  • Proven ability to translate model or architecture trade-offs into product trade-offs alongside engineering and research

  • Exceptional cross-functional communication, especially with design and engineering

  • Comfort working in a high-agency environment where you own and define the PM function

  • Familiarity with multimodal AI or foundational models is a strong plus

Why Luma? Shape the Future with Us

  • We’re assembling world-class researchers, engineers, designers and growth operators to build the next generation of creative tools

  • Luma is not just a lab, we ship delightful products that have already surprised the market

  • Strong runway, supportive backing, partnership with Humane AI, and Dream Machine’s recent feature releases have the industry buzzing

What do we value?

  • Deep domain expertise in creative workflows

  • Urgency, velocity, and execution

  • A maker’s mindset and pixel-level ownership

  • Clear communication and structured problem-solving

  • Product focus and metrics rigor

Compensation Range: $150K - $300K