Head of Engineering
PikaPalo Alto, California, United States
Posted February 24, 2026
Full Time
About the Company
Pika is a cloud-based platform that transforms concepts into high‑quality videos. It offers AI‑driven storyboard creation, automated editing, and customizable templates for marketing, education, and entertainment. The platform emphasizes speed, ease of use, and creative flexibility, enabling users to produce polished videos without specialized skills. Pika’s distinctive value lies in its end‑to‑end workflow and collaborative tools that streamline ideation to final output.
Job Description
We're looking for a Head of Engineering to build, lead, and scale Pika's engineering organization. The role requires owning the entire engineering function, setting technical strategy, building the team, and driving execution.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience
- 4+ years in engineering management (managing managers preferred)
- Experience building engineering teams from scratch or scaling from small to medium
- Strong technical background — distributed systems, cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), API platforms, real-time systems
- Proven track record of delivery — you've shipped products used by millions of users
- Hiring expertise — you know how to source, evaluate, and close senior engineering talent
- Culture builder — you've created engineering environments where people do their best work
- Strategic thinker — you can translate business goals into technical roadmaps and organizational structure
- Comfortable with ambiguity — early-stage means priorities shift; you're energized by that, not frustrated
- Strong communicator — you represent engineering to the company and the company to engineering
Benefits
- Full-time employment
