About us
Founded in 2019 and part of Y Combinator's 2020 cohort, Photoroom is the leading visual solution for e-commerce.
We've raised Series B funding and reached 300+ million users worldwide, processing over 5 billion images annually and serving both small businesses and major enterprises like Amazon, DoorDash, and Decathlon through our mobile app, web platform, and API.
We're a remote-friendly team of 100+ passionate builders giving e-commerce businesses superpowers to create visuals that help them grow, making the hardest parts of selling online disappear. We focus on craft, innovation, and collaboration, creating exceptional impact for e-commerce businesses worldwide.
Head of GenAI Platform
Role Summary
We’re looking for a Head of GenAI Platform to define and scale the infrastructure powering every AI capability at Photoroom. You’ll lead the strategy behind our generative AI platform, from model orchestration and inference infrastructure to foundation model training, enabling our teams to ship breakthrough AI products faster than anyone else.
This is a highly strategic leadership role combining deep technical expertise, organisational leadership, and product thinking. You’ll work closely with our CTO and senior leaders across Product and Engineering to shape how AI is built, deployed, and scaled across the company.
Compensation: Competitive salary + meaningful equity
Location: Paris, France (Hybrid)
Relocation: Visa sponsorship and relocation support up to €10,000 available
About the Role
You’ll be responsible for building both the technical foundations and the organisation that enable Photoroom’s next generation of AI products.
Your responsibilities will include:
Defining the long-term vision and technical strategy for our GenAI Platform
Building the infrastructure that powers image generation, video generation, model serving, orchestration, evaluation and agentic workflows
Partnering with Research to rapidly bring new models into production
Driving platform reliability, scalability and cost efficiency across billions of inference requests
Leading and growing a multidisciplinary team of ML Engineers, Software Engineers and Researchers
Creating an environment where ambitious technical ideas can move from research to production in days rather than months
Working closely with Product, Engineering and Executive leadership to ensure platform investments directly accelerate product innovation
What You’ll Bring
We’re looking for someone who combines exceptional technical depth with proven leadership experience.
You’ll likely have:
Significant experience leading Machine Learning or AI organisations within product-focused companies
Experience building and operating large-scale AI platforms, including model serving, orchestration, inference infrastructure or agent frameworks
Strong technical expertise across Generative AI, Computer Vision or Foundation Models
Experience growing high-performing engineering and research teams through hiring, coaching and organisational design
A track record of translating ambitious research into production systems used by millions of users
Strong product instincts and the ability to balance long-term technical investments against immediate customer impact
Excellent communication skills and experience partnering with Product, Engineering, Marketing and Executive stakeholders
What Success Looks Like
Within your first 12-18 months, you’ll have:
Established a clear long-term strategy for Photoroom’s AI platform
Built infrastructure that significantly reduces the time required to ship new AI capabilities
Enabled research teams to move new models into production rapidly and reliably
Improved platform performance, reliability and infrastructure efficiency at scale
Built and retained a world-class team of ML Engineers, Researchers and Platform Engineers
Created evaluation frameworks that allow model quality, cost and latency to be measured consistently across the platform
Helped define the technical direction that underpins the next generation of AI-powered products at Photoroom
Why This Role Matters
Every AI capability at Photoroom depends on the platform your team builds.
From foundation model training to model orchestration, evaluation pipelines and production inference, you’ll shape the technical backbone that enables our teams to innovate quickly while operating at massive scale.
This is an opportunity to influence both the long-term direction of our AI strategy and the systems that process billions of images every year.
About Photoroom
Photoroom was launched in 2020 after being accepted into Y Combinator and has grown into one of the world’s leading AI photo editing platforms.
Today we have:
Over 300 million downloads
More than 5 billion images processed annually
Millions of active users across mobile, web and API
Customers ranging from individual creators to global brands including Amazon, Shopify, eBay, DoorDash, Decathlon and Depop
We’re profitable, growing rapidly and continuing to invest heavily in AI research and product innovation. Our teams train our own foundation models, operate large-scale GPU infrastructure, and build AI products used every day by millions of people worldwide.
Working at Photoroom
We believe great people do their best work when given ownership, autonomy and ambitious problems to solve.
We offer:
Competitive salary and meaningful equity
Hybrid working from our Paris headquarters
Visa sponsorship and relocation support
MacBook Pro and full home office setup
30 days annual leave
Private healthcare
Regular company off-sites and team retreats
A collaborative, high-performance engineering culture focused on shipping impactful AI products
Hiring Process
Recruiter conversation
Introductory discussion with our CTO
Technical deep dive
Leadership and cross-functional interviews
References
Offer
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging
We're committed to enabling everyone to feel included and valued at work. We believe our company and culture are strongest when composed of diverse experiences and backgrounds.
That's also why we have flexible working hours, trust people to work remotely, and extended parental leave.
All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, family, gender identity, marital status, national origin, physical or mental disability, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws.