Entrepreneur in Residence - GenAI

Cloudinary is the media experience platform that helps developers and brands manage, transform, and deliver images, video, and 3D at scale. Our APIs, SDKs, and workflow tools power high-performance media across web, mobile, and apps for thousands of companies worldwide.

Cloudinary’s Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) is an embedded founder who incubates and de-risks new growth bets - from zero-to-one product concepts to new go-to-market motions. You’ll run lean experiments, validate customer pain, build prototypes or business cases, and chart the path to scale (or a fast, evidence-based sunset). Upon a “Go” decision, the EIR will transition into the General Manager of the initiative, with end-to-end ownership (strategy, roadmap, P&L, and team). Think of this as an internal startup founder with privileged access to Cloudinary’s people, platform, and customers—and a defined path to GM.
What You’ll Do:
Venture Discovery & Thesis: Identify high-potential opportunity areas aligned to strategy. Craft ICPs and testable hypotheses worthy of funded experiments.
Customer & Market Validation: Lead problem interviews, solution tests, and early commercial signal checks with design partners. Size the market and map competitive dynamics.
Experimentation & Prototyping: Orchestrate rapid MVPs/POCs using vibe coding and no-code/low-code tools alongside a small cross-functional group (Product, Eng, Design, RevOps). Define stage gates and exit criteria; sunset quickly when signals are weak
Commercialization & GM Transition: Propose viable GTM (self-serve vs. enterprise), channels/partnerships, unit economics, and success metrics. If “Go,” you will transition to GM and lead scale-up—own resourcing, roadmap, operating cadence, and cross-functional execution.
Internal Enablement: Mentor PMs/PMMs on lean experimentation and evidence-based decisioning; codify reusable playbooks and templates.
External Sensing: Maintain a network of founders/partners; surface relevant partnerships or build/buy/ally options.
Qualifications
Former founder, GM, or senior product leader with a 0 1 track record and X+ years of experience shipping products/businesses to meaningful revenue.
Demonstrated ability to run fast, resource-efficient experiments that lead to scaled wins or smart sunsets.
Strong instincts in developer platforms and/or media technology (APIs, performance, AI/ML-assisted workflows, content ops, e-commerce).
Proficient in product analytics and operating in both self-serve and enterprise B2B motions.
Excellent storytelling and stakeholder influence; effective without formal authority.
Language: Strong English required; Hebrew an advantage.
Mandatory: Generative AI background
5 years of hands-on experience designing, fine-tuning, or shipping generative systems (LLMs/multimodal, diffusion/GAN/VAEs, or RAG) that create novel text, image, video, audio, or 3D content at production quality.
Demonstrated evaluation, alignment/safety, and productionization (serving, latency/cost optimization, observability) of these systems.
Success Indicators (examples; finalized at kickoff)
Decision-grade experiment readouts that drive clear Go/No-Go calls.
MVP/POC demonstrating activation, time-to-value, or willingness-to-pay with design partners.
On “Go”: formal transition to GM, with an approved business case, resourcing plan, and operating model.
Reusable playbooks adopted by core teams; improved cost-per-validated-learning.
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