Product Operations Intern

Genies is an avatar technology company powering the next era of interactive digital identity through Smart Avatars. With the Avatar Framework and intuitive creation tools, Genies enables developers, talent, and creators to generate and deploy game-ready Smart AI companions. The company’s technology stack supports full customization, AI-generated fashion and props, and seamless integration of user-generated content (UGC). Backed by investors including Bob Iger, Silver Lake, BOND, and NEA, Genies’ mission is to become the visual and interactive layer for the LLM-powered internet.

Genies is looking for a Product Operations Intern to join our growing Product team and gain hands-on experience in operationalizing the future of Smart Avatars. This role offers an opportunity to learn the intricacies of our AI Avatar initiatives: you’ll work closely with Product Managers, Engineers, Designers, and external IP partners to assist in the training, testing, and optimization of AI Avatars, ensuring every experience is delightful, on-brand, and deeply engaging for users. You’ll be involved in avatar research, production coordination, user testing, customer interviews, and prompt iteration—all helping bridge the gap between our creative ambitions and technical execution. This is an in-person role based in Los Angeles, with the potential for full-time conversion or growth into other cross-functional roles within the company.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Assist Avatar Production: Assist with research on talent and IP personas to inform Smart Avatar personality, visual identity, and conversational style.

• Support Smart Avatar Training: Support the building, training, and testing of Smart Avatars. Evaluate conversation quality, personality alignment, and fan experience. Assist with writing and iterating on prompts, memories, and behaviors.

• Support Operations Management: Assist the team in managing the development schedule of Smart Avatars as they are built and released in the Genies ecosystem.

• Participate in User Research: Participate in structured interviews and usability studies with early users and fans. Help analyze qualitative data to inform product decisions.

• QA & Feature Validation: Assist in proactive identification of bugs, issues, and mismatches in AI responses. Collaborate with engineers and PMs to suggest fixes and improvements.

• Document Workflows & Feedback Loops: Help document workflows and track experiments, training data, version history, and user insights in clean documentation.

• Benchmarking & Competitive Analysis: Conduct benchmarking and competitive analysis on emerging trends in AI companions, fandom culture, and character-driven chat experiences. Present findings to the team.

• Support AI Companion Scaling: Support the team in identifying bottlenecks and building scalable playbooks for training and launching AI characters.

What You Should Have

• Currently enrolled in a Bachelor's or Master's degree program (or recently graduated) in a relevant field.

• Strong attention to detail and organizational skills.

• A passion for AI, gaming, entertainment, or digital characters—you’re excited about what’s coming next.

• Clear communication skills and the ability to give both structured feedback and narrative insights.

• Strong curiosity about how things work and how they can be improved.

• Comfortable with ambiguity and evolving workflows in a startup environment.

• Experience using AI tools like ChatGPT, Midjourney, Perplexity, or Character.ai is a plus.

• Bonus: familiarity with Unity, prompt engineering, or 3D production workflows.

How Genies will support you

• Competitive salary and equity packages

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance

• Unlimited PTO

• Parental leave

• Hybrid work structure (minimum 4 days in office weekly)

• Monthly wellness reimbursement

Genies is a well-funded, fast-growing start-up that values innovation, creativity, and ownership. Our roles and their responsibilities are created with a breadth of scope that introduces each employee to exciting new challenges and opportunities that a growing start-up encounters. The actual base pay is dependent upon a number of factors, including: professional background, training, transferable skills, work experience, education, location, business and product needs, and market demand. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.