📦 What is Hero and Lemonlight?

Hero is an AI-first SaaS platform built to transform the film and commercial production industry.

Turning an idea into a finished production is a complex process. Creative teams face challenges throughout the entire journey, from ideation and planning to collaboration, stakeholder alignment, client feedback, and execution. As a result, final deliverables often drift away from the original creative vision.

Hero addresses these challenges by streamlining the pre-production process and enabling creative teams to work more efficiently from concept to execution. The platform is designed for professional production teams working with real budgets and real-world deadlines, including creatives, producers, coordinators, and talent collaborating toward a shared goal. Today, Hero is focused on the short-form advertising market, with a long-term vision of supporting the entire video production lifecycle.

Rather than competing solely in AI-generated video creation, Hero leverages the best image, text, and video models available, combining them through intelligent workflows and advanced prompting techniques. The focus is on solving the operational and creative challenges that happen before production begins, helping teams move seamlessly from idea to set, and eventually from idea to crew and execution.

The platform is built on the belief that AI enhances creativity but does not replace it. Human expertise, creative judgment, and collaboration remain essential to producing exceptional results. Hero combines cutting-edge AI capabilities with workflows designed specifically for real-world creative teams.

Hero is backed by Lemonlight, a leading video production company that has delivered more than 50,000 videos for organizations ranging from global brands such as Amazon and Walmart to local businesses. This unique environment allows the product team to work closely with producers, editors, coordinators, and other industry professionals, ensuring the platform is shaped by real production needs.

As Hero prepares to expand beyond its closed beta phase, the team is investing heavily in pre-production logistics, crew management, and talent marketplace solutions. This is an opportunity to join a fast-growing product at an early stage and contribute to the development of innovative zero-to-one solutions that will shape the future of video production.

↗️ Why are we hiring?

We are growing our team and investing into deployment processes and architecture that are thinking about 2027 style unlocks, not 2025 habits.

I’m looking for a teammate to be interdisciplinary, autonomous, and a great coach. This teammate will predominantly deploy to production, but will also improve each aspect of our PDLC to drive greater autonomy and velocity across the org. You will model a new chapter in product development as a full-stack builder, and can think product, design, and engineering.

☑️ Requirements

1. Improve the P/SDLC from end to end. Identify friction points, write skill files, integrate new tools, measure performance, and unblock everyone everywhere. The outcome needed is a step function increase in team velocity from idea to deployment and builder autonomy.
2. Ship and deploy. Work with PXMs on specifications and problems, and ship full-stack solutions. Outcome is customer and business metrics are hit. You should be able to do this entirely on your own.
3. Mentor and grow the team. Show your excellence first, then turn around and teach others your ways. Outcome is individual team skills grow.
4. Innovate and drive value. Put on your product hat, define your own experiments in alignment with our strategy, get the data you need, and drive outcomes. Outcome is you model the full stack builder of eng + PXM skills.

➕ Nice to Have

1. Leadership chops - demonstrate teams you’ve led with a clear mission and outcomes you’ve owned and won.
2. Film chops - background in the film or video industry.
3. Image and video model chops - demonstrate experience working with image and video model APIs with real customers.
4. Chaining and harnessing chops - demonstrate knowledge of chaining prompts and models based on user jobs to be done and model skills.
5. Ops chops - proven background with Dev Ops or Product Ops.
6. Proven velocity - prove from past experience how you’ve >2x’d deployment velocity for a team.
7. Design chops - showcase visual design skills or design system management in the AI era.
8. Product chops - showcase product sense and strategic opportunity identification taken to market by you.

⚙️ Stack & Team

React 19, Node.js, Nest, AWS, MongoDB, Tiptap, Y.js. 2 PXMs, 7 eng, 2 PXMs. Most of the team is in Poland, with 2 people in LA. We are expanding both locations.

❤️ Our Culture:

1. Better > Best. You won’t ever be perfect, so strive to consistently be 1% better than yesterday. It is far better to act, move, and learn than to wait for the never-arriving perfect moment. “I am always growing.”
2. Customers → Team → You. Do what’s right for the customer. A decision that’s good for you and bad for the customer is the wrong decision.
3. Play is a KPI. Play is the natural outcome of the whole machine working. If we aren't laughing (including at ourselves), something went wrong. There is no better compliment from our customers than them truly playing with Hero.
4. Teamwork is the superpower. No individual can outperform a team working well together. If in doubt, help your teammate.
5. Be Curious, not judgmental. Judgement and assumptions close doors. Humility and curiosity opens them.
6. Everyone builds. Simple. Managers build. ICs build. Everyone ships. Everyone owns the outcomes of what they make.