Head of Cross-platform

Head of Cross-platform Job Description

Job Overview

Photoroom is seeking a Head of Cross-Platform to lead our world-class Rust cross-platform team. You will drive our long-term technical vision and make bold strategic bets to enhance our internal SDK while managing the team.

Responsibilities

• Long-term strategy and execution of our internal Rust-based engine, including rendering, document model, data synchronization, and real-time collaboration.
• Cross-functional partnership - Serve as the keystone behind our iOS, Android, Web apps, and API.
• Team leadership - Scale our team while maintaining culture and excellence, fostering knowledge-sharing and bottom-up initiatives.
• Technical excellence - Engage in code review, performance optimization, and troubleshooting of complex issues.

Key opportunities to drive impact:

• Establish technical direction for our ambitious goals around agentic image editing.
• Advance our wgpu-based rendering pipeline for a best-in-class editing experience.
• Create space for calculated risk-taking alongside rapid shipping excellence.

Requirements

Must-haves:

• Proven experience leading deeply technical teams within product companies, with strategic decision-making, hiring, and mentorship experience.
• Technical depth for mentorship - capacity to spot code issues, debug failures, analyze performance bottlenecks, and guide individual contributors through complex technical challenges.
• Cross-platform experience - Building tools and libraries aimed at being consumed by other developers, in Rust or C/C++.
• Cross-functional collaboration - Work closely with other Engineering teams, Product, Sales, etc.; ability to simplify deeply technical topics into understandable terms.
• Empowering leadership style with technical credibility - Set context, maintain hands-on expertise, code review proficiency, and give opinionated technical guidance.

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience working with or leading engineers on rendering APIs: OpenGL, WebGL, Vulkan, Metal, WebGPU, DX12, etc.
• Experience ensuring maintainability and scalability of large (>100k LOC) Rust codebases.
• Experience with text-rendering pipelines or vector-graphics editing pipelines.

Benefits

• Competitive salary + stock options.
• Remote-friendly within a 3-hour flight from Paris, with a monthly visit to Paris (fully reimbursed), or the option to come to the office more frequently.
• Relocation support up to €10k + visa sponsorship for France-based positions.
• Full tech setup + annual company retreats.
• Language lessons available for English & French.

About the Company

Photoroom launched in 2020 after being accepted into Y Combinator and has become the world's most popular AI photo editor over the past four years. Our goal is to enable anyone to create studio-level product images in minutes.

With over 300 million downloads and processing 5+ billion images annually, we serve individual creators and major enterprises like Amazon, DoorDash, and Decathlon through our B2C app and B2B API solutions.

We're a profitable, remote-friendly company that has raised Series B funding and aims for 40% year-over-year growth. Our team of 100+ passionate builders focuses on craft, innovation, and collaboration, creating exceptional impact for entrepreneurs and businesses worldwide.