Inside an imagined Imaginary office: a great timber room where an ancient tree grows through the middle, strung with glowing lanterns, with worktables, storyboards, bookshelves and a fire
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Careers · The founding team

Come build wonder with us.

Imaginary is assembling a small, elite team of inventors, engineers, storytellers and artists to bring the world’s most beloved characters to life.

Introduce yourselfSee the seats at the table

Why Imaginary

Some companies build tools. We build the characters people love, and the operating system that brings them to life.

001TextSanta, our first character, texting families this Christmas
30+AI models and services, orchestrated as one character
NextThe Tooth Fairy, and a child’s own bear that can talk back

How we work

Four promises we make to each other.

01

Wonder first

We start with the feeling a family should have, then invent whatever it takes to make it real.

02

Craft is the product

Every line of dialogue, every frame and every millisecond matters. Families can feel the difference.

03

Small team, enormous leverage

Each of us builds alongside a fleet of AI agents. A handful of people can do what used to take a hundred.

04

Trust is sacred

Children and parents trust us. Safety and privacy are designed in from the first sketch, never bolted on.

A peek inside

What an Imaginary office could feel like.

Somewhere between a library, a workshop and a storybook. Lanterns overhead, sketches on every wall, and a bench where toys learn to talk.

A story wall covered in sketches and paintings of Santa, a tooth fairy, a teddy bear and a lantern bunny, joined with red string, beside a warm desk lamp and a mug of cocoa
The story wall. Every character starts here: a sketch, a voice and a canon.
A tinkering bench at night: a teddy bear with a small glowing voice module stitched inside, surrounded by tools, sketches, a lantern and a laptop showing a waveform
The tinkering bench. Where a child’s bear learns to talk.
The great room with a tree growing through it, lanterns, worktables and a fireplace
The great room. Lanterns overhead, and room to think big.

Seats at the table

The founding team, one seat at a time.

We aren’t hiring for every seat today, and we never hire just to fill one. We’re always looking for exceptional people who want to make the impossible feel real.

Introduce yourself

Bring us your best what if.

Tell us what you’ve made and what you’d build here. Every note is read by Jeff himself.

Wick, Imaginary's plush lantern bunny, sitting on a quilt with his lantern
Wick will keep a lantern on for you.