Picsart hires Lusine Yeghiazaryan as CFO to scale AI video strategy

The appointment of a CFO with experience in Google Cloud partnerships and AI revenue segments signals Picsart's shift from a consumer photo editor to a sophisticated B2B media production ecosystem. By integrating tools like the Creative AI Agent Marketplace, the company is positioning its AI video strategy to capture professional workflows rather than just casual social sharing. This transition reflects a broader industry trend where creative platforms must justify heavy R&D spending through advanced monetization of generative features. As the company scales, the primary signal to track will be how effectively Yeghiazaryan converts the 1.1 billion AI-generated assets into sustainable average revenue per user growth.

Picsart operates in an increasingly crowded field of AI-powered creative platforms competing for both consumer and professional users. In May 2025, Canva announced it had surpassed 220 million monthly active users and launched its own suite of AI-powered design tools including Magic Studio, directly competing with Picsart's positioning as a creative AI platform for prosumers and small businesses. Adobe has also intensified its AI creative offerings, with Adobe reporting that Firefly-generated images exceeded 12 billion cumulative creations by mid-2025, underscoring the scale at which incumbent creative software companies are deploying generative AI across their product lines. The competitive pressure from both directions, Canva from below and Adobe from above, frames why Picsart's leadership transition carries strategic weight beyond a routine CFO hire. On the business and partnership side, Picsart has been building enterprise and platform relationships to support its monetization pivot. Hovhannes Avoyan, Picsart's founder and CEO, outlined the company's vision for an AI agent marketplace in a 2025 interview, describing plans to let third-party developers publish creative AI agents on the platform, signaling a shift toward a platform business model similar to app stores. The new CFO's background at SADA Systems, a Google Cloud consulting partner, aligns with this direction. SADA Systems was recognized as Google Cloud's 2024 Services Partner of the Year for North America, giving Yeghiazaryan direct experience in scaling cloud-based revenue models. That expertise will be relevant as Picsart seeks to convert its AI usage growth into structured enterprise and API revenue streams. From a technical and market perspective, the AI video generation space that Picsart is targeting has seen rapid capability improvements and new entrants throughout 2025. Runway raised $308 million in a Series D round in early 2025 at a $3 billion valuation, specifically to scale its Gen-4 video generation model, demonstrating investor confidence in standalone AI tools. Meanwhile, OpenAI launched Sora, its text-to-video model, in December 2024, generating significant attention for producing coherent video clips up to 60 seconds long, raising the bar for what users expect from AI video generation. Picsart's differentiation lies in integrating video generation into an existing creative workflow with over 100 million monthly users rather than building a standalone video tool, but the quality expectations set by these well-funded competitors will pressure the company's output quality as it scales. As the market matures, , further highlighting the rapid pace of innovation in the sector.