Lead Product Manager, Everand

About Scribd, Inc. Scribd, Inc. is on a mission to advance human understanding. Our four products — Scribd®, Slideshare®, Everand™, and Fable — help billions of people across the globe move beyond access and into insight, application, and expertise.

Scribd, Inc.

Scribd, Inc. is on a mission to advance human understanding through 4 products — Scribd®, Slideshare®, Everand™, & Fable

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scribdinc.com

201-500 employees

Software Development

San Francisco, California

2007

Privately Held

40k LinkedIn followers

Raised $106.8M

• Understand Everand's readers deeply: what motivates them, why they stay, and why they leave. Use that understanding in every decision.
• Set the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the app on iOS and Android, and own the reader experience on every surface, from first open to their next book.
• Lead a squad of engineers, designers, researchers, and analysts, and own execution: set goals, make trade-offs, and ship well-made work on time.
• Keep the reader experience human, grounded in readers' taste and the pleasure of reading. Work as an AI-native PM, using AI to speed up research, prototyping, analysis, and building, and bringing it into the product where it helps readers.
• Decide where to invest by finding the biggest opportunities to make Everand more valuable, for current readers and for readers we don't reach yet.
• Manage a balanced portfolio of long-term bets and near-term improvements. Test ideas with readers early, and measure success by how their behavior changes.
• Hold a high bar for app quality, performance, and reliability.
• Partner with product, engineering, content, and marketing teams to give readers a consistent experience.
• Bring your squad, partner teams, and leadership along on your strategy, and change it as you learn.
• Readers stay longer, engage more, and recommend Everand to others.
• Readers decide what to read next inside Everand more often.
• The app is known for its quality.
• Your squad ships and learns quickly, with a strategy partner teams understand and support.
• At Scribd, Inc., your base pay is one part of your total compensation package and is determined within a range. Our pay ranges are based on the local cost of labor benchmarks for each specific role, level, and geographic location. San Francisco is our highest geographic market in the United States.
• In the state of California, the reasonably expected salary range is between $171,000 [minimum salary in our lowest geographic market within California] to $256,000 [maximum salary in our highest geographic market within California].
• In the United States, outside of California, the reasonably expected salary range is between $141,000 [minimum salary in our lowest US geographic market outside of California] to $244,000 [maximum salary in our highest US geographic market outside of California].
• In Canada, the reasonably expected salary range is between $179,000 CAD[minimum salary in our lowest geographic market] to $228,000 CAD[maximum salary in our highest geographic market].
• We carefully consider a wide range of factors when determining compensation, including but not limited to experience; job-related skill sets; relevant education or training; and other business and organizational needs. The salary range listed is for the level at which this job has been scoped. In the event that you are considered for a different level, a higher or lower pay range would apply. This position is also eligible for a competitive equity ownership, and a comprehensive and generous benefits package.
• Working at Scribd, Inc.
• Are you currently based in a location where Scribd, Inc. can employ you?
• Employees must have their primary residence in or near one of the following cities. This includes surrounding metro areas or locations within a typical commuting distance
• Atlanta | Austin | Boston | Dallas | Denver | Chicago | Houston | Jacksonville | Los Angeles | Miami | New York City | Phoenix | Portland | Sacramento | Salt Lake City | San Diego | San Francisco | Seattle | Washington D.C.
• Canada
• Ottawa | Toronto | Vancouver
• Mexico
• Mexico City
• Benefits at Scribd, Inc.
• Scribd Flex (flexible work model)
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
• Mental health support and disability coverage
• Generous paid time off, including vacation, sick time, holidays, winter break, volunteer time, and sabbaticals

Required

• 7+ years of product management experience on consumer products, including 3+ years owning a consumer native mobile app used by hundreds of thousands of people or more.
• You are obsessed with consumer apps and study how they work. You can explain what makes the best ones good, and it shows in your product decisions.
• You understand your audience by what motivates them, and you can point to decisions you changed after time with users.
• A track record of moving an outcome metric you owned, such as retention, engagement, or conversion.
• Experience leading product through a major change, such as a platform rebuild, a redesign, or a move into a new audience.
• Product craft. You work with design from the start, and you've shipped consumer experiences people come back to.
• You're AI-native. AI is part of how you work every day, and you have a point of view on where it makes a consumer product better for people and where a human touch matters more.
• Experience with A/B testing and research. You set clear metrics and guardrails, and you know when to rely on qualitative research or judgment instead.
• Comfort with technical trade-offs, including performance, reliability, and recommendation or personalization systems.
• Influence without authority across product, engineering, marketing, and leadership.
• Clear writing and prioritization. You can make the case for a bet and for what you'll leave out.
• You love books and reading.

Preferred

• Experience with subscription businesses: trials, plans, retention, and churn.
• Experience with audio, video, podcast, or reading apps, including players and offline use.
• Experience shipping discovery surfaces such as home, browse, search, or personalized feeds.
• Experience with community or social features in a consumer product.

• Retirement matching and employee equity
• Learning and development programs and professional growth opportunities
• Wellness and home office stipends
• Complimentary access to the Scribd, Inc. suite of products
• Enterprise access to leading AI tools
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