Wattpad is hiring a
Product Manager

Summary

The job description is for a Product Manager position at Wattpad, responsible for creating, evolving, and maintaining multiple ad/premium products. The candidate should have relevant experience, strong product instincts, excellent leadership skills, and a passion for storytelling. Benefits include career development, health benefits, RRSP/401K contributions, generous vacation and parental leave, corporate gym discounts, winter break shutdown, and more.

Requirements

• At least 1-3 years of professional experience as a product manager
• Experience and understanding of technology systems
• Have strong product instincts about getting from a user pain point to an underlying problem
• Passion for the power of storytelling
• Excellent leadership and communications skills, with experience managing a variety of stakeholders
• Data-driven/analytical mindset with the ability to break down complex problems into manageable tasks and prioritize them and work comfortably in forecasts and revenue predictions
• Natural curiosity with a thirst to validate assumptions with data, insight and peer discussions to inform yourself better

Responsibilities

• Work with a multi-functional team to create, evolve and maintain multiple ad/premium products
• Contribute to the product roadmap for the track
• Be responsible for hitting goals in line with the company strategy
• Facilitate a strong product discovery process around understanding users, partners and stakeholder needs constantly validating hypotheses
• Work closely with our engineering teams to better define, implement and iterate on solutions together
• Seek to deeply understand how readers engage with our business models while consuming stories, clearly define and prioritize challenges and opportunities to ensure we are working on the right things at the right time
• Work closely with the 10+ product management team to ensure a cohesive and integrated product experience that meets the needs of our 90M users, while supporting each other’s development across the practice
• Build strong relationships across the company to help solve problems together

Preferred Qualifications

Degree in Computer Science/Engineering, Business, or UX Design an asset

Benefits

• Career development; we believe in mentorship and investing in your learning, supporting you to achieve your goals
• Health benefits, including vision and dental!
• RRSP Contributions (Canada), 401K Contributions (USA)
• Generous vacation and Parental Leave Top-up
• Corporate discount for gym memberships for you and your family
• Winter break shutdown and a whole lot more!