Director, Product Management - Bible Gateway (Remote)
About The Position
HarperCollins Christian Publishing is committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and highly values diverse backgrounds and insights that fuel our innovation. The Director of Product Management for Bible Gateway sits at the intersection of business, technology, and design to define and deliver customer-first, digitally-enabled experiences for Bible study and engagement for the largest Christian website in the world. This role operates strategically in developing the vision and direction for Bible Gateway as a whole, as well as for Bible Gateway Plus, a subscription-based digital Bible study tool. They will be responsible for leading and influencing cross-functional internal and external teams, while tactically leading execution of development, optimization and evaluation of outcomes against predetermined performance targets.
Requirements
- 8+ years of consumer-facing software product management, software product marketing, development and/or UX design experience, with 4+ years of consumer-facing software product
- Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Computer Science, UX design, or related field (or equivalent)
- Excellent relationship builder, with the ability to lead and influence across functions.
- Understanding of core UX and funnel marketing principles.
- Strong quantitative and qualitative analysis skills, data-driven, and has experience with A/B and multivariate testing.
- Skilled at understanding and empathizing with consumer needs, while balancing with business goals.
- Strong business judgment and eye for prioritizing competing priorities.
Nice To Haves
- Experience developing AI-integrated products is strongly preferred.
- Experience with subscription model consumer businesses, Bible study or Ed Tech tools are strongly preferred.
- Familiarity with the Bible a plus.
Responsibilities
- Collaborating with cross-functional areas (UX, IT, Operations, Analytics, Finance, Marketing) to identify and deliver value through a customer-first, digitally enabled ecosystem.
- Developing compelling digital product visions and strategies grounded in customer needs, business goals, data, and insights.
- Conducting data analysis to identify business opportunities and providing actionable insights.
- Performing constant A/B testing on website content, layout, messaging, and user interface to improve overall web performance.
- Translating product vision into outcome focused roadmaps that communicate clear direction and digital product priorities across the organization based on the value that will be delivered.
- Managing multiple stakeholder expectations while delivering on the product vision, ensuring decisions that impact the product are grounded in material business and customer benefits.
- Establishing product goals, metrics, and analytics to measure product value outcomes; managing and grooming a product backlog based on performance while maintaining balance between innovative capabilities and foundational refinements and enablers.
- Analyzing consumer needs, current market trends, and potential partnerships from a build/buy perspective; assessing current competitor offerings, identifying opportunities for differentiation.
- Partnering with finance and other teams as needed to develop business cases and benefits to support investment in product features and functionality.
- Delivering the product’s value through a highly collaborative, cross-functional team comprised of business, technology, and design disciplines working in an agile framework.
- Engaging relevant stakeholders to create deployment plans and internal communications; ensuring product capabilities are positioned for successful adoption across functions and brands.
- Providing end-to-end subject matter expertise for the digital product internally and as the primary point for any needs related to the product area.
- Translating and documenting requirements in the format of product epics, features, user stories and acceptance criteria.
Benefits
- In addition to cash compensation, the company provides a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package, with a variety of physical health, retirement and savings, caregiving, emotional wellbeing, transportation, and other benefits, including "elective" benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
