Lead Product Manager, Everand

Scribd, Inc.•Vancouver, BC

3d•$141,000 - $256,000

About The Position

Scribd, Inc. is hiring a Lead Product Manager to own the Everand subscription app for audiobooks and ebooks. The role sets the app’s long-term vision, owns the reader experience across every surface, and leads execution from strategy through launch. The goal is to create an app readers love, helping them choose their next book and return to Everand. The position will shape how Everand reaches new readers as well as serves its loyal existing audience. The role leads a cross-functional squad of engineers, designers, researchers, and analysts; sets goals and makes trade-offs; and partners with product, engineering, content, and marketing teams. The Product Manager uses reader research and behavioral insights to guide decisions, balances long-term investments with near-term improvements, and maintains high standards for app quality, performance, and reliability. They are expected to use AI throughout their work and consider where AI can improve the product while preserving the human aspects of reading. Success means readers stay longer, engage more, recommend Everand, and more often choose their next book within the app. The app should be known for quality, and the squad should ship and learn quickly with a strategy understood and supported by partner teams. The position is eligible for competitive equity ownership and a comprehensive benefits package. Scribd Flex supports employee choice of workstyle and location, with occasional in-person attendance required. Employees must have a primary residence in or near an approved city in the United States, Canada, or Mexico.

Requirements

At least 7 years of product management experience on consumer products, including at least 3 years owning a consumer native mobile app used by hundreds of thousands of people or more.
Strong interest in consumer apps and the ability to explain what makes successful apps effective and apply those insights to product decisions.
Ability to understand an audience’s motivations and examples of product decisions changed through direct user engagement.
A track record of improving an owned outcome metric, such as retention, engagement, or conversion.
Experience leading product through a major change, such as a platform rebuild, redesign, or move into a new audience.
Strong product craft, including partnering with design from the start and shipping consumer experiences that people return to.
Regular use of AI in daily work and a perspective on where AI improves consumer products and where human judgment or interaction matters more.
Experience with A/B testing and research, setting clear metrics and guardrails, and choosing when to rely on qualitative research or judgment.
Comfort making technical trade-offs involving performance, reliability, and recommendation or personalization systems.
Ability to influence without authority across product, engineering, marketing, and leadership.
Clear writing and prioritization skills, including the ability to explain the case for an investment and what will not be pursued.
Love of books and reading.

Nice To Haves

Experience with subscription businesses, including 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.

Responsibilities

Develop a deep understanding of Everand readers, including what motivates them, why they stay, and why they leave, and apply those insights to product decisions.
Set the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the iOS and Android app, owning the reader experience across every surface from first open to selecting the next book.
Lead a cross-functional squad of engineers, designers, researchers, and analysts; set goals, make trade-offs, and deliver high-quality work on time.
Use AI in research, prototyping, analysis, and product development, and bring AI into the product where it benefits readers.
Identify the biggest opportunities to make Everand more valuable to current and prospective readers.
Manage a portfolio of long-term bets and near-term improvements; test ideas with readers early and measure changes in reader behavior.
Maintain a high bar for app quality, performance, and reliability.
Partner with product, engineering, content, and marketing teams to deliver a consistent reader experience.
Communicate strategy to the squad, partner teams, and leadership, and adapt it as new information emerges.

Benefits

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.
Paid parental leave and family support benefits.
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.
Competitive equity ownership and a comprehensive benefits package.