Lead Product Manager, Everand

Scribd•San Francisco, CA

About The Position

Everand is Scribd, Inc.'s subscription app for audiobooks and ebooks. The Lead Product Manager will own the Everand app, set its long-term vision, and lead the reader experience across every surface from strategy through launch. The role aims to build an app readers love, help them choose their next book, and encourage them to return, while reaching book lovers who have not yet found Everand. The position requires deep understanding of Everand readers and their motivations, and applying that knowledge to product decisions. The Lead Product Manager will set the iOS and Android vision, strategy, and roadmap; lead a cross-functional squad; identify investment opportunities; balance long-term bets with near-term improvements; test ideas with readers; and measure changes in reader behavior. They will maintain a high bar for quality, performance, and reliability, collaborate across product, engineering, content, and marketing, and communicate strategy to partner teams and leadership as it evolves through learning. The role also calls for using AI in day-to-day product work and incorporating it into the product where it benefits readers while preserving the human aspects of the experience. Success means readers stay longer, engage more, recommend Everand, and more often choose their next read within the app. The app should be recognized for quality, and the squad should ship and learn quickly with a strategy understood and supported by partner teams.

Requirements

7+ years of product management experience on consumer products.
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 leading apps successful and apply those insights to product decisions.
Ability to understand audience motivations and examples of product decisions changed after spending time with users.
Track record of moving an owned outcome metric, such as retention, engagement, or conversion.
Experience leading a 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 people return to.
AI-native working style, with AI used regularly and a point of view on where it improves consumer products and where human touch matters more.
Experience with A/B testing and research, setting clear metrics and guardrails, and knowing when qualitative research or judgment is appropriate.
Comfort making technical trade-offs involving performance, reliability, and recommendation or personalization systems.
Ability to influence across product, engineering, marketing, and leadership without formal authority.
Clear writing and prioritization skills, including the ability to advocate for a bet and explain 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

Understand Everand readers, including what motivates them, why they stay, and why they leave, and use those insights in product decisions.
Set the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the Everand app on iOS and Android, owning the reader experience across every surface.
Lead a squad of engineers, designers, researchers, and analysts; set goals, make trade-offs, and deliver high-quality work on time.
Keep the reader experience human and grounded in readers' tastes and the pleasure of reading.
Use AI to accelerate research, prototyping, analysis, and product building, and incorporate AI into the product where it helps readers.
Identify the largest opportunities to make Everand more valuable for current readers and audiences the product does not yet reach.
Manage a portfolio balanced between long-term bets and near-term improvements.
Test ideas with readers early and measure success through changes in their behavior.
Maintain a high bar for app quality, performance, and reliability.
Partner with product, engineering, content, and marketing teams to create a consistent reader experience.
Communicate strategy to the squad, partner teams, and leadership, and adapt it as new information emerges.

Benefits

Competitive equity ownership.
Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage.
Mental health support and disability coverage.
Paid time off, including vacation, sick time, holidays, winter break, volunteer time, and sabbaticals.
Paid parental leave and family support benefits.
Retirement matching.
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.
Scribd Flex flexible work model.