Product Manager

Inkitt•San Francisco, CA

1d•$150,000 - $190,000•Onsite

About The Position

Inkitt is building the Disney of the 21st Century, standing at the forefront of technology and entertainment. Leveraging AI and predictive algorithms, Inkitt discovers unknown stories and turns them into blockbuster hits, producing a new $1M ebook every 7 days and selling directly to consumers through its Inkitt Galatea app. Bestsellers are then translated onto the screen through Inkitt CandyJar, the #1 US-based microdrama platform with billions of episodes streamed to date. Inkitt has become the 11th most bestseller-generating publisher in the world, boasting a 40x higher hit-rate than traditional publishers. Backed by some of the top VC’s such as: Khosla, Kleiner Perkins, and NEA Ventures, our recent expansion into Ironblood, the first AI Native streaming platform for action and adventure, is only the beginning of our journey to becoming the next-gen entertainment powerhouse. We run four consumer products and we are hiring product managers for all of them. Galatea — serialized fiction, millions of readers, coins and subscription CandyJar — the #1 US-based microdrama platform, billions of episodes streamed Ironblood — our new AI-native streaming platform for action and adventure Inkitt — the writing and discovery platform underneath all of it, where the stories come from. We decide which one you own at the point you start, not at the point you apply. When you join, we look at where the largest metric gap is across the portfolio and put you there. As the team grows, areas get reshuffled — people move to where the biggest problem is. We are telling you this up front because it is a real feature of working here, and because it does not suit everyone. If you want to own one named surface for three years, this is the wrong company. Some of our strongest product managers were hired for one thing and were doing something else entirely within a year — including one who was brought in to build internal tooling and ended up launching CandyJar from zero.

Requirements

4–10 years of professional experience. We do not require a set number of years with the title “product manager.” Several of our strongest PMs arrived with one to three, and one of our best had none at all.
At least one role, in any function, in a business where money changed hands frequently and directly — subscriptions, in-app purchases, payments, pricing, marketplaces, live operations, lifecycle marketing. We care that you have seen how revenue actually behaves, not that you have the product vocabulary for it. Analysts, BD, CRM, payments operations and growth marketers are all welcome here.
Numbers you produce yourself. You can size an opportunity, build the model, and write the SQL or the spreadsheet underneath it. You do not wait for an analyst to tell you whether something worked.
Evidence you have moved toward the product rather than the title — a lateral or downward title move to get closer to building something, or two or three functions inside one company.
Something you started that nobody asked you to start. A side project, a club, a process, a business, a team you created because it needed to exist.
Shipped work with numbers attached. Tell us what moved and by how much.
Consumer product instinct and real UX judgement.
Based in San Francisco. This role is five days a week onsite.

Nice To Haves

free-to-play games, serialized fiction, short-form video, audio or another high-frequency consumer content business; coins, virtual currency, offer design or live operations; mobile; a founder or first-employee stint.

Responsibilities

Own an app or area end to end — the roadmap, the backlog, the revenue and retention of it
Generate the ideas. Research competitors, the market and our users daily, and keep a ranked Top 3 that you are constantly trying to beat
Build the impact case before you build the feature: size the opportunity, show the maths, defend the number
Pitch to Ali, take the rejection, sharpen it, come back
Drive approved work through spec, design, engineering, QA and launch
Design and run A/B tests, ramp them responsibly, and read the results honestly — including when you lost
Publish what you learn, wins and losses alike, to the whole company
Hit the impact you predicted

Benefits

401k plan, designed to help you save for the future
Health benefits tailored to your needs, including medical, dental, and vision coverage
Professional coaching for everyone
Team-building events, including our annual Tulum trip
Unlimited access to our Galatea app and CandyJar app.
Unlimited budget for self-development books
Charity donation of your choice at your one year anniversary
Free lunch in office everyday
Class Pass membership for US based employee and gym access for Berlin employees
Dog-friendly offices in Berlin and San Francisco