Lead Product Manager - AI Developer Platform

Scribd, Inc.; Jacksonville (FL); Hybrid; USD 141,000 - 244,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work model

Comprehensive health coverage

Generous paid time off

Retirement matching

Job summary

Scribd, Inc. is seeking a Product Manager to lead its AI transformation, focusing on the developer experience. This foundational role involves understanding developer workflows, defining the internal app strategy, and driving product adoption metrics. The ideal candidate has 7+ years in product management, especially in developer tools or AI platforms, showcasing strong technical fluency and exceptional communication skills.

The position offers a competitive salary, equity ownership, and a flexible work model.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of product management experience focused on developer tools or AI platforms.
• Experience shipping products with modern AI/LLM technologies.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to varied audiences.

Responsibilities

• Own the product strategy for developer experience and internal app platforms.
• Translate workflows into requirements and actionable features.
• Define metrics for product adoption and impact.

Skills

Product management experience

Technical fluency

Strong communication skills

Experience with AI platforms

Job description

About Scribd, Inc.

Scribd, Inc. is on a mission to advance human understanding. Our four products — Scribd®, Slideshare®, Everand™, and Fable — help billions of people across the globe move beyond access and into insight, application, and expertise.

We support a culture where employees can be real and bold; debate and commit as we embrace plot twists; and are empowered to take action. We believe the best work happens when individual flexibility is balanced with meaningful community connection. Scribd Flex empowers employees to choose the workstyle and location that support their best performance, while committing to intentional in‑person moments that strengthen collaboration and culture. Occasional in‑person attendance is required for all employees, regardless of location.

Job Overview

This position is a foundational hire — Scribd's first product management role focused inward, with the company itself as the customer. You will lead Scribd's AI transformation, with the developer platform as the center of gravity, shaping the evolution of the developer & agentic experience.

About the Role

You will spend real time with developers and engineering teams to understand their workflows, manage friction, and define the next leap. Your responsibilities include leading product strategy for developer experience, measuring its impact, and guiding the internal app and agent platforms that every function depends on. This role reports to the Director, Developer Platform, and partners closely with Engineering and Product leadership.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the unified agentic enablement roadmap. Pull together the in‑flight AI workstreams across Scribd into a cohesive, sequenced roadmap and decide what is shared infrastructure versus function‑specific.
• Serve as product owner for the internal app and agent platforms. Define and drive product strategy for the internal app platform, the plugin marketplace, and the agent runtime, ensuring they meet real needs of each function.
• Translate between functions and the platform. Sit with different functions and their leaders to understand workflows, turn that into buildable requirements, and translate platform capabilities into actionable features.
• Drive cross‑functional commitments to closure. Keep load‑bearing shared infrastructure moving in lockstep and surface any seams before they fragment.
• Make agentic enablement legible to the company. Define metrics that matter — adoption, throughput, time recovered, evaluation quality, impact — and report against them to build a narrative that gains buy‑in.
• Partner on go‑to‑market for internal users. Plan and run rollouts, education, and feedback loops that drive measurable adoption; treat internal rollouts as rigorously as external launches.

About You

• 7+ years of product management experience, with notable focus owning developer tooling, AI platforms, or internal productivity tools.
• Demonstrated success in owning ambiguous, cross‑functional product surfaces end‑to‑end without a pre‑existing playbook.
• Hands‑on experience shipping real products with modern AI/LLM primitives — prompting, evals, tool use, agentic workflows, MCP, plugin or skill ecosystems, or comparable concepts.
• Strong technical fluency. Ability to hold your own with engineers on system design, API tradeoffs, evaluation methodology, and agent architectures.
• Track record of being a trusted technical‑strategy partner to engineering leadership, with influence at the architecture and roadmap horizon.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication; able to move between engineering deep‑dive, function‑lead strategy, and executive narrative within the same week.
• Comfortable moving things forward when priorities, scope, and ownership are still being defined.

Bonus Points

• A background that includes engineering, technical program management, or applied AI work in addition to product management.
• Experience as a PM, technical lead, or founder building internal‑facing developer tools, AI platforms, or productivity products at scale.
• Direct experience with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or other agentic coding environments.
• Familiarity with the operating realities of a multi‑product subscription business and a software stack that spans Ruby, Go, TypeScript, Python, and the AWS/Databricks ecosystem.
• Prior experience standing up a new function or a new PM role in an organization.

Compensation

Base pay ranges vary by location. For California: $171,000 to $256,500. Outside California in the United States: $141,000 to $244,000. In Canada: 179,000 CAD to 228,000 CAD. The position is also eligible for competitive equity ownership and a comprehensive benefits package.

Working Location

Applicants must have their primary residence in or near one of the following cities:

• United States: Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Dallas, Denver, Chicago, Houston, Jacksonville, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, Phoenix, Portland, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington D.C.
• Canada: Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver.
• Mexico: Mexico City.

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

Equal Employment Opportunity

Scribd, Inc. is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Applicants may request reasonable adjustments to support accessibility; please contact [e-mail]. Our privacy policy governs how we handle personal information during the application process.