Lead Product Manager (Everand)

Scribd; Texas; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare Insurance

Parental leave 12 weeks

Disability plans

401k matching

Tuition reimbursement

Wellness stipend

Mental health resources

Free Scribd membership

Vacation days

Diversity & Inclusion programs

Job summary

Scribd is seeking a Lead Product Manager to own the Everand app, setting its long-term vision and owning the reader experience across surfaces from first open to engagement with the next book. You will lead a squad of engineers, designers, researchers, and analysts, driving strategy, roadmap, and execution with a human-centered, AI-enabled approach.

You will shape how Everand reaches readers, leverage research insights, and make data-driven bets.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of product management experience on consumer products.
• 3+ years owning a consumer native mobile app used by hundreds of thousands or more.
• Experience leading product through major changes (platform rebuild, redesign, new audience).
• Strong ability to understand readers/users and base decisions on research and data.
• Experience with subscription businesses, trials, retention, and churn.
• Proven track record shipping discovery surfaces (home, browse, search, feeds).
• AI-native approach to research, prototyping, and product integration.
• Clear writing, prioritization, and ability to influence across teams.

Responsibilities

• Set vision, strategy, and roadmap for Everand on iOS and Android.
• Lead a squad of engineers, designers, researchers, and analysts.
• Own execution from strategy to launch with timely delivery.
• Balance long-term bets with near-term improvements and measure outcomes.
• Ensure app quality, performance, and reliability across surfaces.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, content, and marketing for a consistent reader experience.

Skills

Product management

Strategic thinking

Roadmapping

Audience research

A/B testing

Cross-functional leadership

AI-native product thinking

Decision making

Experimentation

Communication

Job description

• Everand is our subscription app for audiobooks and ebooks
• Fable, Everand’s sister app, is a social reading community where millions of readers track what they read and talk about books
• Together they give us the readers, the catalog, and the community to build the best place to read and listen
• We’re hiring a Lead Product Manager to own the Everand app
• You’ll set its long-term vision, own the experience across every surface, and lead execution from strategy to launch
• The goal is an app readers love, where they choose their next book and keep coming back
• We have a loyal base of readers, and millions more people who love books haven’t found a product like ours yet
• You’ll shape how Everand reaches them
• Understand Everand’s readers deeply: what motivates them, why they stay, and why they leave. Use that understanding in every decision
• Set the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the app on iOS and Android, and own the reader experience on every surface, from first open to their next book
• Lead a squad of engineers, designers, researchers, and analysts, and own execution: set goals, make trade-offs, and ship well-made work on time
• Keep the reader experience human, grounded in readers’ taste and the pleasure of reading. Work as an AI-native PM, using AI to speed up research, prototyping, analysis, and building, and bringing it into the product where it helps readers
• Decide where to invest by finding the biggest opportunities to make Everand more valuable, for current readers and for readers we don’t reach yet
• Manage a balanced portfolio of long-term bets and near-term improvements. Test ideas with readers early, and measure success by how their behavior changes
• Hold a high bar for app quality, performance, and reliability
• Partner with product, engineering, content, and marketing teams to give readers a consistent experience
• Bring your squad, partner teams, and leadership along on your strategy, and change it as you learn
• What success looks like:
• Readers stay longer, engage more, and recommend Everand to others
• Readers decide what to read next inside Everand more often
• The app is known for its quality
• Your squad ships and learns quickly, with a strategy partner teams understand and support

Benefits

• Healthcare Insurance Coverage (Medical/Dental/Vision): 100% paid for employees
• 12 weeks paid parental leave
• Short-term/long-term disability plans
• 401k/RSP matching
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Learning & Development programs
• Quarterly stipend for Wellness, Connectivity & Comfort
• Mental Health support & resources
• Free subscription to Scribd + gift memberships for friends & family
• Referral Bonuses
• Book Benefit
• Sabbaticals
• Company wide events
• Team engagement budgets
• Vacation & Personal Days
• Paid Holidays (+ winter break)
• Flexible Sick Time
• Volunteer Day
• Company-wide Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion programs

Experience leading product through a major change, such as a platform rebuild, a redesign, or a move into a new audienceYou understand your audience by what motivates them, and you can point to decisions you changed after time with usersYou are obsessed with consumer apps and study how they work. You can explain what makes the best ones good, and it shows in your product decisionsClear writing and prioritization. You can make the case for a bet and for what you’ll leave outExperience with A/B testing and research. You set clear metrics and guardrails, and you know when to rely on qualitative research or judgment insteadInfluence without authority across product, engineering, marketing, and leadershipComfort with technical trade-offs, including performance, reliability, and recommendation or personalization systemsYou’re AI-native. AI is part of how you work every day, and you have a point of view on where it makes a consumer product better for people and where a human touch matters more7+ years of product management experience on consumer products, including 3+ years owning a consumer native mobile app used by hundreds of thousands of people or moreProduct craft. You work with design from the start, and you’ve shipped consumer experiences people come back toA track record of moving an outcome metric you owned, such as retention, engagement, or conversionYou love books and readingExperience with subscription businesses: trials, plans, retention, and churnExperience with audio, video, podcast, or reading apps, including players and offline useExperience with community or social features in a consumer productExperience shipping discovery surfaces such as home, browse, search, or personalized feeds