Product Manager

MedStar Health; Portland (OR); Remote; USD 115,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading media company seeks an experienced Product Manager to drive digital product development and optimization. This role focuses on revenue growth through user engagement and business performance strategies, requiring technical fluency and collaboration with diverse teams. Ideal candidates bring analytical skills, product experience, and a proactive mindset to improve outcomes with emerging technologies.

Benefits

Retirement plan savings contributions

Bonus opportunities based on performance

Qualifications

• 3+ years of product management experience, ideally with exposure to subscription models.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to use data to inform decisions.
• Comfort with APIs, platform architecture, and data-driven tooling.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and optimization of digital products for revenue growth.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to execute product strategies for monetization.
• Design and run experiments to iterate on product solutions.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication

Technical fluency

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Description

Crain Communications is seeking an experienced Product Manager to lead the development and optimization of digital products that drive revenue growth across our portfolio of media brands. This role focuses on the intersection of user value and business performance, leading initiatives across subscriptions, advertising, and other monetization strategies.

We're looking for a product thinker who's comfortable navigating both strategic planning and handson delivery, someone with strong product instincts, business acumen, and the technical fluency to move fast, make smart tradeoffs, and build solutions that support long term growth at scale. This role will partner closely with engineering, subscriptions, analytics, editorial, and advertising teams to shape experiences that balance customer needs with business goals.

The ideal candidate brings experience and a natural curiosity for how emerging technologies, like AI, automation, and datadriven platformscan unlock new value.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with diverse stakeholders to shape and execute product strategies that support monetization, including subscription growth, advertising performance, and emerging business models.

• Lead the ideation, development, and optimization of user journeys, features, and tools that increase engagement, conversion, and customer value.

• Use insights, experimentation, and collaboration across UX, analytics, and marketing to inform product priorities and iterate on solutions.

• Design and run experiments to test ideas and iterate on solutions, in collaboration with UX, analytics, and subscription marketing partners.

• Work closely with engineering to scope and deliver scalable, reliable product solutions, making informed decisions rooted in both technical feasibility and business impact.

• Bring a forwardlooking mindset to product work, identifying opportunities where new technologies or smarter systems can improve outcomes for both users and the business.

Requirements:

• 3+ years of product management experience, ideally with exposure to subscription models, advertising platforms, or other digital monetization strategies.

• Strong analytical skills and the ability to use data to inform decisions, identify opportunities, and measure impact.

• Comfort working with technical concepts such as APIs, platform architecture, experimentation frameworks, and data driven tooling.

• Demonstrated experience partnering with engineering teams to deliver scalable product solutions with clarity and speed.

• Experience with iterative product development, experimentation, and discovery.

• Excellent communication skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders, and the ability to translate product vision into actionable plans.

• Comfortable operating in matrixed environments with multiple brands, priorities, and stakeholders.

• Background in media or adjacent industries preferred.

This position is exempt under the Fair Labor Standards Act and is not eligible for overtime pay.

Pay Transparency Disclosure:

The estimated salary range for this position is $115,000 to $130,000.

The final salary offering will take into accounta wide range of factors, including experience, accomplishments and location. The salary range provided should not be considered as a salary limit or cap. In addition to base salary, Crain also offers competitive benefits including retirement plan savings contributions and bonus opportunities based on individual and company performance.

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About Crain Communications:

Crain Communications is a leading business news and information company with a portfolio of 24 media brands that provide indispensable coverage and data for professionals globally and across sectors, including advertising, automotive, finance, healthcare, staffing, and workforce solutions. Many of Crain's brands are the most influential media properties in the industries and communities they serve, including Ad Age, Automotive News, Pensions & Investments, Modern Healthcare, Staffing Industry Analysts, as well as Crain's regional business brands. For more than a century, our dedication to deep sector expertise and journalistic integrity has enabled us to provide trusted insights across all our platforms, empowering today's business leaders to make industry-shaping decisions. To learn more about Crain Communications, visitcrain.com.

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