Senior Product Manager

The Atlantic; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 115,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

The Atlantic is seeking a Senior Product Manager for the Monetization & Growth team to drive subscription growth and ad revenue across platforms.

Ideal candidates will blend product judgment with technical fluency, turning data and customer needs into innovative solutions while collaborating with Design, Engineering, Finance, Legal, and Operations.

Qualifications

• Passion for the future of high-quality journalism.
• Significant PM experience in subscriptions, advertising monetization, revenue systems, marketplaces, or another analytically complex domain.
• Strong product judgment balancing revenue goals, UX, technical constraints, and operations.
• Experience leading cross-functional product work with multiple stakeholders.
• Ability to interpret data, identify patterns, and translate insights into actionable product recommendations.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to manage several workstreams.

Responsibilities

• Own the monetization roadmap to grow subscriptions and ad revenue.
• Improve the subscriber journey from acquisition to retention and reactivation.
• Build products that improve ad performance across web and app.
• Turn customer needs and data into clear priorities and creative solutions.
• Partner with Engineering, Design, Growth, Data, Finance, Legal, and Operations to take products from discovery through launch.
• Define success metrics, run experiments, and use results to guide the roadmap.
• Strengthen monetization systems to be flexible and reliable.
• Use AI tools to accelerate research, analysis, and product development.

Skills

Product management

Subscriptions

Advertising monetization

Cross-functional leadership

Data interpretation

Experimentation

Communication

Technical fluency

Job description

The Atlantic is looking for a Senior Product Manager to join the Monetization & Growth team. You’ll bring experience across advertising and subscriptions, along with the creativity to develop new approaches that improve conversion, retention, ad performance, operational efficiency, and reader trust.

You’ll partner across Growth, Advertising, Revenue and Ad Operations, Data, Finance, Legal, Design, and Engineering to turn complex challenges into clear priorities and innovative solutions.

We’re looking for someone who understands how subscription and advertising businesses work but isn’t limited by how they operate today. You combine strong product judgment and technical fluency with the curiosity to challenge assumptions, test unconventional ideas, and find better ways forward.

This role will report to the Executive Director, Product Management on the Monetization & Growth team.

Responsibilities

• Own the monetization roadmap, developing new ways to help our Growth team increase subscriptions and our Advertising team grow revenue.
• Improve the subscriber journey—from acquisition and checkout through retention, reactivation, and account management.
• Build products that improve ad performance, including yield, viewability, audience monetization, and operational quality across web and app.
• Turn customer needs, business opportunities, data, and market changes into clear priorities and creative product solutions.
• Partner with Engineering, Design, Growth, Advertising, Data, Finance, Legal, and Operations to take products from discovery through launch and iteration.
• Define success metrics, run experiments, and use results to guide the roadmap.
• Strengthen the flexibility, scalability, and reliability of our monetization systems.
• Use AI tools to accelerate research, analysis, documentation, and product development.

Qualifications

• Passion for the future of high-quality, independent journalism.
• Significant product management experience in subscriptions, advertising monetization, revenue systems, marketplaces, or another analytically complex domain.
• Strong product judgment, with the ability to balance revenue goals, user experience, technical constraints, and operational realities.
• Experience leading cross-functional product work with multiple stakeholders and dependencies.
• Ability to interpret data, identify patterns, and translate insights into actionable product recommendations.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to manage several workstreams at once.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills and a collaborative working style.
• Comfort working in fast-moving environments and approaching ambiguous problems with curiosity, initiative, and creativity.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in digital publishing, media, subscriptions, advertising, or another content-driven business.
• Familiarity with subscription lifecycle product work such as checkout, pricing, retention, payments, or reactivation.
• Familiarity with advertising product domains such as ad serving, targeting, consent, measurement, yield, or monetization operations.
• Experience with experimentation, KPI-driven product development, and platform or operational product management.
• Comfort working across platforms, systems, APIs, workflows, and integrations that support monetization execution.
• Strong technical fluency and comfort working in tools and systems that support testing, QA, reporting, and operational delivery.
• Resourceful and self-directed, with the ability to troubleshoot issues, learn new systems quickly, and independently move complex work forward.

This position is based in New York City or Washington, D.C.

Salary minimum: $115,000 ; Salary maximum: $175,000

This is a Guild position.

About The Atlantic

The Atlantic has, for more than 160 years, advanced ideas that matter and sparked global conversation on the most important issues of our time. We aim to bring clarity and original thinking to questions of consequence, on topics ranging from politics, the economy, and global affairs to technology, science, and culture. As the third-longest-running magazine in America, we find ourselves at a remarkable moment: one of both continuation and transformation, of upholding our legacy while continuously reinventing ourselves for the future.

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The Atlantic Monthly Group LLC ("The Atlantic") is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The Atlantic is committed to diversity and encourages members of traditionally underrepresented communities to apply, including women, LGBTQ people, people of color, and people with disabilities. We do not discriminate against our applicants because of race, color, religion, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation, and pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law.

Job offers to work at The Atlantic are contingent upon the candidate’s successful completion of reference checks and compliance with The Atlantic's COVID-19 vaccination policy. The Atlantic requires all employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19, including subsequent boosters, and submit proof of vaccination status. Employees who cannot receive the vaccine because of a disability/medical contraindication or sincerely-held religious belief may request an accommodation (e.g., an exemption) to this requirement.