Vice President, Product and Design

Versant Media; Englewood Cliffs (NJ); On-site; USD 310,000 - 340,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Paid leave

Employee discounts

Job summary

Versant Media’s CNBC unit seeks a VP of Product to define the product strategy for digital offerings and lead a team of product managers and designers. You will collaborate with senior leadership to translate user needs into impactful features that drive subscription growth.

The role emphasizes AI-driven product innovation, strong leadership, and a deep understanding of retail investing and media products. Excellent communication and strategic vision are essential.

Qualifications

• 7–10 years in product management with leadership experience
• Proven ability to drive roadmaps and launch products
• Experience with web, mobile and OTT platforms in fintech or media
• Strong judgment and coaching ability
• Understanding of retail investors and related tools
• Experience building AI features and prompts

Responsibilities

• Craft a product strategy for CNBC’s digital products with CPTO and executives
• Generate feature ideas validated with data and consumer insights
• Develop an ambitious feature roadmap and communicate it clearly
• Hire, motivate and manage product managers and designers
• Coordinate with technology to balance new capabilities and tech debt
• Root product work in customer insights and user testing
• Ensure high standards in design/UX and innovative thinking
• Lead AI integration to streamline requirements and specs

Skills

Product management leadership

Web/Mobile/OTT products

AI features

Roadmapping & strategy

Team leadership & coaching

Customer insights

Stakeholder communication

Experience in retail investing/fintech

Job description

• Compensation: USD 310,000 - USD 340,000 - yearly

Company Description

VERSANT (Nasdaq: VSNT) is an industry-changing media and entertainment business and home to trusted brands that shape culture, inform audiences, and build lasting connections. It operates across four core markets: political news and opinion, business news and personal finance, golf, and sports and genre entertainment. These markets are served through a powerful portfolio of iconic and innovative brands, including CNBC, MS NOW, USA Network, Golf Channel, Oxygen, E!, SYFY, and Versant's sports division USA Sports, along with complementary digital assets including Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow and GolfPass.

Job Description

We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced Product leader to help us build the future of CNBC’s digital products. This is an exciting time to be joining the product and tech team at Versant Media, as we re-imagine our brands for the future. CNBC’s large affluent and influential audience and its deep brand resonance among retail investors makes it perfectly positioned to translate this into a powerful set of content and tools that subscribers would be willing to pay for. Your role as VP of product is to deeply understand our users and innovate for them, thus delivering digital growth for CNBC.

The VP of product for CNBC will be responsible for helping craft the product strategy along with the Chief Product and Technology Officer and other key executives and stakeholders. You will lead a team of product managers and designers and work closely with the VP of technology and the VP of project management.

This role is perfect for someone with experience building for retail investors, fintech or media. You are someone who loves building products customers love and coaching and mentoring a product team to understand customer needs deeply and apply judgement on what to build. Experience of building AI features and how to use AI to improve product practices is highly desired.

Responsibilities

• Work with the CPTO and executive stakeholders to craft a product strategy for CNBC’s digital products
• Use the business and product strategy to come up with feature ideas that are then tested with consumers and validated using existing data and insights
• Craft a roadmap of features that is ambitious and communicate that roadmap to stakeholders in a transparent way
• Hire, motivate and performance manage a team of product managers and product designers
• Coordinate the roadmap with the technology team to ensure we are building features the right way, but also allowing time to build new capabilities, pay down technical debt and bug fix
• Ensure that the product and design work is rooted in customer insights
• Ensure creative problem solving by the product team so that solutions are provided and alternative approaches considered when trying to solve customer pain-points
• Ensure design and UX work is of the highest standards and has the right mix of customer understanding, taste-making and art of the possible
• Transform how the product team works with AI built into the workflow to remove grunt work and speed up requirements and spec writing

This position is eligible for company sponsored benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), paid leave, and a variety of other discounts and perks. Salary range: $310,000-$340,000. Bonus eligible

Additional Requirements:

• Must have unrestricted work authorization to work in the United States.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of 7-10 years of product management experience with at least 5 years leading a product and design team
• Demonstrated ability to drive product management, product planning and roadmaps, including launching new products
• Proven understanding of web, mobile apps and OTT products in the retail investing, fintech or consumer (B2C) space and/or in media and publishing
• Strong product judgement and product taste with proven ability to hire and coach for that
• Deep understanding of the retail investor space and the tools and competitors in the space
• Strong understanding of how to build features using AI, including chatbots, LLM prompting for summarization or insights
• Knowledge of building personalized experiences including content recommendations and personalized alerts

Desired Qualifications

• Ability to work with senior executives and advise them on how to approach complex product problems through user insights and smart prioritization of the roadmap
• Proven ability to manage a multi-disciplinary team and to hire well and create a well-performing team
• Strong experience on evangelizing for the customer through the use of research, user insights, user testing etc.
• Experience working in subscription business, a fintech or in the retail investing space with experience in media as an added bonus
• Strong communication skills and ability to present to senior executives
• Strong ability to run a cohesive, collaborative team successfully and build successful relationships across business areas

Compensation: $310,000-$340,000 USD

Additional Information

As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with a VERSANT Media employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. VERSANT Media's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to [e-mail] .

VERSANT Media is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. We include a good faith pay range for each position to comply with applicable state and local pay transparency laws and to promote equity across our organization. Actual compensation will be based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, experience, and location and may include additional forms of compensation and benefits such as health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, etc.