Lead Product Manager, Everand

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. 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.

Responsibilities

Understand Everand's readers deeply: what motivates them, why they stay, and why they leave; 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, working as an AI-native PM; Decide where to invest by finding the biggest opportunities to make Everand more valuable, for current readers and for readers not yet reached; Manage a balanced portfolio of long-term bets and near-term improvements, testing ideas with readers early and measuring success by behavior change; 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 squad, partner teams, and leadership along on strategy, and change it as you learn

Requirements

7+ 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 more; Obsessed with consumer apps and able to explain what makes the best ones good; Understands audience motivations and can point to decisions changed after time with users; Track record of moving an outcome metric owned, such as retention, engagement, or conversion; Experience leading product through a major change, such as a platform rebuild, a redesign, or a move into a new audience; Product craft: works with design from the start and has shipped consumer experiences people come back to; AI-native, using AI daily and with a point of view on where it improves a consumer product and where a human touch matters more; Experience with A/B testing and research, setting clear metrics and guardrails; Comfort with technical trade-offs, including performance, reliability, and recommendation or personalization systems; Influence without authority across product, engineering, marketing, and leadership; Clear writing and prioritization; Loves books and reading

Nice to have

Experience with subscription businesses: trials, plans, retention, and churn; Experience with audio, video, podcast, or reading apps, including players and offline use; Experience shipping discovery surfaces such as home, browse, search, or personalized feeds; Experience with community or social features in a consumer product

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