[Wattpad] Product Manager

Wattpad • Toronto, ON, Canada

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Wattpad’s vision is to entertain and connect the world through webnovel stories. Since 2006, we’ve been on a mission to use the power of community and technology to unleash the full potential of stories to the world. Representing a tapestry of cultures and languages, people around the world come to Wattpad every month to share and discover stories they can’t find anywhere else. Come build the future of entertainment and storytelling with our global team, and write your next chapter with us!

Wattpad is part of the WEBTOON family of brands, the largest storytelling platform in the world that enables creators and users to discover, create, and share stories. With over 24 million creators and ~170 million active users per month, we are truly empowering creation by anyone, for everyone. To read more about our family of Brands, check out our website here.

We are currently looking for a Product Manager to join our Business and Platform Fundamentals Track within our product team. This track is responsible for supporting user growth initiatives, the business models on Wattpad, including programmatic ads, IAP (coins), and subscriptions, along with core platform features such as story moderation and notifications. As a PM, you will work closely with a multi-disciplinary team that includes engineering, design, and data. You will work to understand our users' needs and ensure we are meeting our business goals. You will help facilitate the process of determining the best solutions in collaboration with your team, and you will be the representative of the team to ensure the team’s efforts are aligned to the needs of the organization and supported by appropriate stakeholders.

What you’ll be doing:

Work with a multi-functional team to create, evolve and maintain multiple ad/premium products
Contribute to the product roadmap for the track
Be responsible for hitting goals in line with the company strategy
Facilitate a strong product discovery process around understanding users, partners and stakeholder needs constantly validating hypotheses
Work closely with our engineering teams to better define, implement and iterate on solutions together
Seek to deeply understand how readers engage with our business models while consuming stories, clearly define and prioritize challenges and opportunities to ensure we are working on the right things at the right time
Work closely with the 10+ product management team to ensure a cohesive and integrated product experience that meets the needs of our 90M users, while supporting each other’s development across the practice
Build strong relationships across the company to help solve problems together

What we're looking for:

At least 1-3 years of professional experience as a product manager
Experience and understanding of technology systems
Have strong product instincts about getting from a user pain point to an underlying problem
Passion for the power of storytelling
Excellent leadership and communications skills, with experience managing a variety of stakeholders
Data-driven/analytical mindset with the ability to break down complex problems into manageable tasks and prioritize them and work comfortably in forecasts and revenue predictions
Natural curiosity with a thirst to validate assumptions with data, insight and peer discussions to inform yourself better
Degree in Computer Science/Engineering, Business, or UX Design an asset

What we offer:

Career development; we believe in mentorship and investing in your learning, supporting you to achieve your goals
Top industry health benefits, including vision and dental
Your own health/wellness account to spend each year
RRSP Contributions (Canada), 401K Contributions (USA)
Generous vacation and Maternity/Parental leave top-up program
Corporate discount for gym memberships for you and your family
Work from almost anywhere in the world for part of the year
Winter break shutdown and a whole lot more!

Wattpad is conducting all interviews in a distributed manner using applicable third party software where needed and using visual interface tools such as Google Meet and Zoom.

About Wattpad

Who are we? Entrepreneurs and Do-ers. Our vision is to entertain and connect the world through stories, and our mission is to use the power of community and technology to unleash the full potential of stories to the world.

What does that mean? We are visionaries, community builders, passionate problem solvers, storytellers, coffee snobs (tea drinkers, too!), curious by nature, and culturally diverse.

What are we obsessed with? Our users. Solving complex problems and maximizing flow. Learning constantly. Building the next great storytelling product. Finding the greatest stories ever told. Dogs (and cats), coffee, and good snacks.

How do we work? Autonomously, collaboratively, respectfully. Balancing with work, family, and play...and all while having a great time.

Wattpad is a remote friendly company and encourages remote candidates to apply as long as they are located and authorized to work in either the US or Canada (excluding Quebec) as a precondition of employment. We are not able to sponsor applicants for work permits.

If you happen to live near the areas of either Toronto, Ontario or Halifax, Nova Scotia, you may also have the opportunity to work from our beautiful offices - 1 located in Downtown Toronto and the other in Halifax.

Culture and Diversity

Wattpad is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate. Period.

Wattpad welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. We have taken a leadership position on creating a culture and an organization that truly values diversity. We are committed to fostering a global team that reflects the diversity of the Wattpad community. At Wattpad, we believe cultural fit doesn’t mean culturally identical, and diversity of thought helps us to challenge one another to think big and think differently. We consider employment applicants without regard to age, race, colour, national origin, citizenship, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, marital status, disability status or any other protected status.

If you have any special needs or accessibility requirements, please let us know. We will do our utmost to accommodate, in accordance with applicable local legislation.

Don’t meet all the requirements? Studies show women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs if they do not meet all the qualifications. Therefore, in an effort to build a more diverse workplace, we encourage you to apply anyways. You might actually be the right person or you may be a good fit for a number of other openings we currently have.