The Athletic · 5 hours ago
Director of Product, Growth (Remote)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Director/Executive
$170K/yr - $190K/yr
4+ years exp
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Responsibilities
Own the strategy and roadmap for 1 or more product areas
Define the strategy and vision for your product area(s) to meet business objectives.
Leverage existing expertise in your domain area(s) (e.g., Subscriber Engagement and Retention) and a clear understanding of user needs and the competitive landscape.
Partner closely on strategy and execution with tech executives across product, design, engineering, data, marketing, and the newsroom.
Own a multi-team roadmap that balances long term and short term considerations.
Drive impact
Lead large cross-functional working group(s) on key strategic initiatives.
Work closely with the rest of the Product team to align initiatives and dependencies.
Report on impact and learnings to key executive stakeholders.
Lead a team of Product Managers
Develop the careers of your direct report Product Managers.
Foster a highly collaborative and productive environment.
Inform the work of other teams through direct and indirect mechanisms, including mentoring other PM colleagues as appropriate.
Improve organizational operations
Work closely with other tech leaders on operational improvements.
Invest smartly in platforms and processes to ship and experiment at scale.
Qualification
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Required
4+ years of highly relevant product leadership experience including a team or functional leadership role.
Clear strategic strengths, from goal setting to strategy development to communication and reporting.
Expertise in consumer digital products.
Executional capabilities including cross-functional initiative leadership - you need to get things done in addition to guide the work.
Demonstrated experience being a people manager your team learns from and is excited to work with.
High familiarity with and love for sports and journalism.
Excellence with data - analyzing data, deriving insights, and making data-driven decisions.
Experience developing great user experiences, and an ability to empathize with users.
Eagerness to try new things and learn - and a willingness to fail.
Benefits
Highly competitive, employer-contributed medical, dental, vision, basic life and disability insurance plans.
Savings accounts for medical, wellness, and childcare expenses.
401k retirement savings plan and employer match.
Paid time off including paid sick leave, 12 paid holidays, 15 days of accrued vacation to start, and up to 20 weeks of Paid Parental Leave.
Company
The Athletic
The Athletic is an online media company that specializes in online news publishing for the sports industry.
501-1,000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$139.46MKey Investors
Bedrock Capital PartnersFounders FundEvolution Media
2022-01-06Acquired· undefined
2020-01-21Series D· $50M
2019-05-29Series C· $21.76M
Leadership Team
Adam Hansmann
President & Co-Founder
Balen Gore
CTO
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