Substack - Product Manager

New York City, NY, United States$185k - $250k3w ago

In Office Staff NA Nonprofit Product Manager

Requirements

• 10+ years of product management experience, including meaningful ownership of advertising, monetization, or marketplace products and a record of delivering work across teams. • A track record of launching new products and growing adoption and revenue. You can explain the decisions you made, the tradeoffs involved, and the results. • A strong understanding of how brands and agencies buy media, how publishers earn revenue, and how campaign delivery and measurement work. • Technical fluency across ad serving, data systems, APIs, and third-party integrations, with the judgment to choose practical solutions for an early-stage business. • Strong product judgment and analytical skills. You can investigate customer behavior, build your own analyses, choose useful success metrics, and interpret experiments. You balance ease of use, commercial needs, and long-term product quality. • High agency and clear written communication. You can make a persuasive case for a priority, write a useful product spec, and explain decisions to technical and commercial partners. You’re willing to work through the details needed to get something shipped. • An understanding of Substack’s product and the needs of its creators and readers. You care about independent publishing and can explain how sponsorships can help creators build sustainable businesses while preserving their relationship with their audiences. • What success looks like

Responsibilities

• Set the product direction. • Build distinctive sponsorship experiences. • Make sponsorships work for publishers. Create simple tools to opt in, set preferences, approve opportunities, manage placements, and track earnings. Preserve publishers’ control over which brands they work with and how sponsorships appear in their work. • Make sponsorships work for publishers. • Build the marketplace and operating foundation. Partner with Engineering and Ad Operations on matching, inventory forecasting, campaign delivery, pacing, billing, and payouts. Decide what to build and where external technology or demand partners can accelerate progress. • Build the marketplace and operating foundation. • Balance growth with trust. • Own execution and adoption. Partner with your Engineering counterpart to scope, prototype, and ship improvements. Work with the Sponsorships business team on launch plans, product education, and adoption, then use campaign results and customer feedback to decide what to improve next. • Own execution and adoption.