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Scribd, Inc. is on a mission to advance human understanding. Our four products — Scribd®, Slideshare®, Everand™, and Fable — help billions of people across the globe move beyond access and into insight, application, and expertise. CULTURE AT SCRIBD, INC. We support a culture where our employees can be real and be bold; where we debate and commit as we embrace plot twists; and where every employee is empowered to take action as we prioritize the customer. We believe the best work happens when individual flexibility is balanced with meaningful community connection. Scribd Flex empowers employees to choose the workstyle and location that support their best performance, while committing to intentional in-person moments that strengthen collaboration and culture. Occasional in-person attendance is required for all Scribd, Inc. employees, regardless of location. So what are we looking for in new team members? At Scribd, Inc., we hire for “GRIT.” Traditionally defined as the intersection of passion and perseverance toward long-term goals, GRIT reflects the mindset we expect from every employee. For us, it also serves as a practical framework for how we work: setting and achieving Goals, delivering Results within your role, contributing Innovative ideas and solutions, and strengthening the broader Team through collaboration and attitude. This posting reflects an approved, open position within the organization. ABOUT THE ROLE 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. Together they give us the readers, the catalog, and the community to build the best place to read and listen. 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. We have a loyal base of readers, and millions more people who love books haven't found a product like ours yet. You'll shape how Everand reaches them. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Understand Everand's readers deeply: what motivates them, why they stay, and why they leave. Use that understanding in every decision. - 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. Work as an AI-native PM, using AI to speed up research, prototyping, analysis, and building, and bringing it into the product where it helps readers. - Decide where to invest by finding the biggest opportunities to make Everand more valuable, for current readers and for readers we don't reach yet. - Manage a balanced portfolio of long-term bets and near-term improvements. Test ideas with readers early, and measure success by how their behavior changes. - 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 your squad, partner teams, and leadership along on your strategy, and change it as you learn. WHAT YOU BRING - 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. - You are obsessed with consumer apps and study how they work. You can explain what makes the best ones good, and it shows in your product decisions. - You understand your audience by what motivates them, and you can point to decisions you changed after time with users. - A track record of moving an outcome metric you 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. You work with design from the start, and you've shipped consumer experiences people come back to. - You're AI-native. AI is part of how you work every day, and you have a point of view on where it makes a consumer product better for people and where a human touch matters more. - Experience with A/B testing and research. You set clear metrics and guardrails, and you know when to rely on qualitative research or judgment instead. - 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. You can make the case for a bet and for what you'll leave out. - You love 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. WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE - Readers stay longer, engage more, and recommend Everand to others. - Readers decide what to read next inside Everand more often. - The app is known for its quality. - Your squad ships and learns quickly, with a strategy partner teams understand and support. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- At Scribd, Inc., your base pay is one part of your total compensation package and is determined within a range. Our pay ranges are based on the local cost of labor benchmarks for each specific role, level, and geographic location. San Francisco is our highest geographic market in the United States. In the state of California, the reasonably expected salary range is between $171,000 [minimum salary in our lowest geographic market within California] to $256,000 [maximum salary in our highest geographic market within California]. In the United States, outside of California, the reasonably expected salary range is between $141,000 [minimum salary in our lowest US geographic market outside of California] to $244,000 [maximum salary in our highest US geographic market outside of California]. In Canada, the reasonably expected salary range is between $179,000 CAD[minimum salary in our lowest geographic market] to $228,000 CAD[maximum salary in our highest geographic market]. We carefully consider a wide range of factors when determining compensation, including but not limited to experience; job-related skill sets; relevant education or training; and other business and organizational needs. The salary range listed is for the level at which this job has been scoped. In the event that you are considered for a different level, a higher or lower pay range would apply. This position is also eligible for a competitive equity ownership, and a comprehensive and generous benefits package. WORKING AT SCRIBD, INC. Are you currently based in a location where Scribd, Inc. can employ you? Employees must have their primary residence in or near one of the following cities. This includes surrounding metro areas or locations within a typical commuting distance: United States: Atlanta | Austin | Boston | Dallas | Denver | Chicago | Houston | Jacksonville | Los Angeles | Miami | New York City | Phoenix | Portland | Sacramento | Salt Lake City | San Diego | San Francisco | Seattle | Washington D.C. Canada: Ottawa | Toronto | Vancouver Mexico: Mexico City Benefits at Scribd, Inc. - 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 Get to Know Scribd, Inc. About Scribd, Inc. scribdinc.com Life at Scribd, Inc. bit.ly We want our interview process to be accessible to everyone. You can inform us of any reasonable adjustments we can make to better accommodate your needs by emailing accommodations@scribd.com about the need for adjustments at any point in the interview process. If you apply for a job with Scribd, Inc. or otherwise engage with us in connection with employment (including as an employee, contractor, or other personnel), the personal information we process in that context is subject to our Employee and Applicant Privacy Policy, which is available here support.scribd.com. Scribd, Inc. is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We encourage people of all backgrounds to apply, and believe that a diversity of perspectives and experiences create a foundation for the best ideas. Come join us in building something meaningful.

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CULTURE AT SCRIBD, INC.
We support a culture where our employees can be real and be bold; where we debate and commit as we embrace plot twists; and where every employee is empowered to take action as we prioritize the customer.
This posting reflects an approved, open position within the organization.
We have a loyal base of readers, and millions more people who love books haven't found a product like ours yet. You'll shape how Everand reaches them.
Understand Everand's readers deeply: what motivates them, why they stay, and why they leave. Use that understanding in every decision.
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.
Decide where to invest by finding the biggest opportunities to make Everand more valuable, for current readers and for readers we don't reach yet.
Manage a balanced portfolio of long-term bets and near-term improvements. Test ideas with readers early, and measure success by how their behavior changes.
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 your squad, partner teams, and leadership along on your strategy, and change it as you learn.
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.
You are obsessed with consumer apps and study how they work. You can explain what makes the best ones good, and it shows in your product decisions.
You understand your audience by what motivates them, and you can point to decisions you changed after time with users.
A track record of moving an outcome metric you 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. You work with design from the start, and you've shipped consumer experiences people come back to.
You're AI-native. AI is part of how you work every day, and you have a point of view on where it makes a consumer product better for people and where a human touch matters more.
Experience with A/B testing and research. You set clear metrics and guardrails, and you know when to rely on qualitative research or judgment instead.

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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.

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