Product Engineering Manager, Medium
Distribution
$220-320k
+ Equity
More information about location
Social publishing network
Job no longer available
Social publishing network
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$220-320k
+ Equity
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
Medium's mission is to move thinking forward on the urgent issues shaping today and the next 100 years through honest, reflective conversation.
Role
Who you are
- At least 2 years experience managing product engineering teams, preferably on a platform dealing with delivery and targeting of user-generated content
- At least 5 years experience as an engineer writing production code for consumer products
- Passionate about the strategy, details, and intricacies of the products you work on
- Great communication and leadership skills
- Driven to have effective, lightweight team processes, documentation, and project management strategies
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a data-driven approach to decision-making. A big bonus would be if you have experience with SQL and able to write your own queries to pull the data you need
What the job involves
- Our Quality Distribution team is focused on these experiences and we are seeking an experienced Product Engineering Manager who will manage the full-stack engineering team building this product
- Lead and manage a full-stack Quality Distribution engineering team responsible for building the main surfaces of the Medium product including the story page, the digest emails, and the home page and topic feed recommendations
- Collaborate with product, content, and design teams to define product strategy and roadmap
- Develop and mentor engineering talent, providing guidance and support for their professional growth
- Clear obstacles for your team so they can maintain a high development speed
- Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement within the engineering team
- Ensure the quality and scalability of the product by implementing best practices and driving technical excellence
- Stay up to date with industry trends and emerging technologies to drive innovation and improve product offerings
- Report directly to the SVP of Product and Engineering and work closely with them on technical, team structure, process, and recruiting strategies
Our take
If there is any consequence of the growing influence of technology in our lives, it's the vastly increased accessibility to information. Organizing and streamlining this abundance of content without relying on advertising bombardment and while maintaining a digital community has been a challenge.
Medium offers a publishing platform for small and large writers alike, with the New York Times and Atlantic magazines making regular contributions. This platform allows writers to create customized pages to provide anything from blogs to instructional content, newsletters and official publications. Its 100 million+ monthly readers benefit from the ad-free content sustained through the Medium Partner program.
While the quality internet content market continues to expand, Medium has struggled in recent years. A change in strategy and organisational culture leading to 50% of staff leaving in 2021 and multiple rapid experiments in revenue sharing failing to stem the growth of competitors such as Substack. With founder Ev Williams stepping down as CEO in 2022 investors have expressed fears about the future of the platform, but a change in leadership is likely to bring fresh ideas and a new direction for the company going forward.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Sep 2020
$0.1m
GRANT
Apr 2016
$50m
SERIES C
Total funding: $132.1m
Company benefits
- 401k matching
- Continuous learning budget
- Onsite meditation, yoga, and a gym membership reimbursement
- Equal opportunity employer
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Evan Williams
(Chairman)Evan started his career at O'Reilly Media as a Marketing Coordinator, before co-founding Pyra Labs and spending a combined 4 years at Google and Odeo. Worked at Twitter for 12 years, as CEO and a Board Member, and co-founded Obvious Ventures in 2014.
Tony Stubblebine
(CEO, not founder)Was CEO & founder of Coach.me and Lift Worldwide, and CEO of CrowdVine. Prior to stepping up as CEO was Publisher at Better Humans, driving more than 1% of Medium's traffic through its publications.
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