Group Product Manager, Sovrn
$155-170k
+ Bonus + Equity
Office located in Boulder, CO
Advertising tools & services for content creators
Open for applications
Advertising tools & services for content creators
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$155-170k
+ Bonus + Equity
Office located in Boulder, CO
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower independent content creators and publishers to grow their businesses and achieve the attention they deserve.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of product management experience, with success operating at a large product or multi-product level
- Proven ability to own a product line end-to-end, from discovery through measurable customer outcomes
- Entrepreneurial mindset with a track record of spotting opportunities and turning them into results
- Experience scaling SaaS or ad tech products in high-growth, entrepreneurial environments
- Domain expertise in ad tech, commerce, or data products, with strong judgment on build vs buy vs partner decisions
- Clear, persuasive communicator who can influence executives and align diverse stakeholders
- Analytical and commercially aware with the ability to connect customer insight to business growth
- History of effective product–commercial partnerships that drove adoption and growth
- Strong ability to secure engineering commitment and drive execution discipline without direct authority
What the job involves
- As a Group Product Manager, you’ll act as the entrepreneur of a product line—owning its vision, execution, and customer outcomes end to end. You’ll immerse yourself in customer problems, define bold solutions, and partner closely with engineering and commercial leadership to deliver products that are valuable, usable, and differentiated
- This role calls for someone who is customer-obsessed, commercially aware, and relentless about execution. You’ll operate at a group level of scope and influence—aligning stakeholders, ensuring engineering is resourced and committed, risks are surfaced early, and outcomes are delivered without surprises.
- You create clarity in ambiguity, build alignment across teams, and inspire people to rally behind a vision that moves the business forward
- Own the end-to-end success of a product—vision, roadmap, execution, and customer outcomes
- Lead customer discovery to uncover unmet needs and translate them into high-value product opportunities
- Partner with commercial leadership to ensure products are positioned for adoption and growth
- Ensure engineering is resourced, aligned, and accountable, with clear status updates and early risk escalation
- Drive disciplined execution with predictable delivery and transparent communication
- Balance near-term improvements with long-term bets that expand product and market opportunity
- Define and track success metrics around adoption, usage, NPS, and product impact
- Influence across functions to raise the bar for customer focus, product craft, and execution excellence
Our take
The monetization of online content creation can be very lucrative but requires time, resources and expertise outside of writing. Passionate writers who focus on storytelling and creating inspiring content may waste valuable time attempting to develop their business, and hiring somebody to do this is often too expensive for independent writers.
Sovrn tackles this in a smart way by providing writers with simple-to-use tools that take the stress out of monetization. It works with publishers and advertisers to provide opportunities to passionate writers, allowing them to focus on excelling at their job rather than dealing with distribution, monetization and operations - all of which Sovrn is able to handle.
The startup claims to be able to drive higher revenues and scale a publishing business, at the same time as allowing writers to focus on what they do best. It has seen significant investment that will enable it to pursue acquisitions and support the further expansion of its platform with more capabilities to be added in the future.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Aug 2022
$35.6m
LATE VC
Jul 2022
$36m
SERIES C
Total funding: $132.6m
Company benefits
- Work at a company that values your strengths. See the results of your actions. There are no barriers at Sovrn
- First-class health benefits, wellness options, and a host of life-improvement perks that help you be the best you
- Retirement benefits, 401k matching, and stock options show we’re equally dedicated to financial health
- In-house barista, catered lunches and breakfasts
- Volunteer opportunities
- Flexible vacation and a focus on mental and physical health mean you’ll have time for life outside the office
- Learn new skills. Pursue great ideas. Take on new opportunities and thrive in a workplace that rewards your efforts
Company HQ
Boulder, CO
Leadership
Walter Knapp
(CEO)Having studied at the University of Colorado, they worked as a Partner at Cambridge Technology, and Novell Ventures for a combined 6 years. They worked as SuSE Linux at Novel, COO of Lijit Networks, and COO of Federated Media Publishing before leaving in January 2014 to found Sovrn.
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