Senior Product Manager, Wattpad
Data Platform & Intelligence - Wattpad
CA$125-160k
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Platform for sharing original writing
Open for applications
Platform for sharing original writing
101-200 employees
Open for applications
CA$125-160k
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
Wattpad's mission is to create a world where everyone's story can be heard, and anyone can belong.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of Product Management experience, with experience owning platform, infrastructure, developer, AI, or data products
- Strong understanding of modern data architectures including event pipelines, data products, warehouses, semantic layers, metrics stores, feature stores, and APIs
- Experience working closely with Data Engineering, Analytics, and Software Engineering teams
- Experience defining product strategy across multiple stakeholders with competing priorities
- Strong systems thinking with the ability to identify reusable platform capabilities instead of one-off solutions
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence technical and executive audiences
- Comfortable making decisions in ambiguous environments while balancing long term platform investments with near term business value
- Experience with modern product analytics and experimentation platforms such as Amplitude, Mixpanel, or similar tools for product measurement, behavioural analytics, and experimentation
- Don’t meet all the requirements? Studies show women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs if they do not meet all the qualifications. Therefore, in an effort to build a more diverse workplace, we encourage you to apply anyways. You might actually be the right person or you may be a good fit for a number of other openings we currently have
What the job involves
- We're looking for an experienced Senior Product Manager to lead the strategy and roadmap for Wattpad's data platform and product intelligence capabilities
- This isn't a traditional analytics or reporting role. You'll build the platform that enables our products to make smarter decisions
- You'll partner with Data Engineering, Data Science, Analytics, and Product Managers to transform raw product events into reusable data products, trusted metrics, decision-ready insights, and an intelligent platform service that powers experiences across Wattpad
- Your work will shape how products understand readers, measure success, personalize experiences, run experiments, and make real-time decisions
- This is one of the foundational platform investments that will power the next generation of Wattpad
- Define the vision and roadmap for Wattpad's data platform
- Own the long-term strategy for the systems that transform raw product events into reusable, trusted capabilities that power products across Wattpad
- Develop and prioritize the roadmap across areas including:
- Reusable data products
- Insights Layer
- Decisioning platform
- Data governance and discoverability
- Define the strategy and roadmap for Wattpad's Product Intelligence Platform, enabling products to make smarter, faster, and more consistent decisions
- Build the platform capabilities that transform raw data into trusted, reusable intelligence for teams across the company
- Work with our Content teams to deepen our content intelligence, transforming story metadata, taxonomy, and behavioural signals into reusable capabilities that power products across Wattpad
- Partner with Engineering, Analytics, and Data Science to create scalable foundations for personalization, recommendations, and product decisioning
- Establish trusted metrics, shared data definitions, and governance practices that improve consistency and confidence across product development
- Turn recurring product needs into reusable platform capabilities that reduce duplication and accelerate delivery across teams
- Balance long-term platform investments with near-term business priorities, making thoughtful tradeoffs that maximize impact
- Influence product and technical strategy across the organization, helping shape the future of Wattpad's data and intelligence capabilities
Our take
Content is king and Wattpad has managed to create a platform that aggregates the most loved original writing content in the world, turning the traditional publishing industry on its head.
Where authors used to submit drafts to dozens of publishing houses in the hope of getting some eyeballs on their work, Wattpad opened up the process to millions of young authors by letting them easily submit their work, and fostering a community around their software that offers feedback and help.
The e-reading platform is now looking to double down on its strategy of taking its user-generated fiction and turning it into successful intellectual property upon which original series and movies can be based. However, a significant challenge for Wattpad is in producing original, marketable content from its platform, given the popularity of fanfiction, stories which are based on existing intellectual property.
Another challenge for Wattpad is the current economic conditions, which have affected much of the tech sector and are not sparing digital publishing. Having shelved bold plans for the future, it also laid off 15% of its workforce in March 2023. Having realigned for its current business needs, however, it is now well placed to weather the current market downturn.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2018
$51m
LATE VC
Apr 2014
$46m
SERIES C
Total funding: $117.8m
Company benefits
- Full health benefits
- Career development & Mentorship opportunities
- RRSP matching
- Generous parental Leave top-up
- Flexible hours
- Regular hackathons
- Healthy snacks & drinks
- Your choice of hardware
- Monthly work-from-home allowance
- Beautiful offices in Toronto and Halifax
- Easy access to transit
Company HQ
St. Lawrence, Toronto, ON
Leadership
Allen lau
(Co-Founder)Lau attended University of Toronto where he earned his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering followed by a master's in the same subject. Thereafter he briefly worked as a software engineer for Brightspark before founding his first notable company, Tira Wireless, a mobile development startup. He is also the co-founder of Two Small Fish Ventures, a fund that invests in Toronto and Waterloo-based early-stage internet companies with strong network effects.
Ivan Yuen
(Co-Founder)Prior to Wattpad, Ivan co-founded FeedM8 and served as the company’s CTO. Before that he was one of the first employees of Tira Wireless, where he helped grow the technical team and developed new and emerging wireless technologies. Ivan graduated from the University of Waterloo with a degree in Computer Engineering and also earned an MBA from the Rotman School of Management.
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