Director of Product, Scribd
Content Intelligence & Growth
$203-280k
+ Equity ownership. Salary dependent on US location. In Canada, the reasonably expected salary range is between $190,000 CAD to $250,000 CAD
E-book and audiobook subscription service
Open for applications
E-book and audiobook subscription service
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$203-280k
+ Equity ownership. Salary dependent on US location. In Canada, the reasonably expected salary range is between $190,000 CAD to $250,000 CAD
201-500 employees
Company mission
To revolutionize the way the world reads and learns.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of product management experience, including 4+ years leading product teams or senior PMs
- Depth in data-heavy product domains: ML/AI-powered products, search, recommendations, content platforms, or marketplaces
- Genuine data fluency—you can credibly direct classification and corpus-analysis work and partner with applied ML and data science teams as an equal, even if you don't build the models yourself
- Familiarity with common data structures around the use of content for AI training
- Experience with supply-side or two-sided product dynamics: creators, contributors, sellers, or content acquisition
- A strategic operator who connects content decisions to business outcomes—licensing revenue, product quality, growth—and can hold a portfolio-level roadmap
- Strong communication and cross-functional leadership: comfortable operating with executives and setting priorities across teams you don't manage
- Experience with content licensing or B2B data products is a plus
What the job involves
- We're hiring a Director of Content Intelligence & Supply to own knowing our UGC corpus and growing it as an asset
- This is a new role, and it comes at a moment when content has become central to our strategy: the UGC corpus powers our consumer products and feeds search and discovery
- You'll bring content intelligence and content supply under one point of leadership—connecting what we know about the corpus (classification, metadata, quality, gaps) with the decisions about how we grow it
- Today those efforts run in different parts of the org; your job is to run them as one portfolio with one roadmap
- We build products that turn information into understanding, grounded in trusted human-created sources—and we own the data structure and intelligence that make a corpus this large useful
- This role reports to the Chief Product Officer
- You'll inherit an established team—a content understanding program with its own charter and dedicated engineering squad, and a UGC supply squad that owns the end-to-end contributor experience—with room to shape the org's direction, structure, and future growth
- We're looking for a product leader with real data fluency: probably not a traditional consumer product manager, but someone with a foot in the data science world—as comfortable interrogating a classification model as running a product review—who gets excited about turning a 400-million-document UGC corpus into a strategic asset
- Own the content understanding roadmap: classification, enrichment, metadata, and quality across the UGC corpus
- Drive corpus gap analysis: where the corpus is deep, where it's thin, and how user-generated and partner content behave differently
- Make the corpus legible—to our own products (search, discovery, recommendations) and to the teams and systems that build on it
- Set direction for classification and corpus-analysis work with credibility, in close partnership with applied ML, engineering, and data science teams
- Own UGC supply end to end: uploads, conversions, and the supply-side user experience. The people who add content to our platforms are your customer
- Unify content acquisition strategy: set priorities across user-generated supply, partnerships, and other related programs that today run independently—coordinating the strategy while execution stays with the teams closest to it
- Connect supply to demand: partner with the consumer product orgs so the corpus grows where it creates the most value for readers, learners, and subscribers
- Own the AI product foundation of our UGC corpus: segmentation, sampling, corpus description, and the metadata and retrieval capabilities. The scope is the UGC corpus only: content in our premium catalogs is not part of it
- Partner with business development on evolving corpus intelligence needs
- Lead senior product leaders and an established program with its own charter, engineering squads, and embedded analysts
- Step into a team with strong people already in seat: earn trust quickly, raise the bar, and multiply the leaders around you
- Operate as a peer among directors and VPs: represent content strategy in executive conversations with clarity and confidence, and connect corpus decisions to business outcomes
Application process
- Resume
- Optional: anything that shows how you think about content, data, or supply—writing, a talk, or a product/strategy artifact you're proud of
Our take
The world's biggest site for social reading and publishing, Scribd's website has over 250 million unique visitors each month and a vast content library, consisting of over 200 million audiobooks, magazines, ebooks and newspapers as well as media created by the Scribd community.
While Scribd is the largest social reading site, it is not alone in offering this kind of media. It competes against some major players, the largest of which are Amazon's Kindle and Audible offerings, but also includes the likes of BookMate and the non-profit Internet Archive. Where it stands aside is in its feature-rich reader and the sheer diversity of its library, which, thanks to partnerships with several major publishers, features numerous popular titles as well as a range of independent creators.
Further differentiating it from competitors, the company taken a firm stand on social issues, in particular the recent wave of book bannings taking place across the United States. By making the banned titles freely available it hopes to do its part in preserving literary freedom. With this tendency showing no signs of slowing down, Scribd's intervention in this area could prove to be important.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
0% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Nov 2019
$58m
LATE VC
Jan 2015
$22m
LATE VC
Total funding: $105.9m
Company benefits
- Healthcare Insurance Coverage (Medical/Dental/Vision): 100% paid for employees
- 12 weeks paid parental leave
- Short-term/long-term disability plans
- 401k/RSP matching
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Learning & Development programs
- Quarterly stipend for Wellness, Connectivity & Comfort
- Mental Health support & resources
- Free subscription to Scribd + gift memberships for friends & family
- Referral Bonuses
- Book Benefit
- Sabbaticals
- Company wide events
- Team engagement budgets
- Vacation & Personal Days
- Paid Holidays (+ winter break)
- Flexible Sick Time
- Volunteer Day
- Company-wide Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion programs
Company HQ
China Basin, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Tony Grimminck
(CEO)Joined the company in 2019 as CFO, becoming CEO in 2023. Previously co-founded International Connector, has served as Board Member and Advisor at various companies, and was CFO at Oto Analytics.
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