Senior Growth Product Manager, Academia
$190-250k
A platform for academics to share research papers
Job no longer available
A platform for academics to share research papers
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$190-250k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To accelerate research, advance science, and transform the world.
Role
Who you are
- At least 2 years of experience as a Senior Product Manager on a growth product team, ideally for a consumer internet company
- At least 4 years of product management experience in total
- Data-driven decision maker
- Experience designing and running A/B tests, significant experience with lean testing
- Strategic, creative and analytic - 50/50 left brain/right brain
- Significant experience with using both qualitative and quantitative user research in growth
- Ability to interpret data to identify key insights, and inform product decisions
- Excellent interpersonal skills and proven ability to lead and influence others
- Proven ability to lead teams consisting of engineering, user research, UX, and analytics
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- BS degree, MS/MBA a plus
What the job involves
- As a Senior Growth Product Manager, you will be responsible for driving conversion from Freemium users to Premium users through the product, creating new and improved product features
- You’ll be a key driver and hands-on in synthesizing insights from analysis and research to diagnose which business initiatives to prioritize and execute to drive growth
- Partner with Analytics, Product, Research, and Design to understand customer behavior
- Develop and drive a meticulously prioritized growth experimentation roadmap that aligns with business performance and user needs
- Lead test execution to unlock growth opportunities
- Constantly deriving hypotheses for the next areas of growth and optimization
- Regularly surface experimentation findings, insights, and opportunities back to cross-functional teams and Executive leadership
- Help drive the overall product strategy for the company
- Collaborate with analysts and researchers to get a deep understanding of the main drivers behind changes in the number of active users
- Craft and prioritize strategies and solutions to drive premium user growth
- Partner with our development team on implementing and iterating on these solutions
Our take
Academia.edu is pitched as a social media platform to help researchers and academics share papers for free - with over 185 million registered users and over 30 million visitors per month, it has remained an active and popular platform since its founding in 2008.
The company has had a chequered relationship with the academics it proposes to serve (and the institutions it intends to disrupt). Some claim the new paywalled suite of features runs counter to the free and open-access model; others baulk at its use of the .edu domain usually reserved for academic institutions (they registered before its use became restricted).
To overcome these obstacles, the platform continues to evolve as a key player for researchers. With future plans to launch high-impact open-access journals, develop an advanced paper recommendation system, and increase daily academic engagement. It's an exciting future, however, only time will tell how these new developments will be received.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Feb 2022
$23m
SERIES D
Mar 2019
$16m
SERIES C
Total funding: $56.8m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive Healthcare Coverage: 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents
- Generous Time Off: 21 paid vacation days, 12 paid company holidays, and unlimited sick days; paid parental leave and other leaves for life’s needs; 6-week paid sabbatical every 4 years
- Flexible Work Arrangements: Flexible daily schedules within a hybrid work environment, annual remote-office budget, and monthly WFH internet stipend
- 401k plan, and stock options
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Richard Price
(Founder & CEO)Studied PPE at Oxford, going on to complete a PhD in Philosophy. Founded two other businesses: LiveOut.co.uk, and PeopleRadar.co.uk. For 7 years was a Fellow of All Souls College at Oxford University.
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