Senior Product Manager, Academia
Discovery Hub
$190-230k
A platform for academics to share research papers
Open for applications
A platform for academics to share research papers
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$190-230k
101-200 employees
Company mission
Academia.edu is on a mission to accelerate the world's research. Their goal is to speed up research in every domain - finding a solution to climate change; finding cures for diseases; evolving artificial intelligence.
Role
Who you are
- Minimum 5 years of B2C online product management experience
- Proven expertise in working on B2C products serving millions of users
- Prior work in social media or other B2C engagement-growth-focused product roles
- Exceptional communication skills, both written and oral
- Technical understanding and ability to engage in high-level technical discussions
- Demonstrated ability to make a significant business impact
- Customer-centric approach with a knack for data-driven validation
- Extensive experience with A/B testing
- Startup experience is essential
Desirable
- Experience in Edtech or Academia
- A stint in growth-stage tech companies during a ‘high-growth’ period
- Previous experience working in growth (product) functions
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Senior Product Manager (Sr PM) to lead our “Discovery Hub” product team. Our Discovery Hub team owns the “home experience” for both desktop and mobile
- Your role will focus on determining how best to assemble and present the discovery hub experience to users to drive engagement
- You’ll often leverage tools from other teams (such as our profiles, paper recommendations, and people recommendations teams), and figure out the correct arrangement of the various key actions and features that users must engage with to retain to our site
- Strategize, define, and prioritize the product roadmap for the Discovery Hub team
- Lead and coordinate cross-functional teams across engineering, design, and data
- Ideate and oversee the development, planning, and design of new features and techniques from concept to market
- Utilize product metrics to guide decision-making and evaluate success
- Craft product requirements for MVPs and feature enhancements
- Contribute to the overarching product strategy
- Drive business impact; help us attract and retain our users!
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 balk at their use of the .edu domain usually reserved for academic institutions (they registered before its use became restricted).
Perhaps to overcome these obstacles, and to give them an edge over the increasing preference for competitors like ResearchGate and Google Scholar, Academia.edu have taken some interesting steps. One was to develop a mobile app for the platform. Another was the early 2020 acquisition of entrepreneurial training and toolkit platform The Start-Up Gate. This latter decision could signal an exciting new developmental direction for Academia.edu - but thus far, the motivation remains unclear.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Feb 2022
$23m
SERIES D
Mar 2019
$16m
SERIES C
Total funding: $56.2m
Company benefits
- 21 days of paid vacation and 11 paid holidays per year
- 8 weeks of paid bonding parental leave plus 8 weeks of birth parent leave
- 6 weeks of fully-paid sabbatical leave for every four years you work here
- Book stipend
- Catered lunch
- Stock options
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
- 401k
- FSA
- Activities
- Commuter benefits
Company values
- Mission Oriented
- Kindness
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Richard Price
(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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