Platform Growth Associate, Wattpad
German Language Proficiency
$60-73k
Office located in El Segundo, CA
Platform for sharing original writing
Be an early applicant
Platform for sharing original writing
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$60-73k
Office located in El Segundo, CA
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
- 2+ years of experience in a digital operations, content operations, web/mobile platform operations, or digital media role
- Bilingual fluency in German Required
- Strong attention to detail, organizational, and project management skills, with a proven ability to work with global teams across a variety of time zones
- Experience working with Content Management Systems (CMS) or scheduling tools in a publishing or platform environment
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with proven experience in professional copywriting/copyediting for user-facing content (e.g., push notifications, banners)
- High level of proficiency with collaboration and project management tools (e.g., Google Workspace, Airtable)
- A quick learner who can rapidly adapt to new processes and software tools
Desirable
- Practical knowledge of storytelling, digital comics, webcomics, or the webnovel/entertainment industry
- Strong proficiency with technology: Experience using, Airtable, MS Office (Excel), Photoshop, Illustrator, etc
- Experience with user retention and monetization strategies (Lifecycle Management, CRM)
- Familiarity with data analysis tools or comfort with generating basic reports on operational performance
What the job involves
- We are looking for a highly organized, detail-oriented, and proactive Platform Growth Associate to ensure the smooth, timely, and compliant delivery of content, promotional assets, creator communications and user-facing features across the CANVAS platform
- This role is critical to maintaining the platform's daily health, supporting key business initiatives, and enabling a seamless experience for our millions of readers and creators
- Manage the end-to-day operational lifecycle of series including; review, curation, and scheduling of CANVAS Series
- Operate and maintain content management and scheduling tools to ensure all events, content releases, and feature rollouts are executed accurately and on time
- Enforce Brand Safety guidelines and content policies for all assets and series published on the platform, coordinating closely with Trust & Safety and Legal teams
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Marketing, and Product teams for platform feature announcements
- Draft, review, localize and schedule Creator engagement communications, including copywriting for notices, newsletters, and social activations
- Keep up with European trends/viral content so that it can be adapted to WEBTOON CANVAS Social channels
- Work on a global scale to assist with Virtual events that are creator and education focused
- Act as a key operational liaison between global and local teams, ensuring consistent processes and clear communication across multiple time zones
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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