Director of AI Product Management, Red Ventures
Growth
$268.8-381.3k
+ Equity
SQL
Python
Senior and Expert level
New York
Media and publishing company
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Media and publishing company
1001+ employees
B2CB2BEnterprisePublishingDigital Media
Be an early applicant
$268.8-381.3k
+ Equity
SQL
Python
Senior and Expert level
New York
1001+ employees
B2CB2BEnterprisePublishingDigital Media
Company mission
To partner with brands in order to connect customers with the products and services they need most.
Role
Who you are
- Commercially grounded: You bring an entrepreneurial mindset paired with strong commercial instincts, identifying where value can be unlocked and the levers that drive measurable improvements in business outcomes, connecting product decisions to both near-term value and long-term strategy
- Relationship-driven: You build durable relationships with client counterparts and internal leaders, understanding their motivations and constraints, and using these partnerships to shape decisions, secure alignment, and accelerate impact
- Technical fluency: You have a strong technical and data foundation that enables you to collaborate effectively with engineers and data scientists, understand relevant algorithms, translate complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders, and leverage modern AI tools to accelerate product development
- Customer centric: High-level of customer empathy with the ability to diagnose the core of the problem. You have a great taste for UX and design to help bring solutions to life
- Deeply curious: You have a genuine drive to understand how the world is changing and how emerging AI capabilities can be applied in practice. You invest time in staying close to new developments, forming clear opinions on what makes systems effective, and bringing that perspective into product strategy, team leadership, and execution
- End-to-end ownership: Experience driving AI/ML products from concept through iteration, guiding a team through delivery, and owning the outcomes and business impact of the work
- Driving complex decision-making: Experience influencing cross-functional leaders, navigating competing priorities, and making high-impact product decisions in ambiguous, fast-paced environments
- Built from experience: You’ve worked hands-on with production-grade AI systems, whether evaluating model behavior, running analyses (sql, python), building agents, or optimizing data pipelines, giving you the practical grounding to lead teams and make informed technical decisions
- Partner engagement: Experience serving as a strategic partner to stakeholders or clients, leading discovery conversations, validating opportunities, and aligning teams around shared goals
- People leader: Managed teams of product managers, including being a manager of managers - providing feedback and encouragement with direct responsibility for the team’s contributions
What the job involves
- Our product organization transforms clients’ customer acquisition, retention, and operations through AI and ML
- We are seeking a Director of AI Product Management to own acquisition and digital operations for one of our clients
- In this role, you will lead a team designing, building, deploying, and scaling AI-native products and agentic workflows that materially improve our client’s economics
- You will translate partner objectives, business strategy, and experimentation insights into clear product roadmaps, while working directly with client stakeholders to shape solutions, align on priorities, and guide key product decisions
- We expect this leader to be deeply technical, analytically rigorous, and relentlessly curious
- You should bring a strong grasp of data science practices, the ability to find signal in ambiguity, and the judgment to identify where AI can create meaningful value within the broader partner strategy
- You are comfortable operating close to the details, solving complex analytical and technical problems, and being hands-on when needed to drive our hardest challenges
- Your ability to influence key stakeholders enables your team to be an agent of change driving growth
- This role will have significant visibility across our client services division
- You will work closely with senior leaders across product, technology, data, and client teams and serve as a credible strategic partner to the client on the products you lead
- You will bring strong product judgment, help stakeholders navigate complex decisions, and build confidence in the path from opportunity to measurable business impact
- Identify & drive initiatives: Generate the product roadmap for the client partnership and lead multiple AI product initiatives, ensuring alignment with product leadership, partner objectives, customer needs, and broader RVGT strategy. Develop business cases and assess feasibility, impact, and ROI in partnership with business and client stakeholders
- Translate vision into action: Turn high-level strategy into actionable workstreams, defining sequencing, resourcing, and execution plans in partnership with product team members and cross-functional leads. Create clarity and alignment
- Own outcomes: Own the P&L and business impact of your initiatives, communicating progress, ROI, risks, and opportunities to leadership and client partners, shaping the go-forward for each workstream to ensure it’s positioned to deliver meaningful impact, getting hands-on where necessary to unblock our hardest tasks and hurdles
- Advance the Operating System: Build and deploy agentic workflows across your workstreams in partnership with our central teams. Ensure delivery learnings are turned into reusable capabilities that strengthen the broader system over time
- Develop talent: Manage and develop a team of product managers at various levels, creating specific plans, providing hands-on product and analytical support, delegating appropriate work, and instilling a performance-driven environment through clear expectations, regular feedback, and recognition of achievements
Our take
Red Ventures was founded in 2000, shortly before the dot-com bubble burst. It survived the crash, however, and has grown into one of America's biggest digital media companies. Its brands include Lonely Planet, Healthline and TV Guide.
The company was last valued at around $11 billion, which is evidence that its focus on momentum and adaptability has proven successful. Red Ventures is one of the major companies leading the shift towards intent-based media. It has acquired a range of specialist sites and publishing houses that serve the travel, tech and health sectors.
Red Ventures has managed to successfully out-compete rivals by moving away from the more traditional direct sales approach. Instead, it has focused on guiding customers towards purchases on other sites, and then taking a commission. The company's agility and laser-sharp focus on advice and specialty subjects will prove invaluable in the years to come.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Top investors
-19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Jan 2015
$250m
LATE VC
Total funding: $250m
Company benefits
- Hybrid Schedule & Flexible PTO: Take advantage of 3-4 days in-office per week and 1-2 WFH days per week (varying by team), and a robust Paid Time Off program that includes logging off for "Winter Week."
- Family Support, Planning, and Fertility: Our benefit offerings support every unique path to parenthood including fertility, egg freezing, adoption, surrogacy, parental bonding, and more.
- Mentorship Culture: Find a mentor, be a mentor, say yes to something new. This is a place where you’re guaranteed to build connections that extend past your immediate team and even your tenure at RV.
- Purpose & Community: We empower employees to make an impact for causes they care about, and we invest heavily in systemic impact through nonprofits like Road to Hire.
- World-Class Wellness: In addition to the on-site amenities at HQ, our unique wellness benefits include free therapy sessions and counseling for U.S. employees and family members.
Company HQ
Indian Land, SC
Leadership
Ric Elias
(Co-Founder & CEO)Ric co-founded Red Ventures in 2000 and has served as the CEO since.
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