Project Manager, Wattpad
WEBTOON, D Comics
$90-120k
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
$90-120k
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
- 5+ years of project or program management experience, ideally within entertainment, media, or a marketing/creative environment
- Proven ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams, timelines, and stakeholders in a fast-paced environment
- Exceptional organizational and follow-through skills, with a sharp eye for detail and deadlines
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to drive accountability and influence teams without direct authority
- Experience coordinating asset review and approval processes across internal teams and external partners
- Comfort with project management and collaboration tools (e.g., Asana, Monday, Jira, or similar)
- Highly adaptable and comfortable navigating ambiguity, shifting priorities, and a dynamic work environment
- Bilingual proficiency in English and Korean is a plus
What the job involves
- WEBTOON is becoming the home for Marvel and Disney comics — a new subscription app where fans read, collect, and stay connected to the stories and characters they love
- We're building the definitive destination for Marvel/Disney IP, and we're looking for a Project Manager to keep it on track
- This role reports to the Head of Marketing and is the connective tissue across the team — owning schedules, driving deliverables to completion, and making sure the right work is approved by the right people at the right time
- The ideal candidate is exceptionally organized, calm under pressure, and comfortable being hands-on in a lean, fast-moving environment
- It's an exciting opportunity for someone who thrives on bringing order to ambiguity, enjoys keeping cross-functional teams aligned, and is passionate about entertainment, fandom, and culture
- Own and maintain project schedules across marketing, creative, and partner workstreams — tracking milestones, dependencies, and deadlines, and flagging risks before they become problems
- Route creative and marketing assets through review and approval — coordinating feedback across internal stakeholders and Marvel/Disney partners, and tracking versions and sign-offs
- Drive deliverables to completion, holding internal teams, agencies, and partners accountable to timelines and keeping every workstream moving
- Run the operating rhythm of the team — organizing meetings, capturing action items, and following up to ensure nothing falls through the cracks
- Serve as the central point of coordination across the team, staying on top of who owes what and proactively unblocking work as launch priorities shift
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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