About the Position

Staff / Principal Product Manager

San Francisco

Product Team – Product

Full Time

On-site

About the Company

Inkitt is building the Disney of the 21st Century, standing at the forefront of technology and entertainment. Leveraging AI and predictive algorithms, Inkitt discovers unknown stories and turns them into blockbuster hits, producing a new $1M ebook every 7 days and selling directly to consumers through its Inkitt Galatea app. Bestsellers are then translated onto the screen through Inkitt CandyJar, the #1 US-based microdrama platform with billions of episodes streamed to date. Inkitt has become the 11th most bestseller-generating publisher in the world, boasting a 40x higher hit-rate than traditional publishers. Backed by some of the top VC’s such as: Khosla, Kleiner Perkins, and NEA Ventures, our recent expansion into Ironblood, the first AI Native streaming platform for action and adventure, is only the beginning of our journey to becoming the next-gen entertainment powerhouse.

Responsibilities

Own a product line end to end, including the revenue attached to it
Set the idea agenda for your area and defend it with numbers
Build rigorous business cases for anything substantial, and be right often enough that the bar keeps rising
Drive work through spec, design, engineering, QA and launch at a cadence most companies would consider unreasonable
Design and run experiments, ramp them on your own judgement, and report results honestly including failures
Raise the standard of product thinking around you - your pitches, specs and post-mortems become the reference the rest of the team works from
Hit the impact you predicted

Requirements

8+ years of professional experience, with deep, demonstrable ownership of consumer product where users pay directly and often.
You are useful in week two. You have built and owned the kind of surface this portfolio needs - paywalls, pricing, coins and offers, retention loops, onboarding - at real scale, and can start contributing before you have been fully onboarded.
Exceptional analytical ability. Advanced SQL. You build your own models and you check other people’s.
A track record of revenue impact you can quantify, with the methodology behind it.
Comfort operating as a hands-on individual contributor. This seat has no direct reports.
Based in San Francisco. This role is five days a week onsite.

Nice to Have

Experience with free-to-play games, serialized fiction, short-form video or audio
Experience with coins, virtual currency, offer design or live operations
A founder or first-employee stint

We Offer

401k plan, designed to help you save for the future
Health benefits tailored to your needs, including medical, dental, and vision coverage
Professional coaching for everyone
Team-building events, including our annual Tulum trip
Unlimited access to our Galatea app and CandyJar app.
Unlimited budget for self-development books
Charity donation of your choice at your one year anniversary
Free lunch in office everyday
Class Pass membership for US based employee and gym access for Berlin employees
Dog-friendly offices in Berlin and San Francisco

Salary

$190,000 - $225,000 a year

Salary offers are determined based on the candidate’s experience, skills, and alignment with the requirements of the role, as well as internal equity and market benchmarks

We are open to hiring this role at either Staff or Principal level. The posted range spans both. We calibrate level during the interview process based on the scope you have owned, and we will tell you where we have landed before we make an offer.

Diversity and Inclusion

At Inkitt, we strive to build a company culture and provide employment opportunities based on diversity and inclusion. We believe every author should have an equal opportunity to succeed, as should our team members. As a growing team from 20+ countries, we welcome everyone to apply.

We look forward to hearing from you!

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Staff / Principal Product Manager

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