Staff / Principal Product Manager

• We run four consumer products and we are hiring product managers for all of them
• Galatea — serialized fiction, millions of readers, coins and subscription
• CandyJar — the #1 US-based microdrama platform, billions of episodes streamed
• Ironblood — our new AI-native streaming platform for action and adventure
• Inkitt — the writing and discovery platform underneath all of it
• We decide which one you own at the point you start, not at the point you apply. When you join, we look at where the largest metric gap is across the portfolio and put you there. As the team grows, areas get reshuffled — people move to where the biggest problem is
• We say this plainly because at this level it is the most common reason a hire does not work out. If you need to own one named domain indefinitely, or your value depends on a particular surface staying yours, this will frustrate you
• This role works differently from most senior product jobs, and the difference is the single biggest predictor of whether someone succeeds here
• Ali, our founder and CEO, sets company priorities. You own the ideas. You will spend part of every day researching competitors, the industry and our users to generate new feature ideas, and you will keep a live Top 3 list of the highest-impact ideas for your area — a new idea only enters by beating one already on it
• You pitch on a single slide with an impact calculation attached. Anything over a week of engineering needs a methodical business case demonstrating ROI. Ali rejects ideas that will not move the number enough to justify the build, and he does so often. The loop is pitch, get rejected, sharpen, re-pitch — continuously, alongside delivery
• Once approved, you own execution outright, including release and A/B ramping. Four weeks after launch, every feature is reviewed against the impact you predicted before you built it. You cannot inflate a forecast to win approval, because the forecast becomes your scorecard
• Your performance is measured on two things: how often you beat your own Top 3, and the realised impact of what you ship
• This is not a role where a roadmap is handed to you and you are judged on delivering it. If that is the job you are looking for, this will frustrate you, and we would rather you knew now
• 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

Benefits

• Comprehensive Health Plans including Fitness Classes
• Dog-friendly office
• Expat integration support
• Free lunches in the office
• Professional Coaching for Everyone + unlimited self-development book budget
• Regular social events

• 8+ years of professional experience, with deep, demonstrable ownership of consumer product where users pay directly and often. We measure years on the job, not years holding a particular title
• Comfort operating as a hands-on individual contributor. This seat has no direct reports
• Nice to have: free-to-play games, serialized fiction, short-form video or audio; coins, virtual currency, offer design or live operations; a founder or first-employee stint
• 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
• 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
• Based in San Francisco. This role is five days a week onsite
• Generates ideas rather than waiting for them
• Comfortable being measured against their own forecast
• Have lots of fun building a generational AI x Entertainment company
• Brings solutions instead of problems
• Happy to be moved to wherever the biggest problem is
• Takes direct feedback well, gives it directly, and does not need to be handled
• Quick to action
• Data driven — and does the analysis themselves
• Autonomous on execution, collaborative on direction