Director of Product - Growth

November 27

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Description

• About Us • The Athletic is a digital sports media company that brings true sports fans closer to the athletes, teams, and leagues that captivate their attention. • We serve a multi-faceted audience that craves a richer connection and understanding with immersive storytelling and a like-minded community of fans. • Founded in 2016 and with major operational hubs in San Francisco, Los Angeles, London, and Melbourne, we empower a truly global team of more than 600 creators and cover more than 250 professional sports and collegiate teams across the United States, Canada, and the UK. • Our newsroom has produced thousands of in-depth reports along with more than 120 podcasts and other forms of premium content. • Put simply, The Athletic is at the center of a sports fan’s universe. • About the Role • Product plays a pivotal role at The Athletic, spearheading critical cross-functional initiatives and leading teams of engineers, designers, marketers, and analysts to execute seamlessly on behalf of the business and our users. • As a Director of Product, you will be a key strategic and operational leader, partnering closely with company executives and leading a team of Product Managers. • This is an advanced role, and you will be critical to the success of the Product organization and company at large. • You will report to the VP of Product. • The primary focus is on driving subscription growth. • Key areas of subscription growth include driving new audience to The Athletic, bringing them back on platform for continued engagement or re-activation, converting them to subscribers, and preventing subscription churn. • There may be other areas of ownership within our Subscription or Commercial strategies. • Your work will span off-platform (e.g., email), on-platform messaging and conversion touchpoints, and on-platform engagement features. • The job is to improve the overall user experience, with the goal of helping users move down the subscription funnel, with influence across the product experience. • This role is remote to the US and Canada only.

Requirements

• 4+ years of highly relevant product leadership experience including a team or functional leadership role. • Clear strategic strengths, from goal setting to strategy development to communication and reporting. • Expertise in consumer digital products. • Executional capabilities including cross-functional initiative leadership - you need to get things done in addition to guide the work. • Demonstrated experience being a people manager your team learns from and is excited to work with. • High familiarity with and love for sports and journalism. • Excellence with data - analyzing data, deriving insights, and making data-driven decisions. • Experience developing great user experiences, and an ability to empathize with users. • Eagerness to try new things and learn - and a willingness to fail.

Benefits

• Highly competitive, employer-contributed medical, dental, vision, basic life and disability insurance plans. • Savings accounts for medical, wellness, and childcare expenses. • 401k retirement savings plan and employer match. • Paid time off including paid sick leave, 12 paid holidays, 15 days of accrued vacation to start, and up to 20 weeks of Paid Parental Leave.