Product Manager, Awareness Platform

Sourcebooks is seeking a Product Manager to own its mobile and web platform experiences from discovery through delivery and ongoing optimization. The role leads the platform roadmap, customer-informed improvements, product QA, release readiness, and post-launch optimization in partnership with development and cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities:

• Own the user experience, platform roadmap, backlog, and priorities across web and mobile instances
• Become a true power user and translate customer feedback, reviews, behavior, and analytics into improvements
• Partner with development from discovery through release; write clear requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria
• Improve onboarding, navigation, content discovery, subscriptions, engagement, retention, and UX/UI
• Own product QA, release readiness, push and messaging functionality, and post-launch optimization
• Manage external development partners, vendors, SOWs/RFPs, and defined growth initiatives
• Bring reader motivations and discovery habits to product decisions, helping customers find content and connections that keep them coming back

Requirements:

• 5+ years in product management, digital product management, or a closely related role with meaningful mobile/web ownership
• Experience working directly with software-development teams to define, prioritize, test, and release product improvements
• Strong customer and UX orientation, analytical judgment, prioritization, and product-management discipline
• Technical fluency across mobile/web lifecycles, integrations, subscriptions, backend systems, and release processes
• Excellent project management, QA, vendor management, and cross-functional communication skills
• Entrepreneurial, curious, collaborative mindset with a drive to continually improve the product
• A genuine interest in books and reader culture, including how readers discover books, share recommendations, and connect with authors and fellow readers
• Experience with consumer subscription, membership, content/media, or direct-to-consumer digital products
• Familiarity with App Store Connect or Google Play Console, push and in-app messaging, Jira or Asana, and product or subscription analytics
• Participation in book clubs, BookTok, Bookstagram, author communities, or book events
• Enthusiasm for commercial fiction and genre communities, such as romance, fantasy, or mystery, is especially welcome