(Staff - Principal) Product Manager, Design Tooling

Paperless Post is seeking an experienced product manager to develop vision, strategy, and go-to market approaches for our consumer and professional products with a complex network of over 200 million users. As a hypothesis-driven and data-conscious team leader, you’ll create best-in-class experiences that engage users in self-expression, and impact company goals in a meaningful way.

What you'll do here:

• Drive the product strategy and ongoing development of Paperless Post’s media creation experiences across all our products and platforms.
• Work closely with senior leadership and engineers to translate company goals into focused initiatives, actionable next steps, and a living backlog of opportunities.
• Partner with Engineering and Product Design to craft tools and experiences that delight our internal and external Users, via thoughtful technical approaches.
• Lead your cross-functional team by enabling, inspiring, and involving them in the product development process.
• Prioritize features, build consensus and lead your team to execute a hypothesis-driven roadmap to drive impact on company goals on 30, 60, 90 day intervals.
• Track successes and failures with data, adjusting hypotheses and team priorities accordingly.
• Collaborate with and support Content Design, Customer Insights and Data teams with shared objectives and tactics.

About you:

• 9+ years product management experience in a developer-centric environment.
• OR 12+ years product management experience for Senior Staff level*
• Strong toolkit for organizing, influencing, and executing across engineering teams in a fast-paced, agile environment.
• Experience developing creative applications or other deeply interactive software.
• Experience with KPI/OKR-based product development.
• Familiarity with A/B testing, measuring the incrementality and holistic impact of your work.
• Comfort defining, collecting, and drawing insights from data relevant to your domain. Ability to analyze historical trends and hypothesize the information you have (and in some cases, the data you don’t). Experience using Looker is a strong plus.
• Passion for customer happiness, and drive to identify angles, opportunities, and holes in the market.
• Proven strengths in cross-functional leadership, stakeholder management, and the soft science of getting things done.
• Conceptual knowledge of the technical building blocks of a modern web application.
• Nice to have: Experience or background working with / developing animation tools, working with HTML canvas-based applications.

About the team

The PP Product Management team is lucky enough to work at a truly product-driven company with millions of paying users. Because Paperless Post isn’t supported by ad revenue, we spend our days focused on creating and improving on the ideal version of our platform, product, content, and partnerships for our users. We take a data-driven approach to our product planning—working closely with our in-house data scientists, conducting extensive user tests, and collecting real-time user feedback. We’re proud to be building a thoughtful, high-touch, and high-impact product that users trust with their most important life events, and we’re looking for leaders with whom to share our ambitious vision.

About the company

Company-wide, we enjoy an amazing ecosystem of an even gender split and a balance of engineers and designers. Because Paperless Post isn't supported by ad revenue, we can focus our efforts on creating and improving on the ideal version of our platform, product, content, and partnerships for our users.

We are proud that Paperless Post has helped over 200 million people globally connect in the real world since our inception. Paperless Post exists to help all people celebrate all the moments that matter to them. We believe that having a team reflective of the diverse world around us empowers us to create a product that serves everyone. Women, people of color, trans/genderqueer individuals, individuals with disabilities, and veterans are especially encouraged to apply.

The compensation range for the Staff PM level is $170,000 - 200,000 USD.

The compensation range for the Principal level is $180,000 - 220,000 USD*.

At Paperless Post, compensation is based on a number of factors, including geographic location, job-related skills, years of experience, and internal team banding. All full-time offer packages come with a base salary, equity component, and options for fully paid medical, dental, and vision benefits. The range posted here is based on the NYC market and may vary based on candidate location.