BuzzFeed is looking for a Product Manager to focus on building delightful, high-growth consumer products. The ideal candidate is passionate about digital media — from viral videos to Pulitzer-prize winning investigative series — and is a collaborative person who has a demonstrated ability to lead teams in launching and iterating on products with great user experiences.
This position is based in our New York or LA office, and we offer competitive compensation and a stock option program.
What You'll Do:
- Work closely with designers, engineers, project managers, curators and content creators to build features for our mobile apps and website that make it easy to consume and fun to share BuzzFeed content.
- Facilitate conversation amongst key stakeholders to inform product strategy, design, roadmaps and timelines.
- Collaboratively determine key performance indicators with the team, and then consistently AB test and evaluate data to drive progress.
- Passionately track growth and retention numbers, and imagine ways to consistently improve these fundamental metrics.
- Develop user testing and research plans to ensure new products and features deeply meet the needs of our target audiences.
- Prioritize bugs and work to maintain a high standard of quality
About You:
- You are deft at retrieving and dissecting data with tools such as Google Analytics (if you know SQL, that’s a plus!)
- You have prior experience designing and building consumer products, including obsessing over designing viral loops.
- You have prior experience running and reporting on AB tests
- You enjoy working with distributed teams and are an extraordinary communicator in every medium — from Slack to video conferencing to in-person gatherings.
- You can build wireframes, write functional product specs, and test like a champ.
- You're detail-oriented, organized and practical, and you know how to take the seed of an idea through to launch and how to prioritize effectively to get things done.
- You have lots of ideas and the judgment to identify which ones are worth pursuing.
- You have a deep understanding of the technical and operational requirements of projects and products. You don’t need to be an engineer, but you need to speak the language of APIs, caching layers, databases and pull requests.
- You pay close attention to the latest developments in in the consumer media space, from major social apps to new experiments in mobile video, VR and audio interfaces.
- You want to work for a company that believes in smart experimentation, agility, mutual respect and having fun.
About BuzzFeed
BuzzFeed is the leading independent digital media and tech company delivering news and entertainment content to a global audience. We have offices in 18 cities around the world and more than 1300 employees including reporters, video producers, data scientists, engineers, brand strategists, and more. We infuse hard work and fun though a culture of experimentation, teamwork, equality, humble confidence, and infusing hard work and fun. As an employee, you’ll enjoy perks like office events, snacks, career development courses, and no work on your birthday! But most importantly, you’ll work with inspiring colleagues to build tools and create content that helps connect people all over the world.