The Opportunity:

This role will involve leading strategic growth initiatives for Shutterstock. The ideal candidate will be adept at setting a strategy for a product and working with technical teams to execute on that strategy, understand competitive dynamics, and have experience working cross-functionally with marketing and content functions. As a first project, this candidate, working primarily with Shutterstock’s Offset brand, will be responsible for driving the product roadmap to achieve strategic business goals. They will also help drive the strategic direction and integration of the Offset brand and other premium brands like Kobal into the broader Shutterstock ecosystem.

In order to be successful, this candidate must be comfortable leading product strategy for a cross-functional team of engineers and designers - and understanding how that product strategy impacts business levers. Additionally, candidates should brainstorm new ideas and directions for the project at hand, thinking through marketing ideas, content negotiations, and actions to take based on competitive research

The ideal candidate possess strong communication skills, has a strong bias for action, and knows how to function as a motivated self-starter in a high paced environment.

Responsibilities:

• Carry the torch on the product strategy and be the advocate of the customer in creating a best in class digital experience
• Work closely with two developers
• Develop the overall product roadmap including user stories, scenarios, and product backlogs by conducting user research and engaging with stakeholders
• Drive product development through the entire development cycle, from conceptualization, design and development, through to launch and ongoing support in a fast-paced, agile environment
• Work with our engineering teams to evolve our software and systems architecture to support a rapidly growing customer base across multiple countries and languages
• Interface with teams across the entire company including other product teams, marketing, public relations, security / risk operations, accounting, finance, legal, and the executive team
• Convert strategy work into actionable projects that can be tested, deployed and measured

Basic Qualifications:

• 5+ years agile product management experience
• 3+ years of e-commerce experience.
• Demonstrated analytical and quantitative skills, ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions
• Ability to collaborate and communicate effectively with teams across organizations
• Strong understanding of current technologies and standards, and how the digital ecosystem is evolving
• Results-oriented and self-motivated with the ability to take charge or play a supporting role
• Demonstrated ability to collect user feedback and understand customer pain points
• Enthusiasm for working in a collaborative, fast-paced environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to clearly communicate data insights to others
• Experience managing and leading a team to meet aggressive goals
• Ability to synthesize different points of view and present them as a unified plan
• Ability to dive deep into the product, the business, and the competition
• Empathy for our users and an entrepreneurial approach to problem-solving
• Product development experience in non-U.S markets a plus
• Inspire action in diverse groups

 About Shutterstock

Shutterstock, Inc. (NYSE: SSTK), is a leading global provider of high-quality licensed photographs, vectors, illustrations, videos and music to businesses, marketing agencies and media organizations around the world. Working with its growing community of over 190,000 contributors, Shutterstock adds hundreds of thousands of images each week, and currently has more than 125 million images and more than 6 million video clips available.

Headquartered in New York City, with offices in Amsterdam, Berlin, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, London, Los Angeles, Montreal, Paris, San Francisco and Silicon Valley, Shutterstock has customers in more than 150 countries. The company also owns Bigstock, a value-oriented stock media agency; Offset, a high-end image collection; PremiumBeat a curated royalty-free music library; Rex Features, a premier source of editorial images for the world's media; and Webdam, a cloud-based digital asset management service for businesses.

For more information, please visit www.shutterstock.com and follow Shutterstock on Twitter and on Facebook.

Equal Opportunity Employer, M/F/D/V