Mediavine is seeking a Product Director with experience guiding the end-to-end development of complex product offerings to join our Product team. The ideal candidate is a “full stack” Product Director who has a wide range of technical aptitude, has the discipline to clearly define requirements, communicates effectively with both engineers and stakeholders, and takes a client-centric approach that allows us to provide best-in-class services to customers. Applicants must be based in the United State.

About Mediavine

Mediavine is a fast-growing advertising management company representing over 7,500 websites in the food, lifestyle, DIY, and entertainment space. Founded by content creators, for content creators, Mediavine is a Top 20 Comscore property, exclusively reaching over 125 million monthly unique visitors. With best-in-class technology and a commitment to traffic quality and brand safety, we ensure optimal performance for our creators.

Mission & Culture

We help content creators build sustainable businesses. From educational tools and innovative plugins to advertising technology that maximizes earnings without slowing down websites, our motivation is ensuring that brands and businesses grow in every respect.

We strive to build an inclusive and diverse team of highly talented individuals that reflects the industries we serve and the world we live in. We are committed to a culture in which everyone feels welcomed. We seek individuals who will challenge us to continuously evolve and make Mediavine the employer of choice for people of all backgrounds. We strongly encourage individuals from underrepresented groups in technology to apply for this position.

Diversity and inclusion aren’t just platitudes to us; we take this seriously in everything we do. Have a look at our team and read through our blog posts to learn more about our company’s values and the Mediavine culture. See if this is the place for you!

Position Title & Overview

As Product Director on our Grow Team, you will be responsible for overseeing the successful delivery of features used by our publishers to help increase user engagement, and build solutions that will help advertisers adjust to the end of third-party cookies.

The ideal candidate will be dedicated to a client-centric approach that takes into account our customers’ wide variety of interests and technical skill levels. They should be interested in working with our UX team to develop workflows that drive user engagement and be able to work with our analytics team to develop a cross-feature testing agenda. This role will also be expected to keep up with industry developments, attend various industry committee meetings and events as necessary, and incorporate learnings into the product strategy.

This is a very collaborative role that requires excellent communication skills. In addition to managing Product Managers, you’ll be working with a team of Engineers, QA, UX, Support, Business Analysts, and leadership on a daily basis.

As a growing company beyond its start-up phase, we have a strong product team that uses an effective, but light-weight set of processes. As the director, we expect that you will bring your experiences to help further refine that process and make adjustments that enable us to continue scaling effectively.

A fully remote company and team since inception, we value cultivating a culture that successfully balances working effectively and efficiently with creating opportunities to build meaningful work relationships and rapport with teammates.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Develop and own the product vision and roadmap for Grow with the ability to prioritize and execute against that roadmap to deliver business impact
• Work with stakeholders to develop, track, and meet goals for product KPIs
• Support the Product team in translating the product roadmap into clear requirement documents and feature specs
• Oversee Product team work with engineers to estimate feature delivery timelines, define milestones, and allocate resources accordingly
• Monitor changes to the digital advertising landscape and adjust roadmap accordingly
• Remain current on technological trends, the competitive landscape, and emerging opportunities
• Organize and monitor customer feedback loop to identify potential opportunities for improvement; distill user feedback into tangible steps for development.
• Develop and implement successful go-to-market strategiesDetermine research strategy to ensure product decisions are data-driven and meet user needs