ABOUT THE COMPANY:

At Scribd (pronounced “scribbed”), our mission is to spark human curiosity. Join our team as we create a world of stories and knowledge, democratize the exchange of ideas and information, and empower collective expertise through our three products: Everand, Scribd, and Slideshare.
We support a culture where our employees can be real and be bold; where we debate and commit as we embrace plot twists; and where every employee is empowered to take action as we prioritize the customer.
When it comes to workplace structure, we believe in balancing individual flexibility and community connections. It’s through our flexible work benefit, Scribd Flex, that employees – in partnership with their manager – can choose the daily work-style that best suits their individual needs. A key tenet of Scribd Flex is our prioritization of intentional in-person moments to build collaboration, culture, and connection. For this reason, occasional in-person attendance is required for all Scribd employees, regardless of their location.
So what are we looking for in new team members? Well, we hire for “GRIT”. The textbook definition of GRIT is demonstrating the intersection of passion and perseverance towards long term goals. At Scribd, we are inspired by the potential that this can unlock, and ask each of our employees to pursue a GRIT-ty approach to their work. In a tactical sense, GRIT is also a handy acronym that outlines the standards we hold ourselves and each other to. Here’s what that means for you: we’re looking for someone who showcases the ability to set and achieve Goals, achieve Results within their job responsibilities, contribute Innovative ideas and solutions, and positively influence the broader Team through collaboration and attitude.

YOU HAVE / REQUIREMENTS

• 7+ years of product management with senior IC ownership, including taking products from zero to one.
• Demonstrated success shipping AI or LLM-powered features that improved core outcomes such as time to insight, task completion, or trust at scale.
• Strong product sense and interaction design instincts that make complex information feel simple and reliable.
• Practical depth in retrieval and prompting, and facility with tradeoffs among quality, latency, and cost.
• Track record of thriving amid ambiguity by shaping a multi-year vision, aligning cross-functional teams, and delivering incremental wins.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication, from product briefs to data backed decisions for senior leadership.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

ABOUT THE TEAM & ROLE

We are looking for a Lead Product Manager to shape the strategy and drive execution for a zero-to-one product that helps researchers do consequential work on Scribd by cutting time to insight and turning findings into task-ready outputs across a library of 300M documents, serving 200M monthly users. You will design experiences where people do not just find documents, they understand them, pull together context from multiple documents, and produce shareable results with clear source traceability. In this pivotal role, you will help transform Scribd from a document destination into an AI-powered research engine, partnering closely with Design, UXR, Engineering, ML, and the Synthesis team, and grounding decisions in user insights, crisp strategy, and practical LLM know-how.
Success here means taking a zero-to-one bet from thesis to traction: set a clear vision and north star, pick metrics that reflect real progress, validate with fast experiments, and ship features that cut time to insight and produce shareable outputs with clear provenance. The ideal candidate blends design thinking, deep AI/LLM fluency, and seasoned product management; works closely with Design, UXR, Engineering, Analytics, Data Science, and ML; and has a record of taking zero-to-one products to adoption and scale. Your mix of long-range strategy and hands-on execution will shape how the world discovers, understands, and connects knowledge on Scribd.

YOU WILL / RESPONSIBILITIES

• Chart the zero to one strategy for Research Journey experiences from concept to scale, with tight alignment across adjacent product areas.
• Partner with Machine Learning, Engineering, Applied Research, and the Synthesis team to bring document grounded insights into reading and workspace flows, shipping reliable production features with clear provenance.
• Define the metrics that matter for the research journey, and connect them to conversion, retention, and LTV.
• Balance short term wins with long term vision, delivering incremental improvements while building a durable research engine aligned with Scribd’s 3 year AI strategy.
• Fuse data with the voice of the customer, synthesizing experiment results, analytics, and user research to inform prioritization and design.
• Communicate with clarity and influence, aligning product, engineering, design, content, and executive stakeholders on requirements, timelines, deliverables, and expected impact.