Product Manager, Awareness Platform

Are you the kind of product manager who wants to use the product every day, know the customer deeply, and continually ask what should come next? Sourcebooks is seeking a Product Manager, Awareness Platform to join our Digital team and own our mobile and web platform experiences from discovery through delivery and ongoing optimization. This role combines hands-on product ownership, customer advocacy, roadmap and backlog leadership, UX improvement, analytics, QA, and strong partnership with development and cross-functional teams. This role requires regular hands-on use and testing of mobile and web experiences and occasional availability for time-sensitive releases or customer-impacting issues. The location for this position can be hybrid or remote in New York or Naperville, Illinois or remote based in any of the following states: This is an exempt hourly position with a range of $105,000 to $125,000. Starting pay reflects job-related considerations, including location, market conditions, relevant experience, training, and education, to support fair and competitive compensation. Own the user experience, platform roadmap, backlog, and priorities across web and mobile instances. Become a true power user and translate customer feedback, reviews, behavior, and analytics into improvements. Partner with development from discovery through release; Improve onboarding, navigation, content discovery, subscriptions, engagement, retention, and UX/UI. Manage external development partners, vendors, SOWs/RFPs, and defined growth initiatives. Bring reader motivations and discovery habits to product decisions, helping customers find content and connections that keep them coming back. 5+ years in product management, digital product management, or a closely related role with meaningful mobile/web ownership.

• Experience working directly with software-development teams to define, prioritize, test, and release product improvements.
• Strong customer and UX orientation, analytical judgment, prioritization, and product-management discipline.
• Technical fluency across mobile/web lifecycles, integrations, subscriptions, backend systems, and release processes.
• Excellent project management, QA, vendor management, and cross-functional communication skills.
• Experience with consumer subscription, membership, content/media, or direct-to-consumer digital products.

Familiarity with App Store Connect or Google Play Console, push and in-app messaging, Jira or Asana, and product or subscription analytics. Participation in book clubs, BookTok, Bookstagram, author communities, or book events. Enthusiasm for commercial fiction and genre communities, such as romance, fantasy, or mystery, is especially welcome. You become the trusted internal expert on the experience and proactively identify meaningful customer and product opportunities. Roadmap decisions are grounded in customer needs, behavior, performance data, strategic priorities, and technical realities. New features launch with strong requirements, QA, measurement, and post-launch iteration—and the customer experience keeps getting better. S. publisher by print units sold, we connect authors and readers through an entrepreneurial approach informed by data and reader insights. We’d love to hear how your approach to digital products connects with your interest in readers and books. Full-time employees are eligible for our comprehensive benefits program. Our range of benefits include, but are not limited to, Medical/Prescription drug insurance, Dental, Vision, Health Care/Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account, Health Savings Account, 401(k), Short and Long-Term Disability Insurance, Life/AD&D Insurance, & generous paid time off. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status.