The app for independent voices. Backed by General Catalyst, Y Combinator and a16z.
About the role
This is a new role on the Growth team, focused on growing the entire Substack ecosystem. You'll own product-led growth across both sides of our network: helping more creators successfully launch and grow, helping more readers discover and engage with great work, and converting more of that engagement into paid subscriptions.
What they're looking for
- An ambitious, founder-type product manager with 5–8 years of experience
- Comfort with ambiguity: you can find structure in an unclear problem, form a strong point of view, and move from strategy to execution without waiting for perfect information
- The curiosity and analytical depth to go very deep on a problem, understand its underlying mechanics, and keep pushing until you've found the highest-leverage solution
- Experience working on multi-sided marketplaces, networks, or ecosystems, with a strong intuition for how to create value for and balance the needs of different participants
- Familiarity with Substack, alignment with our mission, and a thoughtful perspective on media, publishing, and the creator economy
- Ideally, experience across both early-stage startups and larger companies, bringing the rigor and craft of the latter while operating with the speed, resourcefulness, and scrappiness of the former
More about this role
Substack is building a new economic engine for culture, giving the brightest, most interesting, and most creative people on the internet the power of their own publishing platform. Substack empowers independent writers, artists, videographers, podcasters, and creators of all types to create, share, and make a living off their work through subscriptions — offering them creative freedom, ownership, and a direct connection to their audiences.
We're growing fast. Millions of readers come to Substack directly every month, and our app is the primary destination for our most engaged users. We're looking for a rare hybrid — someone who thinks like a product manager, works closely with engineers, and has deep expertise in the organic growth levers that compound over time: SEO, ASO, and new user onboarding.
This is a new role on the Growth team, focused on growing the entire Substack ecosystem. You'll own product-led growth across both sides of our network: helping more creators successfully launch and grow, helping more readers discover and engage with great work, and converting more of that engagement into paid subscriptions.
You'll report to the Head of Growth and work primarily with the...
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