Senior Product Manager, Chat

Team Description: 

Reddit is home to 100k+ active communities, where users discover, share, and discuss content from around the world. The Reddit chat team is focused on building exciting new ways for users to engage and form amazing connections. This is a unique opportunity to join our new team developing the future of synchronous conversations on Reddit. 

Role Description: 

You will be partnering closely with Product Design, Engineering, User Research, Data Science, and more, to build and deliver a world-class chat experience. You will lead the strategy and development of chat features that will shape how millions of users interact on Reddit. The ideal candidate has experience in consumer products and a deep understanding of social media.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in defining the top-level product vision and strategy for upcoming chat product releases

• Work closely with data scientists, designers, developers, Product Managers, and researchers to understand problems, capture new ideas, and manage a prioritized backlog of requirements

• Drive execution for backend and front end teams (across iOS, Android, and Web). Responsible for stakeholder alignment, feature definition, communication, quality and launch and evaluation of success criteria

• Contribute to the go-to-market and product adoption strategies by working with cross-functional stakeholders

• Define, track, and report on engagement metrics to track success and identify opportunity areas

• Participate in release planning sessions to define initiatives, resolve dependencies, and data-driven prioritization 

Required Qualifications:

• You are a detail-oriented team player with 4+ years of PM experience who isn’t afraid to get into the weeds and deliver quickly in a startup environment

• You have a good blend of product design understanding and excellent execution skills; you are able to take a vision or a problem and drive them into solid functional specs

• Strong track record of executing product features from ideation to launch with impact to consumer engagement metrics

• You have experience with mobile platform (iOS/Android) and web, own core products at scale, or have worked closely with front end platform teams 

• You have some experience working on products that solve complex problems with both a technical and social component (e.g. performance, reliability, product quality, etc.)

• You are comfortable with data analysis; you have experience transforming data points into product insights to support a product POV and you know how to track success metrics in alignment with Reddit's wider business objectives

• You are a clear communicator and team player, with the ability to translate technical work into clear business value for non-technical audiences.

• You have exceptional project management & organization skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• You are located in a North America time zone

• You are familiar or have worked with the social media industry or messaging products

Benefits:

• Comprehensive Health benefits

• 401k Matching

• Workspace benefits for your home office

• Personal & Professional development funds

• Family Planning Support

• Flexible Vacation (please use them!) & Reddit Global Days Off

• 4+ months paid Parental Leave

• Paid Volunteer time off

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