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Product Manager - Creator

Substack · San Francisco (HQ)

$210k - $250k/yrRemoteMid levelProductProductProductPosted 2 months ago
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ABOUT SUBSTACK 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 from their work through subscriptions, offering them creative freedom, ownership, and a direct connection to their audiences. THE ROLE This role leads product for the full creator lifecycle on Substack: from helping independent creators confidently start, publish, grow, and monetize, to serving sophisticated enterprise publishers and partners building at scale on the platform. You’ll work at the intersection of creator empathy, platform strategy, product analytics, partnerships, and execution. Success in this role means deeply understanding creator needs across the spectrum, identifying the behaviors and product systems that drive long-term success, and building scalable primitives that serve both new creators and large-scale publishers. You’ll partner closely with Product, Engineering, Design, Data, and Partnerships teams to translate creator needs into durable product systems, including onboarding and activation flows, guidance and education, analytics and insights, site customization, publisher tooling, and platform capabilities that help creators build sustainable businesses on Substack. WHAT YOU’LL DO - Define the product strategy for creators across the full lifecycle, from first launch and activation to growth, monetization, customization, and enterprise-scale publishing - Build the systems, tooling, analytics, and platform primitives that help creators of every size succeed on Substack - Translate creator insights, enterprise partner needs, and company strategy into clear roadmaps, product requirements, and shipped work - Partner closely with Engineering, Design, Data, Partnerships, and Sponsorships teams to onboard creators, suppo

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Substack lets writers connect with their audience on their own terms and earn money doing it. We make it simple for writers to publish to an email list that they own, get discovered on the web, and charge for subscriptions. More than 500,000 people pay to subscribe to writers across the Substack network, and the top writers make millions of dollars a year. Substack’s model depends on the success of writers using Substack - we only make money when they do. “Substack makes it dead simple to start a newsletter and get paid for it.” - Judd Legum, author of Popular Information "Substack gives me a way to connect with my audience on my own terms.” - Lyz Lenz, author of God Land and Men Yell At Me Make something that matters Great writing is valuable. It respects readers' time, their intelligence, and their trust. It helps us make sense of and change the culture we live in. At Substack, we're building a business model that enables great writing to thrive. Learn more about our opportunity and mission. We are a small but growing team, and there is more to build than we could ever imagine. That’s why we need you. We aim to take pragmatic approaches to problem solving while shipping high-quality products that allow the writing on Substack to take the spotlight. Every person at the company participates in customer support. We do this to build empathy with our users and enable us to build better products. We believe that a diverse team will help us build a product that best serves the needs of a wildly diverse ecosystem of writers. So whatever your background or perspective, we’d welcome your input to help build the best possible version of Substack.

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