Head of Product
Location: US, NY, New York
Department: Product Development
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Director
Required education: Bachelor's Degree
Industry: Online Media
Function: Product Management
Company profile: Daily Secret is one of the fastest growing digital media brand for premium audiences around the world, serving 1.8 million subscribers every day. Covering over 35 markets, its signature daily email newsletters reveal coveted bars, restaurants, shops and all around local ‘secrets’ while integrating brands around passion points. Headquartered in New York, NY and Athens, Greece, Daily Secret is backed by leading media investors, such as Greycroft Partners, eVentures, Ronald Lauder, Dick Parsons, and Andy Russell. To learn more about us visit #URL_e830679f90409d3a40bc46c9110e3c627418d0bff3a005f2a78539860ed584c2#
Description: Daily Secret is seeking someone with a passion for building great products (and leading great teams), to drive the conceptual and technical development and end user experience of our content publishing platform.This position will own responsibility for the full product development life cycle; you’ll work with internal stakeholders, ideate, and lead a lean team of designers and developers to execute the vision. Hands-on technical product management experience is a must, as are excellent organizational and leadership skills. Additionally, the candidate must be focused on user experience, should be scenario driven, and have an orientation towards lean product development.Responsibilities• Work closely with the CEO to develop and articulate the product strategy and roadmap, and prioritize backlog• Support product strategy with quantitative metrics, user research, usability studies, community feedback, and competitive analysis• Gather and document requirements, prioritize features, and create milestones to meet deadlines• Manage designers and remote engineering team in Europe (some travel required... to beautiful Athens, Greece)
Requirements: • Proven ability to set a product vision and execute on it• Work in product related roles for 7+ years, with a proven track record for planning, scoping, releasing, and maintaining the lifecycle of applications• A lean approach to products, building hypotheses and testing them in small quick iterations, and user testing• Can communicate product plans to stakeholders via storytelling and visualizations (i.e. storyboards and wireframes)If you're interested in joining our team, please submit your resume and any relevant work samples. Include a cover letter letting us know how you fit the bill for each of our requirements, and telling us about your passion for local and travel content. If you practice a craft, keep or curate a blog, or contribute to an open source project, we'd love to hear about it.
Benefits: We offer...first-hand experience at a fast-growing, global digital media startupdaily exposure to readers around the world who are passionate about our secretsintelligent colleagues who take pride in their worka salary and all that jazzDaily Secret publishes email newsletters around the world that target young professionals and provide secrets/insights on what to do in your city. We publish 41 email editions on five continents, written in eight languages; we might just be the world’s smallest multi-national publishing powerhouse. We help users know their own city better and discover new ones. We’re growing and we're looking for someone who wants to help build an amazing, mission-driven company and grow with us.
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