Wattpad

[Wattpad] Senior Product Manager, Data Platform & Intelligence

Wattpad$125K — $160K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of Product Management experience, particularly in platform, infrastructure, or data products
  • Strong knowledge of modern data architectures: event pipelines, data products, and more
  • Experience collaborating with Data Engineering and Software Engineering teams
  • Ability to define product strategy with competing stakeholder priorities
  • Strong systems thinking focusing on reusable platform solutions
  • Excellent communication skills for influencing technical and executive audiences
  • Comfortable making decisions in ambiguous situations, balancing long-term and short-term goals
  • Familiarity with product analytics and experimentation tools like Amplitude or Mixpanel

Responsibilities

  • Define the vision and roadmap for Wattpad's data platform
  • Own the strategy for transforming raw events into reusable data capabilities
  • Develop a roadmap covering reusable data products and insights layers
  • Create strategies for a Product Intelligence Platform to enhance decision-making
  • Build capabilities that convert raw data into trusted intelligence
  • Collaborate with Content teams to enhance content intelligence
  • Partner with Engineering and Data Science for scalable solutions
  • Establish trusted metrics and governance for product development
  • Innovate reusable platform capabilities to streamline delivery
  • Balance long-term investments with immediate business needs
  • Influence product and technical strategies throughout the organization

Benefits

  • Career development opportunities with a focus on mentorship
  • Comprehensive health benefits, including vision and dental coverage
  • Annual health/wellness account for personal use
  • Retirement savings contributions (RRSP/401K)
  • Generous vacation and parental leave policies
  • Corporate gym membership discounts
  • Work-from-anywhere flexibility for part of the year
  • Winter break shutdown and various additional perks
Full Job Description
We're looking for an experienced Senior Product Manager to lead the strategy and roadmap for Wattpad's data platform and product intelligence capabilities.

This isn't a traditional analytics or reporting role. You'll build the platform that enables our products to make smarter decisions.

You'll partner with Data Engineering, Data Science, Analytics, and Product Managers to transform raw product events into reusable data products, trusted metrics, decision-ready insights, and an intelligent platform service that powers experiences across Wattpad.

Your work will shape how products understand readers, measure success, personalize experiences, run experiments, and make real-time decisions.

This is one of the foundational platform investments that will power the next generation of Wattpad.

What You'll Do:

  • Define the vision and roadmap for Wattpad's data platform
  • Own the long-term strategy for the systems that transform raw product events into reusable, trusted capabilities that power products across Wattpad
  • Develop and prioritize the roadmap across areas including:
    • Reusable data products
    • Insights Layer
    • Decisioning platform
    • Data governance and discoverability
  • Define the strategy and roadmap for Wattpad's Product Intelligence Platform, enabling products to make smarter, faster, and more consistent decisions
  • Build the platform capabilities that transform raw data into trusted, reusable intelligence for teams across the company
  • Work with our Content teams to deepen our content intelligence, transforming story metadata, taxonomy, and behavioural signals into reusable capabilities that power products across Wattpad
  • Partner with Engineering, Analytics, and Data Science to create scalable foundations for personalization, recommendations, and product decisioning
  • Establish trusted metrics, shared data definitions, and governance practices that improve consistency and confidence across product development
  • Turn recurring product needs into reusable platform capabilities that reduce duplication and accelerate delivery across teams
  • Balance long-term platform investments with near-term business priorities, making thoughtful tradeoffs that maximize impact
  • Influence product and technical strategy across the organization, helping shape the future of Wattpad's data and intelligence capabilities


Required Qualifications:

  • 7+ years of Product Management experience, with experience owning platform, infrastructure, developer, AI, or data products
  • Strong understanding of modern data architectures including event pipelines, data products, warehouses, semantic layers, metrics stores, feature stores, and APIs
  • Experience working closely with Data Engineering, Analytics, and Software Engineering teams
  • Experience defining product strategy across multiple stakeholders with competing priorities
  • Strong systems thinking with the ability to identify reusable platform capabilities instead of one-off solutions
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence technical and executive audiences
  • Comfortable making decisions in ambiguous environments while balancing long term platform investments with near term business value
  • Experience with modern product analytics and experimentation platforms such as Amplitude, Mixpanel, or similar tools for product measurement, behavioural analytics, and experimentation


$125,000 - $160,000 a year

What we offer (For Full-Time Only):

* Career development; we believe in mentorship and investing in your learning, supporting you to achieve your goals

* Top industry health benefits, including vision and dental

Your own health/wellness account to spend each year

* RRSP Contributions (Canada), 401K Contributions (USA)

* Generous vacation and Maternity/Parental leave top-up program

* Corporate discount for gym memberships for you and your family

* Work from almost anywhere in the world for part of the year

* Winter break shutdown and a whole lot more!

Wattpad is conducting all interviews in a distributed manner using applicable third party software where needed and using visual interface tools such as Google Meet and Zoom.

About Wattpad

Who are we? Entrepreneurs and Do-ers. Our vision is to entertain and connect the world through stories, and our mission is to use the power of community and technology to unleash the full potential of stories to the world.

What does that mean? We are visionaries, community builders, passionate problem solvers, storytellers, coffee snobs (tea drinkers, too!), curious by nature, and culturally diverse.

What are we obsessed with? Our users. Solving complex problems and maximizing flow. Learning constantly. Building the next great storytelling product. Finding the greatest stories ever told. Dogs (and cats), coffee, and good snacks.

How do we work? Autonomously, collaboratively, respectfully. Balancing with work, family, and play...and all while having a great time.

Unlock the best of both worlds with a role that keeps you connected! We're looking for passionate individuals in the Greater Toronto Area to join our team who can work 3x per week from our vibrant downtown Toronto office. Wattpad has a hybrid work model, where employees enjoy the flexibility to connect with colleagues and collaborate on exciting projects in person, as well as the time and space to for productive work from home. This is your opportunity to be a part of our thriving workplace culture.

Wattpad encourages candidates to apply as long as they are authorized to work in Canada (excluding Quebec) as a precondition of employment. We are not able to sponsor applicants for work permits.

About Wattpad

Wattpad is a social storytelling platform that allows users to share and discover stories across a range of genres, including romance, science fiction, and mystery. The platform has over 80 million monthly users and over 500 million stories. Wattpad's users are primarily young adults and teenagers. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
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