Director of Product, Content Intelligence & Growth
Scribd, Inc. is on a mission to advance human understanding. Our four products — Scribd®, Slideshare®, Everand™, and Fable — help billions of people across the globe move beyond access and into insight, application, and expertise.
About the role
The Content pillar is the team responsible for Scribd’s UGC corpus—more than 400 million user-uploaded documents that power the consumer experience on Scribd and Slideshare and differentiate our search and discovery. This pillar spans three connected areas: trust & safety, understanding, and supply, each with dedicated product and engineering leadership, embedded analysts, and applied ML capability.
We're hiring a Director of Content Intelligence & Supply to own knowing our UGC corpus and growing it as an asset. This new role unifies content intelligence and supply under one leadership point, connecting what we know about the corpus (classification, metadata, quality, gaps) with decisions about how we grow it. You’ll report to the Chief Product Officer and inherit an established team with room to shape the org’s direction, structure, and future growth.
We’re looking for a product leader with real data fluency—someone comfortable interrogating classification models, running product reviews, and turning a 400-million-document UGC corpus into a strategic asset.
Responsibilities
- Know the corpus
- Own the content understanding roadmap: classification, enrichment, metadata, and quality across the UGC corpus.
- Drive corpus gap analysis: identify where the corpus is deep, where it’s thin, and how user-generated and partner content behave differently.
- Make the corpus legible to our products (search, discovery, recommendations) and to the teams and systems that build on it.
- Set direction for classification and corpus-analysis work in partnership with applied ML, engineering, and data science teams.
- Grow the supply
- Own UGC supply end-to-end: uploads, conversions, and the supply-side user experience. The people who add content are your customer.
- Unify content acquisition strategy across user-generated supply, partnerships, and related programs—coordinating strategy while execution stays with the teams closest to it.
- Connect supply to demand: partner with consumer product orgs so the corpus grows where it creates the most value for readers, learners, and subscribers.
- Build the knowledge infrastructure for AI
- Own the AI product foundation of our UGC corpus: segmentation, sampling, corpus description, and metadata/retrieval capabilities (UGC corpus only; premium catalogs are out of scope).
- Partner with business development on evolving corpus intelligence needs.
- Lead and develop the team
- Lead senior product leaders and an established program with its own charter, engineering squads, and embedded analysts.
- Step into a team with strong people already in seat: earn trust quickly, raise the bar, and multiply the leaders around you.
- Operate as a peer among directors and VPs: represent content strategy in executive conversations with clarity and confidence, connecting corpus decisions to business outcomes.
Requirements
- 10+ years of product management experience, including 4+ years leading product teams or senior PMs.
- Depth in data-heavy product domains: ML/AI-powered products, search, recommendations, content platforms, or marketplaces.
- Genuine data fluency—able to credibly direct classification and corpus-analysis work and partner with applied ML and data science teams as an equal.
- Familiarity with common data structures around the use of content for AI training.
- Experience with supply-side or two-sided product dynamics: creators, contributors, sellers, or content acquisition.
- A strategic operator who connects content decisions to business outcomes (licensing revenue, product quality, growth) and can hold a portfolio-level roadmap.
- Strong communication and cross-functional leadership: comfortable operating with executives and setting priorities across teams you don’t manage.
- Experience with content licensing or B2B data products is a plus.
Pay
In the state of California, the reasonably expected salary range is $214,000 to $280,000. In the United States, outside of California, the range is $203,000 to $270,000. In Canada, the range is $190,000 CAD to $250,000 CAD. This position is also eligible for competitive equity ownership and a comprehensive benefits package.
Schedule
Scribd Flex empowers employees to choose the workstyle and location that support their best performance, while committing to intentional in-person moments that strengthen collaboration and culture. Occasional in-person attendance is required for all employees, regardless of location.
Employees must have their primary residence in or near one of the following cities (including surrounding metro areas or locations within a typical commuting distance):
- United States: Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Dallas, Denver, Chicago, Houston, Jacksonville, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, Phoenix, Portland, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington D.C.
- Canada: Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver
- Mexico: Mexico City
Benefits
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
- Mental health support and disability coverage
- Generous paid time off, including vacation, sick time, holidays, winter break, volunteer time, and sabbaticals
- Paid parental leave and family support benefits
- Retirement matching and employee equity
- Learning and development programs and professional growth opportunities
- Wellness and home office stipends
- Complimentary access to the Scribd suite of products
- Enterprise access to leading AI tools