Director, Product Management

About the role

TheSkimm, a part of Everyday Health Consumer, is hiring a Director, Product Management. This role sits at the center of theSkimm’s biggest opportunity: transforming a highly trusted brand and massive audience into deeper, more personalized engagement — and ultimately, sustainable business value. You’ll be the connective tissue across the product ecosystem and the champion of making every user interaction feel intentional, valuable, and unmistakably Skimm.

Responsibilities

• Identifies the real customer problems we need to solve — and turns them into opportunities that drive audience and revenue growth.
• Maps what should happen at every step of the user journey to help people progress with clarity and confidence.
• Pinpoints where our surfaces (email, site, app) need improvements to reduce friction and unlock engagement.
• Ships the right solutions — quickly — by deciding what to build, refine, or retire in service of aggressive performance and business goals.
• Defines and owns how we measure success through user behavior, product usage, conversion, and retention — and holds teams accountable to delivering meaningful outcomes.
• Ultimately you will drive how users discover value, deepen their relationship with the brand and content, and ultimately convert into loyal and engaged users.

Qualifications

• 6–12+ years of product experience, ideally across consumer media, subscription products, marketplaces, or lifestyle apps with roadmap and KPI responsibility.
• Deep experience with email, web, app, lifecycle, and multi-surface journeys with a media focus.
• You think in systems and pathways, not features.
• You know how to turn user behavior data into a roadmap with real outcomes.
• Excellent communicator and collaborator — you can rally creative, editorial, marketing, and engineering around a shared goal.
• Comfortable going from 0 to 1, 1 to growth, and iteration cycles with ambiguous requirements.
• Empathetic to user needs and sharp about business drivers.
• Known for creating clarity, momentum, and a sense of focus.
• Strong quantitative and analytical abilities that drive decisions.
• Ability to organize and motivate large cross-functional teams.
• Ability to manage conflicting interests between teams and drive to solutions.

Job Qualifications

• 6–12+ years of product experience, ideally across consumer media, subscription products, marketplaces, or lifestyle apps with roadmap and KPI responsibility.
• Deep experience with email, web, app, lifecycle, and multi-surface journeys with a media focus.
• You think in systems and pathways, not features.
• You know how to turn user behavior data into a roadmap with real outcomes.
• Excellent communicator and collaborator — you can rally creative, editorial, marketing, and engineering around a shared goal.
• Comfortable going from 0 to 1, 1 to growth, and iteration cycles with ambiguous requirements.
• Empathetic to user needs and sharp about business drivers.
• Known for creating clarity, momentum, and a sense of focus.
• Strong quantitative and analytical abilities that drive decisions.
• Ability to organize and motivate large cross-functional teams.
• Ability to manage conflicting interests between teams and drive to solutions.

Benefits

Life at Everyday Health At Everyday Health Group, the Health & Wellness division of Ziff Davis, we work in a culture of collaboration and welcome those who desire to join our growing global community. We believe in careers versus jobs and people versus employees. We seek enthusiastic individuals with an entrepreneurial spirit looking for an environment that rewards your best work. Everyday Health offers competitive salaries in addition to robust, health and wellness-focused benefits, including comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage, as well as life and disability benefits. Our employees enjoy Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), a 401(k) with company match, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan. We are committed to work-life balance with Flexible Time Off, Volunteer Time Off and paid holidays. We offer family building and caregiving support and generous Family Care and Parental leave, when you need it. We also provide Fitness Reimbursement and access to wellness programs, ensuring our team stays healthy both physically and mentally. Our Culture and Values We created our values together to guide our collective purpose and pursuits. We are collaborators and problem solvers. We empower one another to make informed decisions and to be enabled towards action. We embrace success. We recognize that innovation can spark and be born from any of us no matter our individual role or background. We encourage open mindedness and sensitivity to each other and our environment. Our personal and professional passions get ignited, nurtured and supported. We value that doing is greater than talking as the most measurable means of impact. Our collective purpose to deliver enlightened audience experiences with trusted brands is what drives the success of our business and our professional satisfaction.

Pay

$130,000 to $170,000

Schedule

Hybrid with the successful candidate working out of the NYC office 1-2 days per week at the direction of the manager.