About the Role
Lead the strategy and roadmap for Wattpad's data platform and product intelligence capabilities, building the platform that enables products to make smarter decisions. 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. Your work will shape how products understand readers, measure success, personalize experiences, run experiments, and make real-time decisions, powering the next generation of Wattpad.
Responsibilities
- Define the vision and roadmap for Wattpad's data platform
- Own the long-term strategy for systems that transform raw product events into reusable, trusted capabilities
- Develop and prioritize the roadmap across reusable data products, insights layer, decisioning platform, and data governance and discoverability
- Define the strategy and roadmap for Wattpad's Product Intelligence Platform
- Build platform capabilities that transform raw data into trusted, reusable intelligence
- Work with Content teams to deepen content intelligence
- 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
- Turn recurring product needs into reusable platform capabilities
- Balance long-term platform investments with near-term business priorities
- Influence product and technical strategy across the organization
Requirements
- 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
Skills
- Product Management
- Data Platform Strategy
- Product Intelligence
- Data Engineering
- Data Science
- Analytics
- Modern Data Architectures
- Event Pipelines
- Data Products
- Warehouses
- Semantic Layers
- Metrics Stores
- Feature Stores
- APIs
- Systems Thinking
- Communication
- Product Analytics
- Experimentation Platforms
Location
- Greater Toronto Area
- Remote (part of the year)
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-Time
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- $125,000 - $160,000 a year
Benefits
- Career development
- Mentorship
- Top industry health benefits, including vision and dental
- Health/wellness account
- RRSP Contributions (Canada)
- 401K Contributions (USA)
- Generous vacation
- Maternity/Parental leave top-up program
- Corporate discount for gym memberships
- Work from almost anywhere in the world for part of the year
- Winter break shutdown
About the Company
- Wattpad's vision is to entertain and connect the world through stories.
- A leading global webnovel platform, Wattpad has democratized storytelling for a new generation of diverse Gen Z writers and their fans.
- Wattpad is part of WEBTOON Entertainment’s IP & Creator Ecosystem, where approximately 155 million monthly active users discover incredible stories in multiple formats.
- Wattpad is part of the WEBTOON Entertainment family of brands, home to some of the world's largest storytelling platforms.
- Entrepreneurs and Do-ers.
- Our mission is to use the power of community and technology to unleash the full potential of stories to the world.
- We are visionaries, community builders, passionate problem solvers, storytellers, coffee snobs (tea drinkers, too!), curious by nature, and culturally diverse.
- Obsessed with our users, solving complex problems, maximizing flow, learning constantly, building the next great storytelling product, finding the greatest stories ever told, dogs (and cats), coffee, and good snacks.
- We work autonomously, collaboratively, respectfully, balancing work, family, and play.
Equal Opportunity
- Wattpad is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate.
- Wattpad welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
- We are committed to fostering a global team that reflects the diversity of the Wattpad community.
- We consider employment applicants without regard to age, race, colour, national origin, citizenship, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, marital status, disability status or any other protected status.
