SUMMARY As a Publishing Product Manager on the Books team, you are responsible for possessing a high level of professionalism, strong creative and editorial judgment, excellent relational skills, and the organizational ability to manage multiple titles simultaneously in the high-performing Consumer Products business unit. You are responsible for taking promising book concepts and developing them into well-positioned, market-ready products — owning the full journey from early concept refinement through author development, production, and launch. You work closely with senior leadership during initial ideation, then take the lead in shaping, validating, and executing on that vision. You bring genuine creativity and enthusiasm to the work, paired with the discernment to know what will resonate with readers and the discipline to see it through. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES - Participate in early concepting conversations with leadership and authors, and independently translate discussion notes into clearly articulated product concepts by defining the audience, naming pain points, differentiated angles, and articulating the commercial rationale for the projects.  - Drive the overall vision, positioning, and content direction of new book products from concept through launch. - Validate concepts with real readers through interviews, surveys, and community research, and utilize findings to confirm, sharpen, or challenge assumptions before development begins. - Own the author relationship from concept through launch by serving as the primary creative partner, maintaining trust and momentum throughout the development process, and ensuring authors feel supported throughout the entire publishing process. - Scout and cultivate relationships with prospective authors whose platform, expertise, and audience align with Ascension's product priorities. - Ensure that the manuscript, title, cover, and supporting materials remain aligned with the original concept scope by identifying drift early and working with authors to correct course. - Create a multi-year product plan that considers key target market segments and strategically focuses on product line growth and profitability. - Establish requirements and specifications for new products, and clearly communicate their vision and goals to all internal stakeholders. - Collaborating with the Associate Marketing Manager on go-to-market strategy through campaigns and launch plans with marketing, media, and production teams. - Determine product pricing by utilizing market research data, reviewing production and sales costs, and evaluating sales projections. - Develop metrics to assess product success and identify necessary enhancements or follow-on opportunities. - Lead and participate in planning meetings and provide guidance on product direction. - Manage contracts and project management of content writers, reviewers, and organizational partners for owned products. - Maintain an in-depth knowledge of Ascension's products, solutions, and offerings across all categories. - Assist the Associate General Manager in the review of new unsolicited submissions.

• Write tickets AI coding agents can execute. Your specs are precise, structured, and unambiguous. Claude Code, Cursor, or a junior engineer can run with them without a 30-minute sync. Acceptance criteria, edge cases, API contracts — all there. Your tickets ship, not loop. • Ship with AI, not just talk about it. You prototype functional flows before engineering is involved. You read AI-generated code, spot where it breaks, and redirect. "Doing the work" includes spinning up a proof-of-concept in a day. • Prioritize for commercial impact. Every roadmap trade-off has a revenue, retention, or margin consequence. You can model it, defend it, and kill features that don't earn their place — even ones you championed. • Own interlocking systems end to end. E-commerce checkout → subscription lifecycle → clinical intake → mobile engagement loop. You understand the state machines deeply enough to catch edge cases engineering misses. • Engage at the architecture level. Opinions about API design, data modeling, and system reliability — backed by technical specificity, not product intuition. You've shipped on Next.js/Node.js and understand how front-end choices propagate downstream. • Drive the consumer loop. DAU, cohort retention, push open rates, conversion — you know these as intimately as your sprint backlog. • Design around compliance, not after it. HIPAA and SOC2 are day-one constraints, not post-launch surprises.

Role Description On StackAdapt's Product team, you will build products that help our customers thrive. There is no "standard" day for a Product Manager at StackAdapt – every day will have its own set of interesting challenges. As a Product Manager focused on the Audience team, you will own the strategy and execution of products that surface high-quality vertical audiences for our clients. You will work closely with data science, partnerships, engineering, and go-to-market teams to turn complex datasets into curated, usable audiences that deliver clear value to advertisers. What You'll Be Doing: - Research, understand, and validate stakeholder needs and translate that into a path that aligns with our goals and vision. - Develop a short and long-term vision for your portfolio, which helps you forge ahead, ensuring that we’re accomplishing our goals day by day. - Be hyper-focused on every last detail, ensuring we’re always working on the most impactful feature. - Deliver products end-to-end with a team of talented engineers and designers. - Communicate precisely across the organization to ensure everyone who needs to be informed is at the correct time. - Deliver a world-class experience to help our customers target the right audiences regardless of vertical. - Resolve questions about your portfolio of products from customer-facing teams, as well as help to triage bugs and regressions as they appear. Qualifications - Proven experience shipping products as a Product Manager at a digital SaaS company (and can speak to your successes) is a must. - Prior experience with advertising technologies and AdTech is a must. - Prior experience working with programmatic audiences. - Understand Product Management craft and theory. You can speak intelligently about Product Management practices and have the practical experience to back it up. - You live in the weeds and can speak about how you can zoom in and out as needed to optimize our process as effectively as possible. - Wearing multiple hats is second nature to you; one minute, you could be talking technical details on a ticket, and the next you’re presenting your ideas to the Revenue team without skipping a beat. - An in-depth understanding of Lean and Agile best practices. - An in-depth understanding of design thinking, inclusive design, and usability heuristics. - You prioritize projects with reason, clarity, and purpose - ensuring alignment across stakeholders and focusing on the KPIs and metrics you’re moving. - You understand what it means to lead by influence, not formal authority. Benefits - Highly competitive salary - Retirement/ 401K/ Pension Savings globally - Competitive Paid time off packages including birthday's off! - Access to a comprehensive mental health care program - Health benefits from day one of employment - Work from home reimbursements - Optional global WeWork membership for those who want a change from their home office and hubs in London and Toronto - Robust training and onboarding program - Coverage and support of personal development initiatives (conferences, courses, books etc) - Access to StackAdapt programmatic courses and certifications to support continuous learning - An awesome parental leave program - A friendly, welcoming, and supportive culture - Our social and team events!

About Skylight Skylight is a digital consultancy using design and technology to help government agencies deliver better public services. We’re at the forefront of a civic movement to reinvent how all levels of government serve families, patients, and many others in today's digital world. If you want to play a part in driving this critical movement forward, we’d love for you to join our growing team of public interest technologists. The work we do matters. About the job At Skylight, product managers are responsible for strategy, planning, execution, stakeholder management, and team health. Product managers partner with researchers, designers, engineers, client stakeholders, and others to inform their product decisions. At a high level, it’s the product manager’s job to figure out what to build next and why. In this role, you’ll partner with a mission-critical organization within the U.S. Air Force Special Operations community to modernize complex user experience journeys that underpin highly specialized operations. Leveraging your strengths in human-centered design and digital modernization, you’ll help deliver secure, scalable solutions that measurably improve usability, operational efficiency, and mission readiness. You will be responsible for managing and scaling a portfolio of software applications for the Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) through our BESPIN partnership. Your primary focus will be on mobile application and team delivery. What you’ll do - Lead a cross-functional, cross-organizational team of researchers, designers, engineers, and subject matter experts to deliver high-impact products and services - Translate user and partner needs into a cohesive product strategy that outlines vision, objectives, success metrics, product roadmap, and backlog - Manage product direction and scope — from early user research through implementation - Write and prioritize user stories, then organize them into clear release plans - Facilitate team ceremonies like planning sessions, stakeholder syncs, and retrospectives - Leverage data and feedback to inform the product roadmap, making thoughtful decisions about priorities and trade-offs - Collaborate closely with government teams to share digital skills and product knowledge - Navigate bureaucratic complexities with creativity, helping simplify processes along the way - Coordinate with government partners to ensure seamless integration with their existing tools and processes What we're looking for Minimum qualifications - Solid understanding of lean product principles (like MVP) and how to apply them across the product life cycle to reduce risk, validate assumptions, and speed up learning - Experience with greenfield product development - Ability to craft a product strategy that’s rooted in a clear problem definition, focuses on outcomes (not just features), and includes success criteria - Proven skill in executing that strategy by breaking down scope into smaller, high-value chunks, maintaining a prioritized backlog of validated user stories, and guiding the team through iterative development - A strong technical background that lets you discuss operational needs, system reliability, and technical constraints — and then turn that knowledge into a user-focused roadmap - Understanding of human-centered design and how it can drive product direction - Comfort working across disciplines — researchers, designers, engineers, etc. — to get things done - Experience managing clients and stakeholders in a way that builds trust, alignment, and a healthy team environment - Knowledge of various software development methodologies (e.g., agile, lean) and how to put them into practice - Demonstrated ownership of end-to-end product delivery in complex technical systems - Experience leading cross-functional delivery teams - Experience delivering products in defense or similarly regulated environments - Ability to work successfully within a professional services environment (e.g., can communicate effectively with clients) - Passionate about creating better public outcomes through great government services - A mindset and work approach that align with Skylight’s core values - Ability to travel for work from time to time Nice-to-have qualifications - Prior military service or direct support to tactical or special operations communities - Experience with AI/ML - Experience in management consulting or digital services firms - Prior work on secure or classified programs - Prior experience working in the civic tech space - Experience working in a remote-team environment Don’t meet 100% of the criteria but think you can do the job? We’d love to chat anyway! We’re on a mission to build diverse teams, and studies have shown that women and marginalized folks are less likely to apply to jobs if they don’t check every box. Other requirements - All work must be conducted within the U.S., excluding U.S. territories. This role requires U.S. citizenship to be eligible for employment. - As a government contractor, you may be required to obtain a public trust or security clearance, up to Top Secret. - You may be required to complete a company background check successfully. - Some of our available roles are on federal contracts that require a degree or additional years of experience as a substitute. Position type This is a full-time, exempt position. Location This is a fully remote position. Care package Salary We want to give you the most competitive salary possible. After all, you deserve it! To that end, we use the results of our interview process to determine what salary is most appropriate given your current level of seniority. For a Product Manager at Skylight, the current salary ranges are as follows: - Associate Product Manager: $90,000–$125,000 - Product Manager I: $120,000–$140,000 - Product Manager II: $135,000–$160,000 - Senior Product Manager: $150,000–$185,000 - Staff Product Manager: $170,000–$203,000 - Principal Product Manager: $180,000–$230,000 Benefits Your well-being is important to us, so we focus on supporting you in a variety of ways: - Medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance - Short-term and long-term disability insurance - Life and AD&D insurance - Dependent care FSA, healthcare FSA, health savings account - Dollar-for-dollar 401(k) match up to 10% of your salary with no vesting period - Flexible paid-time-off policy (generally around 25 days per year), plus 11 paid federal holidays - Up to 12 weeks paid-time-off for all eligible new birth, adoption, or foster parents - Performance rewards, including annual salary increase, annual performance bonus, spot bonuses, and stock options - Business development / sales bonuses - Referral bonuses - Annual $2,000 allowance for professional development - Annual $750 allowance for tech-related purchases - Annual swag budget of $100 to display your Skylight pride with some merchandise (hoodies, hats, and more) - Dollar-for-dollar charity donation matching, up to $500 per year - Flexible, remote-friendly work environment - An environment that empowers you to unleash your superpowers for public good Interview tips We want you to have a great interview experience with us! Here are some tips to help you prepare for a successful interview: - Visit our join page to learn more about how our interview process works. - Check out our Career Pathways framework to learn more about the different roles within Skylight and the skills needed to do them. - If you’d like to request reasonable accommodations during the application or interviewing process, please contact our recruiting team at recruiting@skylight.digital. We participate in E-Verify and upon hire, will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you’re authorized to work in the U.S. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, disability, veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable law.