Sourcebooks is seeking a Product Manager, Awareness Platform to join our Digital team and own our mobile and web platform experiences from discovery through delivery and ongoing optimization. This role combines hands-on product ownership, customer advocacy, roadmap and backlog leadership, UX improvement, analytics, QA, and strong partnership with development and cross-functional teams. This role requires regular hands-on use and testing of mobile and web experiences and occasional availability for time-sensitive releases or customer-impacting issues.
The location for this position can be hybrid or remote in New York or Naperville, Illinois or remote based in any of the following states: Arizona, Connecticut, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, Washington D.C., and Wisconsin.
This is an exempt salaried position with a range of $105,000 to $125,000. Starting pay reflects job-related considerations, including location, market conditions, relevant experience, training, and education, to support fair and competitive compensation.What you’ll do:
- Own the user experience, platform roadmap, backlog, and priorities across web and mobile instances.
- Become a true power user and translate customer feedback, reviews, behavior, and analytics into improvements.
- Partner with development from discovery through release; write clear requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
- Improve onboarding, navigation, content discovery, subscriptions, engagement, retention, and UX/UI.
- Own product QA, release readiness, push and messaging functionality, and post-launch optimization.
- Manage external development partners, vendors, SOWs/RFPs, and defined growth initiatives.
- Bring reader motivations and discovery habits to product decisions, helping customers find content and connections that keep them coming back.
- 5+ years in product management, digital product management, or a closely related role with meaningful mobile/web ownership.
- Experience working directly with software-development teams to define, prioritize, test, and release product improvements.
- Strong customer and UX orientation, analytical judgment, prioritization, and product-management discipline.
- Technical fluency across mobile/web lifecycles, integrations, subscriptions, backend systems, and release processes.
- Excellent project management, QA, vendor management, and cross-functional communication skills.
- Entrepreneurial, curious, collaborative mindset with a drive to continually improve the product.
- A genuine interest in books and reader culture, including how readers discover books, share recommendations, and connect with authors and fellow readers.
- Experience with consumer subscription, membership, content/media, or direct-to-consumer digital products.
- Familiarity with App Store Connect or Google Play Console, push and in-app messaging, Jira or Asana, and product or subscription analytics.
- Participation in book clubs, BookTok, Bookstagram, author communities, or book events. Enthusiasm for commercial fiction and genre communities, such as romance, fantasy, or mystery, is especially welcome.
- You become the trusted internal expert on the experience and proactively identify meaningful customer and product opportunities.
- Roadmap decisions are grounded in customer needs, behavior, performance data, strategic priorities, and technical realities.
- New features launch with strong requirements, QA, measurement, and post-launch iteration—and the customer experience keeps getting better.
Full-time employees are eligible for our comprehensive benefits program. Our range of benefits include, but are not limited to, Medical/Prescription drug insurance, Dental, Vision, Health Care/Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account, Health Savings Account, 401(k), Short and Long-Term Disability Insurance, Life/AD&D Insurance, & generous paid time off.
Sourcebooks values the array of talents and perspectives that a diverse workforce brings. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of experience in product management, digital product management, or a closely related role with meaningful mobile and web ownership.
- Experience working directly with software development teams to define, prioritize, test, and release product improvements.
- Strong customer and UX orientation, analytical judgment, prioritization, and product management discipline.
- Technical fluency across mobile and web lifecycles, integrations, subscriptions, backend systems, and release processes.
- Excellent project management, QA, vendor management, and cross-functional communication skills.
- Entrepreneurial, curious, collaborative mindset with a drive to continually improve the product.
- Genuine interest in books and reader culture, including book discovery, recommendations, and reader communities.
- Experience with consumer subscription, membership, content/media, or direct-to-consumer digital products.
- Familiarity with App Store Connect, Google Play Console, push and in-app messaging, Jira or Asana, and product or subscription analytics.
- Participation in book clubs, BookTok, Bookstagram, author communities, or book events; enthusiasm for commercial fiction and genre communities.
Sourcebooks Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Sourcebooks and has not been reviewed or approved by Sourcebooks.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Generous PTO, paid holidays and sick days, and a sabbatical program are highlighted, with additional closure between Christmas and New Year’s. These elements collectively indicate a wide range of time‑off options.
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Parental & Family Support — Generous parental leave includes six weeks paid for both parents that can be combined with FMLA, alongside family medical leave. This reflects structured support for caregiving needs.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision coverage are provided along with life insurance, short‑ and long‑term disability, FSAs, and mental‑health benefits. The package spans core health protections and ancillary supports.
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What We Do
“Sourcebooks, a legitimate contender for the title of ‘most innovative company in book publishing.’”—Mike Shatzkin, Idealog Innovators. Always looking for ways to bring new experiences to our readers, data is the backbone that gives direction to our creativity and informs our innovative spirit. Put Me In The Story, now the #1 personalized book platform in the U.S., is one of three e-commerce businesses we operate. We are committed to innovative publishing and to exploring new publishing platforms and models. Owners and Entrepreneurs. We take pride in being pioneers. Each of us is a leader invested in creating breakthrough for ourselves, our company, and readers everywhere. Starting with just one book in 1987, we now publish more than 300 new titles each year. With millions of books sold and more than 80 New York Times and USA Today bestsellers—and more—Sourcebooks publishes authors, not books. Constantly Learning. Not content to rely on yesterday’s knowledge, we know tomorrow’s opportunities can be discovered only with a passionate desire to explore new ideas. We Create Amazing. Every book and product we create and every life we touch is an opportunity to deliver the unexpected and the extraordinary. Our award-winning books earn accolades from Parenting Media Awards, YALSA Lists, Texas Bluebonnet, state awards, the Society of Illustrators Gold Medal Award, and more. Book Business Magazine named Sourcebooks 2013 Publishing Innovator of the Year. From children’s, young adult, fiction, and memoir to personalized books, inspirational gifts, reference, poetry, and beyond, we believe books change lives. It is the heart of all that we do. We are excited to work with passionate authors, booksellers, librarians, designers, media, brand partners, and others to create a vibrant future for books. FIND US ONLINE www.sourcebooks.com www.putmeinthestory.com www.simpletruths.com www.123magic.com
