Senior Product Manager, New AI Product

VSCO (pronounced vis–co) is a platform that equips photographers with the tools, community, and exposure they need to expand creatively and professionally. VSCO maintains a rich and authentic creative environment that serves photographers at all levels – preserving a home for creative opportunity, inspiration, and connection.

At VSCO, our mission is to nurture creativity so you can make it. We empower photographers to connect with other creatives and businesses with our suite of creative tools that spans from mobile to desktop and across our global community. We are looking for humble overachievers and self-starters who are naturally curious, highly organized, and thrive in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment. We foster a culture of collaboration, inclusion, ambition, and progress.

About the Role

VSCO is looking for a curious and visionary Senior Product Manager to define and scale a new AI-powered product experience designed to help photographers with ideation and client collaboration. In this role, you'll work closely with the CEO, CTO, and other leaders to invent, test, and scale this and other new, exciting long-term ideas for our network of tens of millions of creators.

We are looking for someone that is ready to make VSCO the ultimate home for photographers by bringing your entrepreneurial spirit, problem-solving skills, and authentic self to the job every day. As a member of our Product Management team, the company will look to you to drive clarity around the needs and aspirations of photographers and develop creative solutions to address them.

This role is a mix of forward-thinking strategy and creative, user-centered feature development. You'll work at both a strategic and tactical level, turning research, data, and intuition into products that our creators will love.

Key Responsibilities

• Set the strategic direction and roadmap for how new product offerings can serve photographers on the platform in a way that drives long-term growth for VSCO, starting with a new product for helping photographers gather and share inspiration
• Identify and experiment with ways to expand PMF and oversee the definition and delivery of product features
• Develop and test hypotheses in collaboration with Engineering, Design, and Product Marketing and other cross-functional partners
• Guide and inspire cross-functional communication and storytell for buy-in
• Incorporate data, research, and industry insights into your recommendations
• Regularly speak with customers to gather insights and inform direction
• Collaborate with other leaders to ensure cohesion across the overall VSCO experience
• Proactively assure progress with stakeholders and continually assess prioritization

Requirements

• 5+ years as a full-time Product Manager with experience in 0 → 1 product work
• Achievement of product-market fit with a new product line that made a difference for customers and drove business growth
• Experience monetizing products, ideally subscription products or marketplaces
• Strong grasp of product strategy - ability to define it, get buy-in from leadership, and motivate cross-functional teams
• Data-driven approach to product decisions using both quantitative and qualitative data
• Understanding of UX/UI best practices, including when to follow patterns and when to push boundaries
• Clear and concise spoken and written communication skills
• Strong partnership abilities with Engineers, Designers, and other cross-functional teammates
• Excellence in prioritization and making tough but smart trade-offs
• Ability to thrive in fast-paced startup environments with ambiguity

Nice to Have

• Experience working on collaboration driven or AI-powered products
• An understanding of photography basics
• Experience as a founder, or an equivalent level of accountability

Benefits

• A virtual first workplace with bi-annual company-wide travel events
• Competitive Salary & Equity
• Healthcare insurance, vision, dental insurance for employees and families
• Flexible Time Off
• Company-paid parental, medical and caregiver leave
• 401K retirement plan
• 11 paid holidays
• Stock options
• Discretionary performance-based bonuses