Lead Product Manager AI Developer Platform

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This posting reflects an approved open position within the organization.

About the work

Were changing how Scribd builds and this role drives that forward. An agentic engineering stack is our competitive edge turning AI leverage into real velocity: iterating fast to find the right direction then moving with conviction. The foundations are taking shape Claude Code in every engineers hands a plugin marketplace an internal app platform in development and the skills and conventions that make them effective in our codebases. The next chapter is making that stack the operating system every function at Scribd builds on top of.

In engineering more than 80% of our engineers use Claude Code daily and AI now writes more than half of our new code roughly 3 the industry median. Across the company teams are exploring agentic workflows and building their first internal apps and tooling. The deeper transformation is still just beginning: redesigning how software gets built as AI agents take on more of the work and engineers direct and steer and extending that pattern to every other function. Thats where this role comes in.

About the role

This is a foundational hire Scribds first product management role pointed inward with the company itself as the customer. Youll lead Scribds AI transformation with the developer platform as the center of gravity: helping define the agentic engineering stack and shaping the evolution of the developer & agentic experience at Scribd. From that foundation youll extend the same thinking outward partnering with Product Design & Research Data & Analytics and TPM as they redesign their own work around AI agents and guiding the internal app and agent platforms that every function depends on.

To do this well youll spend real time with developers and eng teams understanding how they work today where the friction lives and what the next leap looks like for them. Youll lead the product strategy for developer experience and how we measure it quantitatively and qualitatively. Youll bring the same lens to the parallel transitions in other functions at Scribd. Across all of it your job is to help us adopt AI thoughtfully and prove its impact not to scale AI generation for its own sake but to make every function more capable and more confident in the outputs.

This role reports to the Director Developer Platform and partners closely with Engineering and Product leadership.

About you

You are energized by hard ambiguous cross-functional problems where the technology landscape is moving faster than ever adoption is uneven across functions and the platform is actively evolving as it ships. You have spent enough time close to engineering to reason about platforms APIs and agent systems on their own terms and enough time across functions to know that adoption is a people problem at least as much as a technical one. You are comfortable being the first PM in a new domain defining the role as you go with no pre-existing playbook to inherit.

You are all-in on AI reshaping every kind of knowledge work across a company and you have already been applying it to your own. You think in systems and feedback loops and you see the difference between how work happens on paper and how it actually gets done. You prefer structural guardrails over non-enforced guidelines. Youd rather ship and learn than wait for perfect reserving real caution for the rare decisions that you cant easily reverse.

What you will do

• Own the unified agentic enablement roadmap. Pull together the in-flight AI workstreams across Scribd into a cohesive sequenced roadmap. Decide what is shared infrastructure and what stays function-specific. Make the tradeoffs visible to leadership.

• Be the product owner for the internal app and agent platforms. Define and drive the product strategy for the platforms the company depends on the internal app platform the plugin marketplace the agent runtime and make sure they meet each functions real needs. You will partner with the Developer Platform and Data Platform engineering teams who build the underlying capabilities.

• Translate between functions and the platform. Sit with different functions and their leaders to understand the workflows they are trying to redesign. Turn that into requirements we can build against and turn the platforms capabilities into something every function can act on.

• Drive cross-functional commitments to closure. Our AI Enablement strategy includes several load-bearing pieces of shared infrastructure canonical context the evaluation practice the plugin marketplace the internal app platform and a coherent context ownership map. Each has named owners across functions. Your job is to keep them moving in lockstep and surface the seams before they fragment.

• Make agentic enablement legible to the company. Define the metrics that matter adoption throughput time recovered evaluation quality impact and report against them. Build the narrative that gets every function bought in.

• Partner on go-to-market for internal users. Plan and run the rollouts education and feedback loops that drive measurable adoption capabilities arent done when they ship theyre done when each function depends on them. Treat internal rollouts with the same rigor we would treat an external launch.

Were looking for

• 7 years of product management experience with notable focus owning developer tooling AI platforms or internal productivity tools

• Demonstrated success owning ambiguous cross-functional product surfaces end-to-end defining the strategy sequencing the work and shipping with engineering partners without a pre-existing playbook

• Hands-on experience shipping real products with modern AI/LLM primitives prompting evals tool use agentic workflows MCP plugin or skill ecosystems or comparable concepts. You have built things with these primitives not just written PRDs about them

• Strong technical fluency to match. You can hold your own with engineers on system design API tradeoffs evaluation methodology and agent architectures

• A track record of being a trusted technical-strategy partner to engineering leadership with influence at the architecture and roadmap horizon

• Exceptional written and verbal communication. You can move between an engineering deep-dive a function leads strategy review and an exec narrative in the same week

• Comfort and ability to move things forward when working in conditions where priorities scope and ownership are still being defined

Bonus Points

• A background that includes engineering technical program management or applied AI work in addition to product management you have shipped production code at some point in your career

• Experience as a PM technical lead or founder building internal-facing developer tools AI platforms or productivity products at scale

• Direct experience with Claude Code Codex Cursor or other agentic coding environments as a power user an enabler or a builder

• Familiarity with the operating realities of a multi-product subscription business and a software stack that spans Ruby Go TypeScript Python and the AWS/Databricks ecosystem

• Prior experience standing up a new function or a new PM role in an organization

At Scribd Inc. your base pay is one part of your total compensation package and is determined within a range. Our pay ranges are based on the local cost of labor benchmarks for each specific role level and geographic location. San Francisco is our highest geographic market in the United States.

In the state of California the reasonably expected salary range is between $171000 minimum salary in our lowest geographic market within California to $256500 maximum salary in our highest geographic market within California.

In the United States outside of California the reasonably expected salary range is between $141000 minimum salary in our lowest US geographic market outside of California to $244000 maximum salary in our highest US geographic market outside of California.

In Canada the reasonably expected salary range is between $179000 CADminimum salary in our lowest geographic market to $228000 CADmaximum salary in our highest geographic market.

We carefully consider a wide range of factors when determining compensation including but not limited to experience; job-related skill sets; relevant education or training; and other business and organizational needs. The salary range listed is for the level at which this job has been the event that you are considered for a different level a higher or lower pay range would apply. This position is also eligible for a competitive equity ownership and a comprehensive and generous benefits package.

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Employees must have their primary residence in or near one of the following cities. This includes surrounding metro areas or locations within a typical commuting distance:

United States:

Atlanta Austin Boston Dallas Denver Chicago Houston Jacksonville Los Angeles Miami New York City Phoenix Portland Sacramento Salt Lake City San Diego San Francisco Seattle Washington D.C.

Canada:

Ottawa Toronto Vancouver

Mexico:

Mexico City

Benefits at Scribd Inc.

• Scribd Flex (flexible work model)

• Comprehensive health dental and vision coverage

• Mental health support and disability coverage

• Generous paid time off including vacation sick time holidays winter break volunteer time and sabbaticals

• Paid parental leave and family support benefits

• Retirement matching and employee equity

• Learning and development programs and professional growth opportunities

• Wellness and home office stipends

• Complimentary access to the Scribd Inc. suite of products

• Enterprise access to leading AI tools

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