Responsibilities

- We’re looking for an experienced Senior Product Manager to lead the strategy and roadmap for Wattpad’s data platform and product intelligence capabilities
- This isn’t a traditional analytics or reporting role. You’ll build the platform that enables our products to make smarter decisions
- You’ll 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 that powers experiences across Wattpad
- Your work will shape how products understand readers, measure success, personalize experiences, run experiments, and make real-time decisions
- This is one of the foundational platform investments that will power the next generation of Wattpad
- Define the vision and roadmap for Wattpad’s data platform
- Own the long-term strategy for the systems that transform raw product events into reusable, trusted capabilities that power products across Wattpad
- Develop and prioritize the roadmap across areas including:
- Reusable data products
- Insights Layer
- Decisioning platform
- Data governance and discoverability

- Define the strategy and roadmap for Wattpad’s Product Intelligence Platform, enabling products to make smarter, faster, and more consistent decisions
- Build the platform capabilities that transform raw data into trusted, reusable intelligence for teams across the company
- Work with our Content teams to deepen our content intelligence, transforming story metadata, taxonomy, and behavioural signals into reusable capabilities that power products across Wattpad
- 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 that improve consistency and confidence across product development




- Turn recurring product needs into reusable platform capabilities that reduce duplication and accelerate delivery across teams
- Balance long-term platform investments with near-term business priorities, making thoughtful tradeoffs that maximize impact
- Influence product and technical strategy across the organization, helping shape the future of Wattpad’s data and intelligence capabilities

Qualifications

- 7+ years of Product Management experience, with experience owning platform, infrastructure, developer, AI, or data products
- Experience working closely with Data Engineering, Analytics, and Software Engineering teams
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence technical and executive audiences
- Strong understanding of modern data architectures including event pipelines, data products, warehouses, semantic layers, metrics stores, feature stores, and APIs
- Comfortable making decisions in ambiguous environments while balancing long‑term platform investments with near‑term business value
- Strong systems thinking with the ability to identify reusable platform capabilities instead of one‑off solutions
- Experience defining product strategy across multiple stakeholders with competing priorities
- Experience with modern product analytics and experimentation platforms such as Amplitude, Mixpanel, or similar tools for product measurement, behavioural analytics, and experimentation

Benefits

- Full health perks
- Career development & Mentorship opportunities
- RRSP matching
- Generous parental Leave top‑up
- Flexible hours
- Regular hackathons
- Healthy snacks & drinks
- Your choice of hardware
- Monthly work‑from‑home allowance
- Beautiful offices in Toronto and Halifax
- Easy access to transit

Don’t meet all the requirements? Studies show women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs if they do not meet all the qualifications. Therefore, in an effort to build a more diverse workplace, we encourage you to apply anyways. You might actually be the right person or you may be a good fit for a number of other openings we currently have.

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📌 Senior Product Manager (Data Platform & Intelligence - Wattpad) (Toronto)
🏢 Wattpad
📍 Toronto