Director, Product Discovery

Director, Product Discovery ()

At Scribd (pronounced “scribbed”), our mission is to spark human curiosity. Join our team as we create a world of stories and knowledge, democratize the exchange of ideas and information, and empower collective expertise through our four products:
Everand, Scribd, Slideshare, and Fable.

We support a culture where our employees can be real and be bold; where we debate and commit as we embrace plot twists; and where every employee is empowered to take action as we prioritize the customer.

When it comes to workplace structure, we believe in balancing individual flexibility and community connections. It’s through our flexible work benefit, Scribd Flex, that employees – in partnership with their manager – can choose the daily work-style that best suits their individual needs. A key tenet of Scribd Flex is our prioritization of intentional in‑person moments to build collaboration, culture, and connection.

For this reason, occasional in‑person attendance is required for all Scribd employees, regardless of their location.

So what are we looking for in new team members? We hire for “GRIT”: the intersection of passion and perseverance toward long‑term goals. At Scribd, we ask each of our employees to pursue a GRIT‑ty approach to their work. We’re looking for someone who showcases the ability to set and achieve G oals, R esults within their job responsibilities, I nnovative ideas and solutions, and T riumphantly influence the broader team through collaboration and attitude.

We are building a new Discovery product organization at , and this role is the founding Director of Product for that group. You will lead the strategy and execution across our recommendations, search, ranking, and discovery experiences.

Our corpus spans hundreds of millions of documents, and our goal is not just to help people find files, but to help hundreds of millions of applied learners discover the knowledge inside those documents. You will define how we evolve from traditional search and recs into a real‑time, LLM‑augmented discovery system that understands user intent, reasons across our corpus, and returns trustworthy, explainable results.

This is both a strategic and operational leadership role. You will manage and mentor PM leaders, partner with Engineering, Machine Learning, Applied Research, Design, Content, and Data Science, and establish the discovery roadmap that will shape ’s long‑term engagement, retention, and subscription growth.

You are a product leader who lives at the intersection of user problems, ML systems, and business outcomes. You have built or led teams that own discovery, personalization, or search at meaningful scale, and you are comfortable shaping long‑term vision while shipping iterative value along the way. You can talk embeddings and LLM architectures with engineers, and you can just as easily frame a strategy for executives in terms of learner outcomes and subscription value.

You are excited by the challenge of turning a massive UGC corpus into a trusted, intelligent learning companion.

• Set the multi‑year Discovery strategy.
• Define and drive the long‑term vision for Scribd’s discovery ecosystem, including recommendations, search, ranking, and semantic content understanding.
• Articulate how we move from document‑level retrieval to knowledge‑level discovery using foundational models and LLMs.
• Align this vision with company priorities in engagement, retention, and subscription growth, balancing foundational ML investments with high‑impact product improvements.

• Serve as the founding product leader for the Discovery group, managing, mentoring, and inspiring a team of product managers across discovery surfaces and platforms.
• Recruit and develop top PM talent, set a high bar for product craft, and build a culture that combines deep technical curiosity with strong user empathy.
• Establish durable cross‑functional operating rhythms with Engineering, ML, Data Science, Design, Content, and Trust & Safety.

• Oversee the evolution of Scribd’s…