Director, Product Platform

About the opportunity:

At the heart of the product culture at Shutterstock, we are creatives that take pride in serving creatives. We believe in a collaborative, cross-functional working style where departments bring their diverse experiences and expertise together to uniquely understand our customers' needs. This nuanced understanding is foundational to our ability to develop innovative solutions to longstanding problems.

We're committed to data, experimenting, taking big swings, and ruthless prioritization to build experiences that surprise and delight our customers, and have a materially positive impact on our business.

What we need:

Shutterstock is on an amazing journey to pursue our vision beyond that of stock photography, video, and audio. We are building an intelligent, creative platform where our customers ideate, publish, distribute and measure the performance of their creative supported by bleeding edge technology and AI capabilities. As we look to transform our business, we need help to dream up and build out a really flexible platform that can continue to cater to our current business, while also being flexible to support our new areas of growth. This requires a Product Director to take the lead on understanding who our customers are, both internal and external, what their needs are and how we need to enable and develop new products and capabilities to enable Shutterstock to continue to grow. This person should be a proven leader who can manage expectations, dependencies and timelines across multiple teams, and ensure a smooth roll out of delightful end-to-end user experiences, all while actively mentoring a team of product managers

• Lead the roadmap and strategy of the core Product and Payments Platform.
• Run workshops and client meetings to tap into the nuances of different end user needs.
• Partner closely with internal stakeholders across Ops, Customer Care, Fraud and Security, Finance, Accounting, Tax etc. and members of the Product team, to identify new opportunities, define hypotheses, problem statements, run experiments, KPIs, ensure solutions meet business objectives, and we're solving the right problems as well as providing value for our customers.
• Mentor product managers junior to you, to help them in their career growth and development.

• Analyze and interpret key product and feature metrics to surface actionable insights and product requirements.
• Collaborate with colleagues across the entire company including other product teams, marketing, sales, finance, legal, and the executive team to develop holistic customer experiences.
• Engage and have fun!

• You have seven or more years of Product Management Experience, ideally with Payments and Digital Commerce platforms
• You have more than five years of experience in leading strategy and teams
• You have experience synthesizing different points of view and building a product roadmap that delivers measurable impact.
• You are adept at analyzing, quantifying and articulating trade-offs of product roadmap features. You're a big picture thinker.
• You have strong verbal communication and presentation skills and the ability to tailor your message to effectively resonate with your audience.
• You have a deep attention to detail and desire to collaborate on new processes for efficiency.
• You have a bias toward data-driven decision making.
• You have a demonstrated ability to mentor and grow teams.
• You are great at quickly building consensus.
• You are a results driven, self starter who can reliably manage multiple projects to meet deadlines in a fast paced environment

• You have a direct impact on the success of the company. Your team's work matters and is essential to the evolution of our core business!
• Executive leadership cares personally. They prioritize growth and planning your career path with your goals and passions in mind
• Flexibility to work between home and office with everything you need to be successful in both
• Extensive benefits package including PTO, an amazing 401K match, fitness benefit and employee assistance program