Inkitt is building the Disney of the 21st Century, standing at the forefront of technology and entertainment. Leveraging AI and predictive algorithms, Inkitt discovers unknown stories and turns them into blockbuster hits, producing a new $1M ebook every 7 days and selling directly to consumers through its Inkitt Galatea app. Bestsellers are then translated onto the screen through Inkitt CandyJar, the #1 US-based microdrama platform with billions of episodes streamed to date. Inkitt has become the 11th most bestseller-generating publisher in the world, boasting a 40x higher hit-rate than traditional publishers. Backed by some of the top VC’s such as: Khosla, Kleiner Perkins, and NEA Ventures, our recent expansion into Ironblood, the first AI Native streaming platform for action and adventure, is only the beginning of our journey to becoming the next-gen entertainment powerhouse.
Which product you'll own
We run four consumer products and we are hiring product managers for all of them.
We decide which one you own at the point you start, not at the point you apply. When you join, we look at where the largest metric gap is across the portfolio and put you there. As the team grows, areas get reshuffled — people move to where the biggest problem is.
We say this plainly because at this level it is the most common reason a hire does not work out. If you need to own one named domain indefinitely, or your value depends on a particular surface staying yours, this will frustrate you.
How We Work — please read this part carefully
This role works differently from most senior product jobs, and the difference is the single biggest predictor of whether someone succeeds here.
Ali, our founder and CEO, sets company priorities. You own the ideas. You will spend part of every day researching competitors, the industry and our users to generate new feature ideas, and you will keep a live Top 3 list of the highest-impact ideas for your area — a new idea only enters by beating one already on it.
You pitch on a single slide with an impact calculation attached. Anything over a week of engineering needs a methodical business case demonstrating ROI. Ali rejects ideas that will not move the number enough to justify the build, and he does so often. The loop is pitch, get rejected, sharpen, re-pitch — continuously, alongside delivery.
Once approved, you own execution outright, including release and A/B ramping. Four weeks after launch, every feature is reviewed against the impact you predicted before you built it. You cannot inflate a forecast to win approval, because the forecast becomes your scorecard.
Your performance is measured on two things: how often you beat your own Top 3, and the realised impact of what you ship.
This is not a role where a roadmap is handed to you and you are judged on delivering it. If that is the job you are looking for, this will frustrate you, and we would rather you knew now.
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We're building the Disney of the 21st century, creating blockbuster franchises across all media: from text, audiobooks, movies, to theme parks. Our success is most notable in e-books, where we are producing million-dollar hits every month through data-driven story selection and AI optimization. Our ecosystem includes three interconnected apps - Inkitt, a social reading/writing platform with half a million active authors and millions of readers, Galatea, which sells optimized stories chapter by chapter and GalateaTV, where we launch a new TV series weekly, transforming successful e-books into short-form TV series, selling episodes individually. AI-driven Hyper Personalisation is at the heart of our ecosystem, enabling us to adapt stories to individual preferences across all formats.