- Salary
- $170k – $210k/yr
- Location
- San Francisco
- Workplace
- Onsite
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Product Team
- Seniority
- Senior
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Source
- Lever
Description
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.
The problem you’d own
Inkitt has more story than anyone can read. Galatea, CandyJar and Ironblood each depend on putting the right story in front of the right person at the right moment — and the quality of that match drives reading time, subscription conversion and renewal across all three apps.
We have a strong Data Science team, and they own the underlying signals and models. You own what users actually experience. Recommendations and discovery across every surface we have: home and feeds, search, browse, onboarding taste capture, notifications and re-engagement, and the cross-app connections between our four products. You decide what we put in front of someone next, everywhere we put anything in front of them — and you are accountable for the reading time, conversion and revenue that comes out of it.
How We Work — please read this part carefully
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 a rough impact calculation attached. Ali rejects the ones that will not move the number enough to justify building them. That happens often, to everyone. 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. Your performance is measured on two things: how often you beat your own Top 3, and the realised impact of what you ship.