Manager, Product Finance & Strategy - Product Merchandising
$230,000–$370,000 year
On-siteLos Angeles, California, United States or Los Gatos, California, United States
Job Summary
Support investment decisions and roadmap prioritization for new content types, including games, live events, and podcasts. Distill large volumes of market, platform, and consumer behavior information into key insights to guide product strategy. Partner closely with product managers throughout the development lifecycle to ensure decisions incorporate relevant business context. Conduct competitive and market research to inform strategy for new content formats and surface areas for innovation. Define and evolve success metrics for new content types where standard frameworks do not yet exist. Develop robust financial and operational models to understand the business impact of new initiatives. Synthesize complex analyses into clear narratives for cross-functional partners and senior management.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in highly strategic and product-facing roles
- Experience working directly with product managers or embedded in product teams
- Ability to translate roadmap priorities into financial frameworks and earn credibility in PM-led conversations
- Strong financial acumen
- Comfort building models from scratch for novel business cases where prior benchmarks don't exist
- Strong proficiency with Excel / Google Sheets, Google Slides, Tableau, SQL, and emerging AI tools (e.g., Claude)
- Familiarity with streaming, media, or consumer entertainment
- Understanding of how emerging content types (short-form video, live events, interactive formats) differ in their unit economics and growth dynamics
- Collaborative team member with strong interpersonal skills
- Ability to drive complex cross-functional outcomes
- Ability to work independently
- Must thrive in a fast-paced, always-changing environment
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Skilled in writing memos and preparing and delivering effective presentations to executive audiences
- Highly intellectually curious
- Has the courage to challenge the status quo
- Exhibits the highest personal and professional standards of integrity and ethics
- Must be based in Los Angeles
- Must be open to being based in Los Gatos with the expectation of regular travel to the Los Angeles office
Desired Qualifications
- Track record of partnering directly with product managers and operational and/or creative teams
- Proactively identifying & conducting in-depth analyses for novel business cases
- Synthesizing complex data into clear recommendations for senior leadership
- Comfort with ambiguity
- Strong ownership mindset
- Ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders in a fast-moving environment
- Experience distilling large volumes of market, platform, and consumer behavior information (quantitative and qualitative) into key insights, tradeoffs, and options to guide product strategy and inform decisions
- Partnering closely with product managers throughout the product development lifecycle to ensure decisions incorporate relevant business context
- Conducting competitive and market research, including external benchmarking, to inform strategy for new content formats and surface areas for product innovation and improvement
- Partnering with product and data science teams to define and evolve success metrics for new content types, where standard measurement frameworks often don't yet exist
- Developing robust financial and operational models to understand the business impact of new initiatives
- Synthesizing complex analyses into clear narratives (executive presentations, memos, and decision frameworks) for cross-functional partners and senior management to facilitate decision-making and disseminate information
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