Director of Audience
Lee Enterprises ยท via
Remote Rocketship
๐ฐ $110,000 - $130,000/yr
๐ Remote
๐ Remote, Iowa
Job Description:
- Set the vision and roadmap for Audience+
- Own product strategy and roadmap aligned with partner subscription goals, market needs, and BLOX Digitalโs priorities
- Identify opportunities to improve acquisition, engagement, retention, and audience monetization
- Prioritize initiatives using customer evidence, revenue potential, usability, technical dependencies, development effort, and product value
- Define outcomes for product investments and communicate roadmap priorities, tradeoffs, and progress
- Lead product discovery and requirements for audience segmentation, dynamic metering, registration, offers, pricing, and customer journeys
- Advance subscription experiences across checkout, account access, renewal, cancellation, and reactivation
- Guide tools for offer testing, performance analysis, and audience insights
- Evaluate practical uses of AI and automation for targeting, workflows, and subscription outcomes
- Partner with engineering, design, analytics, and product leaders on requirements, acceptance criteria, and release plans
- Maintain the product backlog and make decisions about scope, sequencing, dependencies, and tradeoffs
- Strengthen reliability, performance, scalability, and integrations across the BLOX ecosystem and third-party systems
- Coordinate validation, launch readiness, and post-release evaluation
- Build feedback processes through customer research, product usage data, support trends, sales, and implementation input
- Engage partners in discovery, usability testing, and pilot programs
- Translate customer challenges into scalable product improvements
- Equip sales, marketing, implementation, and support teams with product positioning, release guidance, and training
- Establish measures for feature adoption, task completion, reliability, conversion, subscription revenue, engagement, and retention
- Evaluate results against baselines and distinguish product effects from pricing, campaigns, seasonality, and other influences
- Monitor subscription technology, payment experiences, audience data practices, and competing solutions
- Develop product investment business cases and determine what to expand, refine, or discontinue
Requirements:
- Bachelorโs degree in Marketing, Advertising, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
- Significant experience in product management, digital product strategy, subscription growth, audience development, or a related commercial discipline, with demonstrated responsibility for advancing technology products
- Demonstrated success turning early-stage ideas into launched products, commercial offerings, partnerships, or revenue-producing programs
- Experience owning a product roadmap, prioritizing development, defining requirements, and working closely with engineering and design teams
- Strong commercial judgment, including experience assessing market demand, developing business cases, and evaluating financial potential
- Understanding of subscription economics and the relationship between acquisition, pricing, engagement, churn, and customer lifetime value
- Ability to interpret product and audience data, assess experiments, and translate findings into clear development priorities
- Experience negotiating partnerships and working with senior decision-makers inside and outside an organization
- Ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives, with strong communication, presentation, and relationship-management skills
- Comfort operating in a changing environment with a high degree of ownership and ambiguity, and a practical, entrepreneurial approach to execution
- Ability and willingness to travel as business needs require
- Experience in media, subscriptions, membership, local commerce, education, technology, or another industry undergoing business-model transformation is helpful but not required
- Familiarity with paywalls, customer data platforms, experimentation tools, or payment and renewal systems