Open position: Web Product Lead

About the 80,000 Hours Web Team

80,000 Hours is a nonprofit that helps people find careers tackling the world’s most pressing problems. Our web team produces 80000hours.org, an ever-evolving library of engaging, informative resources that introduces talented people to important frameworks, problems, and career paths, and helps them take action on pursuing a high-impact career. The site receives 3.5 million visits per year and is the gateway to all of 80,000 Hours’ other programmes.

The web team also produces a research newsletter, which promotes content and opportunities to get involved, and goes out to 500,000 subscribers per week.

About the role

As the Web Product Lead, your mission would be to make our online content more helpful and more delightful for our audience to engage with — and in doing so, drive up both readership and the number of visitors who take a meaningful next step toward high-impact careers.

This is a senior, high-ownership role. If you’re in this role, you’ll ultimately own product strategy for the site and related products, manage our web engineer, and build your team from there. You’ll report directly to the web programme director, Arden Koehler, and work with our managing editor on content prioritisation. It’ll be your job to figure out what our audience most wants and how to deliver it in a way that helps them have higher-impact careers.

Key responsibilities:
* Overall design and messaging for 80000hours.org
* Overall product roadmap and strategy
* Growing readership
* Owning our approach to analytics
* Creating new, complimentary web products

Early projects to get your feet wet might include owning, improving, and shipping our beta career quiz to a larger audience and leading a visual redesign for the main site – choosing a concept and managing a team of designers and engineers to build it.

After that, you would set the roadmap for how our products should evolve to become higher-impact, and figure out how to make it happen.

Who we’re looking for

The core of this role is sharp product judgment combined with a deep understanding and curiosity about our audience. We’re looking for someone who finds understanding our readers — talented people interested in doing good — genuinely exciting.

You’ll need design taste, solid quantitative instincts, basic technical fluency,the ability to pick up new skills, and the ability to run product cycles using user feedback. You’ll need to be able to reason clearly and transparently, in writing, about what we should build, and direct engineers and designers to make it happen.

Management experience is a big plus. Engineering skills are great, but not necessary. Being able to write copy for the site would be very useful, though it would also be fine to hire and manage someone else to do this.

Ultimately, you’ll need to be able to tackle whatever’s required to deliver 80,000 Horus’ career advice and ideas in a way that’s more helpful for our audience.

If you’re interested in this role but lack some skills or wouldn’t yet be ready to take on the level of decision-making responsibility involved, consider applying anyway. We’re open to hiring a more junior candidate and training them up. You can note your level in your application.

What kinds of work experience might be useful

This role will involve a lot of variety, so a range of work experience might be useful, including:

• Product management
• Strategy and analysis
• Growth / marketing
• User experience design
• Writing for a broad audience
• Visual / graphic design
• Software Engineering
• People management
• Programme management

For this role, we’re looking for at least 3 years of highly relevant experience.

The most useful kinds of experience for this role are those where you spent a lot of time understanding an audience or user base and translating that understanding into creating something helpful and desirable for them.

Hours, location, salary, and benefits

The salary will vary considerably based on years of experience, location, and level of technical skill. The full range for this role is $126,000 – $253,000/year.

The role is remote-friendly, as long as your working hours overlap substantially with PST.

This is a full-time role. Staff can work flexible hours, and we encourage people to work whatever schedule will allow them to be most personally effective.

Our US benefits include:

• 25 days of paid time off, plus nine US federal holidays, with unlimited rollover
• Medical coverage through Cigna for you and your dependents (including partner), 100% employer-paid
• Dental and vision insurance through Guardian, 100% employer-paid
• Long-term disability insurance, 100% employer-paid
• 401(k) with employer matching up to 2% of gross salary (after 3 months)
• Up to 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave and childcare allowance for children under five
• Up to 10 days of paid sick leave per year, in addition to PTO
• $5,000 annual mental health support allowance
• $5,000 annual self-development budget
• Equipment provided (laptop, monitors, standing desk, etc.) and coworking space access if remote
• The ability to work from our Berkeley office if you are located in the Bay Area, which has a gym, shower, and free food
• The option to use 10% of your time for self-development

If you would like to work outside the US (but in a PST-compatible timezone), let us know and we can discuss what a benefits package might look like. We can sometimes secure US visas for international candidates, but we are not able to guarantee them.

We’re aware that factors like gender, race, and socioeconomic background can affect people’s willingness to apply for roles for which they meet many but not all the suggested attributes. We’d especially like to encourage people from underrepresented backgrounds to apply!