Position Details
Product Manager
Apply NowRegular, F/T
Summary
Gaia is an SVOD (subscription video-on-demand) platform focused on empowering an evolution in consciousness. Our catalog of over 8,000+ original programs, licensed docs, and films covers a breadth of topics including yoga, spirituality, and the esoteric.
Gaia is looking for an experienced and driven Product Manager to take our digital product experience to the next level. In this role, you’ll drive measurable improvements to core features and functionality across our prospect and member experience, balancing user needs, technical constraints, and business goals. The ideal candidate is a results-oriented professional who thinks ahead, solves challenges with speed and creativity, delivers high-quality results consistently, and inspires team performance through clear direction and leading by example.
At Gaia, soft skills are key to success. We seek candidates with strong interpersonal abilities – effective communication, teamwork, prioritization, and problem solving – who can adapt to change, manage conflicts with empathy, and collaborate well with diverse teams. While technical skills matter, we highly value those who build positive relationships, contribute to a supportive culture, and approach challenges with a solution-oriented mindset. If this sounds like you, you’ll thrive in our dynamic environment.
Responsibilities
- Feature Definition & Design: Shape and define product features that align with user needs and business objectives. Enhance existing features to improve user experience, follow industry best practices, and address business challenges. Create clear and comprehensive product requirements and user stories for team execution.
- User Interface Development: Partner with design and development teams to create intuitive frontend interfaces that deliver exceptional user experience.
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership: Define and prioritize work for engineering, QA, and design team members to ensure timely delivery of high-quality features. Foster an environment of collaboration, trust, and shared success.
- Technical Collaboration: Demonstrate foundational technical understanding to effectively communicate with and support engineering teams. Engage in technical discussions and comprehend engineering trade-offs while letting engineers define technical implementation.
- Cross-Departmental Communication: Build effective relationships with stakeholders across all levels, align on project requirements, and provide clear status updates.
- Problem Analysis: Apply critical thinking to synthesize data, user feedback, and business needs into comprehensive product solutions.
- Analytics & Reporting: Pull data and use it to guide product strategy and tuning, and help define success metrics for specific initiatives. Conduct regular competitive analysis, user testing, A/B testing, and market research to inform decisions.
- Feedback Integration: Proactively gather and incorporate user and stakeholder feedback to improve product features and team processes.
- Independence & Oversight: Take ownership of day-to-day product decisions while leveraging the Director of Product for guidance on strategic direction or more complex decisions.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of Product Manager experience across at least two companies, preferably growth companies ($50M+ annual revenue)
- 3+ years B2C company experience
- Strong background in design and development of frontend user interfaces, with experience overseeing web and mobile app products
- Experience leading cross-functional teams using Agile methodologies
- Strategic thinker with a proven ability to translate vision into action through exceptional execution skills and meticulous attention to detail
- Strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills with high emotional intelligence
- Proven track record of delivering high-quality work to spec and on time
- Ability to adapt to new information, prioritize high-impact initiatives and manage time effectively
- Outstanding communication skills, emphasizing active listening and adaptable communication
- Ability to build consensus and influence across teams without direct reporting authority
- Capable of balancing independent decision-making with strategic leadership oversight, demonstrating both autonomy and collaborative approach to product management
- Experience conducting competitive analysis, user research, and A/B testing
- Familiarity with current product design trends
- Proficiency in using analytics to drive product decisions
- Balance conviction with openness to new perspectives
- US citizenship or US residency with an existing work permit is required.
- Non-smoker
- Must be available to work on our campus in Louisville, CO. This is not a remote role.
Preferred Skills:
- Experience with payment or billing systems
- Experience with tuning search and recommendation engines
- Experience building a community platform
- Experience designing and developing TV app products
Compensation
- Type: Salary
- Range: $140000 - $160000 (USD)
More About Gaia
Gaia exists as a transformational network to empower a global conscious community.
Gaia (Nasdaq: GAIA) is a publicly traded company in Louisville, Colorado. We offer global video streaming of over 8,000 original series, shows, films, documentaries, and practices for conscious living to our members in over 190 countries. Our vast video library serves as a vessel for the community we seek to empower. We are not a subscription service that streams whatever pays our bills. Our content goes deep into select niches of Seeking Truth, Transformation, Alternative Health and Yoga channels. We often cover subjects that other media companies won’t touch.
We expect you did explore Gaia’s library of original shows, documentaries, and films. If our work on ancient wisdom, who are we, our true history, coverups, and metaphysics resonates, you might be a good fit for Gaia. We seek to hire and inspire employees who embrace our mission to empower a global conscious community, who hope their work empowers our community of inspired members, to be a catalyst of transformation. The best work we do every day is to remember our vision is “to empower the evolution of consciousness.”
The perks of working collaboratively with a team dedicated to sharing this mission include an on-site gym; a beautiful solar-powered campus, complete with hiking and running trails, community garden, and a labyrinth; and an on-site, mostly organic café that serves breakfast and lunch daily including a full-service espresso bar featuring locally roasted coffee.
Full-time employees are offered alternative and traditional medical benefits including preventative coverage; as well as dental, vision, 401K, and life insurance.