Senior Product Owner / Delivery Lead

VentureBeat is hiring a senior Product Owner to turn an already-defined roadmap into shipped, high-quality work — across our website and emerging AI-powered products. Strategy and direction are set by leadership and our advisory board; you own the backlog, the specs, and the delivery cadence that get it built. You'll be the source of truth between leadership's vision and engineering, and the person who brings order and predictability to how we ship. This is a strong fit if you do your best work owning a backlog end to end, writing crisp specs, and getting products across the line — without needing to own company strategy yourself. About VentureBeat & Our Vision VentureBeat is the leading source for news and insights for enterprise technical decision-makers about the AI revolution. We are building the future of how our audience connects with our content, driving significant innovation across content creation, proprietary data-driven insights, user interface, and delivery formats. As part of this vision, we are actively developing a groundbreaking AI-driven market intelligence platform. This product introduces a dynamic way of gathering real-time tracking data from enterprise respondents, leveraging advanced AI models to reason over the findings, and instantly delivering deep, actionable tech analysis. Rather than static legacy reports, we are building an automated, intelligence-driven feedback loop explicitly designed to help enterprise technical decision-makers make faster, better-validated choices around complex AI technologies. We are looking for an execution-focused leader to manage the operational engine, optimize features, and ship continuously against this transformative product ecosystem Role at a Glance

• Position Title: Senior Product Owner / Delivery Lead
• Compensation: ~$200,000 base salary
• Location: Remote (United States time-zone)
• Reports To: CEO, with tactical guidance from our Senior Strategic Advisor (Board Observer)

What You'll Do

• Own the website backlog. Run the backlog and release cadence for venturebeat.com — our primary platform — from spec to launch.
• Translate vision into specs. Turn a defined roadmap into clear technical specifications, prioritized stories, and reliable release schedules.
• Be engineering's source of truth. Work directly with external contractors to clarify requirements, remove bottlenecks, and hold delivery commitments.
• Stand up product operations (0→1). Define the workflows, documentation, rituals, and prioritization frameworks that give development structure and accountability.
• Run delivery across platforms. Own backlogs for the newsletter/ESP ecosystem and emerging SaaS and data-insights tools alongside the website.
• Integrate AI features. Sequence and ship the AI capabilities on the roadmap.
• Coordinate stakeholders. Partner with engineering, editorial, marketing, design, and revenue to manage dependencies and ensure clean handoffs.
• Track delivery. Stand up the tooling to measure throughput, release predictability, and backlog impact.

What We're Looking For

• 5–7+ years as a Product Owner, delivery lead, or execution-focused PM, ideally on digital platforms.
• Backlog and delivery mastery. You've owned a backlog end to end and run the rituals that keep teams shipping.
• Built product operations from scratch in lean, fast-moving environments.
• Strong technical literacy. You communicate credibly with engineers, unblock technical tracks, and reason through trade-offs.
• B2B media, data, or SaaS background. Publishing/web platforms, newsletter mechanics, market-research products, or data-driven software. B2B media strongly preferred.
• Fluent with modern AI tooling and comfortable integrating it into real products.
• Resourceful with limited design support — pragmatic UX calls and lightweight wireframes to keep development moving.
• Bias for action. You balance speed and quality and ship consistently.

Why Join Us

• Immediate impact: Build the product and see results quickly.
• Clear lane: Direct CEO access and guidance from a seasoned AI product executive — high visibility, without having to own company strategy yourself.
• A strong AI-era brand: Ship the products that shape how technology leaders engage with a well-known media and insights brand.
• Lead a new paradigm in tech research: Build the operational foundation for an entirely new way of capturing, parsing, and communicating industry intelligence. You will directly scale a unique data-gathering and AI-analysis infrastructure that aims to act as an automated tech analyst for enterprise buyers.
• • Pioneering AI domain: Shape how tech leaders discover insights, evaluate specific models, and confidently make high-stakes technical decisions using advanced, automated tools.
• • Dynamic team culture: Work with a collaborative, entrepreneurial leadership team that moves fast, values radical transparency, and actively dogfoods cutting-edge AI technologies.

How to Apply

Email your application to [email protected] with:

• Your résumé or LinkedIn profile.
• A short note on how you communicate plans and priorities to cross-functional stakeholders.
• A brief summary of one or two products you helped ship, and your role in delivering them.

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