Senior Product Manager

Help Build the Next Generation of Digital Connection

Photobucket pioneered digital photo hosting. Founded in 2003, the platform now serves more than 70 million users and stores over 13 billion photos and videos. With strong growth and profitable operations, Photobucket has built a durable platform and strong financial foundation.

Now we are building what comes next.

The next evolution of Photobucket is live — a platform designed to redefine how people connect through shared moments. We are creating private digital spaces where real relationships, shared experiences, and authentic communities thrive. And we’re just getting started.

We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to own customer engagement and new-feature development for Photobucket’s core mobile experience — partnering with our Apperture team to define what we build, why it matters, and how we know it’s working.

Our Mission

Empower people to connect through shared moments — safely, simply, and intentionally.

What Makes Photobucket Different

Photobucket is redefining digital connection as the leading photo and video sharing and collaboration platform by creating private spaces where real-world relationships and authentic communities thrive.

Our platform is built on four principles:

• Private by Design — Safe, authentic sharing — your people, your moments, your rules.
• Human at Heart — Designed like a friend — friendly, approachable, and clutter-free.
• Connection with Purpose — Communities built around shared passions, experiences, and relationships.
• Evolving Together — A living platform that grows stronger with every shared moment.

The Opportunity

This is a Senior Product Manager role with autonomous ownership of a major product area. You will own the engagement surface of Photobucket — the loops that bring people back, the new features that make shared moments feel alive, and the onboarding that turns a first-time invitee into an active member. You’ll partner day-to-day with the Apperture team, which builds our web and mobile applications, and with the Staff Engineer who leads it, plus design — moving from problem to shipped feature fast.

Photobucket is mobile-first. Our customers live in the app, and the bar for a consumer app people choose to open is high. Groupsy by Photobucket is our take on private social — shared moments with the people who actually matter, not algorithms — and engagement is what makes it real: comments and reactions, notifications, activity feeds, curation, facial recognition, and the live-event moments (weddings, youth sports, travel) where a group is capturing a memory together.

Our engineers are product owners in their own right — they write specs, form opinions, and ship. Your job is not to hand them tickets; it’s to bring the sharpest possible view of the customer and the problem, write specs clear enough that an AI-orchestrated team builds the right thing the first time, and raise the product judgment of everyone you work with.

You will embody the three things we expect of every product manager at Photobucket — and set the standard for them on your team:

• Product judgment. Deep customer and product knowledge — knowing what’s worth building and what isn’t. You don’t need all the answers up front; you bring the toolset to go get the data and customer feedback that inform the decision.
• Data-first. You lead with data and are proactive about getting it — you don’t wait for it to land on your desk. You form hypotheses, run experiments, measure impact, and decide with evidence over opinion.
• AI orchestration. You use AI as a default multiplier — prototyping flows, drafting specs and PRDs, and analyzing data to move faster.

The Role

You are a senior product manager who leads through judgment, customer insight, and results — taking autonomous, end-to-end ownership of a major product area. You don’t wait to be told what to build, you see legacy as raw material rather than baggage, and your presence raises the bar of everyone around you.

What you’ll own

• Engagement and retention — the loops that bring members back: comments and reactions, notifications, the activity feed, and reminders to capture in the moment. You’ll define the metrics that matter and measure every bet against them.
• New features — identify problems worth solving in the core app and shape what gets built, from new social mechanics to curation and AI-assisted experiences (recommended uploads, facial recognition, avatars) and live-event moments.
• Onboarding and activation — the invite → join → first upload → first engagement path; turn first-time invitees into active members and strip out friction.
• Customer feedback — own the voice of the customer: get in front of real users, build feedback loops where none exist, and validate direction with A/B tests rather than opinion.
• How the work gets done — partner with the Apperture Staff Engineer and design as peers, write specs clear enough for an AI-orchestrated team to build right the first time, and raise the product judgment of everyone around you.

You’re a fit if you

• Have 5–8 years in product management on consumer SaaS applications (a must-have), with deep application-feature experience — you’ve owned and shipped core features inside a consumer app, not just growth surfaces
• Have shipped consumer-facing features that grew engagement or retention at scale, ideally mobile-first (React Native a plus)
• Lead with data and are proactive about getting it — you run A/B tests and experiments, build feedback loops where none exist, and hold yourself to measurable outcomes
• Don’t assume you have the answers — you get in front of customers, gather feedback directly, and let it inform the call
• Have strong product intuition — you notice friction, know what’s worth building and what isn’t, and can articulate it to engineers, designers, and executives
• Use AI as a default multiplier — prototyping, spec-writing, and analysis — not a novelty, and see AI fluency as table stakes in 2026
• Ship, own outcomes end-to-end, thrive in ambiguity, communicate crisply, and care deeply about craft
• Bonus: photo, social, or media products; a startup background wearing multiple hats; design sensibility; or experience mentoring PMs

What This Role Isn’t

If you want to specialize deeply in one narrow feature for years, or you need structured processes and clearly painted swim lanes to do your best work, this isn’t the environment. We’re a small team reshaping a classic product into something new — you’ll have real ownership and real impact, but you have to be comfortable with the ambiguity that comes with it. Leadership here means influence and judgment, not an org chart. You’ll be hands-on and in the work, shipping product.

Location

Photobucket operates with a distributed workforce with a hub in Boulder, Colorado.

This role is fully remote, with an option to work out of our Boulder, CO office. We work on Mountain Time work hours.

Compensation

• Salary range: $155,000 – $205,000 base bonus
• Health, Dental, Vision Benefits: covering employee/spouse/family premiums 100%
• Unlimited PTO
• 401(k) with 100% match up to 5%
• Other health and wellness reimbursements

Why Join Photobucket

We believe the internet needs healthier spaces for connection.

Photobucket is built to bring people together around shared experiences — without the noise, pressure, and algorithms that dominate traditional social media.

We are building something ambitious. And we are looking for people who want to help make it real. If you’re excited about owning the experience that makes people come back — and shaping what Photobucket becomes for the next generation of users — we’d love to hear from you.

How to Apply

Send your resume and a brief note about a product you shipped that you’re proud of — what the problem was, how you approached it, and what you learned.

Photobucket is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.