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Chief Subscription Officer

$200k/y-$275k/y

Slate Magazine

a day ago

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Summary

Slate Magazine is seeking a Chief Subscription Officer to lead company growth through subscriptions in Washington, DC. The role involves developing full-funnel strategies to engage new audiences and enhance subscription offerings.

About the Role

As the Chief Subscription Officer, you will set the long-term strategy for subscription growth across various media formats, lead the subscription team, and collaborate with editorial and product leadership. Your responsibilities include mapping the user journey, establishing mid-funnel metrics, and improving retention strategies to combat churn.

About You

Required:

Proven experience building and optimizing mid-funnel/habituation metrics at a subscription business.
Track record of transformational change.
Experience establishing shared goals with creative leadership.
Specific examples of moving users from casual to habitual usage.
Deep knowledge of email marketing, retention loops, and habit formation.
Data fluency with modern analytics tools (e.g., Amplitude).
Experience navigating a creative culture with business needs.

Preferred:

Experience in consumer subscription businesses (media, fitness, learning, gaming).
Product/growth roles at companies with freemium-to-paid models.
Retention-focused roles at streaming or membership platforms.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits program with flexibility for employees.
Three subsidized medical plans and two dental plans provided by Aetna.

Slate Magazine

Slate is a daily online magazine and podcast network that helped invent the voice of the web. Founded in 1996, Slate is a general-interest publication offering analysis and commentary about politics, news, business, technology, and culture. Slate’s strong editorial voice and witty take on current events have been recognized with numerous awards, including the National Magazine Award for General Excellence. Slate’s podcast network, established in 2005 with the launch of Political Gabfest, produces more than 20 podcasts, including Slow Burn, Culture Gabfest, What Next, Decoder Ring and more. Slate.com reaches more than 25M unique visitors and averages more than 40M pageviews every month. Slate's podcast network garnered more than 190 million downloads in 2022.

Washington, DC