Full-Time

Senior Product Manager

Mapping

Outside Interactive

Outside Interactive

501-1,000 employees

Active lifestyle media network with subscriptions

Compensation Overview

$130k - $180k/yr

+ Bonus + Commission

Colorado, USA

Remote

Category
Product (1)
Required Skills
Agile
Product Management
Data Analysis
Requirements
  • 7+ years of product management experience building and scaling consumer-facing products.
  • Proven track record of owning complex product areas end-to-end, from discovery through delivery and iteration.
  • Strong experience working with designers and engineers to ship polished, high-quality mobile and web experiences.
  • Demonstrated ability to define success metrics, analyze results, and adjust strategy based on data.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to align diverse stakeholders.
  • Comfort operating in ambiguous problem spaces and making principled tradeoffs.
  • Experience with modern software development practices, including agile delivery and iterative experimentation.
  • Ability to reason about platform architecture, technical constraints, and long-term system health—even if you are not an engineer.
  • Experience collaborating on products with meaningful backend complexity.
  • Strong user empathy paired with business judgment.
  • Outcome-oriented, execution-focused, and comfortable owning hard decisions.
  • Entrepreneurial mindset with a bias toward learning and impact.
Responsibilities
  • Own the long-term vision and strategy for Outside’s mapping platforms and user experiences across mobile and web.
  • Translate company and portfolio-level strategy into a clear, outcome-driven roadmap with well-defined milestones and success metrics.
  • Identify and articulate key product bets, tradeoffs, and sequencing decisions grounded in user needs, data, and technical constraints.
  • Develop a deep understanding of outdoor users across activities (hiking, backpacking, overlanding, skiing, riding, running, etc.) and use cases (planning, navigation, safety, discovery).
  • Lead discovery through qualitative research, quantitative analysis, and rapid experimentation.
  • Define clear problem statements, customer journeys (CUJs), and product requirements that align teams and accelerate execution.
  • Partner closely with Engineering and Design to deliver high-quality, scalable mapping features from concept through GA.
  • Own prioritization across short-term delivery needs and long-term platform investments.
  • Drive clear documentation, alignment, and decision-making across cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Define, own, and evangelize success metrics across engagement, retention, and revenue contribution.
  • Use data to evaluate product performance, identify opportunities, and inform roadmap evolution.
  • Contribute to business planning and P&L awareness, articulating how mapping investments drive member value and company growth.
  • Help shape the evolution of Outside’s broader mapping platform, including data pipelines, map rendering, layering systems, and integrations.
  • Collaborate across brands to identify shared capabilities, reduce duplication, and increase leverage.
  • Serve as a strong product leader within the Mapping organization, raising the bar for product thinking, clarity, and execution.
  • Mentor and support other product managers, fostering a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with mapping or geospatial products (consumer or enterprise), including tools like OpenStreetMap, ESRI, or custom mapping stacks.
  • Familiarity with geospatial data concepts such as map layers, routing, tiles, GPS, and offline data.
  • Ability to write SQL or use analytics tools to explore product performance independently.
  • Experience integrating content (editorial, video, or community-generated) into product experiences.
  • Technical fluency, including knowledge of at least one programming language.

Outside focuses on active-lifestyle media for outdoor enthusiasts, curating content from 20+ brands across health, fitness, gear, travel, and more. Its flagship Outside+ subscription grants unlimited access to network content and Outside Watch on-demand features. It earns revenue from memberships and partner sponsorships/advertising with industry organizations. The company differentiates itself by cultivating engaged outdoor communities and guiding people along their journeys with reliable information and accessible experiences, aiming to inspire more outdoor activity.

Company Size

501-1,000

Company Stage

Series B

Total Funding

$164M

Headquarters

Boulder, Colorado

Founded

2021

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • MapMyFitness adds 80M users, scaling first-party data and ad network exponentially.
  • Outside+ exceeds 1M subscribers post-acquisitions, driving recurring revenue growth.
  • Outside Festival with Capital One, REI expands live events, boosting engagement in 2025.

What critics are saying

  • Strava's superior social features erode MapMyFitness retention within 6-12 months.
  • AllTrails dominates trail mapping, capping Outside's subscription growth in 12-18 months.
  • REI Co-op's apps undercut Outside Festival and memberships using 25M members in 18-24 months.

What makes Outside Interactive unique

  • Outside Interactive shifted from 70% ads to 60% subscriptions, posting first $125M profit in 2024.
  • Acquired MapMyFitness, Trailforks, Gaia GPS, creating world's largest outdoor mapping network.
  • Inntopia acquisition integrates booking tech with 100M users for seamless adventure travel.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) Retirement Plan

Flexible Work Hours

Paid Sick Leave

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

-1%

1 year growth

0%

2 year growth

1%
Yahoo Finance
Feb 5th, 2026
Outside Interactive posts first profit with $125M revenue, shifts from ads to subscriptions

Outside Interactive, formerly Outside Media, reported its first profit in 2024 after five years of transformation under CEO Robin Thurston. The company generated $125 million in revenue, up 23% year-over-year. Since Thurston raised $150 million in February 2021, Outside has fundamentally restructured its business model. Digital subscriptions and recurring services now account for 60% of revenue, whilst digital advertising has shrunk to 40%, reversing the 70% advertising dependence of 2021. The company has acquired numerous businesses beyond traditional publishing, including fitness apps like MapMyFitness, mapping services like Trailforks, booking platform Inntopia, and photography platform FinisherPix. Thurston emphasises Outside Interactive is no longer a media company, having reoriented around these digital services whilst maintaining legacy outdoor titles including Ski, Backpacker and Yoga Journal.

PR Newswire
Dec 10th, 2024
Headliners Khruangbin And Lord Huron To Perform At The Second Annual Outside Festival Presented By Capital One And Rei Co-Op, May 31 - June 1, 2025

Early Bird Festival Tickets and VIP Packages on Sale This Wednesday, December 11DENVER, Dec. 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Following the overwhelming success of last year's event, the Outside Festival with presenting sponsors Capital One and REI Co-op will return to downtown Denver's Civic Center Park, May 31-June 1, 2025. Bigger and better, this year's event will feature a top shelf music lineup, films, speakers, outdoor sports, and much more. Tickets officially go on sale starting this Wednesday, Dec. 11 at 10 a.m. Mountain Standard Time

Adweek
Sep 3rd, 2024
Outside Interactive Acquires MapMyFitness

The company, now with 100 million registered users, is building a social network for outdoor enthusiasts.

Poynter Institute for Media Studies
May 24th, 2022
Pocket Outdoor Media, LLC acquired Outside Inc. on Feb 1st 21'.

The company has grown rapidly in the past two years, after Pocket Outdoor Media acquired Outside magazine and several other brands in February 2021 and changed its name to Outside.

Business Wire
Feb 22nd, 2021
Pocket Outdoor Media Closes Major Acquisitions, Rebrands as Outside

BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pocket Outdoor Media Closes Major Acquisitions, Rebrands as Outside.