Product Manager, Main App

About NewsBreak

NewsBreak is redefining the way users interact with local news and their communities. By bridging local users, local content creators, and local businesses, our mission is to foster safer, more vibrant, and authentically connected lives. Through robust collaborations with thousands of local publishers and businesses across the nation, NewsBreak is revolutionizing how a new wave of readers access and engage with essential, locally sourced content & information.

Since our inception in 2015, our trajectory has been nothing short of remarkable. We proudly stand as the nation’s premier local news app.

As a Series-C unicorn startup, our headquarter nestles in the tech hub of Mountain View, California, with other offices in New York City and Seattle. For more information, visit www.newsbreak.com/about

4 days onsite in Mountain View, CA office is required.

Responsibilities:

• Ideation & Strategy: Identify and prioritize new product opportunities that improve user experience and drive growth metrics, including user engagement, retention, and acquisition.
• Feature Development: Collaborate with engineering, design, and other stakeholders to define, design, and execute impactful new features. Lead projects from conception through to launch, ensuring alignment with overall growth objectives.
• Experimentation & Analysis: Design, implement, and evaluate A/B tests and other growth experiments to validate hypotheses, leveraging insights to make data-informed decisions.
• User-Centric Focus: Gather and analyze user feedback, identify pain points, and prioritize improvements to continuously enhance the user experience.
• Roadmap Planning: Manage and communicate the product roadmap, ensuring alignment with both the broader product strategy.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with marketing, data analytics, and product engineering teams to deliver growth features.

Requirements

• Experience: 3-5 years in product management, ideally within a growth-focused role at a consumer technology or media company.
• Skills: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, experience with A/B testing, growth experimentation frameworks, and data analytics.
• Technical Understanding: Ability to work effectively with engineering teams; familiarity with app development cycles and agile methodologies.
• Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills to convey ideas, progress, and insights effectively to cross-functional stakeholders.
• User-Driven: Passionate about user experience and has a proven track record of generating ideas that enhance customer engagement and satisfaction.

Benefits

We offer competitive benefits package:

• Health, dental, and vision care for you and your family (0 cost for individual) 
• Top-tier 401(K) plan with company matching
• Paid time off and paid holidays
• Paid parental leave
• FSA and commuter benefits programs
• Team activity budget

The US base salary range for this full-time position is listed below. Pay may vary based on a number of factors including job-related skills, level, experience, geographic location and relevant education or training. At NewsBreak, we design our overall rewards package to attract top talents. Depending on the position, the role may also be eligible for discretionary bonus and options. Your recruiter can share more details during the hiring process.Annual Base Pay Range$182,000—$218,000 USD

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