Product Manager, NewsBreak

$182-218k

Senior and Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area

3+ days a week in office (Mountain View, CA)

NewsBreak

Local breaking news app

Open for applications

NewsBreak

Local breaking news app

201-500 employees

B2CArtificial IntelligencePublishingDigital MediaMedia

Open for applications

$182-218k

Senior and Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area

3+ days a week in office (Mountain View, CA)

201-500 employees

B2CArtificial IntelligencePublishingDigital MediaMedia

Company mission

To connect and empower local users, local content creators, and local businesses at scale, with the goal of helping people everywhere live safer, more vibrant, more truly connected lives.

Role

Who you are

  • We are seeking an experienced Product Manager (IC)with a track record of building world-class consumer-facing products with advanced AI technologies
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
  • At least 8 years of experience in product management, co-founder, or a related technical role, with 5 years of experience building and shipping technical products
  • Experience developing or launching consumer-facing or media products/technologies
  • Demonstrated zero-to-one product development success
  • Senior-level engineering capability; could build the first prototype if asked
  • Start-up experience; has navigated resource-constrained, fast-moving environments
  • Confident: You have strong-pattern recognition; you’re not afraid to question, debate, and push people to be better–no matter their level. You build respect without worrying about likeability
  • Cognitive horsepower: You can keep up with the CEO thinking “big” in multiple technical and business directions and move quickly to action
  • Data-driven: You are relentlessly data-driven and detail-oriented
  • User-centric: You are passionate about users; thinking and designing on behalf of average users
  • Disciplined: You’re strategic, but you have an eye for detail; you can scale down to the lowest-level and debate at the highest level
  • Behind-the-scenes: you are enamored with technical quality and execution as an IC (seeing what happens) over individual recognition/career-climbing
  • Systematic: You’re able to operate tactically while always seeing the longer-term strategic picture; you see how the short-term builds the long-term

Desirable

  • Bilingual in Mandarin is preferred
  • Experience working directly with C-levels

What the job involves

  • Proof of Concept: Partnering with the CEO and other leaders to refine and build out ideas, insights and innovations into validated first-mile proof of product concepts, including feasibility analysis, with an eye to achieving technical breakthroughs that deliver large-scale business impact
  • MVP design–driving to the key point/feature of each product hypothesis to explore more ideas and iterate quickly
  • First Mile PRD: Translate innovative ideas into an execution plan (PRD) that sets a clear foundation to enable technical leaders to take ownership of product delivery
  • Responsible for strategy integration across the various product roadmaps
  • Product Excellence: Creating consistent cross-company product excellence; driving systematic execution with a balance between product excellence and risk-taking
  • Establish product review system, build “fit for purpose” process, and drive people to product excellence by providing standards and guidance
  • Company-level unifier: You identify clear overlaps or ways for users to take advantage of the entire product suite - driving up product utilization across user segment overlaps, moving users from one product to another
  • External spokesperson: You are able to navigate speaking at events or to reporters with ease
  • Capable of industry (media) engagement as well as technical engagement – making our unique position in the market and cutting edge technology understandable across all audiences

Our take

News aggregation apps often focus on big global stories, but local news can easily get buried. NewsBreak exists to change this situation, using an AI-powered aggregator to connect readers with content creators who report on matters a little closer to home.

NewsBreak stands out with its focus on local news, which is beneficial for users who are looking for more relevant content than can be served by national and global publishers, and with smaller scale press companies which have been suffering financially for decades.

This focus seems to have paid off: NewsBreak has over 50 million users across the US and its app has topped the US Apple App Store and Google Play repeatedly. If uptake continues as it has to date, the company stands to grow substantially while helping reinvigorate a struggling and vital industry.

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Insights

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

10% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

Jan 2021

$115m

SERIES C

Sep 2019

$14.8m

SERIES B

Total funding: $139.8m

Company benefits

  • Work from home opportunities
  • Health, dental, and vision care for you and your family
  • Top-tier 401(K) plan with company matching
  • Paid time off and paid holidays
  • Paid parental leave
  • FSA and commuter benefit programs
  • Team activity budget

Company values

  • Results matter
  • Growth mindset
  • Strive for excellence
  • Fight as one
  • User obsession
  • Strategic, long-term thinking

Company HQ

Old Mountain View, Mountain View, CA

Leadership

Having undertaken a PhD at the University at Buffalo, Jeff spent over 7 years at Yahoo!, prior to founding Yidianzixun, where he worked as CEO. He left this role in April 2015 to found NewsBreak, serving as CEO since.

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