Product Manager, NewsBreak
Newsletter
$125-155k
3+ days a week in office (Mountain View, CA)
Local breaking news app
Open for applications
Local breaking news app
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$125-155k
3+ days a week in office (Mountain View, CA)
201-500 employees
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
- 3+ years of experience in product management or an equivalent role
- Experience in newsletter product management
- Strong analytical skills and ability to execute complex product launches
- Ability to act decisively in the face of ambiguity
- User-focused. Skilled at developing high quality product strategies & roadmaps
- Strong sense of logic and critical thinking skills; data-driven approach to problem-solving
- Strong sense of internet/technical products and curiosity for innovation
Desirable
- Experience working on content sourcing, content generation/summarization
- Experience working on other email products like email automation, email marketing, etc
- Experience working on Advertising/Monetization, basic knowledge about Ad rendering, serving, tracking, etc
- MBA and/or post graduate engineering/science degree
- Entrepreneurial spirit with a proven track record of leading through influence and delivering results in a fast-moving environment
What the job involves
- We are seeking an experienced product leader with a track record of building world-class products
- As the Product Manager - Newsletter, you will lead the vision, strategy, and execution across the team
- You will work with design and engineering partners to build the largest local News Newsletter in the US and bring it to the next level
- Own the roadmap of NewsBreak Newsletter product, the largest local News newsletter in the US. Continue to drive the growth of the product and increase values for users
- Define and build the proper measurement of revenue and user experience, drive the effort to improve the overall ad revenue and user experience on Newsletter Ads
- Drive integration work with different partners from a technical perspective, including event tracking, user data matching, reporting, etc. Drive new features to empower partners and improve ops efficiency
- Collaborate closely with the NewsBreak App product team to build a unified user experience
- Design and launch innovative products that provide unique value to our subscribers and advertisers by leveraging NewsBreak's first-party data and unique user engagement
- Develop and maintain a deep understanding of the global NL advertising market and the needs of advertisers
- Collaborate closely with Sales, Ad Ops, Core Product, Engineering, and other cross-functional teams to drive product implementation
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.
Steph
Company Specialist
Insights
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
Articles
Leadership
Jeff Zheng
(CEO)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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