Lead PM — Product Innovation
About The Position
NewsBreak is seeking a Lead Product Manager focused on Product Innovation. Founded in 2015, NewsBreak is a Content Intelligence platform with over 40 million monthly active users, delivering personalized local news and information through advanced AI and recommendation systems. The company is recognized by Fast Company and is Great Place to Work® certified. NewsBreak achieved unicorn status in 2021 and is focused on building the infrastructure layer for content intelligence. This role is crucial for developing a product-driven growth curve, moving beyond algorithm tuning and paid acquisition. The Lead PM will be responsible for identifying and validating new growth opportunities through rapid hypothesis testing and experimentation.
Requirements
- 8+ years in consumer product experience.
- 3+ years in 0→1 or new-direction work.
- A concrete story where data overturned your own judgment.
- A track record of killing a direction yourself, with clear reasoning.
- Strong analytics skills: ability to pull own data, design experiments, and interpret results.
- Instinctively ask “how do users solve this today?” and “what's the switching cost?”.
- Experience in consumer high-frequency products preferred (content, social, local, utility).
- AI product experience is not required.
Responsibilities
- Develop AI-native product formats.
- Explore new ways people consume local information.
- Validate new directions on Scoopz.
- Translate vague directions into falsifiable hypotheses and test them rapidly.
- Hand off validated directions to the Senior PM for scaling.
- Focus on product innovation, not local vertical framework build-out (which is owned by a separate team).
Benefits
- Discretionary bonus
- Options
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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