Staff Product Manager, Growth

Grindr • West Hollywood, CA

16h • Hybrid

About The Position

Grindr is hiring a Staff Product Manager, Growth, to help build its growth product function and help more people find lasting value in the product. The role partners with the Head of Growth and owns key product areas across the user lifecycle, using customer insights and data to improve acquisition, activation, reactivation, and retention. It is a hybrid role based in the New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, or Chicago office, with in-person work required Tuesdays and Thursdays.

The position defines how the company identifies, prioritizes, and delivers growth opportunities, and develops a multi-quarter roadmap spanning acquisition, activation, retention, reactivation, and churn prevention. It improves the new-user experience from App Store discovery through onboarding and the first week, and develops re-onboarding and engagement experiences for returning and less-active users. The role partners with Data Science to understand DAU and MAU and user behaviors, then translates those insights into product priorities. It leads discovery, experimentation, launch, and iteration; works with Marketing on App Store optimization and lifecycle capabilities, including Braze and AppsFlyer; and partners with international teams on global growth opportunities. It also creates clarity in ambiguous problem spaces, aligns senior stakeholders on priorities and tradeoffs, and holds initiatives accountable to measurable outcomes.

Requirements

• Several years of hands-on product management experience, including ownership of complex consumer products from strategy through launch and iteration.
• A record of defining and delivering multi-quarter product strategies that improved activation, engagement, retention, or another meaningful user outcome.
• Strong analytical judgment, including experience using product data, experimentation, and behavioral insights to identify opportunities and make decisions.
• Strong user orientation and research instincts, with the ability to connect qualitative insight and quantitative evidence.
• Experience leading cross-functional work with Engineering, Design, Data Science, Marketing, and other partners in a fast-moving environment.
• Ability to operate independently, create structure from ambiguity, and influence senior stakeholders without formal authority.
• Clear written and verbal communication and strong product judgment, including the ability to make tradeoffs and explain priorities.

Nice To Haves

• Direct growth product experience across activation, retention, reactivation, lifecycle, or churn prevention.
• Experience building products for consumer social, dating, community, or other high-engagement mobile experiences.
• Experience with lifecycle marketing, App Store optimization, or marketing technology platforms such as Braze or AppsFlyer.
• Enjoyment of building new functions and operating models, not only optimizing mature systems.
• Interest in Grindr’s mission and curiosity about the distinct needs and behaviors of its global community.
• Being AI-native or actively adopting AI tools in one’s workflow and seeking ways to leverage them.

Responsibilities

• Help build the growth product function, defining how growth opportunities are identified, prioritized, and delivered across the user lifecycle.
• Develop and drive a multi-quarter roadmap spanning user acquisition, activation, retention, reactivation, and churn prevention.
• Improve the new-user experience from App Store discovery through onboarding and the first week on Grindr.
• Build re-onboarding experiences for returning users and create ways for less-active users to find value and connection.
• Partner with Data Science to understand DAU and MAU, user entry and drop-off points, return behavior, and lasting engagement; translate findings into product priorities.
• Lead discovery, experimentation, launch, and iteration for high-impact growth initiatives, combining quantitative signals with user understanding.
• Work with Marketing on App Store optimization and lifecycle capabilities, including platforms such as Braze and AppsFlyer.
• Partner with international teams on global growth opportunities.
• Create clarity in ambiguous problem spaces, align senior stakeholders on priorities and tradeoffs, and measure work against outcomes.

Benefits

• Full premium coverage for employee health, dental, and vision; partial coverage for dependents.
• Up to $300,000 in fertility and family-building support, covering IVF, surrogacy, egg freezing, and adoption.
• 401(k) with 6% match and immediate vesting.
• Industry-competitive compensation, company bonus, and equity for every employee.
• Gender-affirming care offerings with up to 90% cost coverage, access to Included Health, and monthly HRT stipends.
• Flexible vacation policy and two company-wide rest weeks per year.
• Monthly stipends for cell phone, internet, wellness, food, and commuting.
• Breakfast and lunch.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed