Founding Product Director - AI-Powered Publisher Platform

newsbreak; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 235,000 - 345,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision (employee +

401(k) with company matching

Paid time off and holidays

FSA/HSA and commuter benefits

Team activity budget

Job summary

NewsBreak is seeking a 0-1 product leader to own the NDot product roadmap and the publisher experience end to end. This highly customer-facing role involves participating in publisher meetings, collaborating with engineers on tradeoffs, and deciding which customer requests become reusable platform capabilities versus bespoke work.

Youll build reusable platform capabilities to serve publishers and related digital content businesses, sequencing expansion deliberately rather than chasing every

Qualifications

• Strong customer discovery, product strategy, and prioritization skills, with real analytics chops and technical fluency across APIs, data, and integrations.

Responsibilities

• Run structured discovery with publishers to build a clear, evidence-based view of their priority needs, and translate that into a focused product roadmap.
• Ship visible improvements to the publisher portal and publisher experience (reporting, insights, and beyond).
• Define the minimum product and integration required for lighthouse customers, and establish clear success metrics for each.
• Work directly with engineering on architecture, APIs, data, and integrations - you'll need enough technical depth to be a real thought partner, not just a requirements-writer.
• Build a repeatable loop from customer feedback - prioritization - launch - measurement, and use it to productize the most valuable recurring needs across onboarding, analytics, engagement/growth, and integrations.
• Design the platform so proven capabilities can extend to adjacent verticals without fragmenting the roadmap.

Skills

Customer discovery

Product strategy

Prioritization

APIs and data

Job description

NewsBreak is seeking a 0-1 product leader to own the NDot product roadmap and the publisher experience end to end. This highly customer-facing role involves participating in publisher meetings, collaborating with engineers on tradeoffs, and deciding which customer requests become reusable platform capabilities versus bespoke work.

Youll build reusable platform capabilities to serve publishers and related digital content businesses, sequencing expansion deliberately rather than chasing every