Founding Product Director, Publisher Platform & AI

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision care forYou

Top-tier 401(K) plan

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 publisher experience from end to end. You will engage with publishers, work closely with engineers on technical tradeoffs, and decide which customer requests become reusable platform capabilities versus one-off work.

You’ll craft reusable platform capabilities for publishers and adjacent digital content businesses, sequencing expansion deliberately across verticals and platforms.

Qualifications

• Strong customer discovery, product strategy, and prioritization skills with analytics chops and technical fluency across APIs, data, and integrations.
• Senior-level PM experience, including building a 0→1 B2B/platform product and direct customer engagement.
• Experience working with small engineering teams and shipping end‑to‑end product improvements.

Responsibilities

• Run structured discovery with publishers to identify priority needs and translate into a focused roadmap.
• Ship improvements to the publisher portal, improving reporting and insights.
• Define minimum product and integration requirements for lighthouse customers and track success metrics.
• Collaborate with engineers on architecture, APIs, data and integrations as a technical partner.

Skills

Customer discovery

Product strategy

Prioritization

Analytics

APIs

Tools

APIs

Data

Integrations

Job description

NewsBreak is seeking a 0→1 product leader to own the NDot product roadmap and publisher experience from end to end. You will engage with publishers, work closely with engineers on technical tradeoffs, and decide which customer requests become reusable platform capabilities versus one-off work.

You’ll craft reusable platform capabilities for publishers and adjacent digital content businesses, sequencing expansion deliberately across verticals and platforms.