Growth Product Manager – Activation & Retention

Grindr; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental & vision coverage

Fertility & family-building support

401(k) with 6% match

Equity & bonus for employees

Gender-affirming care

Flexible vacation & rest weeks

Stipends for cell phone/internet/well‑

commuting & meals

Job summary

Grindr is seeking a Staff Product Manager, Growth to partner with the Head of Growth and build Grindr’s growth function. You will own initiatives across the user lifecycle, leveraging insights and data to improve activation, reactivation, and retention.

This is a hybrid role based in the United States with in-person days in major offices (New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, or Chicago). You will define how opportunities are identified, prioritized, and delivered, guiding a multi-quarter

Qualifications

• Several years of hands-on product management experience for complex consumer products.
• Track record of multi-quarter product strategy delivery improving activation, engagement, or retention.
• Strong analytical judgment with data, experiments, and behavioral insights to guide decisions.
• Deep user orientation with ability to connect qualitative and quantitative evidence.
• Experience leading cross-functional work with Engineering, Design, Data Science, Marketing.
• Ability to operate independently, create structure from ambiguity, and influence senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define how Grindr identifies, prioritizes, and delivers growth opportunities across the user lifecycle.
• Develop and drive a multi-quarter roadmap for activation, retention, reactivation, and churn prevention.
• Improve the new-user onboarding experience from discovery to first week.
• Design re-onboarding experiences and re-engagement paths for less-active users.
• Collaborate with Data Science to analyze DAU/MAU and translate insights into priorities.
• Lead discovery, experiments, launches, and iterations on growth initiatives.

Skills

Growth product management

Lifecycle marketing

Data-driven decision making

Cross-functional leadership

User research

A/B testing

Tools

Braze

AppsFlyer

Mixpanel

Job description

Grindr is seeking a Staff Product Manager, Growth to partner with the Head of Growth and build Grindr’s growth function. You will own initiatives across the user lifecycle, leveraging insights and data to improve activation, reactivation, and retention.

This is a hybrid role based in the United States with in-person days in major offices (New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, or Chicago). You will define how opportunities are identified, prioritized, and delivered, guiding a multi-quarter