Senior Product Manager - Core Experience & For-You Feed

Francisco Partners; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Stock options

Job summary

NewsBreak is seeking a senior product manager to define the goals for experience work and lead cross-team delivery for the core NewsBreak app. You will own the For You feed experience and decide how local verticals enter the main feed, using data-driven analysis to predict churn and prioritize improvements.

You’ll manage one PM, run experiments, and decide what not to build as part of a disciplined product discovery process. Competitive compensation and equity opportunities.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years in consumer product with a solid shipping record.
• Ability to quote real post-launch numbers and explain gaps versus forecast.
• Preferred: feed or recommendation experience on a large-DAU product.
• Runs own analysis and designs experiments.
• Has killed features on purpose — deciding what not to build matters.
• People management experience.

Responsibilities

• Feature definition, PRDs, and cross-team delivery for the core NewsBreak app.
• The For You feed experience — including how and when local verticals enter the main feed.
• Rebuilding quality triage: rank experience issues by predicted churn impact, not complaint volume.
• Scaling directions the Lead PM has validated.
• Managing one existing PM.
• Produce a list of experience issues ranked by predicted churn impact.
• Replace “negative feedback volume” as the operating goal.
• Close the loop end-to-end on one or two high-priority issues.

Skills

Consumer product

Data analysis

Experiment design

People management

Post-launch metrics

Job description

NewsBreak is seeking a senior product manager to define the goals for experience work and lead cross-team delivery for the core NewsBreak app. You will own the For You feed experience and decide how local verticals enter the main feed, using data-driven analysis to predict churn and prioritize improvements.

You’ll manage one PM, run experiments, and decide what not to build as part of a disciplined product discovery process. Competitive compensation and equity opportunities.