Staff Product Manager (Growth)

Grindr; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401k matching up to 6%

Flexible PTO and holidays

Equity for all employees

Stipends for lifestyle and wellness

Commuter stipend

Job summary

Grindr is seeking a Staff Product Manager, Growth to partner with our Head of Growth and build Grindr’s user growth function. You’ll own key product areas across the lifecycle, using data and customer insights to improve acquisition, activation, reactivation, and retention.

Develop and drive a multi-quarter growth roadmap, improve onboarding for new users, and create strategies for re-onboarding returning users.

Qualifications

• Several years of hands-on product management experience.
• Ability to own growth-focused product areas across the user lifecycle.
• Strong written and verbal communication and product judgment.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams in fast-moving environments.
• Proven track record in activation, retention, reactivation, and churn prevention.

Responsibilities

• Own key product areas across the user lifecycle with insights-driven priorities.
• Develop and drive a multi-quarter roadmap for acquisition, activation, retention, and churn prevention.
• Improve the new-user onboarding and first-week experience.
• Design re-onboarding for returning users and re-engage less active users.
• Partner with Data Science to translate DAU/MAU insights into priorities.
• Lead discovery, experimentation, launch, and iteration on growth initiatives.
• Collaborate with Marketing on App Store optimization and lifecycle tech like Braze/AppsFlyer.
• Align stakeholders around priorities and measurable outcomes.

Skills

Product management

Cross-functional leadership

Data-driven decision making

Experimentation

Strategic roadmap

Growth/product lifecycle

Communication

User research

AI-enabled workflows

Lifecycle marketing

Tools

Braze

AppsFlyer

Job description

• As Staff Product Manager, Growth, you’ll partner with our Head of Growth to build Grindr’s user growth function and help more people find lasting value in the product. You’ll own key product areas across the user lifecycle, using customer insights and data to improve acquisition, activation, reactivation, and retention
• At Grindr, we operate in Grindr Mode. Moderately hardcore day to day, truly hardcore when it counts. It’s about doing great work without burning out. Outcomes over outputs. Smart, driven people who raise your bar, with room to live full lives
• Help build Grindr’s growth product function from the ground up, defining how we identify, prioritize, and deliver on opportunities 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 better re-onboarding experiences for returning users and create new ways for less active users to find value and connection
• Partner with Data Science to deepen our understanding of DAU and MAU, identify where users enter, drop off, return, and build lasting engagement, and translate those insights into product priorities
• Lead discovery, experimentation, launch, and iteration across high-impact growth initiatives, balancing quantitative signals with deep user understanding
• Work with Marketing on App Store optimization and lifecycle capabilities, including platforms such as Braze and AppsFlyer, while partnering with international teams on global growth opportunities
• Create clarity across ambiguous problem spaces, align senior stakeholders around priorities and tradeoffs, and hold the work accountable to measurable outcomes

Benefits

• 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for employees
• 401k Matching (up to 6%)
• Flexible PTO, sick-time, holidays, and two company wide shut-down weeks + an annual travel and leisure stipend
• Equity for all employees
• Monthly lifestyle stipend for food and wellness as well as fully catered onsite breakfast, lunch, and snacks
• Gender Aff…
• Queer-inclusive health benefits including LGBTQ consultative healthcare and expanded HRT shipped directly to employees in eligible states
• Monthly commuter stipend to get you to and from the office on in-person collaboration days
• Community projects and charitable giving stipend to support LGBTQ+ non-profit organizations alongside Grindr for Equality

• Several years of hands-on product management experience, including ownership of complex consumer products from strategy through launch and iteration
• Clear written and verbal communication and strong product judgment, including the ability to make tradeoffs and explain what matters, what does not, and why
• Ability to operate independently, create structure from ambiguity, and influence senior stakeholders without relying on formal authority
• Strong analytical judgment, including experience using product data, experimentation, and behavioral insights to identify opportunities and make decisions
• A record of defining and delivering multi-quarter product strategies that improved activation, engagement, retention, or another meaningful user outcome
• Experience leading cross-functional work with Engineering, Design, Data Science, Marketing, and other partners in a fast-moving environment
• Deep user orientation and strong research instincts, with the ability to connect qualitative insight and quantitative evidence
• Are energized by Grindr’s mission and curious about the distinct needs and behaviors of our global community
• Have built products for consumer social, dating, community, or other high-engagement mobile experiences
• Are AI-native or rapidly becoming so - you actively use AI tools in your workflow and are always looking for new ways to leverage them
• Enjoy building new functions and operating models, not only optimizing mature systems
• Bring experience with lifecycle marketing, App Store optimization, or marketing technology platforms such as Braze or AppsFlyer
• Have direct growth product experience across activation, retention, reactivation, lifecycle, or churn prevention