Localization Vertical Product Manager

The role

You will own a local commerce or local services vertical end to end. This includes defining category strategy, shaping the product, and driving go-to-market motions for an AI-native local commerce platform.

What you will do

• Own a local commerce or local services vertical including strategy, roadmap, launch, and growth.
• Take new categories from 0 to 1 by validating demand and defining the MVP.
• Drive go-to-market for category launches including supply acquisition, consumer demand, pricing, and marketplace liquidity.
• Partner with engineering and data science to embed AI/LLM capabilities into the consumer and merchant experience.
• Use marketplace metrics to prioritize and prove impact.

Required qualifications

• 6+ years in product management, with Senior / Lead / Principal / Staff / Group PM scope.
• Demonstrated 0 to 1 launch of a new local services or local commerce vertical at a consumer marketplace.
• Both vertical category depth and local-platform experience.
• Hands-on go-to-market ownership for a new category launch.
• Fluency with marketplace dynamics: two-sided supply/demand, liquidity, pricing, and unit economics.

Nice to have

• Experience at a US consumer marketplace such as Yelp, DoorDash, Thumbtack, Nextdoor, Instacart, Uber, Grubhub, Angi, or Gopuff.
• Track record with services-booking or home-services marketplace products.
• Experience shipping AI/LLM-powered consumer features.
• Chinese local-life-services background (e.g., Meituan, Dianping).

About the company

NewsBreak is a local life and news platform with more than 40 million monthly users. It includes platforms like Nearby AI and NDot AI.