Newsbreak

Founding Product Director, NDot AI

Mountain View, California, United States. Posted a month ago

The role

You will own the NDot product roadmap and the publisher experience end to end. You will build reusable platform capabilities for publishers and adjacent digital content businesses.

What you will do

  • Run structured discovery with publishers to build a focused product roadmap.
  • Ship visible improvements to the publisher portal and publisher experience.
  • Define the minimum product and integration required for lighthouse customers and establish success metrics.
  • Work directly with engineering on architecture, APIs, data, and integrations.
  • Build a repeatable loop from customer feedback to prioritization, launch, and measurement.
  • Design the platform so proven capabilities can extend to adjacent verticals.

Required qualifications

  • Strong customer discovery, product strategy, and prioritization skills.
  • Technical fluency across APIs, data, and integrations.
  • Strong customer empathy and judgment.
  • Structured thinker with a bias for action.
  • Comfortable with ambiguity.
  • Ability to separate scalable product needs from bespoke requests.
  • Senior-level PM experience.
  • Experience building a 0→1 B2B/platform product.
  • Experience working directly with customers and small engineering teams.

Nice to have

  • Experience with recommendation/personalization, growth, monetization, or AI products.
  • Strong commercial instinct and executive presence.
  • Background in publisher/media tech, adtech, or consumer-growth.
  • Experience productizing internal technology for external customers.

Benefits

  • Health, dental, and vision care for you and your family (100% coverage for employee)
  • Top-tier 401(K) plan with company matching
  • Paid time off and paid holidays
  • FSA, HSA and commuter benefits programs
  • Team activity budget

About the company

NewsBreak is a local life and news platform with more than 40 million monthly users. NDot AI is a part of the company that helps publishers and creators grow and earn.

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