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With over 40 million monthly active users, our flagship platform delivers highly personalized local news and information powered by advanced AI, recommendation systems, and adtech.\nRecognized by Fast Company as #32 on the Top Workplaces for Innovators, we're proud to be Great Place to Work® certified and home to a dynamic team of technologists, product innovators, and business leaders who are passionate about solving meaningful challenges at scale.\nTogether, we reached unicorn status in 2021, and we remain committed to continuing this high-growth trajectory with the right team to fulfill our mission: building the infrastructure layer for content intelligence.\nIf you’re inspired to dream big, innovate fast, and make a difference, we’d love to hear from you! For more information, visit www.newsbreak.com/about\nAbout NDot AI\nBuild the owned-audience growth infrastructure for the future of media.\nAbout the Role\nWe're looking for a 0→1 product leader to own the NDot product roadmap and the publisher experience end to end. This is a highly customer-facing role: you'll spend real time in publisher meetings, work side-by-side with engineers on product and technical tradeoffs, and make the call on which customer requests should become reusable platform capabilities versus one-off custom work.\nYou'll be building reusable platform capabilities that can ultimately serve publishers and adjacent digital content businesses (e.g., short dramas), while sequencing that expansion deliberately rather than chasing every vertical at once.\nWhat You'll Do\nRun structured discovery with publishers to build a clear, evidence-based view of their priority needs, and translate that into a focused product roadmap.\nShip visible improvements to the publisher portal and publisher experience (reporting, insights, and beyond).\nDefine the minimum product and integration required for lighthouse customers, and establish clear success metrics for each.\nWork directly with engineering on architecture, APIs, data, and integrations - you'll need enough technical depth to be a real thought partner, not just a requirements-writer.\nBuild a repeatable loop from customer feedback → prioritization → launch → measurement, and use it to productize the most valuable recurring needs across onboarding, analytics, engagement/growth, and integrations.\nDesign the platform so proven capabilities can extend to adjacent verticals without fragmenting the roadmap.\nWhat We're Looking For\nMust have\nStrong customer discovery, product strategy, and prioritization skills, with real analytics chops and technical fluency across APIs, data, and integrations.\nStrong customer empathy and judgment; a structured thinker with a bias for action who's comfortable with ambiguity and can separate scalable product needs from bespoke requests.\nSenior-level PM experience, including having built a 0→1 B2B/platform product and worked directly with customers and small engineering teams.\nNice to have\nExperience with recommendation/personalization, growth, monetization, or AI products.\nStrong commercial instinct and executive presence.\nBackground in publisher/media tech, adtech, or consumer-growth, or experience productizing internal technology for external customers.\nWhy Join\nBuild the product foundation for a new AI-native B2B platform, with significant ownership over what NDot becomes.\nTurn NewsBreak's capabilities in recommendation, growth, monetization, and AI agents into scalable products - first for publishers, and ultimately for a broader set of digital content businesses.\nWork directly with customers and a small, high-leverage engineering team to turn real needs into repeatable products.\nBenefits\nWe offer a competitive benefits package:\nHealth, dental, and vision care for you and your family (100% coverage for employee)\nTop-tier 401(K) plan with company matching\nPaid time off and paid holidays\nFSA, HSA and commuter benefits programs\nTeam activity budget\nThe US base salary range for this full-time position is listed below. Pay may vary based on a number of factors including job-related skills, level, experience, geographic location and relevant education or training. At NewsBreak, we design our overall rewards package to attract top talents. Depending on the position, the role may also be eligible for discretionary bonus and options. 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