Logo
Grindr

Senior Principal Product Manager

Grindr, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199


This is a

hybrid

role based in our Los Angeles or San Francisco office and will require you to be in office Tuesdays and Thursdays.What’s so interesting about this role?

As a Senior Principal Product Manager at Grindr, you’ll have the opportunity to enhance a recently launched web product from start to finish. Building upon the success of our mobile apps, you’ll help identify and chart the user and technical needs to evolve a fledgling experience for our community that is scalable, iterable, and discreet. You’ll lead a small team of talented devs, engineers, and design talent. You create structure from ambiguity and operate with intent while looking for opportunities. You turn empathy into action for our enthusiastic, queer userbase. You’ll turn your vision into strategy through your curiosity, grit, compassion, and data-driven decisions.What’s the job?

Partner closely with design and engineers to plan and develop product strategy and elegant, user-centric experiences.Utilize experiment-driven analysis and metrics to plan, launch, and evaluate projects.Ideate, validate, elaborate, execute, ship, measure, repeat.Become an expert in the dating business, LGBTQ+ community, and social/communication technologies.Listen to the people who use the app, the people who don’t, stakeholders, and teammates. Then absorb and incorporate into your thinking, process, and roadmap.Collaborate through excellent verbal and written communication, product requirements, user stories, Slack emojis, and documentation.Prioritize and orchestrate projects through agile development.What We'll Love About You

6+ years’ experience as a product manager on a web or mobile app in the consumer product space.Excellent verbal, written communication, and presentation skills.Demonstrated ownership of successful products throughout the product lifecycle.Proven experience driving projects with cross-functional colleagues using iterative development methodologies and A|B testing best practices.Excellent analytical skills, comfortable working with data and data tools, knowing which questions to ask and how to find the answers.Working knowledge of user interface design practices and user testing. Experience collaborating with engineering to drive delivery and adapt to technical constraints without compromising user needs. Will have experience partnering with Marketing to successfully launch programs.Highly collaborative. Builds trust & strong relationships at all levels.Structures, clarifies, and breaks-down problems. Proven experience to concurrently lead multiple strategic and tactical initiatives.We’ll really swoon if you have

Familiar with releasing apps & updates on web platformsExperience with global products across different markets, cultures, and languages.Strong design aesthetic with understanding of what makes a strong user experience.Experience partnering with user researchers and working with qualitative dataHandy with Jira, Confluence, GitHub, Testflight, spreadsheets, whiteboards, post-its, zoom, phone calls, IRC.Experience with dating, social, communication, or chat apps/services.Experience on growth-focused teams driven by experimentation and rapid iterationBackground in design, engineering, sociology, physics, or applied mathematicsWhat You'll Love About Us

Mission and Impact: Grindr is the world-leading LGBTQ social networking service. Your role will impact the lives of millions of LGBTQ people around the worldFamily Insurance: Insurance premium coverage for health, dental, and vision for you and partial coverage for your dependentsRetirement Savings: Generous 401K plan with 6% match and immediate vest in the USCompensation: Industry-competitive compensation and eligibility for company bonus and equity programsQueer-Inclusive Benefits: Industry-leading gender-affirming offerings with up to 90% cost coverage, access to Included Health, monthly stipends for HRT, and moreAdditional Benefits: Flexible vacation policy, monthly stipends for cell phone, internet, wellness, and food, one-time home-office setup stipend, and company-sponsored eventsLocation

We are looking to hire someone in the Los Angeles or San Francisco areas.About Grindr

Grindr is the world’s largest dating app for gay, bi, trans, and queer people. With around 13 million monthly active users, Grindr has become a fundamental part of the global LGBTQ community, and we take pride in empowering our users to connect, express themselves, and discover the queer world around them. Our next evolution is underway as a newly public company looking to expand and continue to build meaningful experiences for our users. From social issues to original content, we’re blazing innovative paths with impact for our community, all while leveraging the latest tech stacks and striving for engineering excellence. At the heart of our work in this new chapter is a shared set of core values: openness and exploration, a bias for action, and strong support of the LGBTQ community. With a track record of strong financial performance and plans for continued headcount growth, we’re looking to build a team of talented, passionate, and open-minded people who believe in our mission, align with our values, and are excited to work at the intersection of innovative technology and social impact. Come be a part of this exciting journey with us.Grindr is an equal-opportunity employerTo learn more about how we handle the personal data of applicants, visit our

Employee and Candidate Privacy Policy .Grindr is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. This base pay range is for the U.S. and is not applicable to locations outside of the U.S. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs, location, and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role will also be eligible for equity, benefits, and a company bonus program.Base Pay Range: $160,000—$220,000 USD

#J-18808-Ljbffr