Founding Product Director

Who you are

• Strong customer discovery, product strategy, and prioritization skills, with real analytics chops and technical fluency across APIs, data, and integrations
• Strong 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
• Senior-level PM experience, including having built a 0→1 B2B/platform product and worked directly with customers and small engineering teams
• Experience with recommendation/personalization, growth, monetization, or AI products
• Strong commercial instinct and executive presence
• Background in publisher/media tech, adtech, or consumer-growth, or experience productizing internal technology for external customers

What the job involves

• We'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
• You'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
• Run structured discovery with publishers to build a clear, evidence-based view of their priority needs, and translate that into a focused product roadmap
• Ship visible improvements to the publisher portal and publisher experience (reporting, insights, and beyond)
• Define the minimum product and integration required for lighthouse customers, and establish clear success metrics for each
• Work 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
• Build 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
• Design the platform so proven capabilities can extend to adjacent verticals without fragmenting the roadmap
• Why Join?
• Build the product foundation for a new AI-native B2B platform, with significant ownership over what NDot becomes
• Turn 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
• Work directly with customers and a small, high-leverage engineering team to turn real needs into repeatable products

Benefits

• Work from home opportunities
• Health, dental, and vision care for you and your family
• Top-tier 401(K) plan with company matching
• Paid time off and paid holidays
• Paid parental leave
• FSA and commuter benefit programs
• Team activity budget