Principal Product Manager, Web

What’s so interesting about this role?

As a 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 comprising 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 iOS and Android platforms.
• Experience 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 data
• Handy 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 iteration
• Background in design, engineering, sociology, physics, or applied mathematics