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Brief #11041Updated 17 SEP 2026MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATESGreenhouseSOFTWARE COMPANIES
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Founding Product Director, NDot AI

News Break is an AI-powered news aggregator that delivers the most relevant local news. It aims to make local information easily accessible and abundantly available, with the goal of helping people everywhere live…

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Founding Product Director, NDot AI

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Job title
Founding Product Director, NDot AI
Job location
Mountain View, California, United States
Job description

About NewsBreak

Founded in 2015, NewsBreak is the Content Intelligence platform shaping the future content economy. 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.

Recognized 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.

Together, 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.

If 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

About NDot AI

Build the owned-audience growth infrastructure for the future of media.

About the Role

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.

What You'll Do

  • 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.

What We're Looking For

Must have

  • 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.

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, or experience productizing internal technology for external customers.

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

We offer a competitive benefits package:

  • 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
The 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. Your recruiter can share more details during the hiring process.
Annual Base Pay Range
$235,000$345,000 USD
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