About NewsBreak
Local life runs on local information. What happened down the street? Who can fix this? Where should we go tonight? NewsBreak started in 2015 to answer these questions, and today more than 40 million people a month rely on us to follow what’s going on in their zip code.
Three platforms with one vision: powering local life. Led by founder and CEO Jeff Zheng, NewsBreak is our local life and news platform; Nearby AI connects people with local businesses; and NDot AI helps publishers and creators grow and earn.
Building for the long term. A $115 million Series C made us a unicorn in 2021, and we keep investing in our people. We’re Great Place to Work® certified and named to Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators (2025) and Fortune’s Best Workplaces in the Bay Area™ (2026).
Everyone makes an impact. Whether you write code, shape products, tell our story, or run the business, we want people who own projects end to end, stay curious, and speak up. Join us.
Learn more at: NewsBreak, Nearby AI, NDot AI
The core product has no dedicated PM. Experience work is scattered across non-product teams and has long been aimed at “reduce negative feedback volume” — a defect metric with no established causal link to retention. This role is not just another shipper; it's someone who defines the right goal for experience work.
- Feature definition, PRDs, and cross-team delivery for the core NewsBreak app
- The For You feed experience — including how and when local verticals enter the main feed
- Rebuilding quality triage: rank experience issues by predicted churn impact, not complaint volume
- Scaling directions the Lead PM has validated
- Managing one existing PM
- 5–8 years in consumer product with a solid shipping record
- You can quote real post-launch numbers — and explain the gap versus your forecast
- Preferred: feed or recommendation experience on a large-DAU product
- You run your own analysis and design your own experiments
- You've killed features on purpose — deciding what not to build matters as much as what to build
- People management experience
- Produce a list of experience issues ranked by predicted churn impact
- Replace “negative feedback volume” as the operating goal
- Close the loop end-to-end on one or two high-priority issues
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Skills Required
- 5-8 years in consumer product with a solid shipping record
- Able to quote real post-launch metrics and explain forecast variance
- Experience running analyses and designing experiments independently
- Willingness and judgment to kill features when appropriate
- People management experience (managing at least one PM)
- Feed or recommendation experience on large-DAU product
What We Do
NewsBreak is the leading platform for local news and information, with more than 40 million users across America. By using new technology, NewsBreak provides community-focused news and information from over 10,000 sources in a timely and accessible way. NewsBreak is bridging the gap between new technology and traditional local media, offering an innovative digital solution that allows users to get the information they need to live safer, more vibrant, and connected lives. Based in Mountain View, California, NewsBreak connects users with local information, national publishers, and targeted advertising from local businesses, with increased traffic and revenue that helps strengthen local communities. We are always looking for great talents. Contact us via [email protected] Our website: https://www.newsbreak.com/about Creator Program: https://www.newsbreak.com/creators Publishing Platform: https://mp.newsbreakapp.com Android App Download: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.particlenews.newsbreak&hl=en iOS App Download: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/news-break-personal-local/id1132762804?mt=8
