This is a hybrid role based in our San Francisco or Los Angeles offices and will require you to be in the office on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
What’s so interesting about this role?
As the first Staff Product Marketing Manager at Grindr, you will play a pivotal role in defining and executing our product marketing strategy to deepen our understanding of and engagement with our customers. This highly cross-functional role will see you collaborating closely with team members across Product, Engineering, Design, Research, Data Analytics, and Marketing. Your mission: to shape our core user experience and drive monetization efforts. You'll be responsible for crafting, developing, and scaling comprehensive go-to-market strategies that influence every stage of the user lifecycle, from awareness and adoption to engagement and purchase of Grindr’s subscription products and services.
What’s the job?
Synthesize Insights: Consolidate insights from diverse sources to inform and guide product development, marketing programs, and campaigns.
Strategic Influence: Shape and influence Grindr’s product and business strategies and roadmaps, strengthening user satisfaction, engagement, retention, and monetization.
GTM Strategy & Execution: Develop and implement go-to-market strategies for product launches, including compelling naming, messaging, positioning, and campaign narratives. Set goals and metrics for success, and coordinate with cross-functional teams to ensure flawless execution.
Problem-Solving: Tackle complex challenges with a strategic mindset, creating thoughtful recommendations and action plans.
Support Monetization: Drive drive subscription adoption through rigorous testing and experimentation, because Grindr is better when using one of our subscription tiers.
What we'll love about you
Experience: 8+ years of experience delivering successful go-to-market, engagement, and growth strategies, with 5+ years specifically in product marketing, ideally within the tech or dating app industry.
Action-Oriented: Proactive, collaborative, and a master of simplification. You continually push towards clarity and driving delivery of strong results.
Self-Starter: Hard-working, detail-oriented, and organized. You thrive in challenging environments and are undeterred by complexity.
Master Communicator: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, comfortable presenting and sharing work with executive leadership. Strong interpersonal skills to influence and motivate people at all levels across various functions.
Product Marketing Mindset: Ability to distill the essence of complex products and convey the value they create. You can develop a strong messaging hierarchy, effective strategies, and impactful go-to-market plans.
Analytical Skills: Outstanding ability to use data to craft insightful stories, inform strategies, and guide decision-making.
We’ll really swoon if you have any of:
Experience partnering with Engineering and Product teams to influence and drive our roadmap and features
Experience using tools like Braze for messaging and Figma for design
Prior experience working in the dating industry
What you'll love about us
Mission and Impact: Grindr is building the global gayborhood in your pocket. Your role will impact the lives of millions of LGBTQ+ people around the world. Through our success, we are making a world where the lives of our community are free, equal, and just.
Family Insurance: Insurance premium coverage for health, dental, and vision for you and partial coverage for your dependents.
Retirement Savings: Generous 401K plan with 6% match and immediate vest in the U.S.
Compensation: Industry-competitive compensation and eligibility for company bonus and equity programs.
Queer-Inclusive Benefits: Industry-leading gender-affirming offerings with up to 90% cost coverage, access to Included Health, monthly stipends for HRT, and more.
Additional Benefits: Flexible vacation policy, monthly stipends for cell phone, internet, wellness, food, and commuting, breakfast/lunch provided onsite, and yearly travel & leisure stipend.
About Grindr
Grindr is building the global gayborhood in your pocket. With more than 13.5 million monthly active users, Grindr has become a fundamental part of the LGBTQ+ community and is charting a path to make the world more free, equal, and just. Since 2015, Grindr for Equality has advanced safety, health, and human rights for millions of Grindr users and the global LGBTQ+ community in partnership with more than 100 community organizations in every region of the world.
Our next evolution is underway as a public company that continues to grow and build meaningful experiences for our users. From social issues to product innovations, we're setting audacious goals for our community and the business, and leveraging the latest tech stacks and a culture of engineering excellence to make it happen. At the heart of our work in this new chapter is a shared set of operating principles centered around cultivating curiosity, thinking big, setting and expediting our ambitious goals, and growing through iteration; all while keeping our users #1.
Grindr is headquartered in West Hollywood, California, with offices in the Bay Area, Chicago, and New York. With a track record of strong financial performance and plans for continued headcount growth, we’re building a team of talented, passionate, and open-minded people who want to disrupt the dating app space, innovate products, and advance LGBTQ+ culture. Come be a part of this exciting journey with us.
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Grindr Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Grindr and has not been reviewed or approved by Grindr.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as robust, with medical, dental, and vision insurance and strong support for LGBTQ+-specific care. Coverage for HRT and gender-affirming care is repeatedly characterized as impactful and leading.
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Inclusive Benefits Coverage — Benefits are positioned as notably inclusive, with gender-affirming care and LGBTQ+-competent healthcare navigation highlighted as core parts of the package. Family-building support for adoption, surrogacy, and fertility is emphasized as substantial once eligibility is met.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Stipends for categories like food, wellness, home office, travel, transit, and cell/internet are framed as meaningful additions that increase take-home value. On-site or covered meals, stocked kitchens, and other day-to-day perks are also portrayed as materially supportive.
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What We Do
With more than 13.5 million monthly active users in virtually every country in the world, Grindr has grown to become a fundamental part of the LGBTQ+ community since its launch in 2009. The company continues to expand its ecosystem to enable gay, bi, trans, and queer people to connect, express themselves, and discover the world around them. Since 2015 Grindr for Equality has advanced safety, health, and human rights for millions of Grindr users and the global LGBTQ+ community in partnership with more than 100 community organizations in every region of the world. Grindr is headquartered in West Hollywood, California, with offices in the Bay Area, Chicago, and New York City. The Grindr app is available on the App Store and Google Play.
Why Work With Us
More than just a digital space to meet, Grindr also executes successful initiatives aimed at advancing LGBTQ+ issues including equality, social justice, health, and more. Behind the grid, Grindr is an inclusive and passionate community of thinkers, innovators, leaders, and most importantly, doers.
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