Lead Product Manager, Hinge
Recommendations
$197.5-237k
Dating app for meaningful relationships
Open for applications
Dating app for meaningful relationships
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$197.5-237k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help singles build meaningful relationships by connecting in person, helping people to get off dating apps.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years of product management experience, ideally on personalization, recommendations, or other ML-powered consumer products
- Technical background or deep familiarity with the nuts and bolts of machine learning and AI
- A track record of building and improving consumer products at scale
- Experience partnering with engineering, data science, and research
- Strong communication skills, especially when translating complex ideas to non-technical audiences
- Comfort with ambiguity and making principled calls in high-impact spaces
- Curiosity about dating and the human side of product development
- An interest in the fairness, ethics, and inclusivity of algorithmic systems
What the job involves
- Every match on Hinge starts with a decision about who to show and when
- As Lead Product Manager for our Recommendations team, you’ll guide the system behind those decisions, shaping how daters experience discovery on the app
- This is a high-impact IC leadership role where you’ll create a recommendations system that’s thoughtful, inclusive, and aligned with how people actually want to date
- Define the product strategy. Set the long-term vision for recommendations, secure executive alignment, and bring clarity to a space that touches nearly every team and user
- Own the roadmap. Translate strategy into a clear, focused roadmap. Prioritize the most important work, make smart tradeoffs, and keep partners aligned as priorities evolve
- Communicate with clarity and influence. Own the narrative around plans, priorities, and decisions, whether you’re reviewing tradeoffs with an engineer or presenting next steps to executive leadership
- Develop features that shape dating. Own and evolve how we model, rank, and personalize recommendations. Lead your team through the full product development cycle, from research to concept to experiment to launch. Partner with UI-focused product and design teams to build a discovery experience that feels useful, personal, and emotionally intuitive
- Make decisions grounded in insight. Use experiments, behavioral data, and research to guide decisions, while navigating ambiguity and imperfect signals. Partner with data science and research to understand how the system is performing and where to focus next
- Collaborate across Hinge. Work with Growth, Trust & Safety, Marketing, and other teams to make sure recommendations feel integrated and aligned with the broader product experience
- Champion fairness and integrity. Recommendations shape visibility and connection. Ensure the system reflects Hinge’s values, avoids unintended bias, and supports an experience that feels safe and equitable for everyone
Our take
Hinge is a dating app that sets itself apart from its competitors by focusing on relationships over hookups. It predominantly caters to people looking for long-term commitments. It has abandoned the “swipe” approach that’s often associated with game-like dating apps, such as Tinder, and instead it focuses on in-depth profiles and compatibility recommendations to help users better connect with each other.
In 2019, 50% of single people in the US had never used a dating app. Now, online dating has become part of the new normal, and Hinge’s focus on long-term, meaningful relationships is well-positioned to tap into the current desire for companionship and stability, as well as the growing market trend toward online dating.
The "dating app designed to be deleted" is the fastest-growing dating app on the market and is seeing further success following new capability expansions and acquisition by dating app portfolio Match Group in 2019. All this being said, there is growing concern over fake accounts and fraudulent activity on Hinge, as there is with other competing dating apps. Pricing tiers and more robust regulations for profiles are currently combatting this.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
48% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Dec 2014
$12m
SERIES A
Jul 2014
$4.5m
CONVERTIBLE
Total funding: $20.6m
Company benefits
- Equal opportunity employer
- 401k plan
- Accrual time off model
- Stocked kitchen
- Monthly date stipend
- Pet friendly
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
West Village, New York, NY
Leadership
Justin McLeod
(CEO)Having studied at Colgate University and Harvard Business School, Justin founded Hinge in February 2011. He has served as CEO since.
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