Director of Product, Grindr

• 8-10+ years of product management experience, with 6+ years of meaningful ownership of consumer-facing ads, programmatic advertising, rewarded ads, or adjacent monetization products
• Demonstrated track record of building and scaling an ads product from an early stage - not just operating a mature platform - including experience designing and testing new ad formats, delivery systems, and monetization infrastructure
• Strong consumer product judgment, with a track record of building experiences that balance user needs, business outcomes, and technical constraints
• Strong data fluency, including comfort using metrics, experimentation, and performance analysis to make high-stakes product decisions
• Experience leading and growing a product team, including hiring, developing, and managing performance of senior ICs
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and serve as the product point of contact for a complex, business-critical domain
• Familiarity with and passion for the Grindr product and user experience

Desirable

• The Director of Ads Product owns the product vision and roadmap for Grindr's advertising business
• It's one of the most compelling opportunities in consumer tech today
• Grindr reaches one of the most engaged and hard-to-reach audiences on the internet, and advertising is already a proven, high-margin line of business for us
• We've validated the opportunity
• Now we're ready to invest in it for the long-term — with real engineering investment, a dedicated product team, and a long-term commitment to becoming a world-class ad platform
• This is a rare chance to set the strategy, build the team, and define what great looks like for an advertising business that serves the GBT community and our growth goals
• The person who joins here will be building something that matters — for Grindr, for our users, and for the advertisers who want to reach them
• At Grindr, we operate in Grindr Mode
• Moderately hardcore day to day, truly hardcore when it counts
• It’s about doing great work without burning out
• Outcomes over outputs
• Smart, driven people who raise your bar, with room to live full lives
• Define and own Grindr's advertising product strategy and roadmap - spanning programmatic infrastructure, rewarded ads, high-value ad formats, self-serve and direct ad platforms, delivery systems, and measurement - and translate that strategy into sequenced bets that drive measurable revenue growth without compromising user trust or product quality
• Partner closely with engineering, data science, and go-to-market teams to ship ad products that are best-in-class for advertisers and so seamlessly integrated that they enhance - not interrupt - the Grindr experience
• Build and scale Grindr's rewarded ads portfolio, identifying where ads can create genuine value for users and where existing experiences need to be improved, reduced, or rethought
• Lead a small, high-caliber ads PM team, setting the hiring bar, developing talent, and building a culture of accountability and craft
• Drive the evolution of Grindr's ad tech stack - diagnosing supply quality issues, optimizing publisher-side ad logic, and making build vs. buy decisions that set the team up for long-term scale
• Use data, experimentation, and market insight to evaluate ads performance, diagnose issues, and identify opportunities that directly move Grindr's bottom line
• Partner closely with Ad Sales and Finance teams to deliver financial targets for a public company