Lead Product Manager, Hinge
New User Experience
$207-254k
3 days a week in office
Dating app for meaningful relationships
Job no longer available
Dating app for meaningful relationships
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$207-254k
3 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To create a less lonely world by inspiring intimate, in-person connections.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of product management experience in consumer tech, ideally in personalization or social connection products. Bonus if you have experience working on cold-start problems
- Proven record of 0–1 discovery and launches that drove measurable outcomes
- Experience working with Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence-powered systems to improve user experiences
- Strength in hypothesis-driven experimentation and comfort making decisions with incomplete data
- Ability to lead complex, multi-quarter initiatives with clarity, momentum, and alignment
- Strong intuition for user experience, storytelling, and emotional design
- Excellent communication and influencing skills. Ability to bring clarity and alignment to ambiguous spaces and across teams to drive impact at scale
- Curiosity about culture and how people form connections today
- Genuine excitement for Hinge’s mission to help people meet meaningfully
What the job involves
- As Lead Product Manager, Dating Outcomes, you’ll shape how Hinge helps people see and feel progress in their dating lives—from first impressions to ongoing connections
- You’ll guide how we design experiences that adapt intelligently to each person, creating trust and momentum across every stage of their journey
- You'll partner closely with our Growth, Trust and Safety, and Recommendations teams to help address some of Hinge’s greatest challenges, like how to make the first few recommendations feel relevant before the system has much to go on or how to make the dating journey feel rewarding and focused
- Build the long term strategy and roadmap for how Hinge improves dating outcomes through personalization, feedback loops, and thoughtful design
- Lead discovery and rapid experimentation across key moments in the dating journey
- Partner with design, research, data science, and engineering to to identify high-impact opportunities that improve the quality and success of dater experiences
- Translate insights from data and qualitative research into clear hypotheses and a focused roadmap
- Work closely with engineering to deliver scalable, measurable improvements in user outcomes
- Communicate priorities and tradeoffs clearly across teams and leadership
- Collaborate with Marketing, Trust and Safety, and other cross-functional partners to ensure a cohesive and trustworthy experience that reinforces Hinge’s mission and business
- Coach and mentor other PMs on structured discovery, decision-making, and hypothesis-led development
Our take
Hinge is a dating app that stands out by prioritizing meaningful relationships over casual hookups. Designed for people seeking long-term commitments, it moves away from the typical "swipe" approach popularized by apps like Tinder. Instead, Hinge emphasizes detailed profiles and compatibility-based recommendations so users can make deeper, more genuine connections.
Back in 2019, half of single people in the US had never tried a dating app. Fast forward to today, and online dating is just part of the norm. Hinge has carved out its place in this market by focusing on long-term meaningful relationships and is certainly meeting the growing demand for companionship while riding the wave of the online dating trend.
The "dating app designed to be deleted" is the fastest-growing dating app on the market and with online dating becoming the mainstream, Hinge looks pretty set to stay at the top.
Freddie
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
- Hybrid and Remote Work: If you're hybrid, you'll come in three times a week. We host our biweekly All-Hands meetings on Wednesdays (often with sweet treats).
- Dating: Experience what our users experience. All US-based Hinge employees receive a $100 monthly stipend for epic dates. Hinge Premium is also free for all employees and their loved ones.
- Retirement Benefits: We match 100% of the first 10% of pre-tax 401(k) contributions you make, up to a maximum of $10,000 per year.
- Health Insurance: high-quality medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family.
- Paid Time Off: 20 accruable vacation days annually. Plus 1 floating holiday, 10 wellness days, 1 community service day, and a generous company holiday calendar. PTO increases with tenure after 2 years with the company.
- Parental Leave & Planning: When you become a new parent, you’re eligible for 100% paid parental leave (20 paid weeks for both birth and non-birth parents). We also subsidize fertility care and preservation services.
- Wellness: We subsidize OneMedical, ClassPass, and CitiBike memberships. You and your dependents also have access to individual therapy, group therapy, and coaching services through Modern Health.
- Professional Growth: receive a $3,000 annual Learning & Development stipend after three months, along with free access to Udemy, an online marketplace with over 6,000 courses, starting on your first day.
- Meals: Receive a $30 weekly Seamless credit. In the NYC office, we offer plenty of options for snacks and drinks. Plus, free catered lunches in the office Tuesday through Thursday. In-office lunch varies by location.
- Community Service: We match charitable donations dollar for dollar to a maximum of $15,000 per employee, and give every US-based employee 1 day off for community service annually.
- Commuting: Every US-based hybrid employee gets a $125 monthly commuter subsidy to use for public transportation, parking, bike maintenance and storage, and more.
- Pets: Feel free to bring your best friend to work with you to the NYC office. For US-based employees, we’ll provide pet insurance for your furry family members, too.
- Legal Coverage: You’ll receive low cost access to legal coverage that covers custody and support matters, divorce, real estate and home ownership, tenancy issues, tax issues, wills and estate planning, and more.
- Fertility Support: You’ll get easy access to fertility care through Carrot, from basic treatments to fertility preservation. We also provide $10,000 toward fertility preservation. You and your spouse/domestic partner are both eligible.
Company HQ
West Village, New York, NY
Leadership
Jackie Jantos
(CEO)Previously Advisor at Dashlane, VP of Global & Creative at Spotify, Global Creative & Content Director at Coca Cola and was a Partner at Ogilvy & Mather.
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