Senior Product Lead

Ground News

$90K — $130K *
US-AnywhereRemote in Canada
Media
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of product management experience in user-centric consumer products.
  • Proven track record in subscription or B2C products, focusing on engagement and retention.
  • Exceptional product taste with an eye for intuitive user experiences.
  • Strong analytical and experimentation skills for data-driven decision making.
  • Technical background or ability to collaborate with engineering and ML teams.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, especially with senior leaders.
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment.

Responsibilities

  • Define and own the ideation, development, and launch of key product features.
  • Translate complex data signals into user-friendly experiences.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive subscriber growth and retention.
  • Analyze metrics and user feedback to enhance product performance.
  • Use data and user research to inform decision-making and prioritize initiatives.
  • Maintain high standards for quality in the news-consumption experience.
  • Deliver impactful updates with a balance of speed and user trust.

Benefits

  • Competitive total rewards including market-benchmarked salary.
  • Remote-first environment allowing work from anywhere in Canada.
  • Comprehensive health and wellness benefits for you and your family.
  • Access to professional development opportunities.
  • Join a mission-driven team focused on building impactful products.
Full Job Description
The Opportunity:

Our team is a group of critical thinkers building the category-defining platform for news literacy, with a fast-growing global audience across iOS, Android, and web. Our subscribers come to us to read past the headline and understand how stories are actually being covered.

As a Senior Product Lead, you'll own core parts of the Ground News experience: how people discover and navigate coverage, how our bias, factuality, and source-intelligence signals show up in the product, and how the everyday reading experience turns curious readers into loyal subscribers.

This is a high-ownership role for a consumer product leader who thinks in terms of engagement, conversion, and retention as much as craft. You'll report to the Head of Product, partner closely with our founders to keep us pointed at what matters most; and work alongside a cross-functional team of engineers, designers, ML practitioners, and analysts.

What You'll Do:

  • Partner with the Head of Product to shape direction, then own the ideation, development, and launch of features that help people understand the news across perspectives.
  • Translate bias, factuality, and source-intelligence signals into simple, intuitive experiences that a broad consumer audience can understand and trust.
  • Partner with Marketing, Analytics, and Customer Success to drive subscriber growth and retention, with an eye to turning the everyday reading experience into sustainable reasons to upgrade and stay.
  • Analyze product metrics and user feedback to identify opportunities and optimize product performance.
  • Use a mix of quantitative data, experimentation, and user research to surface user behavior insights and make prioritization calls.
  • Set a high bar for quality and craft across the news-consumption experience.
  • Ship high-impact improvements at an effective cadence, balancing rapid iteration with our commitment to even-handedness and subscriber trust.


What You'll Bring:

  • 7+ years of product management experience, majority in user-centric consumer products with large, engaged user bases.
  • A track record in subscription or B2C products; analyzing conversion, retention, and engagement metrics, and growing usage across mobile and web.
  • Exceptional product taste and an intuition for what makes an experience both delightful and trustworthy.
  • Strong analytical thinking and experimentation fluency.
  • A technical background, or a proven ability to work effectively with engineering and ML teams.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management, including with founders and senior leaders.
  • The ability to thrive in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment, and bring structure to it.
  • Genuine interest in media literacy and the information ecosystem.


Bonus Points:

  • Experience with personalization or habit-forming products with an interest in shaping habits that make people better informed.
  • Familiarity with structured content systems like knowledge graphs, entity models, or organizing real-time information into coherent stories.
  • Experience helping optimize acquisition funnels and conversion flows.


What you'll enjoy at Ground News:

Competitive total rewards: A market-benchmarked base salary, calibrated to your location.

Remote-first environment: Work from anywhere in Canada, on your own time zone plus enjoy in-person meetups and team gatherings.

Health & Wellness that matter: Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance coverage for you and your family.

Keep growing: Access to professional development opportunities to keep expanding your skills and career.

Mission-driven team: Join a group of smart, dedicated people who are building meaningful products with real-world impact.

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