Founding Product Director, NDot AI
Company websitenewsbreak.com (NewsBreak, opens in new tab)
Base salary $235K to $345K
Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in Mountain View, CA
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- LocationMountain View, CA
- WorkplaceWorkplace not stated
- Status at last checkSource accepting applications when checked
- Last checked (3 h ago) · observed since
About this job
About NewsBreak
Local life runs on local information. What happened down the street? Who can fix this? Where should we go tonight? NewsBreak started in 2015 to answer these questions, and today more than 40 million people a month rely on us to follow what’s going on in their zip code.
Three platforms with one vision: powering local life. Led by founder and CEO Jeff Zheng, NewsBreak is our local life and news platform; Nearby AI connects people with local businesses; and NDot AI helps publishers and creators grow and earn.
Building for the long term. A $115 million Series C made us a unicorn in 2021, and we keep investing in our people. We’re Great Place to Work® certified and named to Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators (2025) and Fortune’s Best Workplaces in the Bay Area™ (2026).
Everyone makes an impact. Whether you write code, shape products, tell our story, or run the business, we want people who own projects end to end, stay curious, and speak up. Join us.
Learn more at: NewsBreak, Nearby AI, NDot AI
About NDot AI
Build the owned-audience growth infrastructure for the future of media.
About the Role
We're looking for a 0→1 product leader to own the NDot product roadmap and the publisher experience end to end. This is a highly customer-facing role: you'll spend real time in publisher meetings, work side-by-side with engineers on product and technical tradeoffs, and make the call on which customer requests should become reusable platform capabilities versus one-off custom work.
You'll be building reusable platform capabilities that can ultimately serve publishers and adjacent digital content businesses (e.g., short dramas), while sequencing that expansion deliberately rather than chasing every vertical at once.
What You'll Do
- Run structured discovery with publishers to build a clear, evidence-based view of their priority needs, and translate that into a focused product roadmap.
- Ship visible improvements to the publisher portal and publisher experience (reporting, insights, and beyond).
- Define the minimum product and integration required for lighthouse customers, and establish clear success metrics for each.
- Work directly with engineering on architecture, APIs, data, and integrations — you'll need enough technical depth to be a real thought partner, not just a requirements-writer.
- Build a repeatable loop from customer feedback → prioritization → launch → measurement, and use it to productize the most valuable recurring needs across onboarding, analytics, engagement/growth, and integrations.
- Design the platform so proven capabilities can extend to adjacent verticals without fragmenting the roadmap.
What We're Looking For
Must have
- Strong customer discovery, product strategy, and prioritization skills, with real analytics chops and technical fluency across APIs, data, and integrations.
- Strong customer empathy and judgment; a structured thinker with a bias for action who's comfortable with ambiguity and can separate scalable product needs from bespoke requests.
- Senior-level PM experience, including having built a 0→1 B2B/platform product and worked directly with customers and small engineering teams.
Nice to have
- Experience with recommendation/personalization, growth, monetization, or AI products.
- Strong commercial instinct and executive presence.
- Background in publisher/media tech, adtech, or consumer-growth, or experience productizing internal technology for external customers.
Why Join
- Build the product foundation for a new AI-native B2B platform, with significant ownership over what NDot becomes.
- Turn NewsBreak's capabilities in recommendation, growth, monetization, and AI agents into scalable products — first for publishers, and ultimately for a broader set of digital content businesses.
- Work directly with customers and a small, high-leverage engineering team to turn real needs into repeatable products.
Benefits
We offer a competitive benefits package:
- Health, dental, and vision care for you and your family (100% coverage for employee)
- Top-tier 401(K) plan with company matching
- Paid time off and paid holidays
- FSA, HSA and commuter benefits programs
- Team activity budget
The US base salary range for this full-time position is listed below. Pay may vary based on a number of factors including job-related skills, level, experience, geographic location and relevant education or training. At NewsBreak, we design our overall rewards package to attract top talents. Depending on the position, the role may also be eligible for discretionary bonus and options. Your recruiter can share more details during the hiring process.
Annual Base Pay Range
$235,000—$345,000 USD
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Pay in context
This role's base floor ($235,000) is above 87% of the 936 Product roles in California listed on this site; 3 others list the same floor. Their median floor is $176,800; the middle half runs from $150,225 to $205,154.
Only jobs on this site count, and each one publishes a base salary of $100,000 or more, so this compares six-figure jobs with each other, not with the whole market. Computed Nov 8, 2026.
This listingFounding Product Director, NDot AI$235K to $345K
Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Recommendation & AI Platform$230K to $300K
Senior Director, Head of Growth — NewsBreak Ads$250K to $400K
Lead PM — Product Innovation$200K to $300K
Senior PM — Core Experience$200K to $300K
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Recommendation & AI Applications$195K to $230K
Machine Learning Engineer, Local Search & Marketplace$190K to $300K
Chart as a table
| Role | Published base |
|---|---|
| Founding Product Director, NDot AI (this listing) | $235K - $345K |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Recommendation & AI Platform | $230K - $300K |
| Senior Director, Head of Growth — NewsBreak Ads | $250K - $400K |
| Lead PM — Product Innovation | $200K - $300K |
| Senior PM — Core Experience | $200K - $300K |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Recommendation & AI Applications | $195K - $230K |
| Machine Learning Engineer, Local Search & Marketplace | $190K - $300K |
Observed changes
- Began meeting the published-salary criteria
- First observed on the employer's board
- Observed since
- Employer-stated posting date
- 2026-09-17
Where this pay comes from
Location as the employer wrote it: Mountain View, California, United States
USD 235,000 – 345,000 · interval unstated · pay_input_range · Annual Base Pay Range
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