Lead PM — Product Innovation
Company websitenewsbreak.com (NewsBreak, opens in new tab)
Base salary $200K to $300K
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 (2 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
Why this role exists
Growth today comes primarily from recommendation-algorithm tuning and paid acquisition. A product-driven growth curve does not yet exist. This role turns “where is the next curve?” from an open question into a series of hypotheses that can be validated — or disproven — quickly.
What you'll own
- AI-native product formats
- New ways people consume local information
- New direction validation on Scoopz
- Turning vague directions into falsifiable hypotheses, then testing them fast
- Handing validated directions to the Senior PM to scale
- Not local vertical framework build-out — a separate team owns that; the boundary is explicit
What we're looking for
- 8+ years in consumer product, including 3+ in 0→1 or new-direction work
- A concrete story where data overturned your own judgment
- A track record of killing a direction yourself, with clear reasoning
- Strong analytics: you pull your own data, design experiments, read results
- You instinctively ask “how do users solve this today?” and “what's the switching cost?”
- Industry open. Consumer high-frequency products preferred (content, social, local, utility)
- AI product experience not required — the methods transfer, and requiring it only shrinks the pool
First 90 days
- Form and prioritize 3–5 testable direction hypotheses
- Reach a conclusion — validated or disproven — on at least one
- Establish the process: how hypotheses get proposed, tested, and killed
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
$200,000—$300,000 USD
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Pay in context
This role's base floor ($200,000) is above 68% of the 936 Product roles in California listed on this site; 49 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 listingLead 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
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, User Signal & Ads$185K to $235K
Head of Growth & Go-to-Market$180K to $340K
Head of Content & Supply$180K to $240K
Chart as a table
| Role | Published base |
|---|---|
| Lead PM — Product Innovation (this listing) | $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 |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer, User Signal & Ads | $185K - $235K |
| Head of Growth & Go-to-Market | $180K - $340K |
| Head of Content & Supply | $180K - $240K |
Observed changes
- Began meeting the published-salary criteria
- First observed on the employer's board
- Observed since
- Employer-stated posting date
- 2026-08-04
Where this pay comes from
Location as the employer wrote it: Mountain View, California, United States
USD 200,000 – 300,000 · interval unstated · pay_input_range · Annual Base Pay Range
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