Senior Staff Product Manager, Ads

Senior Staff Product Manager, Ads

Grindr is an AI-native platform powering how millions of gay people connect globally. With 15M+ monthly users, 130B+ annual messages, and a team of fewer than 200, we move fast, stay lean, and tackle technical problems at a scale few companies ever see.

Grindr's ads business is growing, and there's significantly more runway ahead. The Ads team is responsible for scaling an ad product that can become one of the most meaningful revenue drivers for the business without compromising the experience that keeps 15M+ users coming back. As Senior Staff PM, Ads, you'll own the strategy, roadmap, and execution across ad experiences, rewarded ads, and the systems behind them. This isn't a maintenance role. It's a build role for someone who wants to define what ads at Grindr becomes next.

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.

This is a hybrid role based in our San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, or Chicago office and will require you to be in person Tuesdays and Thursdays.

About the Job

• Own the product strategy and roadmap for Grindr's consumer ads business, with a focus on building ads experiences that improve monetization without compromising user trust or product quality.
• Serve as the product SME and primary product partner for ads, working closely with Engineering, Design, Data, Ads Sales, and senior leadership to define priorities and drive execution.
• Build and scale a stronger rewarded ads portfolio, identifying where ads can create value for users and where existing experiences need to be improved, reduced, or rethought.
• Translate business goals, advertiser needs, and user experience signals into clear product bets, sequencing, and success metrics.
• Partner with technical teams on ads platform, ad formats, delivery systems, and measurement with working familiarity with programmatic advertising, mobile ad mediation, and the broader ad delivery ecosystem.
• Use data, experimentation, and market insight to evaluate ads performance, diagnose issues, and identify opportunities that directly impact Grindr's bottom line.
• Diagnose supply quality issues and optimize publisher-side ad logic, with the ability to design and test novel monetization approaches on top of existing mediation infrastructure.

Role Requirements

• 8+ years of Product Management experience, including meaningful ownership of consumer-facing ads, ads monetization, rewarded ads, or adjacent monetization products.
• Strong consumer product judgment, with a track record of building experiences that balance user needs, business outcomes, and technical constraints.
• Experience partnering with technical teams on ads platforms, ad formats, measurement, delivery, or monetization infrastructure.
• Demonstrated ability to define strategy, build roadmaps, and execute through ambiguity as a senior IC across multiple cross-functional partners.
• Strong data fluency, including comfort using metrics, experimentation, and performance analysis to make product decisions.
• Experience influencing senior stakeholders and operating as the product point of contact for a complex, business-critical domain.

You May Thrive in this Role if You:

• Are AI-native or rapidly becoming so - you actively use AI tools in your workflow and are always looking for new ways to leverage them.
• Have built or scaled ads products at a consumer company where user experience, marketplace dynamics, and revenue outcomes all mattered.
• Have experience with rewarded ads, self-serve ads, third-party advertiser workflows, or ads products that connect advertiser demand to consumer-facing product surfaces.
• Are energized by being the person who turns a messy, high-impact business area into a clear product strategy with a real execution path.

Benefits and Perks

• Health, Dental & Vision Full premium coverage for you. Partial coverage for dependents.
• Family Formation Up to $300,000 in fertility and family-building support, covering IVF, surrogacy, egg freezing, and adoption.
• Retirement: 401(k) with 6% match and immediate vesting.
• Compensation Industry-competitive compensation, company bonus, and equity for every employee.
• Gender-Affirming Care Industry-leading gender-affirming offerings with up to 90% cost coverage, access to Included Health, monthly stipends for HRT, and more.
• Time Off & Rest Flexible vacation policy. Two company-wide rest weeks per year.
• Other Benefits Monthly stipends for cell phone, internet, wellness, food, and commuting, breakfast/lunch

Grindr is building the Global Gayborhood in your Pocket. With more than 15 million monthly active users, Grindr has become a fundamental part of the gay community and is charting a path to make the world more free, equal, and just.

As a public company, we're moving into the next chapter: becoming an AI-native organization that's redefining what's possible for our community. We're embedding AI into our product and operations, moving with startup speed while operating at scale.

Everything we do is rooted in impact for our users and outcomes for the business. This isn't social work, it's impact through excellence. Business success is what gives us the power to serve our community and the seat at tables others can't reach. How we work is defined by Grindr Mode, our operating model that's moderately hardcore day-to-day and truly hardcore when it counts. We think like owners, drive real outcomes, create clarity through action, and push each other to go further than we thought possible.

We're headquartered in West Hollywood with offices in the Bay Area, Chicago, and New York. Our work extends beyond the product through Grindr for Equality, our nonprofit that's partnered with 100+ community organizations globally to advance safety, health, and human rights for LGBTQ+ people worldwide.

We're profitable, growing, and building a team of smart, driven people who bring different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives to the work. Want to build technology at a massive scale that serves millions? Come join us!

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