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Staff Product Manager

Location
San Francisco, California
Department
Product
Job Type
Full Time
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Our Mission:

Launched in 2012, Tinder® revolutionized how people meet, growing from 1 match to one billion matches in just two years. This rapid growth demonstrates its ability to fulfill a fundamental human need: real connection. Today, the app has been downloaded over 630 million times, leading to over 97 billion matches, serving approximately 50 million users per month in 190 countries and 45+ languages - a scale unmatched by any other app in the category. In 2024, Tinder won four Effie Awards for its first-ever global brand campaign, “It Starts with a Swipe”™

Our Values:

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One Team, One Dream

We work hand-in-hand, building Tinder for our members. We succeed together when we work collaboratively across functions, teams, and time zones, and think outside the box to achieve our company vision and mission.

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Own It

We take accountability and strive to make a positive impact in all aspects of our business, through ownership, innovation, and a commitment to excellence.

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Never Stop Learning

We cultivate a culture where it’s safe to take risks. We seek out input, share honest feedback, celebrate our wins, and learn from our mistakes in order to continue improving.

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Spark Solutions

We’re problem solvers, focusing on how to best move forward when faced with obstacles. We don’t dwell on the past or on the issues at hand, but instead look at how to stay agile and overcome hurdles to achieve our goals.

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Embrace Our Differences

We are intentional about building a workplace that reflects the rich diversity of our members. By leveraging different perspectives and other ways of thinking, we build better experiences for our members and our team.

The Role:

As a Staff Product Manager on Product Tools, you will join an experienced team of Product leaders within the Tools & Data Pillar at Tinder and report directly to the Director of Product Management. We enable teams to deliver quality experiences faster for our Tinder members. Our goal is to maximize Tinder’s ability to innovate by creating a frictionless, sustainable experience for our product development teams. We do this by building best-in-class product tools and developer platforms. is a group of service-oriented, low-ego, and high-functioning multi-functional team of Product Managers, Engineers, Designers, and Analysts who want to make an outsize impact by turbocharging the efforts of every other product team in the company.

As a Staff PM, you’ll have the opportunity to drive our team's long-term strategy in how we build Product Tools to increase the velocity of the product, design, engineering, analytics, and marketing teams. You’ll do this by driving improvements to three of Tinder’s most important tools: our CRM/Growth platform, our Experimentation platform, and our Design System platform.  This is a rare opportunity to develop world-class tools that impact our hundreds of millions of users on a daily basis.

We are constantly increasing the speed at which the company operates by unlocking growth potential through our work on improving our world-class CRM, experimentation, and design system platform to drive meaningful business impact.  In this position, you will encounter large-scale data, personalization, and segmentation challenges while building cutting-edge communication & insights features that will impact every aspect of the user’s experience. 


Where you’ll work:

This is a hybrid role and requires in-office collaboration two days per week. This position is located in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and/or Palo Alto, CA.

In this role, you will:

  • Facilitate strategic product and tool planning for the consumer content tools; in particular, you’ll help lead the internal Product Tool team’s roadmap, priorities, experiments, and decisions across a broad spectrum of audiences. 
  • Drive strategies to set goals, success metrics, and roadmaps by aligning them with Tinder's mission to help drive maximum impact for our business while also aligning those goals with internal stakeholders for the tools.
  • Understand Tinder's business metrics that impact performance that are related to the tools you work on. You will guide the teams to develop a more profound product sense for what makes members more successful on Tinder. 
  • Work to better understand internal consumer user problems and opportunities to help build out better tools and features.  
  • Align the needs and priorities of features requested from teams to ensure proper vision and deliverability of the team given the resources available. 
  • Champion a balanced product development process that champions passion and team pride and incentivizes the right behaviors that ensure we reach our vision. 
  • Build an innovative and expansive culture that cultivates empowerment, growth, and collaboration.

You’ll need:

  • You have at least 7+ years of technical product management experience in a high-growth consumer tech company. 
  • Specific experience working on internal tools, Experimentation, CRM, or design system tooling at a company is highly desired for this role.  
  • A leader: You support your team so that they can implement; no task, either big or too small. You view your role as a manager as bringing out the best in others.  
  • An Innovator: You can abstract insights from qualitative and quantitative insights and make tough trade-offs to launch a successful MVP, and set the teams up for quick, data-driven iterations. 
  • The voice of the customer: You understand consumer behavior, user experience design, user research methods, and consumer product fundamentals and frameworks. 
  • The strategist: You know what other companies are doing in the market to help promote their product through their owned channels as well as other 3rd party tools available, and how and when to incorporate new channels & trends into what the team is working on. 
  • A Storyteller: You connect your team's work back to objectives that the Executive team prioritizes. 
  • Results-Oriented: Drive results from your teams' roadmaps that deliver value for our members and business.

Nice to have:

  • Experience with experimentation tools. 
  • Experience with CRM tools.  
  • Experience with design system tooling.  
  • Experience with developer tooling. 
  • Experience working with ML & AI engineering teams. 
  • Experience building internal tools or product tools. 
  • Experience with SQL or Python.

Salary Range:

$205,000
-
$235,000
a year

Factors such as scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/training, job-related skills, internal peer equity, as well as market and business considerations may influence base pay offered. This salary will be subject to a geographic adjustment (according to a specific city and state), if an authorization is granted to work outside of the location listed in this posting.

We don’t just

accept

difference, we

celebrate

it

We strive to build a workplace that reflects the rich diversity of our members around the world, and we value unique perspectives and backgrounds. Even if you don’t meet all the listed qualifications, we invite you to apply and show us how your skills could transfer. Tinder is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace where we welcome people of all sexes, gender identities, races, ethnicities, disabilities, and other lived experiences.

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If you require reasonable accommodation to complete a job application, pre-employment testing, or a job interview or to otherwise participate in the hiring process, please contact employeebenefits@matchgroup.com.

We don’t just

accept

difference, we

celebrate

it

We strive to build a workplace that reflects the rich diversity of our members around the world, and we value unique perspectives and backgrounds. Even if you don’t meet all the listed qualifications, we invite you to apply and show us how your skills could transfer. Tinder is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace where we welcome people of all sexes, gender identities, races, ethnicities, disabilities, and other lived experiences.

Learn more about inclusion at Tinder
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If you require reasonable accommodation to complete a job application, pre-employment testing, or a job interview or to otherwise participate in the hiring process, please speak to your Talent Acquisition Partner directly.

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What life is like on the

Product

team

"The openness of the leadership team in receiving feedback and taking action is commendable and the candour, clarity and action is one of the things that keep the spark alive."
Ron Kafesu
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Brand Director, EMEA

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Parental Leave

100% paid parental leave (including for non-birthing parents) and family forming benefits

Plan for the Future

100% 401(k) employer match up to 10%, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

Personal Growth

Mentorship through our MentorMatch program, access to 6,000+ online courses through Udemy, and an annual $3,000 stipend for your professional development

Give back

Time off to volunteer and charitable donations matched up to $15,000 annually

Investment in your wellness

Access to mental health support via Modern Health, paid concierge medical membership, pet insurance, fitness membership subsidy, and commuter subsidy

Unlimited PTO

With no waiting period and 10 annual wellness days

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