Lead Product Manager, New User Experience

Lead Product Manager, New User Experience

Hinge is the dating app designed to be deleted. In today's digital world, finding genuine relationships is tougher than ever. At Hinge, we're on a mission to inspire intimate connection to create a less lonely world. We're obsessed with understanding our users' behaviors to help them find love, and our success is defined by one simple metricsetting up great dates. With millions of users across the globe, we've become the most trusted way to find a relationship, for all.

About the Role :

Our mission is to help more people get on meaningful dates. Within that mission, the new user experience is where belief begins. We want new daters to see how Hinge can help them find meaningful connections, right from the start.

As Lead Product Manager, New User Experience, you'll shape how Hinge earns trust from day one. You'll design experiences that adapt and personalize quickly for different types of users, whether new to dating apps or returning to try helping each person see early proof that Hinge understands them.

You'll partner closely with our Growth, Trust and Safety, and Recommendations teams to solve cold-start challenges - how to make the first few recommendations feel relevant before the system has much to go on, and how to make the early experience feel rewarding and exciting.

Responsibilities

• Build the long term strategy and roadmap for how Hinge personalizes and accelerates belief in the new user journey
• Lead discovery and rapid experimentation across key moments in the early dating journey.
• Partner with design, research, data science, and engineering to explore how personalization and empathetic design can improve outcomes.
• Use data and user insights to guide decisions and shape a focused roadmap.
• Work closely with engineering to translate ideas into high-impact product solutions.
• Communicate priorities and tradeoffs clearly across teams and leadership.
• Collaborate across Hinge to ensure a cohesive, emotionally intelligent, trustworthy product experience.
• Partner with Marketing to align product and go-to-market strategies that attract and activate new users, including those new to dating apps.
• Coach and mentor other PMs on structured discovery, decision-making, and hypothesis-led development.

What We're Looking For

Studies show that some people, especially women and underrepresented groups, are less likely to apply unless they meet every qualification. If you're passionate about helping people find meaningful connection and think you'd excel in this role, we'd love to hear from you even if your experience doesn't align perfectly with every point.

$197,500 - $237,000 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 range is reflective of a position based in New York City. 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.

As a member of our team, you'll enjoy :

401(k) Matching : We match 100% of the first 10% of pre-tax 401(k) contributions you make, up to a maximum of $10,000 per year.

Professional Growth : Get an annual Learning & Development stipend once you've been with us for three months. You also get free access to Udemy, an online learning and teaching marketplace with over 6000 courses, starting your first day.

Parental Leave & Planning : When you become a new parent, you're eligible for 100% paid parental leave (20 paid weeks for both birth and non-birth parents.)

Fertility Support : You'll get easy access to fertility care through Carrot, from basic treatments to fertility preservation. We also provide a stipend towards fertility preservation. You and your spouse / domestic partner are both eligible.

Date Stipend : All Hinge employees receive a $100 monthly stipend for epic datesRomantic or otherwise. Hinge Premium is also free for employees and their loved ones.

ERGs : We have eight Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)Asian, Unapologetic, Disability, LGBTQIA+, Races, Women / Nonbinary, Parentsthat hold regular meetings, host events, and provide dedicated support to the organization & its community.

At Hinge, our core values are

Authenticity : We share, never hide, our words, actions and intentions.

Courage : We embrace lofty goals and tough challenges.

Empathy : We deeply consider the perspective of others.

Diversity inspires innovation

Hinge is an equal-opportunity employer. We value diversity at our company and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We believe success is created by a diverse workforce of individuals with different ideas, strengths, interests, and cultural backgrounds.