Technical Product Director

Job Title: Founding Technical Product Manager - Social & News App Specialist About Trippy: At Trippy, we're revolutionizing how people discover, consume, and engage with news and social content. Our platform combines the immediacy of a social app with the depth and trustworthiness of a news app, delivering a fast, visually intuitive, and highly engaging experience. As our Founding Technical Product Manager, you'll take the lead in bringing this vision to life, leveraging your prior success in building and scaling similar apps. About the Role: This isn't a role for someone figuring things out-it's for a seasoned expert who has already been in the trenches, successfully managing the development of social or news platforms. You'll bring your battle-tested expertise, ready to execute from day one, building a world-class product that resonates with users and scales seamlessly. What You'll Do: • Strategic Ownership: Define and execute the product vision, roadmap, and strategy, leveraging your prior experience to avoid pitfalls and fast-track success. • Execution Excellence: Drive the end-to-end product development lifecycle with precision-translating user needs into functional requirements, prioritizing features, and ensuring timely, high-quality delivery. • User Engagement: Apply your deep understanding of what drives user engagement in social or news apps, creating features that foster community, stickiness, and daily active use. • Social-First Innovation: Build features that drive sharing, virality, and network effects, leveraging your prior experience with social platforms. • Data-Driven Decisions: Use analytics, A/B testing, and user feedback to refine features, optimize performance, and ensure the product evolves to meet market demands. • Cross-Functional Leadership: Collaborate seamlessly with engineering, design, and marketing teams to deliver a cohesive, scalable product experience. • Go-to-Market Expertise: Work closely with marketing and growth teams to craft launch strategies that drive adoption and engagement, ensuring a successful product-market fit. • Scalability and Resilience: Plan for scale by applying your expertise in managing growth in similar app ecosystems, ensuring the product can handle millions of users without compromising performance. Who You Are: • Experienced Builder: You've led product management for at least one successful social or news app, ideally taking it from early stages to scale. • Proven Success: You have a track record of delivering products with high user engagement and retention metrics, and you understand what drives growth in social ecosystems. • Strategic and Tactical: You can zoom out to define strategy while also diving into the details to solve execution challenges. • Data-Driven Decision Maker: You have a strong understanding of analytics tools and data-driven product iteration. • Deep Domain Knowledge: You understand the nuances of social platforms and news delivery-how people consume content, share it, and build habits around it. • Agile Expert: You're experienced in Agile methodologies, ensuring iterative development cycles deliver tangible results quickly. • Visionary Leader: You're excited to shape a product that combines the best of social interaction with news delivery and have the leadership skills to inspire a cross-functional team. What You've Done: • Built and launched a successful social app or news platform with measurable user engagement and growth. • Developed and scaled product features that enhance user interaction, foster community, and encourage sharing. • Worked with real-time content systems and ensured high-quality performance for user-generated and curated content. • Managed a product through significant growth, adapting to challenges like scalability, reliability, and evolving user needs. • Designed social graph features, engagement mechanics, and viral loops that encourage retention and sharing. Why Join Trippy? This is your opportunity to shape a groundbreaking product and make a lasting impact on how people engage with social and news content. As a founding team member, you'll have: • Ownership: Significant equity, making you an owner in Trippy's success. • Impact: The chance to directly influence the product's success, working alongside a passionate team that's redefining the news and social app space. • Legacy: The opportunity to build something innovative that changes how people discover and interact with information. Is This You? If you've built and scaled a social or news app before, understand the intricacies of user engagement, and are ready to hit the ground running, we want to hear from you. Apply tot his job