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Match Group

Global dating platforms with subscription model

Staff Product Manager

Full-Time
CA$160k - CA$185k/yr+ RRSP matching + Employee stock purchase plan
Senior, Expert
Vancouver, BC, Canada
HybridThree days on-site per week required.
ProductTechnical Product Management

About the job

Requirements
  • At least 8 years of product management experience with ownership of complex, technical, cross-functional products at Staff, Lead, or equivalent scope.
  • Proven ability to build shared services, data products, application programming interfaces, or platform capabilities used by multiple internal customers, business units, or brands.
  • Experience in Trust & Safety, fraud, abuse detection, identity, authenticity, compliance tooling, machine learning or data platforms, or risk systems is preferred.
  • Technical fluency with data infrastructure, application programming interfaces, machine learning models, signals, risk scoring, data quality, observability, and platform architecture concepts.
  • Ability to identify practical artificial intelligence use cases, evaluate artificial-intelligence-supported product opportunities, and partner with technical teams to build responsible, measurable artificial-intelligence-enabled capabilities.
  • Ability to set a clear long-term vision while driving near-term delivery, adoption, and measurable business outcomes.
  • Ability to influence without direct authority across engineering, data science, operations, compliance, legal, brand product teams, and senior stakeholders.
  • Experience running discovery with internal customers, translating user and operational needs into product strategy, and building products that teams actively adopt.
  • Ability to define success metrics, analyze performance, evaluate tradeoffs, and communicate product impact through data.
  • Ability to create durable product operating models, including intake, prioritization, roadmap planning, documentation, launch readiness, adoption tracking, and ongoing performance monitoring.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to simplify complex technical topics for executive, operational, and brand audiences.
Responsibilities
  • Define and execute the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Match Group’s Signals Platform.
  • Build a portfolio-wide platform that standardizes, governs, and distributes behavioral, identity, trust, safety, and enforcement signals.
  • Create application programming interfaces, frameworks, data products, and adoption patterns that enable brands and central teams to discover, trust, integrate, and use signals.
  • Partner with engineering and data science to evaluate signal quality, reliability, performance, drift, and business impact.
  • Establish success metrics for the Signals Platform, including adoption, signal usage, fraud and abuse reduction, enforcement quality, operational efficiency, user quality, and monthly active user impact.
  • Identify opportunities to use artificial intelligence and machine learning to improve signal discovery, signal quality, anomaly detection, risk scoring, and decision support.
  • Drive prioritization across competing signal needs while balancing brand-specific flexibility with portfolio-wide consistency and governance.
  • Partner with engineering, data science, Trust & Safety, compliance, operations, and brand identity teams to define the platform vision, prioritize investments, drive adoption, and ensure signals are governed, measurable, and scalable across the portfolio.
Desired Qualifications
  • Background in Trust & Safety, fraud, abuse detection, identity, authenticity, compliance tooling, machine learning or data platforms, or risk systems.

About the company

Match Group runs a family of online dating and social-discovery services. It operates a B2C model built on freemium access, with premium subscriptions and in-app purchases that unlock features like better visibility, advanced search filters, and unlimited interactions, plus an advertising channel. Its apps use a swipe-style interface and real-time, location-based discovery, supported by proprietary matchmaking algorithms and a closed-loop data ecosystem to improve experiences across brands. It emphasizes safety tools such as Face Check. The company differentiates itself by owning a large portfolio of brands (including Tinder, Hinge, and Match) and leveraging cross-brand data and technology to optimize experiences, expand into new markets, and acquire emerging platforms. Its goal is to help people form romantic relationships, friendships, and social connections at a global scale while generating recurring revenue through subscriptions and ads.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Dallas, Texas

Founded

1986

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What believers are saying

  • August 4, 2026: Match reported $853 million revenue and 39% EBITDA margin.
  • Tinder engagement improved in September 2026, with DAU declines narrowing to 1%.
  • Hinge entered six European and four Latin American markets, accelerating monetization.

What critics are saying

  • Tinder payers fell 5% to 8.5 million in Q2 2026, crushing growth.
  • FTC actions in March and August 2026 target OkCupid privacy and Match billing.
  • If Tinder monetization stays weak through 2027, Hinge cannot offset Match's decline.

What makes Match Group unique

  • Tinder, Hinge, and Match reach 200-plus countries through localized, subscription-led brands.
  • Hinge's intentional dating model outgrows Tinder, with Q2 2026 revenue up 22%.
  • Face Check and Events combine safety verification with offline discovery across Tinder and Hinge.

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Benefits

  • Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance
  • Charitable Matching Program
  • Retirement Matching Funds
  • Training and Education Allowance
  • Performance Bonuses
  • Mental Health Counseling

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

22%

1 year growth

22%

2 year growth

22%
Yahoo Finance
Sep 9th, 2026
Match CEO warns AI chatbot relationships could worsen loneliness epidemic

Match Group CEO Spencer Rascoff warns that AI chatbot relationships could exacerbate the loneliness epidemic, calling such interactions "dystopian". Speaking at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia & Tech Conference, Rascoff said the company aims to counter this trend by focusing on genuine human connection. The CEO has pushed Match into live events and improved Tinder's user experience to emphasise quality engagement. These efforts have brought the company close to delivering daily active user growth after several quarters of decline. Match reported mixed second-quarter results, with sales up 1% year-on-year. Adjusted operating profits rose 14%, whilst Hinge grew 22%. Match stock is up 26% year-to-date.

Yahoo Finance
Aug 14th, 2026
Match Group director sells 20,030 shares for $737K, reducing stake by 27%

Glenn Schiffman, a director at Match Group, sold 20,030 shares for approximately $737,000 on 11 August 2026. The transaction involved exercising options at $24.45 per share and selling at a weighted average price of $36.78 per share. The sale reduced Schiffman's direct ownership by 27%, leaving him with 59,340 shares valued at $2.18 million based on the closing price that day. He continues to hold 53,760 derivative securities. Match Group operates dating platforms including Tinder, Hinge, and Match. The company has a market capitalisation of $8.4 billion and reported trailing twelve-month revenue of $3.5 billion. At the time of the transaction, the stock had delivered a 3% return over the previous year.

Fortune
Aug 14th, 2026
Dating apps pivot from endless swiping to real-life events as Gen Z drives user decline

Major dating apps are pivoting away from the swiping model that built their businesses as user numbers decline and Gen Z seeks more meaningful connections. Match Group, which owns Tinder and Hinge, saw paying users drop 6% to 13.3 million in the second quarter, whilst Bumble's paying users fell 16.4% to 3.2 million. Global dating app downloads have declined for six consecutive years since peaking in 2019. Both companies are now emphasising quality over quantity. Tinder has expanded its Events feature to 10 cities, showing users local activities they can attend together. Bumble has eliminated its signature requirement that women message first and is testing a standalone app for curated in-person events. Hinge, which has long focused on conversation prompts rather than swiping, grew revenue 22% to $203.5 million last quarter, suggesting the strategy may work.

Yahoo Finance
Aug 13th, 2026
Match Group (NASDAQ:MTCH) down 10.5% after Q2 revenue drops 1.2% to $853M

Match Group reported Q2 revenues of $853.1 million, down 1.2% year-on-year, meeting analyst expectations. The quarter delivered mixed results, with EBITDA guidance exceeding expectations but user numbers declining to 13.3 million, down 5.7% year-on-year. CEO Spencer Rascoff highlighted improvements to Tinder, including enhanced recommendation algorithms, new features like Double Date and Music Mode, and the app's first rebrand in nearly a decade. The company is focusing on re-engaging lapsed users and attracting new ones through in-person events now available in the US and Europe. Match Group's shares fell 10.5% following the results, currently trading at $36.91. The company delivered the weakest performance against analyst estimates amongst consumer subscription stocks tracked in Q2.

Yahoo Finance
Aug 13th, 2026
Match Group Q2 earnings miss analyst expectations despite product improvements at Tinder

Match Group reported mixed second-quarter results, with revenue of $853.1 million falling slightly short of analyst expectations. The company missed adjusted earnings per share estimates at $0.91 versus $0.96 expected, though adjusted EBITDA of $331.3 million beat forecasts. CEO Bernard Rascoff attributed the performance to continued declines in monthly active users, particularly at Tinder, though engagement metrics like daily active users showed improvement. The company's payer count fell by 800,000 year-on-year to 13.3 million. Despite challenges, Match Group provided guidance for third-quarter revenue of $890 million and EBITDA of $332.5 million, both meeting or exceeding analyst expectations. Operating margin improved to 28.8%, up from 22.5% the previous year. Management discussed product enhancements and new features, including events and reimagined user profiles, aimed at improving engagement and attracting new users.