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Rewards Network

Pay-for-performance loyalty marketing for restaurants

B2C Product Manager

Full-Time
$120k - $140k/yr+ 10% annual bonus target
Senior
Bachelor's
Chicago, IL, USA
HybridIn-office presence Tuesday through Thursday each week in Chicago is required.
ProductProduct Management

About the job

Requirements
  • A bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Computer Science, or a related field.
  • At least 5 years of Product Management experience, including at least 5 years working on consumer-facing (B2C) digital products.
  • Demonstrated experience shipping features in mobile apps, mobile web, or web platforms.
  • Strong consumer empathy and the ability to translate behavioral and qualitative insights into product decisions.
  • A proven track record of driving consumer engagement, retention, or lifetime value through product changes.
  • Strong analytical skills and comfort with consumer funnels, cohort analysis, and A/B testing.
  • Familiarity with SQL or business intelligence tools and the ability to self-serve common data questions.
  • Experience leading cross-functional teams across engineering, design, marketing, lifecycle, and partner management.
  • Proficiency with Agile methodologies, including Scrum or Kanban, and tools such as JIRA, Confluence, and Miro.
  • Ability to present to leadership and partners.
  • Ability to manage multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment.
  • Proficiency with modern AI tools such as ChatGPT, Glean, and Claude to support product management tasks, including synthesizing inputs, drafting product artifacts, identifying patterns and opportunities, developing hypotheses, and accelerating iterative delivery, with sound judgment about validation, privacy, security, and responsible use.
Responsibilities
  • Define and manage the product roadmap for consumer-facing experiences across web, mobile web, native apps, and email, SMS, and push channels, including loyalty mechanics, member onboarding, search and discovery, and post-dining engagement.
  • Define and evolve engagement strategy for how members earn, track, and redeem rewards across partner programs to make the experience rewarding and intuitive and drive habitual engagement.
  • Translate consumer insights, behavioral data, and qualitative research into prioritized backlogs, user stories, and clear acceptance criteria for engineering teams.
  • Partner with engineering and design to ship features iteratively while balancing speed of learning with quality of experience.
  • Define and instrument success metrics, including activation, retention, dining frequency, member lifetime value, and NPS; use experimentation such as A/B testing and holdout cohorts to validate hypotheses and inform roadmap decisions.
  • Collaborate with Marketing, Lifecycle, and CRM teams on go-to-market and lifecycle communication strategies that drive feature adoption and member engagement.
  • Work with Partner Management to align the consumer experience with the brand standards and member expectations of airline, hotel, and retail loyalty partners.
  • Champion the consumer perspective through user research, member feedback synthesis, and competitive analysis of loyalty and dining apps.
  • Monitor trends in consumer loyalty, engagement mechanics, gamification, and dining technology to identify opportunities for differentiation.
  • Manage cross-functional alignment and ensure transparent communication and coordination among product, engineering, marketing, partner management, and business stakeholders.
  • Use AI tools and workflows to accelerate product discovery, customer research synthesis, mockups and prototypes, opportunity assessment, roadmap development, experimentation, and post-launch analysis, improving decision quality and execution speed while maintaining focus on member value and business outcomes.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with loyalty, rewards, membership, or gamification products.
  • Experience with AI features.
  • Experience in FinTech, MarTech, restaurant, dining, or hospitality industries.
  • Experience working with lifecycle and CRM channels, including email, push, and SMS.
  • Experience with experimentation platforms and consumer growth or engagement frameworks.

About the company

Rewards Network partners with major loyalty programs to drive full-price dining by offering points or rewards to guests who dine at participating restaurants. Restaurants join and pay on a pay-for-performance basis, with Rewards Network earning fees tied to actual sales generated by loyalty-driven diners, plus optional flexible funding. The platform provides live sales reports, guest survey analytics, and verified reviews to help operators optimize marketing and operations. Its goal is to increase monthly restaurant sales, fill more seats, and use data and financing options to support growth.

Company Size

501-1,000

Company Stage

Acquired

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Los Angeles, California

Founded

1984

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What believers are saying

  • Rewards Network announced CEO succession January 13, 2026 without operational disruption.
  • Built In named Rewards Network a 2026 Best Place to Work in Chicago.
  • Craveworthy Brands expanded on March 31, 2025, showing sticky multi-location restaurant adoption.

What critics are saying

  • BBB logged 15 complaints in three years, signaling persistent customer service friction.
  • Dining-rewards economics depend on partner brands like Fetch and Wyndham, increasing concentration risk.
  • Restaurants can cut Rewards Network programs during downturns, breaking receivables and killing volume.

What makes Rewards Network unique

  • Rewards Network ties restaurant demand to loyalty programs and receivables funding, unlike ad agencies.
  • The Fetch partnership launched May 6, 2025 across nearly 18,000 restaurants nationwide.
  • Stephen Fusco became CEO on January 1, 2026, preserving the product-led strategy.

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Benefits

  • Paid Vacation
  • 401(k) Company Match
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account
  • Disability Insurance
  • Life Insurance
  • Hybrid Work Options

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

4%

1 year growth

4%

2 year growth

4%
PYMNTS
Dec 19th, 2024
Darden Restaurant Sales Grow Despite Fine Dining Pullback

Darden Restaurants’ sales climbed this quarter despite diners shying away from its fine-dining establishments. The company, owner of chains such as Olive Garden and LongHorn Steakhouse, released earnings Thursday (Dec. 19) that showed total sales increasing 6% to $2.9 billion. While sales were up 7.5% at LongHorn and 2% for Olive Garden, sales for the company’s fine dining restaurants — Ruth’s Chris Steak House, Eddie V’s Prime Seafood and The Capital Grille — fell by nearly 6% for the quarter

PYMNTS
Dec 5th, 2024
Restaurant Bankruptcies Reportedly At Highest Level Since Pandemic

Chain restaurant bankruptcies are reportedly at their highest level since the pandemic.Among the most recent examples is the casual dining franchise TGI Friday’s, one of more than a dozen high-profile eateries to seek bankruptcy protection between January and October of this year, Bloomberg News reported Thursday (Dec. 5), citing BankruptcyData.According to the report, that’s the most through that date since 2020, and next year could bring more turmoil, with restaurant prices jumping due to increased labor costs, supply chain issues and steeper interest expenses, lessening consumer demand for meals away from home.Bloomberg cited data from Black Box Intelligence showing that restaurant prices rose 44% between 2015 and March of this year, compared to a 26% uptick in grocery prices during the same timeframe.“It’s really hard for somebody to go to a restaurant at the same pace as we did before,” Victor Fernandez, vice president of insights at Black Box Intelligence, said. “That’s putting a lot of pressure on brands.”In addition to TGI Friday’s, the Italian chain Buca di Beppo, fish taco restaurant Rubio’s Coastal Grill, owner of burger and pizza chains BurgerFi and Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza, and Red Lobster are all among companies seeking reorganization via bankruptcy in a year that has not been easy on the dining industry.“I don’t know about you guys, but I’m ready for ‘24 to be behind us, and I think ‘25 is going to be a great year,” Kate Jaspon, chief financial officer of Dunkin’ parent company Inspire Brands, said at an industry conference in Las Vegas last month.Her comments were reported by CNBC, which included its own statistic from Black Box Intelligence: Restaurant traffic for eateries open at least a year had fallen year over year in each month through September.Meanwhile, high-profile chains such as McDonald’s and Starbucks have reported declines in quarterly sales, disappointing their investors.And while global names like these are seeing sales fall, smaller restaurants are dealing with challenges of their own, like scaring up capital, Mitchell Hipp, divisional vice president at Rewards Network, said in an interview with PYMNTS posted earlier this week.“Most restaurants are undercapitalized to begin with, and it’s the No. 1 business that fails in the U.S.,” he said.Most small-to-mid-sized restaurants only have enough funding to remain open for six months, though they should — ideally — have the capital to keep running for a few years.“Six months goes by quickly when you open up a smaller restaurant. Unless people are flocking through the doors, it almost immediately becomes a situation where [owners] are chasing their tails from day one,” Hipp said

PYMNTS
Dec 5th, 2024
Uber And Toast Team To Offer Commission-Free Delivery

Uber is expanding its partnership with restaurant technology platform Toast. The new integration between Toast Delivery Services and Uber Direct lets U.S. restaurants save on delivery fees and expand their delivery radius, while using Uber’s delivery network to provide local delivery on phone orders and ones made via Toast digital ordering channels, the companies said in a Thursday (Dec. 5) news release,. This effort builds on the partnership formed by two companies in 2021, and comes at a time when restaurants are struggling to attract diners and find funding

PYMNTS
Dec 3rd, 2024
Data-Driven Funding Fuels Restaurant Growth And Fills Tables

For restaurants, there’s a funding gap, a chasm between gaining access to the capital they need to thrive and grow and the traditional channels offering that capital. Mitchell Hipp, divisional vice president at Rewards Network, told PYMNTS the gap can present itself as the pain points of setting up operations and progressing to become mainstays of the local economy. His insight comes from personal experience. He recounted how he put himself through college by working in the industry. He started as a dishwasher and eventually became an owner-operator

PYMNTS
Sep 22nd, 2024
Ai Phone Hosts Become Increasing Part Of Dining Experience

The next time you call your favorite restaurant, it may be AI that answers. That’s according to a report Sunday (Sept. 22) by Ars Technica on the popularity of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered hosts used by eateries. As the report noted, there are many companies specializing in the service, offering 24-hour responses to questions about things like menus, dress codes and seating arrangements, or making, changing, or canceling reservations