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SmartNews

AI-powered news aggregation and curation app

Senior Product Manager

Product ManagementUpdated on Nov 9
Full-timeTokyo, JapanNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of involvement in or understanding of product development or operations for consumer-facing internet services or applications.
  • At least 3 years of cross-functional project management involving multiple departments such as engineering, business, and marketing.
  • Ability to design business models and monetization structures logically while maintaining a product perspective, including planning and designing product-connected businesses beyond sales or business development alone.
  • Ability to independently extract necessary data, quantitatively analyze metrics, build dashboards, structure issues from analytical findings, and translate findings into product improvements.
  • Native-level Japanese proficiency and willingness to actively communicate in English.

Responsibilities

  • Develop business designs and monetization models and plan and execute projects that contribute to business growth from a product perspective, based on a deep understanding of internet services and products.
  • Define value propositions, positioning, and target audiences for new products and features, and drive go-to-market strategies and annual plans at the business and project levels.
  • Bring together stakeholders across engineering, data science, design, marketing, business development, media, and advertising, and lead cross-functional projects in an integrated manner.
  • Use quantitative analysis, including SQL and dashboards, and qualitative research into customer and partner insights to drive product improvements and optimize marketing initiatives.
  • Grow app users and improve engagement by optimizing new-user acquisition, onboarding, and user touchpoints such as push notifications.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience as a product manager or product marketing manager at a startup or rapidly growing company.
  • Experience planning and executing engagement initiatives using CRM tools such as Braze.
  • Experience launching new teams, designing organizations, or managing people.

About the Company

SmartNews

AI-powered news aggregation and curation app

SmartNews operates a news aggregation app that pulls stories from a network of over 3,000 publishers. The app uses machine learning to analyze millions of articles, social signals, and user interactions to select trending and relevant news, with features like SmartView and offline reading. It earns mainly from ads and publisher revenue-sharing, and offers SmartNews+ for premium content, plus SmartView First licensing for publishers. The goal is to provide a broad, newspaper-like reading experience that helps users discover trustworthy news and reduce information overload while sustaining its business through ads and partnerships.

Company size
201-500
Company stage
Debt Financing
Total funding
$486.5M
Headquarters
Tokyo, Japan
Founded
2012

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