Sr. Product Manager, Messaging

ZipRecruiter - Santa Monica, CA

Hiring: Sr. Product Manager, Messaging Company: ZipRecruiter Location: Santa Monica, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 01:12:10 Employment Type: Full-time / Hybrid Target Skills & Keywords : Android, Compliance, Machine Learning, Move, SQL, iOS About the job Experience: •5+ years of proven success in product management, with a record of delivering results. Required Skills: •Own Product for this entire channel. •Your messages carry the output of our matching and ranking models, so you will work daily with data science and machine learning teams. •Your sends drive employer outcomes, so you will coordinate with employer-side Product teams on how to drive the most effective outcomes for them. •Lead the thinking behind which, when, and how many messages we send, and via which channels. •Know how every message class contributes to each, and you will interrogate the why behind the numbers. •Run on experiments: You will design experiments, read, and resolve them with judgment about long-term business health, looking beyond short-term engagement. Qualifications: •Proven Leadership: 5+ years of proven success in product management, with a record of delivering results. •Deeply Analytical: You are a data-obsessed problem solver who doesn't just look at dashboards but interrogates the "why" behind the numbers. You are comfortable in SQL and fluent in A/B experimentation. •Lifecycle or Notifications Experience: You have owned email, push, or lifecycle messaging products at consumer scale, and you understand the tension between engagement volume and user trust. •AI/ML Fluency: You understand how to leverage machine learning to solve user problems, and you have shipped product features powered by ranking, relevance, or recommendation models. •Customer Obsession: You have a passion for speaking directly with your users and personally conducting user research. •Strong Communication: You write and speak clearly, and collaborate well across engineering, data science, design, and go-to-market stakeholders. •Self-Motivation: You are highly driven and thrive when given the autonomy to drive massive impact. •Marketplace Experience: Previous experience at a two-sided marketplace (e.g., jobs, real estate, rideshare), where your work on one side had to account for outcomes on the other. •Send-Decisioning or Growth Systems: Experience building message selection, frequency capping, or channel orchestration systems, or growth/CRM automation at scale. •Deliverability Literacy: Working knowledge of email deliverability, sender reputation, and compliance regimes including SMS/RCS. Compensation: •$175,000 - $235,000 / year •Flexible Vacation & Paid Time Off Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!