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# Senior Product Designer at NewsBreak

- **Company:** NewsBreak
- **Location:** Mountain View California, United States
- **Compensation:** $118k–$250k
- **Posted:** 2026-09-11
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-14
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/newsbreak/jobs/4712782006

## Job description

## About NewsBreak

Founded in 2015, NewsBreak is the Content Intelligence platform shaping the future content economy. With over 40 million monthly active users, our flagship platform delivers highly personalized local news and information powered by advanced AI, recommendation systems, and adtech.

Recognized by Fast Company as #32 on the Top Workplaces for Innovators, we're proud to be Great Place to Work® certified and home to a dynamic team of technologists, product innovators, and business leaders who are passionate about solving meaningful challenges at scale.

Together, we reached unicorn status in 2021, and we remain committed to continuing this high-growth trajectory with the right team to fulfill our mission: building the infrastructure layer for content intelligence.

If you’re inspired to dream big, innovate fast, and make a difference, we’d love to hear from you! For more information, visit [www.newsbreak.com/about](http://www.newsbreak.com/about)

## About Nearby AI

Nearby AI is a new company from NewsBreak building a trust-first marketplace for local home services. We help homeowners understand a problem, what it should reasonably cost, and whether to hire at all before they are connected to a provider, and we help service providers win work on fit and outcomes rather than on speed of contact.

Our mission: give people clarity and control from the first sign of a problem to a job done right, and give good contractors work they are equipped to win.

We are a small founding team. We work from evidence, keep a written record of decisions, and hold a short set of product principles we do not trade for revenue: no pay-for-rank, no sharing of customer contact information beyond what the customer approved, and no quality claims we cannot substantiate.

The problem you will own

Our product asks people to make a high-stakes household decision with confidence, then to control who may contact them. The same experience has to work as a guided flow and as a conversational one, serve a broad consumer audience with widely varying digital confidence, and remain clear when it is shared with a family member who is helping from a distance. On the other side of the marketplace, service professionals need an experience that makes the economics and the expectations legible before they commit. You will be the first designer and will set the standard for all of it.

## Responsibilities

- Own product design end to end for the consumer and professional experiences: research, information architecture, interaction design, visual design, and the copy that carries them.
- Establish and maintain the design system so that multiple front ends stay one coherent product, and so engineering can move quickly without design debt.
- Design the decision, consent, and verification-disclosure patterns that are central to the product, and make trust legible without relying on badges or claims.
- Set the accessibility and inclusive-design standard for the company and hold every release to it.
- Run continuous discovery and usability research with real users, and turn findings into shipped changes on short cycles.
- Partner closely with product, engineering, and the AI team so that model behavior and interface behavior are designed together.
- Over time, shape the design function: hire, mentor, or remain a senior individual contributor with others around you.

## Qualifications

Required

- 6+ years of product design experience for Senior; 9+ years, including time at a staff or lead level, for Staff.
- Multiple consumer products shipped end to end, from research through launch, where you were the primary designer.
- A portfolio that shows a consistent, repeatable framework for how you approach problems, with outcomes stated. We will ask you to walk us through the framework, not only the screens.
- Ownership of a design system used by multiple engineers or teams.
- Fluency with AI-assisted design and prototyping tools as a daily production method, while retaining ownership of the judgment.
- Hands-on user research and usability testing that you planned and ran yourself, recently.
- Experience designing conversion-critical flows such as onboarding, forms, or transactions where user error carries real cost, with measured results.
- Strong writing. Interface copy is part of the design, and plain language is a requirement.

## Preferred

- Utility or tool products where the value lies in getting the user to a correct answer efficiently.
- High-stakes consumer flows in regulated or trust-sensitive domains such as financial services, insurance, healthcare, or public services.
- Two-sided marketplaces or products with both a consumer and a professional side.
- Shipped work that met a recognized accessibility standard and was tested with users of varying ability.
- Experience as the first or only designer at a company.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is listed below. Pay may vary based on a number of factors including job-related skills, level, experience, geographic location and relevant education or training. At NewsBreak, we design our overall rewards package to attract top talents. Depending on the position, the role may also be eligible for discretionary bonus and options. Your recruiter can share more details during the hiring process. Annual Base Pay Range $118,000—$250,000 USD

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## About NewsBreak

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: NewsBreak is a Content Intelligence platform that delivers hyper-local news and information to over 40 million monthly active users across the U.S. using advanced AI, recommendation systems, and adtech.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C, reached unicorn status in 2021)
- **Headquarters**: Mountain View, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2015
- **Founders**: Jeff Zheng (CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Content Intelligence, Local News & Information, AI-Powered Recommendation Systems, Advertising Technology (Adtech)
- **Target customers**: B2C (consumers seeking local news), B2B (publishers, content creators, local businesses), and Enterprise (advertisers and agencies)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: Building the infrastructure layer for content intelligence, helping people live safer, more vibrant, and more truly connected lives by connecting and empowering local users, local content creators, and local businesses at scale.

## Products & Services
- **NewsBreak Platform**: A flagship mobile app and website that delivers personalized local news and information from over 10,000 sources to more than 40 million monthly active users across the U.S.
- **NBot**: An AI-powered agentic assistant that lets users personalize any digital engine (apps, platforms, websites) using natural language.
- **Publishing Platform (mp.newsbreakapp.com)**: B2B tools that help publishers, content creators, and local businesses engage audiences with monetization and audience-reach solutions.
- **Creator Program**: A platform for local content creators to distribute their work and monetize their audience.
- **Adtech & Monetization Solutions**: Targeted advertising solutions for local businesses, helping them connect with local audiences.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Unicorn status (valuation over $1 billion) achieved in 2021. Latest valuation not publicly disclosed.
- **Total Funding**: $115 million in Series C funding led by Francisco Partners (2021). Total funding amount not fully disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: 40+ million monthly active users (MAU)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Francisco Partners (lead investor in Series C)
- **Growth Signals**: Reached unicorn status in 2021; recognized by Fast Company as #32 on the Top Workplaces for Innovators (2025); Great Place to Work® certified; growing workforce with active hiring across engineering, product, and business roles.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Content Intelligence Infrastructure**: A proprietary AI-powered platform that personalizes local news and information at scale, creating a unique data moat.
- **Hyper-Local Focus**: Serves over 10,000 local news sources, filling a critical gap in the declining local news market.
- **Large, Engaged User Base**: 40+ million MAU provides a strong network effect for both content creators and advertisers.
- **Advanced AI & Recommendation Systems**: Deep expertise in NLP, recommendation algorithms, and agentic AI (NBot) differentiates them from traditional news aggregators.
- **B2B & B2C Dual Model**: Generates revenue from both consumers (via engagement) and businesses (via advertising and publishing tools).

## Strategic Focus
- **Content Intelligence Leadership**: Doubling down on AI to build the "infrastructure layer" for content intelligence, enabling smarter connections between people, businesses, and information.
- **AI-Powered Innovation**: Continued development of agentic AI (NBot), LLM post-training, and AI-driven advertising agents to enhance personalization and monetization.
- **Local Market Dominance**: Expanding the network of local publishers, creators, and businesses to strengthen the hyper-local ecosystem.
- **Monetization Growth**: Scaling adtech and B2B tools to increase revenue from both SMBs and enterprise advertisers.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture of Innovation**: Recognized by Fast Company as one of the Best Workplaces for Innovators (2025), with a culture that values curiosity, autonomy, and collaboration. Employees work in decentralized, autonomous teams with real ownership over product areas.
- **High-Growth Environment**: A unicorn company on a high-growth trajectory, offering accelerated professional growth for those who "think big, move fast, and create real-world impact."
- **Great Place to Work® Certified**: 92% of employees are proud to be making a difference, 94% felt welcomed when they joined, and 84% say it's a great place to work (compared to 57% at a typical U.S. company).
- **Benefits**: Competitive healthcare benefits (flexible medical care, premium dental/vision), 401(k) matching, and a focus on mental, physical, and financial well-being.
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: HQ is in Mountain View, CA, with a presence in New York and Bellevue, WA. Job postings list specific locations, suggesting a hybrid or on-site model for most roles.
- **Engineering Culture**: Emphasis on ML, AI, recommendation systems, and adtech. Teams work with cutting-edge tech (LLMs, agentic AI, NLP) and are encouraged to pursue applied research, collaborate with academic institutions, and attend industry events.

## Sources
1. [NewsBreak Careers Page](https://careers.newsbreak.com/)
2. [NewsBreak Job Board (Greenhouse)](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/newsbreak)
3. [NewsBreak LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/newsbreak)
4. [PRNewswire - Fast Company Best Workplaces for Innovators 2025](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/newsbreak-recognized-among-the-worlds-best-workplaces-for-innovators-by-fast-company-302552097.html)
5. [Great Place to Work - NewsBreak Profile](https://www.greatplacetowork.com/certified-company/7088585)

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