Staff Product Manager

Matchgroup
Vancouver, Canada
Hybrid

Who this role is best for

Candidates with product leadership experience in data platforms and technical fluency in AI/ML will find this strategic, cross-functional role in Vancouver.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 8+ years of product leadership in complex, technical products across multiple brands
    — “8+ years of product management experience, with demonstrated ownership of complex, technical, cross-functional products at Staff, Lead, or equivalent scope.
  • Individuals with a track record of building shared platform services and data products for internal stakeholders
    — “Proven ability to build shared services, data products, APIs, or platform capabilities used by multiple internal customers, business units, or brands.
  • Candidates who have experience in Trust & Safety, identity, or risk systems and can apply AI/ML practically
    — “Background in Trust & Safety, fraud, abuse detection, identity, authenticity, compliance tooling, ML/data platforms, or risk systems preferred.

Things to consider

  • Requires in-office collaboration 3 days per week, which may affect remote candidates' suitability
    — “we work together IRL 3 days/week.
  • Compensation may vary based on work location, even if hired for the Vancouver role
    — “This salary will be subject to a geographic adjustment (according to a specific city and state), if an authorization is granted to work outside of the location listed in this posting.

How to stand out

  • Emphasize experience in balancing brand-specific needs with portfolio-wide governance in your resume and interviews
    — “Drive prioritization across competing signal needs, balancing brand-specific flexibility with portfolio-wide consistency and governance.
  • Highlight your ability to translate internal customer needs into measurable product strategies
    — “Experience running discovery with internal customers, translating user and operational needs into product strategy.
  • Demonstrate your ability to influence cross-functional teams without direct authority
    — “Strong ability to influence without direct authority across engineering, data science, operations, compliance, legal, brand product teams, and senior stakeholders.
  • Showcase your background in AI/ML applications for risk scoring and decision support
    — “Identify opportunities to use AI and ML to improve signal discovery, signal quality, anomaly detection, risk scoring, and decision support.
  • Quantify your impact in prior roles using metrics like adoption rates, fraud reduction, and operational efficiency
    — “Establish clear success metrics for the Signals Platform, including adoption, signal usage, fraud and abuse reduction, enforcement quality, operational efficiency, user quality, and MAU impact.
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Company

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What success looks like

  • defined product vision
  • built platform for signals
  • partnered with engineering
  • established success metrics
Typical background
product managementplatform engineering

Skills & requirements

Required

Product VisionStrategyCross-functional CollaborationAI And ML IntegrationRisk ManagementOperational Discipline

Preferred

Growth MarketingBrand Management

About the role

Original posting from Matchgroup via Lever

Know where you belong!

Match Group is a leading provider of dating products across the globe. Our portfolio includes Tinder, Hinge, Match, Meetic, PlentyOfFish, OkCupid, The League, HER, and others, each designed to spark meaningful connections for singles worldwide. Creating a sense of belonging doesn’t stop at our products - it’s the foundation of every team we hire.

When it comes to dating, the connection starts online, but the real magic happens once you meet in real life (IRL).  We think the same is true for creating the best platforms, so we work together IRL 3 days/week.

What You'll Do:

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Define and execute the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Match Group’s Signals Platform.

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Build a portfolio-wide platform that standardizes, governs, and distributes behavioral, identity, trust, safety, and enforcement signals.

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Create APIs, frameworks, data products, and adoption patterns that make signals easy for brands and central teams to discover, trust, integrate, and use.

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Partner with engineering and data science to evaluate signal quality, reliability, performance, drift, and business impact.

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Establish clear success metrics for the Signals Platform, including adoption, signal usage, fraud and abuse reduction, enforcement quality, operational efficiency, user quality, and MAU impact.

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Identify opportunities to use AI and ML to improve signal discovery, signal quality, anomaly detection, risk scoring, and decision support.

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Drive prioritization across competing signal needs, balancing brand-specific flexibility with portfolio-wide consistency and governance.

What We're Looking For::

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Product leadership: 8+ years of product management experience, with demonstrated ownership of complex, technical, cross-functional products at Staff, Lead, or equivalent scope.

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Platform mindset: Proven ability to build shared services, data products, APIs, or platform capabilities used by multiple internal customers, business units, or brands.

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Trust & Safety, identity, risk, or data product experience: Background in Trust & Safety, fraud, abuse detection, identity, authenticity, compliance tooling, ML/data platforms, or risk systems preferred.

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Technical fluency: Comfort working with data infrastructure, APIs, ML models, signals, risk scoring, data quality, observability, and platform architecture concepts.

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AI fluency: Ability to identify practical AI use cases, evaluate AI-supported product opportunities, and partner with technical teams to build responsible, measurable AI-enabled capabilities.

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Strategic and execution balance: Ability to set a clear long-term vision while driving near-term delivery, adoption, and measurable business outcomes.

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Cross-functional influence: Strong ability to influence without direct authority across engineering, data science, operations, compliance, legal, brand product teams, and senior stakeholders.

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Customer orientation: Experience running discovery with internal customers, translating user and operational needs into product strategy, and building products that teams actively adopt.

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Analytical rigor: Strong ability to define success metrics, analyze performance, evaluate tradeoffs, and communicate product impact through data.

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Operational discipline: Ability to create durable product operating models, including intake, prioritization, roadmap planning, documentation, launch readiness, adoption tracking, and ongoing performance monitoring.

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Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex technical topics for executive, operational, and brand audiences.

Compensation:

Factors such as scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/training, job-related skills, internal peer equity, as well as market and business considerations may influence base pay offered. This salary range is reflective of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. This salary will be subject to a geographic adjustment (according to a specific city and state), if an authorization is granted to work outside of the location listed in this posting.

Why Match Group?

Our mission is simple – to help people find love and happiness! We love our employees too and understand the importance of all life's milestones. Here are some of the benefits we are proud to offer:

Generous vacation, flex days, professional development days

RRSP matching, and employee stock purchase plan

Professional development budget and unlimited access to Udemy from day one

Match Group mentorship program

Parental leave top up and fertility preservation benefits

Extended health & dental benefits from day one

Corporate ClassPass membership and other wellness benefits

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we value the rich dynamics that diversity brings to our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, creed, national origin, ancestry, disability, marital status, age, sexual orientation, sex (including pregnancy and sexual harassment), gender identity or expression, uniformed service or veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristic.  Period. 

If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the hiring process — such as during pre-employment testing or interviews — please indicate this by selecting “Yes” in the accommodation request field. We’ll reach out to discuss your needs if you're selected for the interview stage.   

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Source: Matchgroup careers (Lever)

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