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Product Manager – Viber Dating
Product, Ramat Gan, Israel (Hybrid)
Description
Rakuten Viber is one of the most popular and downloaded apps in the world. Working with us provides a unique opportunity to influence hundreds of millions of our users and be part of the journey that makes us a super-app. Our mission is to make people’s lives easier by enabling meaningful connections.
Viber Dating mission is to establish a trusted environment for singles to cultivate real human connections with genuine individuals, fostering significant relationships through a best-in-class experience integrated directly within the Viber ecosystem
As a Product Manager for Viber Dating, you will be a driving force of our growth. You will navigate high levels of ambiguity to pioneer a scaling product domain, leveraging Viber’s massive scale.
Responsibilities
Drive the Dating Product Strategy (0-to-1 & Scale): Closely impact the multi-year vision, roadmap, and core product surface for Viber Dating. Turn strategic ambiguity into a clear, executable roadmap, making critical tradeoffs to deliver measurable business and user impact.
Product Discovery & Innovation: Drive continuous product discovery through wireframes, prototypes, and user research. Navigate how we welcome new users, how we facilitate exploration, how we help people connect authentically
Executive Leadership & Cross-Functional Alignment: Act as the domain leader, collaborating with global executive stakeholders, design, engineering, analytics, marketing, and Trust & Safety teams. Bring people along by communicating complex ML logic and product strategy clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Data-Driven & Evidence-Based Decisions: Lead a KPI-focused mindset. Use A/B experiments, behavioral data, and qualitative research to guide your decisions when signals are imperfect.
From product to revenue: Drive monetization opportunities that are win-win for our customers.
Mentorship & Excellence: Raise the bar for the entire product organization. Push your team and peers for excellence by setting a high standard for product craft, documentation, and user-centric thinking.
Requirements
Experience: 8+ years of product management experience, with at least 4+ years in a senior/principal capacity. Proven track record in B2C mobile applications at scale.
Domain Expertise: Significant experience in B2C, Marketplaces, or other consumer products. You understand the nuances of products that match people or content. Experience in dating solutions is a big advantage but not a must.
Leadership in Ambiguity: Exceptional ability to navigate ambiguity, launch 0-to-1 products, and make principled calls in high-impact spaces. You gather people around a goal using interpersonal skills and evidence.
Data Storytelling: A masterful storyteller who uses user data and key metrics to explain the narrative, translating complex technical challenges into simple, compelling words.
Product skills: you should act as a senior product leader, deeply empathize with the customer problem, bring to the table data-backed insights and hypotheses, and be able to take them to a working MVP that delights our customers.
Advantages
Successful experience in user monetization in direct to consumer apps.
Curiosity about the psychology of dating, human connection, and the ethics of algorithmic systems.
Algo Fluency: Comfort partnering with Data Science, ML, recommendation systems or ranking algorithms.
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About
At Rakuten Viber, we connect people–no matter who they are, or where they are from. As a communication platform that connects hundreds of millions of people around the world, we know that the way people communicate changes on an almost daily basis. That’s why we dedicate ourselves to providing added value to communication — from private and group chats to audio and video calls to the ability to follow and contact brands, businesses and celebrities. Viber is an all-in-one platform for everything communications-based, and all Viber communications are protected by end-to-end encryption. Viber is part of the Rakuten Group, a world leader in e-commerce and financial services
