About Grindr

Since launching in 2009, Grindr has grown into the world’s largest social networking app for gay, bi, trans, and queer people. We have millions of daily users who use our location-based technology in almost every country in every corner of the planet.

Today, Grindr proudly represents a modern LGBTQ+ lifestyle that expands into new platforms. From social issues to original content, we continue to blaze innovative paths with a meaningful impact for our community. At Grindr, we create a safe space where you can discover, navigate, and get zero feet away from the queer world around you.

As of June 2020, Grindr has new owners with a track record of multiple successful Bay Area start-ups. The new leadership is demonstrating a renewed commitment to creating an experience for users that is safe, fun, and productive, as well as a positive & uplifting company culture in which everyone can be their best selves. At the heart of Grindr’s mission in this new chapter is a shared set of core values including transparency, accountability, experimentation (failing fast), and strong allegiance to the LGBTQ+ community.

• Global impact. Grindr is the world leading LGTBQ+ social networking service. Your role will impact the lives of millions of LGTBQ+ people around the world.
• High Growth. Like the company itself, this role offers significant room for growth and development
• Remote First: We have offices in LA, NYC, SF, Chicago, Toronto and Taipei, though the company is set-up not just as remote-friendly, but remote-first. More than 30% of our employees work outside the cities where we have offices. Today, we are set-up to hire easily in the US, Canada and Taiwan. If you live outside one of these countries, just let us know so we can make sure we can support you.
• Comp: Industry competitive compensation, including equity for all employees
• Benefits: Unlimited vacation policy
• Family insurance: We provide great insurance coverage for health, dental and vision for you and your family.
• Retirement Savings: Generous 401(k) plan
• Other great perks: home-office stipend, many company-sponsored events

What’s so interesting about this role?

Our team is growing because our user base is growing (30% in the last year!) which means we need you! We’re looking for a Technical Program Manager who is passionate about building and owning processes, coordination and helping the data and engineering teams be successful. You will have the opportunity to solve challenging problems, work with the latest systems, collaborate with a kind and capable team and contribute meaningfully.

What’s the Job?

• Support a unique team that’s building software for millions of people.
• Work with engineers, data analysts, and business stakeholders to refine scalable and efficient solutions.
• Work with third-parties in an engineering and support role.
• Document and diagram architecture, project needs, and processes.
• Assist with information presentation on data and analytical dashboards.
• Distill problems your team runs into and unblock them.
• Manage project tracking tools to help align goals, roadmaps and timelines between departments.

What We’ll Love About You

• Experience managing team/project requirements and expectations.
• Serious communication comfort. You’ll be talking to a lot of people, all the time and your ability to effectively communicate many points of view and opinions between teams is critical.
• You’ll be working on a lot of things all at once and that’s fun because you take notes, manage your time well and have consistent follow-through.
• Working with remote teams across multiple time zones is easy for you. The world is a big place!
• The ability to thrive in a collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts.
• Agile/Scrum experience and the ability to work effectively with different types of teams
• Data Warehousing, Analytics, and Cloud Computing understanding; you are not going to be deploying features but you’ll understand what it means when your coworkers do