[Hiring] Staff Product Manager @Mode Mobile

Role Description

Mode.Inc is seeking a Staff Product Manager to own product for a newly acquired consumer VPN business in a new business unit. It is a highly rated, established app with a global user base across both iOS and Android, and a subscription business generating eight figures in annual revenue. This is a senior-level, high-ownership role reporting directly to the General Manager.

The business joins Mode.Inc as a standalone business unit with a dedicated team being built around it. You will be the first product owner, which means you set the strategy, define the roadmap, and establish the measurement and experimentation foundation the business will run on for years.

The mandate has two halves:

• Grow the existing subscription business: sharper paywalls, better pricing and packaging, stronger trial conversion, and a connection experience users rely on.
• Open an entirely new free ad-supported tier that expands the top of the funnel and monetizes the users who will never pay a subscription.

If you want a product role with a real business underneath it and genuine room to define what comes next, this is that role.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the product roadmap end to end, from strategy and prioritization through specification and delivery, in partnership with Engineering, Design, Monetization, UA, and Data.
• Own business and product performance: revenue, trial-to-paid conversion, retention, churn, LTV, ARPDAU, and contribution to the business unit P&L.
• Define and drive the subscription experience across three purchase paths (Google Play, Apple App Store, and a direct web checkout), including paywall design, pricing and packaging, trial mechanics, and account management.
• Design and launch a free, ad-supported tier, including the free/paid feature boundary, session and data limits, and the upgrade moments that convert free users into subscribers.
• Own the hybrid monetization model end to end: rewarded video, interstitial and native placements, mediation and waterfall performance, eCPM and fill, and the tradeoff between ad revenue and subscription conversion.
• Partner with Monetization and Legal to ensure subscription disclosures, price display, cancellation mechanisms, and ad experiences meet Apple, Google, and applicable consumer-protection requirements.
• Own analytics requirements and launch readiness as the app moves onto Mode.Inc's unified event-tracking stack.
• Stand up a durable experimentation practice across paywall, onboarding, pricing, ad load, and retention.
• Translate user research, customer feedback, and competitive intelligence into a prioritized product backlog.
• Partner with UA on scaling paid acquisition profitably: creative strategy, funnel performance, conversion tracking integrity, geo and cohort targeting, and ROAS accountability.
• Establish the patterns for a growing portfolio, as this is the first product in Mode.Inc's Communications Apps and Services business unit.
• Provide clear, regular visibility into business performance to the GM and executive stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional product management experience, including 4+ years independently owning a product or business line.
• Deep, demonstrated experience with consumer subscription products: pricing and packaging, trials, paywalls, churn and retention, and store billing on both iOS and Android.
• Hands-on experience with in-app advertising (IAA) monetization across rewarded video, interstitials, and native placements.
• Demonstrated experience launching or operating a freemium or hybrid-monetization product.
• Proven experience managing products with P&L accountability and delivering measurable business outcomes.
• Experience in mobile app ecosystems (utility, privacy/security, productivity, or rewards/monetization) at meaningful scale.
• Hands-on experience designing and interpreting A/B experiments.
• Strong analytical skills and proficiency with product analytics tools such as Mixpanel or Amplitude.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, capable of influencing at the executive level.

Requirements

• Experience with a consumer product where connectivity and performance are the core of the value proposition.
• Familiarity with subscription infrastructure such as RevenueCat, Superwall, Adapty, Apphud, or Stripe billing.
• Experience integrating or scaling a product post-acquisition, or operating in a multi-app portfolio.
• Working knowledge of auto-renewal and consumer-protection requirements across app stores and US federal and state law.
• Experience with emerging-market user bases and the constraints of budget Android hardware.

Benefits

• We are a 100% remote-first, global company.
• A competitive compensation package.
• Generous perks & benefits to team members.
• Participation in the Company's equity and token plan (for full-time team members).
• Individual bonuses in accordance with our Company Bonus Program.
• Work with energetic, passionate, and results-driven people.
• Celebrate team members' personal & work milestones.
• Remote social activities, including virtual coffee buddies.
• Weekly Wednesday Get Stuff Done Days (No Meetings).
• Open PTO and generous Company Holidays (for full-time team members).
• 5 annual Wellness Fridays.