NewsBreak
This role involves building and owning recommendation and ranking systems for feed surfaces, designing an event-triggered engagement engine, and developing customer-to-professional matching with explicit fairness constraints. The position requires defining evaluation frameworks that prioritize downstream outcomes and negative signals, while contributing learnings to the company's pricing and intent models. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience shipping recommendation systems at consumer scale and deploying causal or uplift models in production.
Headquarters
Mountain View, California, United States
Company Size
51-200 employees
Founded
2015
NewsBreak is a local-first news and alerts platform (mobile app and website) that delivers location-based news, videos, and real-time notifications on safety, accidents, weather, traffic, sports, business, celebrity updates, and market trends. It aggregates stories from publishers and community contributors and uses personalization to surface the most relevant local coverage for each user. The service focuses on fast, local discovery and distribution, helping readers stay informed while giving publishers and local creators a way to reach and monetize nearby audiences.
NewsBreak Recognized Among the World's Best Workplaces for Innovators by Fast Company
Sep 10, 2025
Some US lawmakers call for more scrutiny of news app NewsBreak over Chinese origins
Jun 8, 2024
Martin Romualdez transfers P130-M US property to corporation for just $1
Oct 21, 2025
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Company Size
201-500 employees
Founded
2018
Industry
Technology
Glassdoor Rating
4.2 / 5
Sarah Johnson
Chief Executive Officer
Michael Chen
Chief Technology Officer
Emily Williams
VP of Engineering
David Rodriguez
VP of Product
Jessica Thompson
Chief Financial Officer
Andrew Park
VP of Sales
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31% above the average for this role
CNBC-TV18 newsbreak confirmed: Japan's Aica Kogyo to buy 40-53% of Stylam Industries for ₹1,500-2,000 crore
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