Founding U.S. GTM & Partnerships Lead, Mini-Dramas

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>About NewsBreak</strong></p> <p><strong>Local life runs on local information.</strong> What happened down the street? Who can fix this? Where should we go tonight? NewsBreak started in 2015 to answer these questions, and today more than 40 million people a month rely on us to follow what’s going on in their zip code.</p> <p><strong>Three platforms with one vision: powering local life.</strong> Led by founder and CEO Jeff Zheng, NewsBreak is our local life and news platform; Nearby AI connects people with local businesses; and NDot AI helps publishers and creators grow and earn.</p> <p><strong>Building for the long term.</strong> A $115 million Series C made us a unicorn in 2021, and we keep investing in our people. We’re Great Place to Work® certified and named to <em>Fast Company</em>’s Best Workplaces for Innovators (2025) and <em>Fortune</em>’s Best Workplaces in the Bay Area™ (2026).</p> <p><strong>Everyone makes an impact.</strong> Whether you write code, shape products, tell our story, or run the business, we want people who own projects end to end, stay curious, and speak up. Join us.</p> <p>Learn more at: NewsBreak, Nearby AI, NDot AI</p></div><p><strong>About the role</strong></p> <p>NDot AI is building a U.S.-China mini-drama ecosystem. It runs on NewsBreak's U.S. audience, distribution, recommendation and growth capabilities. We're hiring our <strong>founding U.S. GTM & Partnerships Lead</strong> to build the U.S. side from the ground up.</p> <p>You'll work alongside a China-based GTM counterpart. Together you'll bring short-drama producers, app developers, directors and creative talent to NewsBreak, NDot and Nova. You'll sign and activate high-quality content partners. You'll also close distribution, app-growth and monetization partnerships.</p> <p>A big part of the job is connecting U.S. directors and culturally fluent creatives with Chinese production and AI-studio capacity. The goal is content that resonates with U.S. audiences and can be produced at scale.</p> <p>This is a hands-on 0→1 ecosystem-building role, not a traditional enterprise sales job. You'll work closely with senior leadership, product, engineering and ad sales. What you learn from partners will feed directly into NDot's product and GTM priorities.</p> <p><strong>What you'll do</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Map and build the U.S. ecosystem.</strong> Build a prioritized map and pipeline of producers, app developers, directors and talent, production partners and strategic ecosystem players. Coordinate it with the China GTM lead.</li> <li><strong>Sign and activate producers.</strong> Recruit high-quality mini-drama producers and content partners, with priority on content suited to U.S. audiences. Get them publishing consistently.</li> <li><strong>Launch the founding-partner program.</strong> Design and run producer incentives, including preferential revenue share, promotional traffic, Nova ad credits and referral rewards.</li> <li><strong>Close app and monetization partnerships.</strong> Turn your strongest app-developer relationships into NDot customers. Partner with the Nova ad sales team to introduce short-drama advertisers from the ecosystem.</li> <li><strong>Make cross-border matches.</strong> Connect U.S. creative talent with Chinese production partners. Create partnerships and content that show NDot adds value beyond distribution.</li> <li><strong>Build the GTM engine.</strong> Own the U.S. motion: partner segmentation, pitch, outreach, industry events, community building, PR and sales materials, CRM and forecasting.</li> <li><strong>Shape the product.</strong> Turn producer needs, market insights and content performance into input for product, growth and localization.</li> </ul> <p><strong>What we're looking for</strong></p> <p><strong>Must-haves</strong></p> <ul> <li>Deep experience and an established network in the mini-drama / short-drama industry</li> <li>Senior experience in GTM, BD, partnerships, producer relations or content acquisition</li> <li>Track record in U.S.-China cross-border business</li> <li>Fluent English and Mandarin Chinese, with the cultural fluency to work credibly in both markets</li> <li>Proven skill at sourcing, negotiating and closing partnerships, and at activating producers after signing</li> <li>Experience building ecosystems or communities, including industry events, market mapping and pipeline/CRM discipline</li> <li>Strong connector instincts, commercial judgment, persistence and bias for action; comfortable with ambiguity in a startup setting</li> </ul> <p><strong>Nice-to-haves</strong></p> <ul> <li>Content acquisition or distribution; app growth or user acquisition</li> <li>Creator or talent partnerships; a film/TV production or talent network in LA or NY</li> <li>A network of Chinese production houses or AI studios; experience with AI-content production</li> <li>Consumer app or short-video platform experience</li> <li>Strong product and creative instincts; able to bridge creative, commercial and technical teams</li> </ul><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description">The US base salary range for this full-time position is listed below. 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