Product Manager
GivePulse is the community engagement platform bringing together individuals, businesses, social impact organizations, institutions of higher ed and their cities to volunteer, collaborate, research and fundraise for initiatives that address the challenges of a community. Today, more than millions of individuals and over 600K organizations and groups use GivePulse. Our most engaged users subscribe to our monthly and annual services to scale their organizing and activation efforts.
We are looking for a product manager to help us scale our product and innovation efforts. If you want to help reimagine GivePulse 2.0 and migrate our legacy system over to the new infrastructure, and build a roadmap that will help activate millions to do good, we want to hear from you!
Objectives and Responsibilities:
- Build the roadmap to map our our migration to 2.0
- Translate vision and strategy into product requirements, facilitate a sound design and deliver an efficient experience
- Define successful product outcomes with clearly measurable objectives and key results. Create accountability against goals.
- Leverage primary and secondary research to deepen understanding of customers and partners challenges and needs
- Drive insights on the markets and segments in which GivePulse platform competes, stay abreast of industry trends, events and channels to anticipate customer and partner needs
- Evaluate and prioritize requirements in partnership with cross functional teams, leveraging customer insights and industry best practices
- Prioritize and manage a product backlog for effective release and sprint planning
- Define and monitor key product metrics in terms of adoption, usage and experience
- Facilitate requirements definition with design and engineering partners while identifying dependencies and relative priority with other product managers
- Partner with Business teams, Design and Engineering to ensure solutions ships on time and to quality
Technical & Personal Qualifications
- 4+ years of product management experience
- Demonstrated track record of product leadership. Ability to lead and influence teams.
- Ability to quickly absorb technical concepts like a sponge and communicate them to a non-technical audience.
- Entrepreneurial drive and demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in an innovative and fast-paced environment.
- Creative problem solver. Able to identify real obstacles and viable solutions
- Outcome-oriented. Not reactionary, articulates the desired outcome and works collaboratively to create a path to achieve it
- Experience building model-driven products that benefit the end user
- Worked with data at scale and empowering organizations through data and insights
You should seriously consider applying if any of the following applies to you:
- You have a computer science, engineering background or understand the myriad of tech stacks that make up SaaS
- You know our product or have a strong desire to know all the crack and crannies about it
- Your idea of fun involves reading up on the latest trends in technology and our industries
- Your friends call you to help them solve tough problems
- You have an interest and passion in volunteering and community engagement issues
Compensation & Benefits
DOE ($95,000-145,000). We offer competitive pay / equity / benefits and other perks. Ground floor opportunity as an early member of the GivePulse team; you’ll directly shape the direction of our company. Most importantly you will be building a platform to empower millions of users to engage in the community and activating thousands of nonprofits (your local food pantry or animal center), social impact organizations (your local advocacy group), businesses (Fortune 500s and small businesses), universities (Ivy Leagues and Flag Ship) and cities (like Austin).
We at GivePulse are committed to a policy of equal opportunity and non-discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sexual orientation, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, veteran status, age or disability, as protected by law, in all programs and activities and conditions of employment.. GivePulse is an anti-racist institution. All positions will actively promote diversity, belonging and equity through critical and compassionate communication and strategic outreach efforts to colleagues, partners and institutions (e.g., historically under-represented, first-generation, DACA recipients, LGBTQ community).