Product Manager

Summary

Join Community Tech Alliance (CTA) as a Senior Product Manager to lead the modernization of a crucial data system for a progressive political organization. You will play a key role in rebuilding data infrastructure, shaping a high-impact project from the ground up using modern technologies. This opportunity involves assembling and leading a new, cross-functional team within a supportive, mission-driven organization. As the primary product lead, you will be the main point of contact for all stakeholders, ensuring timelines are met and communication is clear. The ideal candidate is an experienced, self-motivated leader with strong strategic thinking and communication skills, capable of operating in a highly technical environment. This is a fully remote position requiring synchronous work during Eastern Time business hours.

Requirements

• Have a passion for product management and building efficient, useful products and processes
• Have deep empathy for the end user and are able to differentiate between business and product requirements
• Have led the discovery and requirements gathering process for a large, complex project
• Value organization and prioritization
• Be able to take in multiple perspectives from your team, users and stakeholders
• Be able to synthesize tradeoffs and facilitate meetings across multiple groups to reach consensus
• Believe in keeping receipts and ensuring every decision is documented and documents are continually updated
• Have been in situations where a key responsibility was turning ambiguity into clarity, and you can help a diverse group to align and make decisions
• Be receptive to feedback and open to introspection when something goes wrong
• Have worked with product engineering teams to gather effort estimates and scope product development
• Have extensive experience working in data infrastructure and/or data migrations, and a deep understanding of data systems and processes - ex. warehou sing, ETL, and processing tools at scale
• Have experience and a clear understanding of product processes and a user centered focus
• Have helped drive decision making and understand how to present trade-offs in clear terms
• Have experience creating data models and data process flows
• Have experience managing data products in cloud environments
• Have experience with communicating, diagraming and/or documenting highly technical concepts in ways that can be understood by non-technical users and stakeholders
• Be authorized to work in the U.S. without restriction
• Be located in the US and able to work ET business hours

Responsibilities

• Serve as primary product lead and product point of contact on the initiative to all external stakeholders as well as internal CTA leadership and other CTA staff
• Work closely with the initiative’s engineering and leadership to ensure timelines are met, communication is clear, and each stakeholder is consistently involved in the feedback loop
• Ensure regular status reporting as well as that the right reviews, approvals, and other checkpoints occur throughout the engagement

Preferred Qualifications

Have experience with GCP and BigQuery

Benefits

• Salary is between $140/yr and $160/yr, commensurate with experience
• Community Tech Alliance provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws