Senior Product Manager

Summary

Join CivicActions, a mission-driven company, as a Senior Product Manager to translate product vision into impactful deliverables. You will lead the end-to-end success of digital products, integrating user needs and client goals. This fully remote position requires a federal background check. You will build strong relationships, mentor other product managers, and collaborate with stakeholders. You will own the product backlog, ensure product security and compliance, and lead the product lifecycle. CivicActions offers excellent benefits, including fully paid health insurance, 401k matching, flexible time off, parental leave, and professional development stipends.

Requirements

• DKAN, CKAN or relevant Data Management experience
• Experience managing communications and expectations between multiple high-performing teams and stakeholders
• Experience with the end-to-end operational process of guiding a product or service throughout its entire product life cycle
• Demonstrated ability to communicate and operationalize best practices while developing products and services
• Experience with hands-on program level stakeholder management
• Experience with Agile
• U.S. residency 3 of the past 5 years
• 9+ year experience as a Product Manager or equivalent experience
• 10 years of digital services
• Product Certification

Responsibilities

• Build strong relationships with the project team, our clients, and everyone within the product management practice area, creating trust and guiding decision-making
• Be present, collaborative, and caring when interacting with team members and clients
• Support, coach and mentor other Product Managers on the project in different work streams
• Collaborate with agency stakeholders to get buy-in for product definition and delivery approach
• Work with a team of engineers, designers, quality assurance, accessibility, and business stakeholders to capture and translate needs into deliverables
• Facilitate meetings with clients to understand product users, priorities, product principles, and features
• Be a champion of the user experience
• Make decisions about priorities, complexity, user needs, business value, and timeline to define the over product roadmap
• Own the product backlog, ensuring it aligns with the scope and vision outline in the product roadmap through refinement and beyond
• Regularly interface with product owners and stakeholders to ensure alignment on priorities and roadmap health
• Ensure product design and team processes keep systems secure and compliant
• Lead the operational process of nurturing a product or service through the entire product life cycle

Preferred Qualifications

• Stakeholder management, knows how to consult with clients, guiding in decision-making
• Manage product items (set priorities, roadmap, etc)
• Strong communicator, Effective at facilitation of group decision making
• Someone who has worked in a different Agile practice area (well-rounded understanding)
• Entrepreneurial spirit, but isn't starry-eyed about innovation
• EST Time Zone preferred

Benefits

• 100% company-paid medical/dental/vision/life/disability with 100% dependent coverage
• 401(k) with safe harbor contribution of 3% + 3% matching
• Flexible time off policy
• Paid parental leave - 12 weeks
• Annual professional development/education stipend - $1,200
• Annual technology stipend - $1,149 to $749
• Employee growth plans, appreciation programs, and paid company summits so you can develop at CivicActions and thrive