Senior Product Manager II, Data & Insights

Summary

Join ActBlue as a Senior Product Manager and play a pivotal role in shaping the product strategy for a key product line. You will lead the development and execution of product initiatives, enhancing our platform and delivering exceptional value to our users. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to create innovative solutions, ensuring alignment with business objectives. This role demands a results-oriented approach, proven success in shipping high-value software, and a deep understanding of user behavior. You will work closely with data and machine learning teams, craft product requirements, and proactively address roadblocks. Success in this position requires strong presentation and facilitation skills, along with a passion for progressive causes.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of hands-on experience in any of the following industries: management consulting, payments processing, financial services/banking, accounting, or large-scale e-commerce marketplaces where you established a proven track record of repeatedly translating complex client needs into shipping high-value software solutions at scale
• Proven track record of proactive problem solving and effectively navigating ambiguity, with a proven ability to drive results and deliver high-quality products on time
• You are outcome-oriented, consistently focusing on delivering measurable results and aligning product initiatives with key business objectives to drive success
• Experience collaborating with remote cross-functional product teams to develop and launch complex products, and eager to tackle intricate product challenges on a larger scale
• You have a deep understanding of user behavior and motivations, informed by both qualitative and quantitative insights
• You are a strong presenter with excellent facilitation skills, capable of engaging stakeholders and guiding discussions to drive alignment and clarity
• You are not intimidated by gaps in your knowledge; instead, you are eager to learn and expand your expertise, embracing new challenges as opportunities for growth
• You care about progressive causes and politics and want to spend your time making a meaningful impact by doing what you do best

Responsibilities

• Work in close collaboration with our data and machine learning functions to build data-driven products and manage the development lifecycle from ideation to launch to production and beyond
• Gain a deep understanding of the behaviors, needs, and motivations of donors and partner entities, and use these insights to create data-driven products and features that support our overall product strategy and advance our mission
• Craft clear and concise product requirements that outline user needs, context, constraints, opportunities, and goals, and communicate these effectively to senior leaders, designers, data scientists, and developers effectively
• Proactively identify and address roadblocks and technical dependencies within your roadmap, collaborating with cross-functional teams to navigate trade-offs, balance organizational and customer needs with technical and resource limitations, and ensure timely delivery of the right product
• Build and foster a strong product culture around testing and learning in order to iterate quickly, mitigate risk, and get to the right product
• Establish key product KPIs and assess the impact of your initiatives through data analysis and user research. Guide strategic roadmap investments to enhance these KPIs over time

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven experience in developing business cases and conducting financial modeling and budgeting to support product strategy and decision making
• Hands-on experience with Amazon SageMaker or similar machine learning notebooks

Benefits

• Flexible work schedules and an unlimited time-off policy
• Fully paid and trans-inclusive health, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their families; plus fully-paid health reimbursement arrangement to use for out of pocket expenses and fully-paid short- and long-term disability
• Fully paid basic and AD&D life insurance and a voluntary supplemental life insurance option
• Dependent and health care flexible spending account options
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) benefits for employees
• Automatic 2% Employer-paid 401K contribution, plus up to an additional 6% match on employee contributions
• A minimum of three months paid medical, family and parental leave (for all new parents, adoptions included)
• Commuter or home-office benefits, including a $1,000 home-office setup allowance for all new full-time remote employees
• Additional perks including quarterly snack deliveries and digital subscriptions to the Boston Globe & New York Times