Technical Product Manager, Stand Together, Arlington, VA
Stand Together -
Arlington, VA,
US
Technical Product Manager
Date Posted: 2024-05-08
Job description
Stand Together is a dynamic and mission-driven organization committed to driving positive social change and empowering individuals to overcome barriers. Join our team and be part of a collaborative community that values innovation, personal responsibility, and the power of bottom-up solutions. Together, we will create a society that fosters opportunity, dignity, and well-being for all.
Stand Togetheris seeking a Technical Product Manager. This person will come alongside business and product leaders to deliver world-class Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and/or Investment and Revenue Management (IRM) products. This role involves collaborating with the business stakeholders and technical teams to drive the product vision and roadmap, define product requirements, prioritize features, and deliver solutions that meet business objectives.
The ideal candidate is knowledgeable about CRM and/or Investment and Revenue Management processes, will have a strong technical background, excellent communication skills, and a passion for delivering innovative solutions. This role should identify and monitor the success KPIs set out to track progress. This person will also make sure that the overall strategy and goals set by the leadership are clear to the product team, and that the teams are working to support those goals. Having an analytical and entrepreneurial mindset is a must. If you love working with internal customers, applying technology to solve problems and are ready to use your talents to fuel a movement dedicated to empowering individuals and transforming society, we want to hear from you!
Your Responsibilities Include
Skills You Bring to the Organization
Stand Out Candidates Will Bring
What We Offer
Stand Together helps social entrepreneurs supercharge their efforts to help people improve their lives. We connect them with passionate partners and the resources necessary to make a greater difference. Through our philanthropic community, we tackle some of the nation's biggest challenges so that every person has the opportunity to realize their extraordinary potential. Stand Together partners with people from diverse perspectives and backgrounds-including people in education, business, community non-profits, and public policy-to accomplish more together than any of us could on our own.
Our Values Working at Stand Together is different from many other organizations. We have a relentless commitment to a culture based on a business philosophy called Principle Based Management (PBM). Informed by the principles that allow a free and open society to flourish, PBM prepares individuals to innovate, improve, and transform while fostering a healthy, growing organization that creates long-term value for its clients and supporters and fulfillment for its employees.
We believe that diversity in experiences, perspectives, knowledge and ideas fuels creativity, broadens knowledge, and helps drive success. That's why we're proud to be an equal opportunity employer and strive to treat all employees and applicants with honesty, dignity, respect and sensitivity. We welcome all qualified applicants regardless of color,race, religion, religious creed, sex, gender or gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, ethnicity, ancestry, age, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy (including medical needs which may arise from pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), military and veteran status, genetic information, marital or familial status, political affiliation, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances.
Stand Togetheris seeking a Technical Product Manager. This person will come alongside business and product leaders to deliver world-class Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and/or Investment and Revenue Management (IRM) products. This role involves collaborating with the business stakeholders and technical teams to drive the product vision and roadmap, define product requirements, prioritize features, and deliver solutions that meet business objectives.
The ideal candidate is knowledgeable about CRM and/or Investment and Revenue Management processes, will have a strong technical background, excellent communication skills, and a passion for delivering innovative solutions. This role should identify and monitor the success KPIs set out to track progress. This person will also make sure that the overall strategy and goals set by the leadership are clear to the product team, and that the teams are working to support those goals. Having an analytical and entrepreneurial mindset is a must. If you love working with internal customers, applying technology to solve problems and are ready to use your talents to fuel a movement dedicated to empowering individuals and transforming society, we want to hear from you!
Your Responsibilities Include
- Define and articulate the product vision, strategy, and roadmap in alignment with business goals. You'll be the bridge between business aspirations and technological execution.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand their objectives and strategies, gather and prioritize product requirements, considering customer feedback, market and technology trends, and business priorities.
- Lead product teams through effective communication, collaboration, and leadership to achieve project goals.
- Work closely with architects, engineering, and QA to ensure timely and quality delivery of product features and enhancements.
- Manage the product development lifecycle, resource allocation, technical debt, deployments, and releases, and respond to issues and incidents as needed.
- Support the creation and execution of test plans and UAT to ensure the effective testing of technology changes before deployment.
- Lead the execution planning processes and quarterly roadmaps to roll out new features and identify opportunities for innovation.
- Serve as the SME for the product, providing comprehensive guidance and support to internal teams, customers, and partners. This includes facilitating successful adoption and comprehensive training programs to ensure users can leverage the full capabilities of the product effectively.
Skills You Bring to the Organization
- 5+ years of experience in product management, with a strong technical background in Salesforce development and architecture or similar CRM or Investment Management platforms. Your track record should demonstrate successful product launches and management.
- Hands-on experience with platforms like Salesforce or HubSpot, and a deep understanding of data management tools and cloud technologies. Your technical skills enable you to understand and solve complex problems.
- Strong work ethic and accountability to make sure initiatives go well, being equally comfortable taking personal ownership for a task or delegating it to another team member.
- You thrive in collaborative environments and are adept at making quick decisions with limited information.
- Comfortable applying a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods to define success.
- Strategic thinker that can connect customer use cases to technology solutions and think holistically about end-to-end experience.
- Exceptional leadership skills with the ability to motivate and influence cross-functional teams.
- Extensive knowledge and experience working in sprints and following Agile methodology.
Stand Out Candidates Will Bring
- Experience implementing and/or supporting enterprise and large-scale systems, specifically in Grant Management, Customer Management, Finance, and Fundraising areas.
- Exceptional ability to create partnerships with technical leaders and business leaders.
- Ability to manage a portfolio of bigger and smaller bets while balancing immediate business value, short-term goals, and long-term vision.
- A healthy blend of deep technical knowledge, customer-centric thinking, and product-centric thinking.
- Strong communication and presentation skills; represents the products in leadership meetings.
- Experience with Salesforce, HubSpot, SalesLoft, data lakes, AWS.
- Experience with project management tools, specifically the Atlassian suite of products.
What We Offer
- A meaningful career where your work will improve the lives of millions of Americans - especially the least fortunate.
- A vision-driven community of over 1,000 employees across the country who are dedicated to improving the lives of others.
- Competitive salaries and bonuses. Our salary and bonus strategies are aligned to the value you create, not a standardized bell curve.
- Generous 401K match - 6% match with immediate vesting.
- Competitive health and wellness benefits
- Our flexible time-off policy allows all employees to take leave as needed.
- A purchasing credit card to use for business expenses.
- Mileage reimbursement for business travel separate from your commute.
- Commuter assistance plans to offset the cost of commuting into our headquarters (on-site parking or metro)
- Opportunities for professional development and mentorship that can strengthen your effectiveness through Principle Based Management and other industry specific programs.
Stand Together helps social entrepreneurs supercharge their efforts to help people improve their lives. We connect them with passionate partners and the resources necessary to make a greater difference. Through our philanthropic community, we tackle some of the nation's biggest challenges so that every person has the opportunity to realize their extraordinary potential. Stand Together partners with people from diverse perspectives and backgrounds-including people in education, business, community non-profits, and public policy-to accomplish more together than any of us could on our own.
Our Values Working at Stand Together is different from many other organizations. We have a relentless commitment to a culture based on a business philosophy called Principle Based Management (PBM). Informed by the principles that allow a free and open society to flourish, PBM prepares individuals to innovate, improve, and transform while fostering a healthy, growing organization that creates long-term value for its clients and supporters and fulfillment for its employees.
We believe that diversity in experiences, perspectives, knowledge and ideas fuels creativity, broadens knowledge, and helps drive success. That's why we're proud to be an equal opportunity employer and strive to treat all employees and applicants with honesty, dignity, respect and sensitivity. We welcome all qualified applicants regardless of color,race, religion, religious creed, sex, gender or gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, ethnicity, ancestry, age, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy (including medical needs which may arise from pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), military and veteran status, genetic information, marital or familial status, political affiliation, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances.