[Hiring] Senior Manager, Product @ActBlue

Role Description

The Senior Manager, Product for Downballot & Trust is a player-coach role reporting to the Director of Product. You will primarily lead, manage, and coach other product managers in their work to deliver on ActBlue’s goals while also spending a smaller portion of your time serving as day-to-day product manager. This role supports a diverse and talented team of product managers, engineers, designers, and researchers who work collaboratively to tackle challenging issues at scale.

You will be the strategic and executional owner of your domain space:

• Deliver a compelling strategic vision and ensure we achieve that vision confidently and on time.
• Enter into an ambiguous space, ramp up quickly, set a strategic vision rooted in user needs, data insights, and business context.
• Execute the full software development lifecycle for both 0-to-1 products and maturing established products.
• Teach others to execute those steps effectively.

What You Will Do

• Directly manage a group of product managers responsible for closely-related areas of the ActBlue Downballot offering and Trust initiatives.
• Collaborate with the Director of Product and equivalent partners in engineering and operations leadership on organizational design, recruiting, and onboarding new hires.
• Serve as the points of contact and escalation for cross-platform initiatives and help manage key stakeholder relationships across senior leadership and multiple departments.
• Ensure the continued growth and career development of the product managers on your team.
• Offer strategic thought leadership on Downballot products to product department leaders.
• Mobilize your team to execute swiftly and embrace iterative development.
• Define meaningful product KPIs and evaluate the effectiveness of your initiatives through product instrumentation, data analysis, and user research.
• Write clear and concise product requirements focused on framing the user need, context, constraints, opportunities, and goals.
• Proactively identify and resolve roadblocks and technical dependencies within your team’s roadmap.
• Build and foster a strong product culture around testing and learning.

Qualifications

• 6-8 years of experience as a product manager.
• 5+ years recent experience leading complex, multifaceted product initiatives.
• Experience working with geographically distributed, cross-functional product teams.
• Strong understanding of user behavior and motivations, grounded in qualitative and quantitative insights.
• Experience designing effective product experiments.
• Compelling presenter with strong listening, persuasion, and facilitation skills.
• Senior-level individual contributor with cross-team leadership experience or early-stage people manager.
• Strategic systems thinker with a pragmatic and adaptable approach to product management.
• Experienced with emerging technologies and best practices in the space.
• Cares about progressive causes and politics.

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.
• Fully-paid health reimbursement arrangement for out-of-pocket expenses.
• Fully paid short- and long-term disability insurance.
• Fully paid basic and AD&D life insurance with a voluntary supplemental option.
• Dependent and health care flexible spending account options.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) benefits.
• Automatic 2% Employer-paid 401K contribution, plus up to an additional 6% match.
• A minimum of three months paid medical, family, and parental leave.
• Commuter or home-office benefits, including a $1,000 home-office setup allowance.
• Additional perks including quarterly snack deliveries and digital subscriptions to the Boston Globe & New York Times.