Senior Manager, Product (Group Manager)

ActBlue is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating technology that supports Democratic victories and progressive causes. The Senior Manager, Product will lead and coach product managers while also managing day-to-day product responsibilities, ensuring the delivery of strategic vision and effective execution across product initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• Directly manage a group of product managers responsible for closely-related areas of the ActBlue Downballot offering and Trust initiatives, including creating and implementing the strategy for the team, in alignment with the Product Department’s 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 across 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 in identifying, articulating, and socializing product vision and strategy, and connecting the dots between the product work of multiple teams to help downballot candidates win elections
• 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. Drive strategic roadmap investments to improve those KPIs over time
• Write clear and concise product requirements focused on framing the user need, context, constraints, opportunities, and goals – and effectively communicate them to senior leaders, designers, data scientists, and developers for all cross-product platform work
• Proactively identify and resolve roadblocks and technical dependencies within your team’s roadmap, and work cross-functionally to manage trade-offs, balance organization and customer needs with technical and resource constraints, and ensure the right product ships at the right time
• Build and foster a strong product culture around testing and learning in order to iterate quickly, mitigate risk, and get to the right product

Requirements:

• 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 user insights
• Experience designing effective product experiments
• Compelling presentation skills with strong listening, persuasion, and facilitation skills
• Cross-team leadership experience or early-stage people manager with a track record of mentorship
• Ability to leverage team strengths, recruit talent, and develop individual product managers
• Strategic systems thinker with a pragmatic and adaptable approach to product management
• Experience with emerging technologies and best practices in the space (e.g., AI in product development)
• Commitment to progressive causes and politics