Senior Product Manager

Organization

Stand Together

Location

Arlington, Virginia

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. 
Senior Product Manager 
Work Location:  Onsite - Arlington, VA 
 
Stand Together is a philanthropic community that works with the country’s boldest social entrepreneurs to empower people to realize their full potential.  We believe technology can transform the way philanthropy and social entrepreneurs address some of our toughest problems: criminal justice, immigration, breaking the cycle of poverty, economic recovery, equal rights, and much more.    
We have a team of product managers working on problems as diverse as how to better connect donors to our vision, how to help our nonprofit partners use the principles of human progress to operate and scale their organizations, and how to apply cutting-edge technology to philanthropy.  You’d join this team and work on existing projects, as well as work across the broader Stand Together community to identify new opportunities for technological innovation.
Many reading this job description likely will not have considered a product role in the social sector.  If you have experience building products at for-profit companies and are ready to tackle some of society’s greatest problems, this role is the perfect chance to apply your well-honed skills to a completely new domain - with the potential to radically improve society.   
 
 

Responsibilities

  • Build a product vision and explain an opportunity to a non-technical audience. 
  • Take the product through the entire product lifecycle from conception to shipping. 
  • Integrate the product into our enterprise and data architecture.
  • Lead, mentor, and coach others working in product development.
  • Be a voracious consumer of information to be able to quickly become an expert in new domains. 
  • Iterate on a product to find product-market fit based on user feedback and customer insights. 
  • Use agile development frameworks and utilize standard software platforms such Jira for product delivery.
  • Work with developers and UX designers to build prototypes to test ideas.
  • Obsess about gathering data to make better decisions. 
  • Bring in knowledge of cutting-edge technology trends to accelerate our innovation and creativity. 

Knowledge and Skills You Bring to the Organization

  • 5+ years of product experience, including building a product from the ground up. 
  • Leadership and mentorship of junior product managers (either directly or indirectly).
  • Strong stakeholder management skills.
  • Ability to invent novel product ideas from customer problems. 
  • Experience in building a platform product, especially mobile apps, social networks, or CRM. 
  • Expertise in the product management process

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.