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We are recruiting for a Product Manager (12 month fixed-term). As a Product Manager you will strategically deliver and derisk the scaling of priority digital products and services across our missions as they mature beyond early validation. You will ensure they have an outcome-focused strategy and roadmap to scale user and stakeholder value and mission impact, and will lead and manage multidisciplinary teams to use lean-agile principles, user-centered design, and data to iteratively improve solutions. You may also discover and validate new solutions, and help others grow lean-agile capabilities.
Job Responsibility:
Strategically deliver and de-risk the scaling of priority digital products and services as they mature beyond early validation to ensure sustained mission impact
Develop outcome-focused strategies and roadmaps that align user value with mission goals and long-term sustainability
Manage the full product lifecycle, from scaling and ongoing maintenance through to strategic retirement or spin-out
Lead and manage multidisciplinary teams (e.g. design, data science, engineering, domain experts) to use live data and ongoing discovery to focus iteration toward increasing impact, and resolve roadblocks as needed
Embed lean-agile principles to ensure teams release working solutions quickly and often, learning from real-world feedback and data to improve value
Cultivate relationships with delivery partners and key stakeholders to support the widespread adoption and impact of products and services
Translate complex user needs into concrete requirements and realistic release plans that match team capacity
Identify new digital opportunities and occasionally undertake discovery to validate new solutions when mission needs evolve
Support capability building through facilitating learning opportunities within a community of people interested or involved in product-related work
Requirements:
Strategic product scaling: Experience leading digital products and services through the transition from validation to sustained impact, with a focus on de-risking growth and navigating the complexities of scaling
Iterative development and testing: Experience using lean-agile principles and using live data and ongoing discovery to focus product iterations toward increasing the impact and scale of existing solutions
User focus: You have experience supporting multidisciplinary teams to develop digital products and services that meet the needs of users and stakeholders, as well as having the desired business and/or social impact
including helping them to uncover and understand user and stakeholder needs through user research and testing
Outcome-focused planning: Ability to translate user needs and mission goals into strategic roadmaps and realistic release plans that account for team capacity and operational constraints
Multidisciplinary leadership: Experience leading and managing multidisciplinary teams through the product lifecycle, aligning around strategic choices, establishing routines for releasing working solutions quickly to learn and improve, facilitating decisions and resolving roadblocks
Stakeholder & partner management: Skilled at building relationships with delivery partners and technical/non-technical stakeholders to support progress and impact
Lifecycle management: Experience managing products at various stages of maturity through to retirement
Nice to have:
Hands-on prototyping: Comfortable using code or no-code/low-code tools to quickly validate new solutions when mission needs evolve
Social impact focus: Experience developing digital products and services specifically designed for social impact or mission-driven outcomes
Design skills: Familiar with design disciplines (like UX design and service design) and are able to apply some of the mindsets and tools