Senior Product Manager

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.

Work Location:  Onsite - Arlington, VA 

Our community is growing and so is the impact of our work to move toward a society where everyone has the opportunity to succeed by benefiting others. We're looking for a Sr. Product Manager to support Stand Together Foundation and a pipeline of new and innovative technology projects, building across a cross-disciplinary team of strategists, data scientists, designers, and developers who believe in people and the power of technology to help people transform their lives and society. Our team seeks to build a series of ambitious products and services to improve the social sector and help ensure that philanthropic and public resources are targeted to individuals and communities who can benefit from them the most.

As a Sr. Product Manager, you will utilize your skills and business acumen to work with internal and external partners to understand multi-faceted technology and business processes and help drive the delivery of new products.  You will use process mapping best practices, visualization tools, and knowledge of technology to clearly lay out requirements and process maps on key processes and workflows.

To thrive in this role, you will engage with humility, curiosity, and strong organizational skills to bring visibility to complex business operations and workflows, and then partner as a consultant with stakeholders and developers to inform innovative solutions.

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.   

• Build a product vision and explain an opportunity to a non-technical audience. 
• Take product through the entire product lifecycle from concept to ship. 
• 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. 
• Help drive product exploration through user immersions and incorporate the voice of the customer into the product development process.
• 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.
• Manage relationships with clients and translate feature requests to technical requirements
• Maintain the product roadmap and help prioritize new and existing feature requests 
• Obsess about gathering data to make better decisions. 
• Leading alignment with compliance requirements such as HIPAA and SOC 2.
• Bring in knowledge of cutting-edge technology trends to accelerate our innovation and creativity. 

• 7+ years of product experience in either a startup or enterprise technology environment   
• Leadership and mentorship of Jr. product managers (either directly or indirectly).
• Strong stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to invent novel product ideas from customer problems.
• Familiarity with APIs and backend infrastructure
• Experience in building a platform product, especially a mobile apps, social networks, or CRMs. 
• Expertise in product management process and utilizing Jira to drive a product forward
• Ability to present and collaborate with senior leaders and stakeholders.  
• Skill in communicating a product vision in a way that generates excitement and buy-in. 

• A meaningful career where your work will improve the lives of millions of people in America.  
•  will improve the lives of millions of Americans  
• A vision-driven organization 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.  
• 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.