Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Blue State is a purpose-driven agency that partners with leading causes and brands to create real change. As a Product Manager, you will work with nonprofits and progressive organizations to enhance their digital products, conducting user research, defining product requirements, and collaborating with various teams to deliver solutions.
Responsibilities
- Assess clients’ digital platforms, identify goals, and communicate solutions that help clients achieve their strategic objectives
- Cultivate an understanding of users’ needs and behaviors through interviews, analytics, and other forms of research. Create personas and user journeys, and represent users’ perspective in planning sessions
- Conduct product research and lead feature ideation and prioritization sessions
- Write and maintain functional requirements, ensuring that all functionality, user flows, and edge cases are understood by stakeholders. Documentation could range from lofi sketches to detailed acceptance criteria
- Develop testing and measurement plans in coordination with strategists and analysts
- Help create sprint plans and release schedules
- Manage stakeholder feedback, evaluating all proposed features against the product scope and ensuring that bugs are reported and prioritized correctly. Provide creative recommendations based on your technical expertise when features don’t fit in the budget. Make the tough calls when scope needs to be cut
- Support the greater Business Development team with the scoping of new client product engagements. Estimate effort, ensure that team members are aligned on what’s being proposed, and guard against proposals that aren’t feasible
- Contribute to the development and maintenance of general documentation and toolkits within the product management practice
Skills
- 5+ years of experience in product management, particularly with website projects
- Experience with CMS-driven websites, such as those built on WordPress. You will not architect a WordPress site yourself, but you will vet designs and feature requirements for feasibility and judge an engineering team's progress
- Familiarity with and interest in marketing platforms, including CRMs, and data and personalization technology used by organizations to engage and mobilize their supporters
- Familiarity with HTML, CSS, and JS. You will not need to write any code, but you will need to speak to the capabilities of common web technologies
- Experienced with using qualitative and quantitative data to make product decisions
- Willingness to wear multiple hats and get into the weeds across product needs including UX design, content strategy, and user research
- Ability to use wireframes to communicate recommendations to design teams
- Excellent communication skills. Ability to interact with technical and non-technical stakeholders alike
- Strong collaborator and relationship builder. Colleagues know they can come to you for help working through issues or opportunities
- Empathy, positivity, respect, and the ability to be a role model at Blue State
Benefits
- Unlimited time off (inclusive of sick, personal, and vacation days)
- $1,000 annually in professional development funds
- Competitive health, dental, and vision insurance
- Flexible and health savings accounts
- 401K & employer match
- Generous paid holiday schedule
- 12-week fully-paid parental leave for all parents-to-be
- Short-term and long-term disability insurance
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- Remote work flexibility
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