Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Multiplier accelerates impact for innovative projects focused on protecting and fostering a healthy, sustainable, resilient, and equitable world. The Senior Product & Project Manager will lead FieldKit’s hardware and software product development, manage community-based partner projects, and guide a small team while overseeing strategy, logistics, deadlines, priorities, and stakeholder relationships.
Responsibilities
- Feature prioritization, product roadmap, and kanban board management across electrical and mechanical hardware, firmware, software (mobile app, online data portal, FieldKit.org), and printed collateral
- Strategic management through design, prototyping, development and release phases
- Stakeholder management and meeting stewardship, facilitating input on feature prioritization from executive leadership and the customer support team
- Creating scopes of work, schedules, estimates, project tasks, deliverables, assumptions and dependencies
- Developing strategic project plans, identifying resource requirements, managing risk, tracking progress, and course-correcting
- Synthesizing the project brief, including goals, success metrics and mandatories
- Leading the project team, facilitating smooth processes, and outlining internal project roles and responsibilities, workflow, and approval process
- Building strong relationships with partners, outlining roles and responsibilities, workflow, and approval process, managing expectations, and flagging issues
- Ensuring that projects are delivered on time, budget, and to agreed quality
- Support grant reporting and documentation for the project
- Manage the production of FieldKit’s hardware products to meet order demand, interfacing with third party manufacturing houses, the engineering team, and the fulfillment team to ensure FieldKit’s customers and partner projects are well supported
- Manage internal projects (like competitor testing co-deployments, product photoshoots, internal wiki), contractors, and consultants
- Manage onsite installations and visit deployments in the field
- Document and develop internal protocols and processes
- Train and oversee additional project support, as needed
- Guide Exec team resourcing strategy discussions, liaise with the contracts team to execute contracts, and support other functions including grant fundraising, communications, sales, and operations
Skills
- 4+ years proven experience managing software product development
- 4+ years proven experience managing projects
- Excellent time management and prioritization (“big picture”) skills with an eye for detail
- Excellent communication skills, both direct and empathetic
- Comfortable with working alongside a remote team across multiple time zones
- Happy to hit the ground running on a product or project with many moving pieces
- Skilled at listening, and quickly synthesizing information into key requirements and actions
- Knows when to ask pertinent subject matter related or technical questions in order to understand and identify the scope/schedule/budget implications
- Digitally savvy and proficient in Google suite, Monday.com, GitLab, Jira, Trello, Smartsheet
- Familiarity with design software e.g. Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite
- Passionate about environmental conservation, open technology, or community empowerment
- Experience managing (electrical and mechanical) hardware design, development and production
- Experience working on multi-platform products and projects
- Experience working on grant-funded projects
- Experience working with the unpredictabilities of in-field or onsite installation (in the US and abroad)
- Ability to work from the FieldKit lab in Downtown Los Angeles on occasion
- The ability to work from the FieldKit lab in Downtown Los Angeles on occasion is preferred, but not required
Benefits
- Fully remote position
- Health, vision and dental benefits
- Retirement savings
- Generous vacation and sick leave policy
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