Product Manager job in New york

About the Role

Are you a mission technology enthusiast looking to leverage your skills to generate massive social impact?

Catchafire is looking for Product Manager who is passionate about delivering a best-in-class online platform to help nonprofits plan and execute critical work with the help of skilled volunteers. Catchafire makes it easy for anyone to use their talents for good and provides nonprofits with access to skills-based volunteers who are professionals in their domain. It's an exciting time here at Catchafire as we double-down on our goal to develop top-of-the-line products and launch them successfully to our audience of passionate volunteers and inspiring nonprofits.

Our dream candidate is curious and hungry, has a user-first disposition and a track record of supporting iterative product development in an Agile environment. The ideal candidate thrives in multidisciplinary teams, and can support the needs of design and technology, as well as internal collaborators across sales & marketing, accounts and customer service.

Does any of the following describe you?
Early career product manager looking to hone skills & contribute to a meaningful mission
Product marketing manager looking to transition your skills into a PM role
Business analyst or product support looking to lean into a product development role

Responsibilities

• Own conception to delivery of various features across the Catchafire platform in support of our platform goals.
• Contribute to the product roadmap, feature backlog and product documentation such as user stories, use cases, user flows, logic flows, and functional specifications.
• Support the end-to-end product process from inception to planning, to QA and feature review (and everything in-between).
• Liaise with internal customers (Accounts, Customer Success, Business Development) to bring meaningful product solutions to drive lift and behavior change
• Work with product owners to synthesize high-level strategic vision into actionable features and improvements that drive the Catchafire platform forward.
• Collaborate with core agile team including but not limited to technical architects, developers, designers and QA throughout the product lifecycle.

Attributes

• Strong Communicator: You are a strong communicator who enjoys the daily challenge of partnering with developers and designers to make products fly
  
  
• Technology Lover: Your finger is on the pulse of the best-in-class technologies and products available in the marketplace for digital consumers
  
  
• User-focused: you have a natural hunger to understand our products and our users’ experience and are motivated by the Catchafire vision to transform the nonprofit sector.
  
  
• Systems thinker: you are hungry to learn how systems work and you structure your own work in a systematic, scalable way to maximize learning and collaboration across teams.
  
  
• Most of these phrases describe you well: analytical problem-solver · effective negotiator · natural facilitator · strong arbitrator · motivated self-starter · continuous improver · entrepreneurial thinker · comfortable with change

Experience/Background

• 2+ years product management / product marketing experience at a technology company.
• 4+ years professional experience working in technology, media or the social impact sector.
• Track record executing in a fast-paced, agile environment
• Ability to use quantitative and qualitative methods to understand user behavior and build a case for product improvements
• Facility with data collection, tagging and analysis as well as 3rd party analytics providers (e.g. Google Analytics)
• Experience working with design teams and strong instincts around user experience.
• Highly collaborative with the ability to multi-task and handle multiple deliverables and projects at once, sticking to deadlines

Nice to Have

• Experience working with Saas model platform or related digital workflow tool.
• Experience with dual-sided marketplace platforms
• Experience working on digital product for nonprofit end-users

How to Apply
If our values resonate with you, email your resume to careers@catchafire.org. Please specify "Product Manager" in the subject, and please include short answers to the following questions:
(1) Why do you want to work at Catchafire?
(2) What aspect of product management do you find most exciting and why?

This position is based in New York City.