Product Manager, Volunteer Management System

The Product Manager leads the full product lifecycle for the Volunteer Management System, partnering with stakeholders to define solutions and translate business needs into actionable product requirements. This role coordinates across teams, mentors associate product managers, and ensures alignment between technical and business units to support successful mission delivery.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership to ensure successful execution of broader product strategy and vision.
• Plan prioritized work across multiple teams, minimizing dependencies and risks.
• Recruit and supervise contractor and volunteer associate product managers and business analysts, to ensure they are meeting goals and have resources available to overcome obstacles.
• Provide coaching and training to other product management staff, ensuring work meets team standards.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of product team standards and capabilities, including identifying and implementing process improvement opportunities, and coaching others on adoption and growth.
• Manage the product roadmap and product plans in accordance with business needs and priorities and to deliver valuable and measurable outcomes.
• Advise business and product leadership on potential opportunities, challenges, and risks.
• Convert business strategy into system design and functionality; ensure alignment between technical and business units on the strategy and solution proposals to achieve business strategy and requirements.
• Facilitate discovery and the collection of business requirements from engaged stakeholders, applying varied design thinking and business analysis methods.
• Analyze and use trusted data to make evidence-based decisions and enable continuous improvement and measurable outcomes.
• Ideate with service designers and technical team on product design and solutions, applying human-centered design and product design standards.
• Facilitate cross-functional business review and alignment of product requirements, collaborating with business programs and operations, finance, legal, security, user support, and other stakeholders.
• Create and organize Agile-oriented user stories into epics, phases, and functions in partnership with design, technical and business leads.
• Coordinate with the Scrum Master and technical team to manage current and backlogged user stories.
• Direct staff of technical experts for specific business application.
• Monitor performance metrics and review system modification/change requests to ensure recommendations meet business units' technology needs.
• Continuously learn and grow individual capabilities to keep pace with team, organizational, and industry growth and change.
• Manage vendor and partner relationships to ensure deliverables, timelines and quality of service.
• Identify and resolve issues, influence stakeholders and manage relationships effectively.
• Gather business feedback for incorporation into future development in collaboration with business leads.
• Provide and support clear communication of technical solutions to business partners.
• Serve as a technical advisor and guide to new business stakeholders.
• Ensure business units are prepared for, and engaged in, User Acceptance Testing.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree.
• Minimum 7 years of related experience or equivalent combination of education and related experience required.
• Volunteer management experience desired.
• Experience coaching other product managers in a “player-coach” role.
• Experience working with diverse communities of end users and business stakeholders.
• Experience with system design and development processes, and business process redesign.
• Experience with Agile and waterfall development frameworks.
• Experience with design thinking methods.
• Business acumen.
• Proficient use of Microsoft applications (e.g., Outlook, Project, Visio, Excel, PowerPoint), collaboration and workflow tools (e.g., Confluence, Jira, Monday), and design tools such as Mural and Lucidchart.
• Ability to coordinate tasks and deadlines across concurrent projects.
• Skilled in relationship building and management with business and technical teams.
• Independent and self-motivated with excellent communication skills, including clear and effective writing and documenting.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Experience working with internal customers, management, and outside vendors.
• Experience managing expectations and emerging issues.
• Experience consolidating technical and business information for leadership presentations and reporting.
• Experience as a product manager for web & mobile based digital platforms (preferred).
• Prior experience in nonprofit, humanitarian, or mission-driven organizations (preferred).
• Significant volunteer experience and/or managing volunteers (preferred).

Skills

• Volunteer Management
• Product Management
• Coaching Product Managers
• System Design
• Business Process Reengineering
• Agile Development
• Waterfall Development
• Design Thinking
• Business Acumen
• Microsoft Outlook
• MS Project
• Visio
• MS Excel
• MS PowerPoint
• Confluence
• Jira
• Monday
• Mural
• Lucidchart
• Project Coordination
• Stakeholder Management
• Technical and Business Communication
• Leadership Reporting
• Web and Mobile Platforms

Languages

English