Product Manager, Technology

ABOUT THE JOB

The ACLU seeks applicants for the full-time position of Product Manager in the Technology Department of the ACLU’s National office in New York City
. This is a hybrid role that has in-office requirements of two (2) days per week or eight (8) days per month.

The ACLU’s Technology team partners with departments across the ACLU to build and maintain innovative, robust, and secure digital products and technical systems that accelerate the ACLU’s mission as our nationwide guardian of rights and liberties. We are a team of engineers, designers, product managers, and administrators who take pride in creating technical solutions that help raise money, get our message out in the world, mobilize our supporters, and manage our data with integrity.

This position is part of a collective bargaining unit. It is represented by ACLU Staff United (ASU).

Reporting to the Director of Product Management
, the Product Manager works collaboratively with leadership, tech team members, and stakeholder teams across the organization to drive product development for our fundraising CRM and data management product, services, and platforms. The Product Manager will play a leading role in building products to enable internal teams to work more efficiently such that the ACLU’s fundraising, advocacy, engagement and communications needs are best met.

• Collaborate with other product leaders to create and execute on the product roadmap for products that support the ACLU’s nationwide fundraising program. Initially, this will involve building and maintaining custom tooling to enhance and integrate with our Fundraising CRM.
• Work closely with stakeholders to explore and identify product requirements for projects added to the tech team’s roadmap. Be able to define lean minimally viable products (MVPs) that solve real problems and have measurable success metrics.
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders in Technology, Development, Mar Comms, Organizing, and Privacy & Data Governance to understand their department-specific needs. Prioritize goals and build a strategy for each product that is in-line with the organization’s goals and priorities. The Product Manager will support these colleagues in program creation and management for effective onboarding, training, and support.
• Manage timely updates and communications about the projects and work streams for your team, adopting the best format and channel for different stakeholder or user groups.
• Work closely with leadership to justify product roadmap decisions and overall product strategy choices. Iterate and make changes to strategy and roadmap when data or landscape changes require so.
• Help establish product-driven success metrics for projects you lead. Report back on these success metrics and convene conversations so that all members of the team understand how products are performing and what that means for the broader roadmap.
• Collaborate closely with engineers, SMEs, and others to explore problem areas and ensure designed solutions best solve well-defined problems. Have experience facilitating an inclusive product development process to ideate and execute in a healthy fashion.
• Work with the Analytics team to understand how products are performing and where further optimizations are needed. Iterate on the product roadmap for your area of ownership to ensure analytics-driven insights are being acted on.
• Be a great storyteller! Be comfortable presenting roadmaps, product requirements, usage analysis and more to leadership, team members, stakeholders and others in order to help them understand the power of product-driven development.

• Be committed to advancing the mission of the ACLU
• Center and embed the principles of equity, inclusion and belonging in their work by demonstrating commitment to diversity with an approach that respects and values multiple perspectives
• Be committed to work collaboratively and respectfully toward resolving obstacles and conflicts

• Familiarity with CRMs, especially Salesforce and Blackbaud products (ie: NPSP, NGOC, BBCRM).
• Experience working with or managing technical vendors.
• Strong…