Product Manager, IT (Hybrid in New York, NY [preferred]; Washington, DC; Chicago, IL; San Francisco, CA; Durham, NC; or Remote)
The Product Manager will drive product initiatives, lead projects from conception to execution, and manage cross-functional teams.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Lead Product Initiatives: Own the development and execution of key product features, including requirements gathering, road mapping, and delivery.
- Product Ownership: Take responsibility for the product lifecycle from discovery through launch, ensuring products meet quality, timeline, and business goals.
- Collaborate with Engineering & Cross-Functional Teams: Work closely with engineering, project management, marketing, and customer service to align priorities and ensure smooth project delivery.
- Customer Empathy & Research: Conduct user research and incorporate feedback to ensure products solve real user pain points.
- Data-Driven Decision Making: Define and track metrics (OKRs/KPIs) for product success, using data to inform product decisions and improvements.
- Vendor Management: Manage relationships with external vendors, ensuring alignment with project objectives and timelines.
To Be Successful in This Role, You’ll Need:
- 3-5 years of experience in product management, with a proven track record of delivering products that meet user and business needs.
- Experience in nonprofit or philanthropy sectors is a plus but not required. However, a passion for purpose-driven work is essential.
- Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and experience in user story development, backlog management, and sprint planning.
- Ability to work effectively across departments, balancing stakeholder needs with business objectives.
- Data-driven mindset with a passion for defining and measuring success through OKRs or other key metrics.
- Exceptional communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally with both technical and non-technical teams.
- Strong project management skills with the ability to balance multiple priorities and drive results.
- Effective communication skills and the ability to build strong relationships across the organization.
Other Preferred Skills and Experience:
- Proficiency in data analysis and familiarity with analytics tools (Google Analytics, Tableau) and Product Owner certification (PSPO1 / CSPO)
Our Core Competencies:
- The ability to provide excellent service, including being able to effectively manage resources, create and implement enhancements across the firm to efficiently achieve service standards, and to coach junior teammates on how to address complex service challenges
- The ability to oversee and advise on multiple complex projects, including encouraging workflow and work plan innovations, and ensuring deliverables are high-quality and meet clients’ needs
- The ability to coach colleagues in how to understand stakeholders’ perspectives and to handle high-level stakeholder challenges
- The ability to effectively communicate difficult messages, to represent the firm to external audiences, and to mentor colleagues in how to adapt style, tone, and content to various audiences
- The ability to help teams overcome collaboration challenges and promote compromise, inclusion, and openness; promote and lead activities that support an open, safe, and inclusive organization; understand the context in which we work and build critical cross-team connections; and share useful knowledge firm wide
- The ability to regularly integrate learnings to improve team operations, to lead learning opportunities that enhance team performance, and to be a mentor to others
- The ability to empower teammates to solve problems and provide guidance only when necessary; to solve complex challenges without clear owners or solutions by identifying innovative approaches; and to facilitate coordination with others and to coach colleagues in thinking through solutions
- The ability to create space for and/or facilitate conversations about DEI, bring diverse networks and relationships to the firm, and model leading through one’s own learning edges
Working with Us
This position can be Hybrid in New York, NY (preferred); Washington, DC; Chicago, IL; San Francisco, CA; Durham, NC; or Remote from the following states/district: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Vermont, Washington State, or Wisconsin. Please note that all Arabella Advisors’ offices have reopened, and we work in a hybrid environment.
We reopened our offices in Summer of 2022 and work with a hybrid workplace strategy to ensure continued flexibility for our staff, while deepening our strong culture rooted in collaboration and in-person interactions between colleagues. We expect that after their initial onboarding, all Arabellans will have the choice of two hybrid schedules. Our hybrid schedule options include Flex, with 1-2 days per week in the office, or Office-based, with 3+ days per week in the office (or more if preferred) and the remaining days working at home/remotely. We will make reasonable accommodations under the guidelines of the Americans With Disabilities Act.
We are committed to having a passion-driven, inclusive, transparent, collaborative, healthy, and fun culture. We invite you to visit our careers
page to learn more.
About Arabella Advisors
Arabella Advisors helps foundations, philanthropists and investors who are serious about impact achieve the greatest good with their resources. We work on issues ranging from the social and economic advancement of women and girls, and conservation of our climate and planet, to reducing poverty and inequity in the United States and around the world. Our staff members are mission-driven and action-oriented, and have a unique combination of experience in philanthropy, business, nonprofits, government, finance, law, and other fields. We combine creative, strategic thinking with knowledge and networks developed through decades of hands-on experience. The fastest-growing philanthropic advisory firm in the nation, Arabella is also a certified B Corporation.
About Arabella’s IT Team
We are a growing team supporting the firm’s productivity and LOB technology portfolio. Arabella IT are responsible for realizing Arabella’s vision of becoming a technology-enabled organization capable of meeting and exceeding the firm’s aggressive growth goals and furthering our mission of taking our clients’ ideas to impact.
Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)
Advancing DEI within our firm and in our work with partners is critical to our mission. To be effective partners to philanthropists, nonprofits, and communities impacted by philanthropic dollars, we need to have a highly diverse staff, a workplace where individuals are encouraged to retain their uniqueness and can feel a sense of belonging, and a nuanced understanding of the racial, ethnic, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, and other disparities that undergird the issues we engage in and the interactions we have with one another. For us, equity means that our staff members, our clients, and the people they serve can experience the same level of success, no matter their starting place. We expect all our employees to share this commitment, and always seek ways to improve how well we live these values. Click
here to learn more about DEI at Arabella and read our official DEI statement.
Total Rewards (compensation and benefits)
This is a full-time position. We offer a competitive and holistic total rewards package that includes salary, bonus, and benefits. Our compensation ranges are based on national compensation benchmarks for similar organizations.
The starting salary for this position is $123,695 and with an annual bonus potential of 10% for this position.
We consider national benchmark indicators along with job related skills, experience and relevant education and training, to determine compensation that is fair and competitive.
All full-time staff are eligible for our generous benefits package on their first day of employment:
- Health insurance- On average Arabella pays 86% of the medical premium, 80% of the dental premium, and 100% of the vision premium
- Paid time off- 16 days vacation, 10 personal days, 11 company holidays (7 federal and 4 more from a list of inclusive cultural and religious holidays and your birthday), 20 hours volunteer leave, 8 weeks parental leave
- 401(k) retirement plan- We offer a 4% employer match on a dollar-per-dollar basis, and there is no waiting or vesting period; all funds contributed by you and Arabella are yours to keep on day 1
- Reimbursements for your personal cell phone plan and fitness
- Pre-tax withholding for transportation and parking
- Bonus incentive opportunities
- Access to professional development opportunities
How to Apply
Submit a resume and a one-page cover letter online. The cover letter should address why you’re excited to work at Arabella and why you’re qualified for this specific job.
Arabella Advisors is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to racial equity. If we can make the application process easier through accommodation in the recruitment process, please let us know. We encourage you to read (or listen to)
our DEI statement prior to applying. We make a particular effort to recruit people of color and members of marginalized groups to apply for open positions. Once you have applied, we welcome your feedback on how you have experienced our values around DEI in the recruitment process.
While Arabella is open to individuals from various locations applying to join our team, please note that we generally are unable to pay for relocation expenses, and, except in rare circumstances considered on a case-by-case basis, all applicants must already be legally eligible to work in the United States at the time of application to be considered for this position.
We will review applications as they are received and look forward to hearing from you.
