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Daily Kos is Hiring a Remote Junior Product Manager
LOCATION: Remote within the US
Salary: $100-110K
Daily Kos is the nation’s largest liberal online political community, news organization, and activism hub. Powered by millions of highly engaged supporters, we’re building progressive power by connecting grassroots activists to hundreds of people-powered organizations and campaigns.
We are seeking a Product Manager to guide the continuing evolution of dailykos.com and associated products. As Product Manager, you will be responsible for gathering requirements and specifying features which support readers’ and activists’ participation on site and in the broader grass roots political process by thoroughly understanding user motivation and goals, researching best practices and competitive sites, running user testing, administering surveys and metrics tools and collecting feedback from staff and stakeholders from other departments. To accomplish this, you will ideate with engineers, QA and customer support, help direct the work of the graphic designer and produce clear documentation (comps, specifications, personas, etc.) that the engineering team will use to implement these features. You will report to the Senior Director of Program Management to ensure your designs and specifications advance the strategic goals of the organization and the progressive movement.
This role is exclusively represented by the Pacific Media Workers Guild, CWA Local 39521.
Responsibilities
- Manage Agile software development processes
- Oversee requirements gathering, acceptance criteria formulation, success metric definition, and liaising with design teams.
- Proficient in drafting user stories and story maps, while closely monitoring issue progression and providing timely solutions to the development team.
- Collaborates to refine the product backlog and facilitate daily standup meetings and other essential team gatherings. Skilled in integrating diverse stakeholder needs to construct goal-oriented roadmaps and OKRs, while appropriately scoping projects within resource limitations.
- Collaborate with remote teammates and execute meticulous product acceptance tasks. Proficient in documenting business requirements and conducting thorough business analysis, leveraging market data to inform product strategies aligning with both user and business needs.
- Use data-driven insights for informed decision-making, creating concise dashboards for effective communication with executive leadership. Lead A/B testing initiatives and conducting user surveys as required.
- Actively engage with the user community on dailykos.com to ensure a thorough understanding of user perspectives and needs, fostering company-wide success through stakeholder alignment.
Experience/Qualifications
- Detail-oriented, with excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Understanding of Agile and Scrum development practices
- Familiarity with how software is developed and released
- The ability to partner with a diverse group of stakeholders with competing interests
- Comfort with extracting meaningful signal from large data sets
Daily Kos is proud to deliver a strong total rewards program to our employees.
The position offers:
- Competitive compensation
- Remote-first work environment
- Paid employee medical, dental and vision benefits
- 401K with a 5% company match
- 9 Company-paid holidays
- 6 weeks vacation
- Paid Sick Time
- Traumatic Grief Leave
- Paid parental/family/medical leave
- Remote Worker Stipend
- Professional Development Stipend
- Employee Referral Bonus Program
- Flex Spending Account
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Company paid short & long term disability
- Voluntary Accident & Critical Illness benefit
This position is a 40 hour/week, full-time exempt position and reports to the Senior Director of Program Management. Candidates must be legally eligible to work in the United States. Our organizational commitment to personal growth and work-life balance reduces churn and encourages a very rewarding long term position.
At Daily Kos, we believe that the diversity of ideas, experiences, and cultures that our employees contribute to our organization help us be more effective activists, and we are proud to be an inclusive and equal opportunity workplace. We have a team of amazing people with different backgrounds and talents that are energized by the day’s news events, and people united by common cause. We’re a company that loves learning and supports growth and training for all our employees.
Women, people of color, and LGBTQ individuals are strongly encouraged to apply.
Job Summary
Full Time
$118k-148k (estimate)
04/21/2024
04/27/2024
dailykos.com
OAKLAND, CA
50 - 100
2002
MARKOS MOULITSAS
<$5M
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