Product Manager Fellow (1 year contract)

You will be embedded in each partner nonprofit as its product counterpart, working alongside a senior TAF colleague who mentors and supports you. You will sit with the partner's program teams, learn how their services actually reach people, and turn that into a clear product roadmap. You will work with TAF engineers, who write and ship production code. As the year goes on, you take on more of the discovery, prioritization and partner relationship yourself.

You will prototype solutions yourself, such as dashboards, product analytics, mockups, randomized experiments and feature design, so that decisions are made on something real. You will not be expected to write production-grade code.

• Be the day-to-day product counterpart to your host organizations' leadership and program teams, building trust through regular in-person and remote time with them
• Run structured discovery: interview staff and the people they serve, shadow field operations, and write down the real problem rather than the stated one
• Turn what you learn into a prioritized roadmap and clear requirements the engineers can act on
• Prototype solutions: dashboards, product analytics, mockups, randomized experiments, feature design and prototypes
• Design and run small experiments (A/B tests, pilots) with the partner and help them read the results
• Run lightweight agile cycles with the engineers: backlog, sprint planning, and retrospectives
• Coach partner staff on product practice, so the capability stays after you do
• Report what you learn back to TAF so lessons from your placement reach other partners and the wider sector
• In the final quarter, work with TAF and the host organization you are most likely to join to define the permanent role you would take on there

• Have 2-5 years of experience in product management, solutions engineering, consulting or a similar client-facing technical role
• Have worked directly with customers (forward deployed PM, solutions engineer, customer support or similar), not only with internal teams
• Have a track record of making decisions based on data. You have designed and prototyped features through user research, built dashboards, run ad-hoc product analytics, randomized experiments and AB tests.
• Have a track record of deploying AI solutions to production.
• Can read and write SQL, and can prototype a simple dashboard or analysis to make a point
• Are comfortable with agile ways of working and can explain trade-offs to engineers and to non-technical program directors.