Job Description
Title: Principal Product Manager (Incubation Team)
Location: Remote
Want to help us, help others? We’re hiring!
GoFundMe is a global community of over 100 million people with the common purpose of helping one another. Our mission is to help people help each other by making it safe and easy for people to ask for help and support causes for themselves, each other, and their communities. In 2022, GoFundMe joined together with Classy, a leading nonprofit fundraising software company that enables nonprofits to connect supporters with the causes they care about. Together, GoFundMe and Classy have empowered people and organizations to raise more than $25 billion since 2010. Our vision is to become the most helpful place in the world.
Join us! GoFundMe is seeking our nextPrincipal Product Manager who believes in the impact of GoFundMe and is passionate about our mission to help people help others. This role will be part of the Incubation team and will ideate, develop and launch new growth engines that solve significant problems for the citizens of the world. You will join our Incubation team and drive impact for our customers and business. Our PMs are responsible for setting the vision and strategy and owning the roadmap and execution on the plans that are developed. We value customer obsession, out of the box thinking, grit, positive impatience, and behaviors that earn trust with partners and customers alike. We appreciate a broad range of perspectives, diverse backgrounds and experiences, that will enable us to create the best possible product for our customers.
Candidates considered for this role will be located in either San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago or New York City areas.
The Job
- Customer Focus: Be the advocate for our customers and understand the needs of our community to build delightful experiences.
- Intuition & Judgement: Break down large projects into milestones, make trade-off decisions while balancing the nuances of implementation details and time-to-market needs, and get buy-in from cross-functional teams.
- Product Ownership: Lead product vision, Cost / ROI analysis, strategy, development, and successful execution of new product initiatives and features to drive IMPACT. Lead the team through defining, identifying and tracking appropriate product and business metrics that are aligned with user goals.
- Communication: Articulate the problem you’re solving, the vision you are going after, write crisp and clear requirements and communicate the challenges and constraints to senior management and various stakeholders.
- Collaboration: Work cross-functionally with engineering, design, security, marketing, data and other teams to build out an amazing product.
- Data-informed decision-making: Use UX Research, market research, A/B Testing, and competitive analysis to drive product decisions. You will work with designers, engineers and other stakeholders and your job will be to make sure research and data is at the table so the best decisions are made.
You
- Have a proven track record for building, launching and scaling successful products. Can take an idea/opportunity from a problem statement to an effective, usable and beautiful final product, leveraging the inputs of functional expertise throughout the org.
- Have 12+ years of product management experience OR startup CEO/CPO type experience OR blend of Product Management and startup CEO/CPO experience
- Demonstrated ability to partner with designers, engineers, and other cross-functional stakeholders.
- Strong communicator with the ability to bring people together to define a common vision and plan for action.
- Humility and willingness to dissect your decisions made, to constantly iterate towards the best version of your product-self.
- Ability to work on multiple projects under pressure and thrive in a fast-paced environment.
- BA/BS degree or equivalent; MBA or technical degree a plus.