Non-Profit Hiring 100 Remote Product Manager

This is a remote position.

Child Care Aware of America (CCAoA) is the only national organization that supports every part of the child care partnership with an on-the-ground network of Child Care Resource and Referral (CCR&R) organizations we work in states and communities to advance high-quality affordable child caretransforming a patchwork of resources into a system that works for everyone. Together we make child care strongand that makes everyone stronger. CCAoA is committed to recruiting and retaining a dynamic workforce to help build a child care system that serves all children and families. Join us in ensuring that every family has access to high-quality affordable child care.

Summary of Position: 100% Remote Role

The Product Manager leads product management for CCAoAs suite of custom software with a particular focus on Military Program products. This role involves defining product vision prioritizing user needs incorporating user feedback negotiating requirements with internal stakeholders collaborating on solutions with engineering cultivating a product backlog and acting as the primary liaison between stakeholders and cross-functional team(s). The Product Manager plays a key role in enhancing the digital experience for military families and providers.

Position Duties and Responsibilities:

• Drive RFP-Based Delivery: Translate RFP requirements into actionable product goals and ensure alignment with organizational objectives.
• Prioritize User Needs: Gather and synthesize feedback from stakeholders to shape capabilities that improve enhanced referral processes data use and data accessibility.
• Manage Product Backlog : Work closely with our partner(s) to create a prioritized backlog of features related to data sourcing data ingestion transformation search and warehouse integration.
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work closely with internal and external software and data engineering subject matter experts and design to deliver scalable solutions for data pipelines and referral systems.
• Stakeholder Engagement : Act as a liaison between internal teams external vendors and stakeholders to ensure clarity and alignment throughout project execution.
• Human-Centered Design: Advocate for user-centric approaches in building referral workflows and data interfaces.
• Define Success Metrics : Develop KPIs to measure product success.
• Identify Optimization Opportunities : Recommend improvements for data flow automation and business processes to enhance efficiency and scalability.

Knowledge Skills & Abilities:

• Strong understanding of data pipelines ETL processes and data warehousing concepts.
• Expertise with product management principles including roadmap development and backlog prioritization.
• Familiarity with RFP processes and translating contractual requirements into product deliverables.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills for stakeholder alignment.
• Knowledge of agile methodologies and iterative development practices.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work independently in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications:

• 7 years of experience in product management preferably in data-driven or technology products.
• Proven experience delivering products involving data sourcing data ingestion data pipelines systems requiring search capabilities and data warehouses.
• Strong understanding of business process optimization and human-centered design principles.
• Proficiency with tools such as JIRA Confluence and Microsoft Office Suite.
• Experience with data technologies (SQL APIs cloud platforms) is a plus.