Technical Product Owner

Job Description

Job Description

Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is the premier grassroots organization focused on advocating solutions to the country’s greatest challenges. We recognize that tens of millions of Americans are frustrated with the extreme partisanship in government that keeps common-sense reforms from being passed, and instead seek to stand with policy leaders who are committed to finding a better way.

Americans for Prosperity is part of the Stand Together philanthropic community.

As part of our Strategy & Business Operations team, the Technical Product Owner is responsible for ensuring our teams have the systems and processes in place to support their work as they track legislation and monitor team interactions with elected officials in support of our policy change efforts. In this role, you will work with stakeholders to refine a vision to leverage existing tools (including Quorum), implement new processes and products that will advance business strategies, and create actionable expectations around these tools for use across the organization.

In this role, you will partner across departments, craft a vision, prioritize work based on strategic business value (not individual preferences), and communicate with clarity. You must be comfortable operating at both the tactical and strategic levels, turning today’s feedback into tomorrow’s vision while always weighing the downstream effects of technical changes.

How You Will Contribute

• Partner with stakeholders to create clear, actionable user stories that translate high level goals into developer-ready features and workflows.
• Translate high-level goals into features and workflows developers can execute.
• Maintain and prioritize a product backlog that balances immediate needs with long-term strategy and user experience.
• Evaluate and communicate features trade-offs, ensuring decisions align with strategic goals such as improved knowledge processes, data quality, compliance, and platform adoption.
• Anticipate downstream impacts of platform changes on workflows, analytics, governance, and user behavior, and coordinate across capabilities to ensure technical alignment and scalable solutions.
• Collaborate with internal training teams to ensure staff can effectively use and maintain technical tools.
• Coordinate for technical alignment. Partner with capabilities across the Stand Together community to ensure technical feasibility, prevent negative ripple effects, and align on scalable solutions
• Communicate with clarity and respect. Explain product decisions and trade-offs to staff at all levels, tailoring the message to the audience and maintaining alignment
• Communicate decisions clearly, engage feedback constructively, and keep teams aligned through consistent updates.
• Work closely with partners across Government Affairs, Policy, State Operations, and Political to ensure a unified vision, clear SOPs, and consistent expectations.

What You Will Bring

• Experience managing projects, gathering requirements, and working with cross-functional teams
• Vision development and the ability to partner across multiple teams with varied interests and goals
• Adaptable problem-solving experience and technical curiosity
• Empathetic communication and openness to new ideas and feedback
• Strategic thinking
• Integrity, humility, and an entrepreneurial attitude.
• Enthusiasm to contribute to Stand Together's vision and principled approach to solving problems, and a commitment to stewarding our culture, which champions values including transformation and innovation, entrepreneurialism, humility, and respect.

Standout Candidates May Also Bring

• Strong knowledge of i360 and its role in advocacy
• Strong knowledge of Quorum and AirTable
• Background in grassroots or political advocacy, product support, and/or platform implementation

What We Offer

• Competitive benefits: Enjoy a 6% 401(k) match with immediate vesting, flexible time off, comprehensive health and dental plans, plus wellness and mental health support through Peloton and Talkspace.
• A meaningful career: Join a passionate community of over 1,300 employees dedicated to improving lives and driving innovative solutions to complex social challenges.
• Commitment to growth: Thrive in a non-hierarchical environment that empowers employees to discover, develop and apply their unique talents.
• Competitive compensation: Our approach rewards the value you create through competitive salaries and bonus opportunities, allowing you to share in the success you help drive.

Our Values: Working for an organization within the Stand Together philanthropic community is different from many other places. The culture is deeply rooted in Principle Based Management® (PBM®), a framework guided by the principles that drive human progress, such as dignity, openness, and bottom-up empowerment. PBM® empowers employees to be entrepreneurial, to innovate, and to continually drive transformation.

We believe diversity fuels creativity, broadens knowledge, and helps drive success. That is why we’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and strive to treat all employees and applicants with honesty, dignity, and respect.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.