Product Manager

Summary

SIL International is a faith-based nonprofit organization serving translation teams worldwide through software and language technology. The Product Manager leads distributed software development teams, manages the full product lifecycle, develops product strategy and roadmaps, supports partnerships and funding, and oversees team performance and user research.

Responsibilities

• Champion the team, partners, and user community to ensure alignment around overall strategy and direction of the product
• Discover what users need by conducting user research and unveiling critical insights
• Create the product’s long-term vision and strategy
• Align the team around a cohesive product roadmap
• Lead creation of targeted promotions: white papers, conference presentations, user videos
• Work with Director on yearly roadmap, budget, and funding proposals
• Work with Director and Language Technology Leadership to develop and grow partnerships
• Provide quarterly reports and requested metrics to Language Technology Leadership
• Lead performance reviews and goal discussions for your team
• Design, develop, and deploy software applications, new features, and defect fixes
• Design and develop unit tests and perform code reviews
• Adjust and improve each iteration of the product before release
• Implement and Manage Agile software development methodology
• Participate in regular project status, planning, partnership, and strategic meetings
• Report any hardware and software needs to the Director
• Be available to travel to meet with the larger development team at least once per year
• Be available to travel biannually to the Language Technology Conference
• Participate in professional conferences and meetings

Skills

• A servant heart attitude
• Demonstrated leadership skills
• Demonstrated skills in team and personnel management
• Demonstrated skills in software development and algorithms
• Demonstrated passion for understanding and resolving complex user-needs into product priorities
• Demonstrated appreciation for quality user interface design
• Good interpersonal skills of communication
• Good organizational skills
• The ability to quickly analyze and learn a large existing codebase
• The ability to make decisions in a timely manner
• The ability to generate/analyze multiple solutions to a problem
• The ability to quickly pick up technical concepts
• The ability to work both with a team and independently, and to multitask effectively
• Product Managers should have experience in software engineering, a good understanding of the software development lifecycle, and experience leading development teams
• Be available to travel to meet with the larger development team at least once per year
• Be available to travel biannually to the Language Technology Conference
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science or equivalent work experience is preferred
• 3 to 5 years' experience leading teams is preferred

Qualifications

Must Haves

• A servant heart attitude
• Demonstrated leadership skills
• Demonstrated skills in team and personnel management
• Demonstrated skills in software development and algorithms
• Demonstrated passion for understanding and resolving complex user-needs into product priorities
• Demonstrated appreciation for quality user interface design
• Good interpersonal skills of communication
• Good organizational skills
• The ability to quickly analyze and learn a large existing codebase
• The ability to make decisions in a timely manner
• The ability to generate/analyze multiple solutions to a problem
• The ability to quickly pick up technical concepts
• The ability to work both with a team and independently, and to multitask effectively
• Product Managers should have experience in software engineering, a good understanding of the software development lifecycle, and experience leading development teams
• Be available to travel to meet with the larger development team at least once per year
• Be available to travel biannually to the Language Technology Conference

Nice to Haves

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science or equivalent work experience is preferred
• 3 to 5 years' experience leading teams is preferred

Benefits

• Volunteer position
• Full-time opportunity
• Initial IT Software Department training program and relevant portions of IT Orientation