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Forward Deployed Product Manager embedded with NGOs, translating needs into products and experiments. The Agency Fund builds technology and data systems to expand human agency.
Responsibilities:
- Act as the primary interface with 3-4 NGO partners at a time
- Build trust, scope collaborations, and surface partner pain points through structured discovery
- Translate partner needs into product roadmaps and technical advisory on product, data, evaluation, and experimentation
- Report partner-work learnings and identify patterns across organizations
- Help release lessons learned as public goods for the sector
- Prototype dashboards, product analytics, mockups, feature designs, and AI evaluations
- Write ad-hoc SQL and light Python to surface trends
- Run randomized experiments/A-B tests and perform user research
- Define and drive product roadmaps across TAF tools
- Translate complex partner workflows into clear engineering requirements
- Run agile sprints with TAF's engineering team
- Own the loop from partner need to shipped product to feedback
- Work with engineers to ship critical features and incorporate partner feedback
- Coach partner organization staff and help upskill their technical and leadership skills
- Help partner organizations hire for critical roles
- Coach and mentor Lighthouse Fellows
- Contribute to TAF's internal playbook and institutional knowledge
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience in product management, solutions engineering, or tech consulting, including direct client-facing work
- Experience with forward-deployed product management, solutions engineering or consulting, including discovery calls, workshops and on-site visits with clients or users
- Experience working closely with engineers to ship AI/LLM product features, data pipelines or warehouses, and production APIs
- Ability to prototype solutions before engineers build them
- Ability to write SQL, navigate a codebase, and prototype dashboards and product analytics
- Experience using user research, ad-hoc product analytics and randomized experiments (A/B tests) to define problem statements and measure effectiveness
- Ability to design studies, interpret results, and present findings to non-technical program directors
- Fluency in agile processes including sprints, backlog grooming, estimation, and retrospectives
- Demonstrated ability to manage competing stakeholder needs across engineers, behavioral scientists, and NGO program teams without formal authority
- Curiosity about global development and motivation to work close to the problem
- Must be based in Sub-Saharan Africa or South Asia, in a time zone overlapping with partner organizations and TAF's team
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