Vera Solutions is a social enterprise and certified B Corporation building cloud and mobile applications for social impact organizations worldwide. Our clients — more than 300 organizations in over 55 countries — include major iNGOs and grant-making organizations, social enterprises, and community-based organizations.
Primary Responsibilities
- Develop deep technical and market-based expertise on our core and future products
- Lead requirements gathering efforts for new features and engage with all stakeholders during the process
- Collaborate with implementation teams to conduct user research, document user stories, and translate them into actionable product features
- Write product requirements and market requirements documents
Drive strong project management with planning, communicating, documenting and tracking activities using project management tools
- Understand high-level requirements and create epics and write detailed user stories
- Ensure all communication and decisions are documented
Monitor and report on product quality, adoption and user feedback throughout product lifecycle
Design, build, implement, and support cloud and mobile data systems for a range of social service organizations worldwide
Qualifications and Experience
Essential
- 2-4 years experience as a Product Manager, or similar role in a SaaS company
- Professional experience in a product design or research capacity
- Experience in an agile software development environment, with rapid feedback loops and quick release cycles
- Demonstrated success with project management and tools such as JIRA
- Excellent written and verbal communication and relational skills; ability to lead technical conversations
- Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority
- Detail-oriented with excellent organizational skills
- Ability to work efficiently in a fast-paced environment and perform multiple tasks effectively
- Insatiable desire to improve skills and knowledge of self and others
Desirable
- Experience with Salesforce
- Interest in social service work or international development
- Experience developing and managing managed packages on top of Force.com platform