Director of Product, Lab

Fundraise Up; Porto; Presencial; EUR 58 032 - 68 076; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Private medical insurance

22 paid vacation days

Home Office Setup Assistance

€50 monthly allowance for expenses

Gym or swimming pool access

Resumo da oferta

Fundraise Up, a global fundraising platform, is looking for a Senior Product Manager to lead their Lab function. This role emphasizes innovation and requires building a robust portfolio of experiments to drive growth opportunities.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in product management, thrive in ambiguity, and possess strong communication skills to ensure effective project delivery.

The position offers a competitive salary along with substantial benefits including medical insurance, vacation days, and a supportive remote work environment.

Qualificações

• Senior PM experience in 0→1 / incubation / new bets.
• Comfort operating as the driver with minimal delegation.
• Uses AI for research, synthesis, prototyping, and analysis.

Responsabilidades

• Build and maintain a prioritized Lab portfolio/backlog.
• Define assumptions for each project and design experiments.
• Partner with engineering and design to deliver effective outcomes.

Conhecimentos

Product judgment

Technical fluency

Strong communication

Experience in running experiments

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Location: Portugal, Remote (core hours 9:00–18:00 CET)

Languages: Fluent in English and Russian

Reports to: VP, Product

About Fundraise Up

We’re Fundraise Up - a global fundraising platform built to make donating to nonprofits fast, seamless, and accessible to all. Every month, our technology powers tens of millions of dollars in donations across the globe. We focus on innovation that directly impacts results: faster load times, higher conversion rates, global payment support, and accessibility-first design.

A Truly Global Product

We operate in the enterprise segment, serving nonprofit organizations across North America, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Europe.

The Lab

Fundraise Up is investing in a Lab function to explore new product lines and step-change growth opportunities. The Lab operates like a small startup: rapidly turning ambiguous opportunities into shipped pilots and clear investment decisions.

About The Role

This is a senior individual contributor PM role for someone who thrives in ambiguity and can personally drive discovery, experimentation, and early delivery with engineering and design. The core mandate is to build and validate high-uncertainty bets and make explicit Scale / Iterate / Pivot / Kill calls based on evidence.

What You’ll Do

• Build and maintain a prioritized Lab portfolio/backlog with clear hypotheses, expected upside, effort, dependencies, and status.
• Define the riskiest assumptions for each bet and design experiments with explicit kill criteria.
• Run fast experiments (spikes, prototypes, wizard-of-oz, pilots) and ship “just enough” product to learn—without overbuilding.
• Partner tightly with engineering and design to deliver pilots and instrument them to capture meaningful signals.
• Synthesize outcomes into crisp decisions: Scale / Iterate / Pivot / Kill—and prevent “zombie projects.”
• Create lightweight decision logs and learning summaries to keep leadership and GTM aligned.
• Identify GTM dependencies early (positioning, enablement, pricing, legal, support, etc.) and coordinate cross-functionally.
• When signal is strong, prepare a clean handoff package (what was validated, evidence, remaining risks, success metrics, recommended scaling plan).

What Great Looks Like in 9 Months

• A single, visible Lab portfolio exists with clear statuses, owners/counterparts, and next decision points.
• A repeatable prioritization method is in place (signals, confidence, upside, GTM dependency, effort).
• A 4–8 week experiment plan is defined and executed.
• Multiple experiments are completed and end with explicit decisions (no zombie initiatives).
• Engineering/design counterparts are named per top initiative and working cadence is established.

Lab Team Structure

• One permanent owner at the start: you.
• Engineering and design support are assigned on demand per initiative, and must be made explicit for each top-priority bet.
• The biggest challenge is typically coordination with GTM, so crisp communication and early dependency management are critical.

Requirements

• Senior PM experience in 0→1 / incubation / new bets (or equivalent track record).
• Strong product judgment and technical fluency: can write specs, reason about feasibility, tradeoffs, instrumentation, and data needs.
• Comfort operating as the driver: minimal delegation, maximal ownership.
• Proven ability to run fast, scrappy experiments and move from ambiguity to decisions.
• Strong communication: can produce concise decision logs, learning summaries, and alignment artifacts.
• Uses AI as leverage for research, synthesis, prototyping, and analysis—while maintaining high-quality judgment.

Nice to Have

• Experience launching early‑stage products into market with measurable adoption/revenue signals.
• Experience working closely with GTM teams on positioning, enablement, and early go‑to‑market motion.

This Role Is Not For You If…

• Stable roadmaps, long planning cycles, and incremental optimization.
• Heavy reliance on others to structure specs, experiments, or execution.
• Low tolerance for ambiguity or rapid direction changes.

Interview Focus Areas

• Ability to turn ambiguous problems into sharp hypotheses and experiment plans.
• Speed-to-learning and rigor in kill criteria.
• Hands‑on execution with engineering/design and ability to keep scope tight.
• Quality of decision‑making and clarity of written artifacts.
• Cross‑functional alignment (especially with GTM).

Why Work With Us

• Real ownership over high‑impact bets with the authority and team to pursue them
• Leadership that values clear thinking over activity
• Permission — and expectation — to kill bad ideas early
• Access to real customers, real data, and real constraints
• Flat structure, transparent culture, and equity participation

Compensation

• The compensation range for this role is €5,200 - €6,100 gross.
• Final compensation will be determined based on relevant experience, skills, qualifications, alignment with the role’s requirements and location.

Benefits

• Private medical insurance for the employee and their family
• 22 paid vacation days per year
• Up to 14 paid public holidays per year
• 5 company‑paid sick leave days
• English learning courses.
• Relevant professional education.
• Gym or swimming pool.
• Home Office Setup Assistance: the company offers assistance with purchasing furniture (office chair, office desk, monitor) and other items to create a comfortable workspace.
• Co‑working.
• Remote working.
• €50 monthly allowance to cover internet and mobile phone expenses

We are an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law in the countries where we operate.