Embedded Product Manager Fellowship for Social Impact

Inclusively Remote; United States; Remote; USD 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentorship

Remote work

Job summary

The Agency Fund (TAF) is a US‑based nonprofit that embeds engineers and product managers inside evidence‑based nonprofits worldwide. This 12‑month fellowship places you as an embedded product manager with partner organizations, mentored by a senior TAF colleague, with the goal of a permanent role if a fit is found.

You'll prototype solutions, learn the partner's domain, and progressively take on discovery, prioritization, and relationship management while remaining production‑code

Qualifications

• 2–5 years of experience in product management, solutions engineering, consulting or a similar client-facing technical role.
• Experience directly with customers (forward deployed PM, solutions engineer, customer support or similar).
• Data‑driven decision making: dashboards, analytics, AB tests or similar.
• Experience deploying AI solutions to production.
• Can read/write SQL and prototype dashboards/analysis.
• Comfortable with Agile and explaining trade-offs to engineers and non-technical leads.
• Clear written and verbal communication with distributed teams.
• Willing to commit to one organization after the year; curious about global development.
• Based in sub-Saharan Africa or South Asia.

Responsibilities

• Be the day‑to‑day product counterpart to host organizations’ leadership and program teams.
• Run structured discovery: interview staff and service users, shadow operations, identify the real problem.
• Turn learnings into a prioritized roadmap and clear requirements for engineers.
• Prototype dashboards, analytics, mockups, experiments and feature designs.
• Design and run small experiments (A/B tests, pilots) with partners and interpret results.
• Run lightweight Agile cycles with engineers: backlog, sprint planning, retrospectives.
• Coach partner staff on product practice to sustain capability.
• Report learnings back to TAF to reach other partners and the wider sector.
• In the final quarter, define the permanent role with the host organization.

Skills

Product management

Solutions engineering

Data analytics

SQL

User research

AI deployment

Agile

Communication

Global development

Job description

The Agency Fund (TAF) is a US‑based nonprofit that embeds engineers and product managers inside evidence‑based nonprofits worldwide. This 12‑month fellowship places you as an embedded product manager with partner organizations, mentored by a senior TAF colleague, with the goal of a permanent role if a fit is found.

You'll prototype solutions, learn the partner's domain, and progressively take on discovery, prioritization, and relationship management while remaining production‑code