Product Manager Fellow (1 year contract)

The Agency Fund; United States; Remote; USD 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

The Agency Fund offers a 12-month fellowship placing you as an embedded product manager with two nonprofit partners to help build data infrastructure, run experiments, and scale impact. You’ll grow into a permanent role if fit and mutual agreement occurs.

You’ll work with host leadership, conduct structured discovery, translate insights into a prioritized roadmap, and prototype dashboards and feature designs for real-world impact.

Qualifications

• 2-5 years in product management, solutions engineering, consulting or similar client-facing technical role.
• Experience working directly with customers, not only internal teams.
• Track record of data-driven decision making and prototyping features through user research and analytics.
• Experience deploying AI solutions to production and SQL literacy.
• Comfort with agile methods and ability to communicate trade-offs to engineers and non-technical staff.
• Strong written and verbal communication and ability to work autonomously with distributed teams.

Responsibilities

• Be the day to day product counterpart to host organizations leadership and program teams.
• Run structured discovery with staff and service users to identify real problems.
• Turn insights into a prioritized roadmap and clear engineering requirements.
• Prototype solutions such as dashboards, analytics, mockups, experiments and feature designs.
• Design and run small experiments and help read results.
• Coach partner staff on product practice to sustain capability after you depart.

Skills

Product management

Customer-facing

Data-driven decision making

SQL literacy

AI solutions deployment

Agile methods

Communication

Job description

About the role

The Agency Fund is a US non-profit funder-doer that embeds engineers and product managers inside evidence-based nonprofits to help them build data infrastructure, run experiments, and scale impact. This 12 month fellowship places you as an embedded product manager with two partner nonprofits, growing into a permanent role if fit and mutual agreement occur.

What you'll do

• Be the day to day product counterpart to host organizations leadership and program teams
• Run structured discovery with staff and service users to identify real problems
• Turn insights into a prioritized roadmap and clear engineering requirements
• Prototype solutions such as dashboards, analytics, mockups, experiments and feature designs
• Design and run small experiments and help read results
• Coach partner staff on product practice to sustain capability after you depart

What they're looking for

• 2-5 years in product management, solutions engineering, consulting or similar client-facing technical role
• Experience working directly with customers, not only internal teams
• Track record of data-driven decision making and prototyping features through user research and analytics
• Experience deploying AI solutions to production and SQL literacy
• Comfort with agile methods and ability to communicate trade-offs to engineers and non-technical staff
• Strong written and verbal communication and ability to work autonomously with distributed teams

For applicants in Nigeria

• The listing states remote work with eligibility for Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia; Nigeria is included in the supported regions via Sub-Saharan Africa
• Location described as Remote with periodic travel to partner sites; timezone specifics are not stated-confirm during interview
• Contractor engagement for 12 months; no explicit employee status is stated
• Pay currency is not specified in the listing; compensation details are shared during the interview process