Disability Solutions is hiring: Associate Director Of Product in New York

ABOUT THE CAMPAIGN FINANCE BOARD The Campaign Finance Board is a nonpartisan, independent city agency that empowers New Yorkers to have a greater impact on their elections. Our mission is to make local democracy more open, transparent, and equitable by removing barriers to participation. We make it easier for New Yorkers to vote, meaningfully support candidates for city office, and run for office themselves. NYC Votes, our voter engagement initiative, meets people where they are to share trustworthy election information and help New Yorkers make a plan to vote. Our public matching funds program ensures small contributions can make a big difference, allowing regular people to run for office by relying on the support of other regular people, not just wealthy donors and special interests. And we lift the veil on how candidates raise and spend money, increasing transparency and accountability in local government. We believe that when every New Yorker is empowered to participate meaningfully in elections, candidates will better reflect the communities they serve, elected leaders will be more accountable to the public, and New Yorkers will have a democracy they can truly trust. The Strategy, Products, and Innovation division is the agency's newest division and leads the strategic planning and policy work, working across the agency to test out and implement new ideas. The new Product Strategy vertical will be responsible for creating the overall roadmap for tech modernization and process improvements; prioritize tech projects to pursue and liaise between technical engineers and subject matter experts; and align tech projects with the agency's strategic plan and objectives. Plans for this vertical include building new teams for product management as well as user experience and service design, as well as some reorganization of existing PMO functions. This position will require the selected candidate to obtain NYC residency within 90 days of starting their job, and be in-person in the CFB Manhattan office a minimum of 1 day a week. The Associate Director of Product will work closely with the Senior Director of Product to build out and support the Campaign Finance Board's first Product Management office, including helping to manage a mixed team of product designers, project managers, and business analysts. As an Associate Director of Product Management at the Campaign Finance Board (CFB), you will aid the strategy, vision, and execution of product initiatives that support the agency's mission and deliver impactful, enterprise-grade applications. In this role, you will partner closely with UX, Engineering, QA, Project Managers, and CFB Subject Matter Experts to drive product outcomes from concept through delivery. This office will be responsible for strategy, planning, and managing delivery of technical products for CFB, including: - User research and data analysis. - Project management of technical efforts. - Ticket creation, maintenance, and agile ceremonies. Utilize research and data analysis to create frameworks for deeply understanding user needs, driving iterative improvements of current systems and developing impactful new features. - Lead and align cross-functional teams, including UX, Engineering, QA, Project Managers, and CFB Subject Matter Experts, to manage the successful delivery of products, from feature selection and prioritization to launch. - Partner closely with UX and Engineering leadership to guide product design and implementation decisions, ensuring the delivery of impactful, enterprise-grade applications during both new product development and legacy overhauls and upgrades. - Own and refine the product lifecycle, from initial requirements definition through ticket creation, maintenance, and agile ceremonies, ensuring all products deliver measurable value to both users and the organization. - Identify risks, dependencies, and blockers that impact product outcomes and orchestrate solutions proactively. - Supervise, mentor, and guide the mixed team of product designers, project managers, and business analysts, fostering professional growth and a culture of continuous improvement within the new Product Management office. - Positively influence the collaboration culture across the agency, serving as a partner who ensures technical and design constraints are thoughtfully integrated into product work. - Serve as the product function representative to executive stakeholders, providing necessary transparency and ensuring clear communication on product performance and progress. - Contribute to long-term strategic planning and the evolution of the CFB's digital ecosystem. Bachelor's degree in a related field and a minimum of 7 years of product management experience, including leading complex, user-facing software products. - Expertise in product discovery, user research, prioritization frameworks, and the full software development lifecycle (SDLC). - Proficiency with Azure DevOps, Monday, Microsoft Office Suite, JIRA, Confluence, and modern product management tools. - Experience with Agile methodologies; prior leadership or management experience preferred. Deep, practical knowledge of the full Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), a high level of expertise in Agile methodologies (including ticket creation, maintenance, and agile ceremonies), and the principles of Human-Centered Design (HCD). - Comprehensive understanding of the technical landscape for delivering impactful, enterprise-grade applications, including strategies for legacy overhauls and upgrades and managing complex user-facing software products. - Azure DevOps, JIRA, Confluence) for managing technical efforts. - Engineering, Data Analytics, UX/Design, or Project Management) to effectively partner with and guide cross-functional leadership. Exceptional analytical and problem-solving abilities, skilled at leveraging user research and data analysis to translate complex business problems into intuitive solutions and measurable product requirements. - High quality communication skills, with proven experience crafting compelling narratives that align and inspire teams, and the ability to influence and provide transparency to executive stakeholders. - Capable of operating simultaneously as a strategic thinker and a hands-on leader, defining the long-term product vision and roadmaps while owning the day-to-day requirements definition and agile ceremonies. - Excellent people management skills, with the ability to supervise, mentor, and guide a mixed team (designers, project managers, business analysts), fostering professional growth and a culture of continuous improvement. - Excellent people management skills, with the ability to supervise, mentor, and guide a mixed team (designers, project managers, business analysts), fostering professional growth and a culture of continuous improvement. The proven ability to independently navigate and remove ambiguity while proactively identifying and orchestrating creative solutions for risks, dependencies, and blockers that impact product outcomes. - The ability to be highly adaptable, balancing solid long-term planning with the flexibility to integrate technical and design constraints and refine plans based on new insights. - Ability to operate at both a high senior strategy level and participate as an individual contributor on project work. Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, including leading a diverse staff. - A commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, including leading a diverse staff, and a focus on positively influencing the collaboration culture across the agency. - Demonstrating empathy and emotional intelligence in both giving and receiving feedback and supports a culture of continuous improvement and psychological safety. - Five (5) years of experience in product management, with a demonstrated track record of discovery and delivery of technological projects. - Three (3) years of managing people. - Experience building a Product team from scratch. - Depending on the civil service job title code, this section will be auto-populated. - A bachelor's degree from an accredited college including or supplemented by at least twelve-semester credits (or the equivalent of twelve-semester credits) in accounting, auditing, business or public administration, computer science, economics, finance, statistics, graphic design, personnel or human resources administration, user experience design, or a closely related area of study and one year of satisfactory full-time experience in accounting, auditing (including compliance or investigative auditing), business or public administration, business analysis, computer science, database administration, economics, finance, fiscal or economic management or research, statistics, graphic design, personnel or human resources administration, user experience design, or a closely related field; A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent and five years of experience as described in "1" above; As a prospective employee of the City of New York, you may be eligible for federal loan forgiveness programs and state repayment assistance programs. 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