Principal Product Manager
About the role
Kiva has been around for 20 years, and we are in an exciting period of building for growth, combining technology solutions with tried and true nonprofit tactics to reach the populations we serve. Kiva is looking for a strategic and collaborative Principal Product Manager to help us reach our growth goals. Product managers at Kiva take extreme ownership and roll up their sleeves to step in where help is needed. We understand our users and prioritize impact first. In this role, you will report to the Head of Product. You will identify and evaluate new product opportunities across our B2C and B2B audiences, starting with the high-net-worth individual audience. You will decide what gets built and why, define what success looks like, and stay accountable for results. We are product builders and stay involved from crafting the strategic vision to speaking with users, creating prototypes, defining requirements, evaluating tradeoffs, and measuring results. You’ll work with engineers, designers, marketing, and strategic partnerships, ensuring the team is aligned to execute a shared vision.
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the vision for your product area, breaking it into a productive action plan that prioritizes impact, results, and speed of learnings
- Emphasize problem discovery and prioritization- know what the most important thing to solve is before diving into solutions
- Leverage internal and market signals to identify which longer-term bets or new product ideas are likely to succeed. Use frameworks and structured thinking to make decisions, even with incomplete information or ambiguity, where the problem or solution is not clear.
- Lead outcome definition for your product and projects. Define KPI