Staff Product Manager, Ticketing & Fundraising Events
Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) Silicon Valley Chapter · San Francisco, CA · 3 wk ago
Marketing$181k–$271k/yrFull-time
The ideal candidate will lead the end-to-end ticketing and fundraising events experience, driving improvements in event performance, revenue, and supporter engagement.
- Build intuitive, high-quality experiences grounded in customer empathy and the real-world operational demands of running events
- Operate with end-to-end accountability — from problem definition through delivery, optimization, and scale — while leveraging the system and collaborating with others
- Work cross-functionally with engineering, design, go-to-market, and data science partners to execute effectively
- Act as the voice of the customer, deeply understanding the needs, motivations, and pain points of nonprofit teams running high-stakes events
- Use qualitative and quantitative insights to inform product and GTM decisions, define success metrics, and track outcomes
- Champion your product internally — building clarity, excitement, and alignment across teams while influencing without authority
- Drive strong execution by transforming ambiguity into disciplined execution — defining scope, sequencing work, mitigating risks, coordinating stakeholders, and ensuring teams deliver against commitments
Requirements
- 6+ years of product management experience, including leading growth initiatives for self-serve SaaS products
- Skilled in Discovery that helps identify the right problems to solve and clearly articulate what not to build and why
- Proven track record of building, launching, and scaling successful products that drive customer and business outcomes
- Strong analytical and decision-making skills—comfortable using both data and judgment to drive outcomes
- Fluent in experimentation
- Operate effectively in fast-moving, ambiguous environments
- Excel at aligning cross-functional teams and leading complex initiatives across product, engineering, and GTM teams
- Leverage tools like Cursor and other AI-assisted workflows to improve speed, clarity, and decision quality in collaboration with Engineering and Design
- Customer obsessed and growth minded
- Humility, curiosity, and a bias toward learning
Preferred Experience
- In areas such as event technology, registration, ticketing, onsite operations, commerce, payments, or fundraising software
- Experience with enterprise or mid-market software serving sophisticated organizational customers
- Experience building products with interconnected admin, checkout, payments, and reporting workflows
- Familiarity with live operational environments where reliability, speed, and trust matter deeply