Technical Product Manager

Technical Product Manager, Bellevue, WA

The Organization

At USAFacts, we believe facts deserve to be heard. We are on a mission to provide a comprehensive and unbiased look at our country by the numbers. Democracy thrives on serious, reasoned, and informed debate. And we’re here for it.

Founded and funded by Steve Ballmer, former CEO of Microsoft, USAFacts answers questions around government spending and outcomes. While these are basic questions, finding the answers is hard. But it’s also pretty exciting. We pull together data from thousands of jurisdictions to normalize, contextualize, and visualize these metrics so the data is approachable and understandable.

Every day, we learn something about our country, how to make complex data understandable, and how to make the American people interested in the numbers. We’re a collaborative group and are always learning from each other, too. The team is mission driven, with no political agenda nor commercial incentive; we do this work purely as a public service.

Oh, and to top it off? USAFacts was named to Fast Company’s List of the World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2024 Learn more about us at usafacts.org and linkedin.com/company/usafacts.

We’d love for you to bring your talents and your curiosity to come make a difference

The Opportunity

Join the heart of innovation at USAFacts, where our data platform stands as a pivotal strategic asset to provide unbiased and transparent data about the United States. We are seeking a Technical Product Manager to join our data platform team, consisting of data and technical analysts, data transformation and AI specialists, and product managers.

This is a highly visible role focused on accelerating the scalability of data acquisition by leveraging AI and data integration technology, to drive growth and social impact of the organization.

In this role, you will contribute to the translation of data acquisition strategy into prioritized roadmaps for our product and engineering teams. Your roadmaps will empower data engineers, data analysts, researchers, and external partners to ingest and transform government data for use by front-end applications. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, including engineering, content development, and data analytics, to design, deliver, and iterate on new features and experiences.

While this is a collaborative, individual contributor role that does not include direct people management, USAFacts maintains a startup culture, making it easy for everyone to communicate and collaborate seamlessly.

Key Priorities & Responsibilities

Roadmap Development

• Listen to customers (internal and external) to understand their scenarios and challenges.
• Incorporate AI in all aspects of our processes and deliverables to achieve velocity and scalability.
• Develop and own roadmaps for data acquisition and metadata definition of federal, state, and local data.
• Ensure automation, scalability, quality, and agility of the components.

Product Requirements

• Identify and develop high-quality technical requirements to optimize data acquisition experience and increase scalability through AI.
• Develop product specifications to acquire all necessary information for metadata definition, data transformation, and standardization.
• Specify QA plans and use cases to ensure data quality.
• Establish relevant metrics and KPIs to ensure product success that aligns with org-wide goals.

Product Lifecycle Management and Execution

• Partner with our engineering teams in all phases of development as a product expert on data acquisition.
• Incorporate AI to understand data and generate output.
• Provide research, prototypes, and proof of concept support for engineering teams.
• Perform hands-on execution during various phases of our projects, including day-to-day contributions as part of data acquisition and agile development processes.
• Ensure timely delivery of products and datasets by collaborating with engineering, content development, and data analytics teams.
• Influence without direct control and aligning cross-functional teams behind your roadmap.

Qualifications

This position requires a highly motivated individual with an aptitude for customer focus and critical thinking who can drive strategic data platform development. This person will be expected to take ownership and be fluent in developing detailed data and technical requirements. The successful candidate will be a self-starter who is comfortable with ambiguity and possesses a strong ability to work well with cross-functional teams.

Required Experience, Skills, Education:

• Bachelor's degree and 3+ years of experience in a technical field working with data products.
• 2+ years of product management experience, including writing specifications, and delivery of functions/features of technical products or online services.
• Experience contributing to engineering discussions around technology decisions and design related to data ingestion/integration solutions.
• Experience with data ingestion/integration tools and languages, including SQL and Python.
• Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional teams without direct reporting lines.
• A customer-centric mentality, capable of understanding and prioritizing stakeholder and customer needs.
• Commitment to the USAFacts mission through your love of data, understanding of American government, and ability to be non-partisan.

Preferred Experience, Skills, Education:

• Advanced degree is a plus.
• Some fluency with government or public data.
• Experience with data quality standards and processes.

Compensation & Benefits

Compensation

The starting cash compensation range for the Technical Product Manager role in Bellevue includes an annual base salary hiring range of $113,000 to $141,300, plus a 10% annual performance bonus target opportunity.

The annual base salary maximum for the role is $169,600. We aim to hire new employees within the hiring range to allow future compensation growth. Individual pay increases are assessed annually based on multiple factors such as demonstrated skill in the role and context, progress and performance against goals, and increased experience.

Featured Benefits & Perks

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employee and dependent premiums entirely paid for by Ballmer Group
• 3 weeks of paid vacation annually
• 11 paid holidays, plus paid days off for the weekdays between Christmas and New Year
• 80 hours of paid sick leave annually
• 401(k) with 6% employer contribution
• 2:1 Ballmer Family Giving Match for charitable contributions, and $50 donation per volunteer hour
• Professional development reimbursement up to $2,000 per year
• Employer-paid life insurance of 3x salary to $1,000,000
• Fertility and family building benefits, including back-up childcare reimbursement
• Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options
• Parking or transportation (Orca card) up to $250 monthly
• Cash stipend of $300/month (for cell phone, wellness expenses, etc.)
• Identity theft protection

Location & Hybrid Work

The position is based in Bellevue, Washington.

Our organization practices intentional hybrid work​. All USAFacts employees are expected to work on-site Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays during overlapping core hours of 10:00 am to 3:00 pm. Mondays and Fridays remain flexible work-from-home or office workdays.