Technical Product Manager

The Technical Product Manager is a senior, delivery-focused role that sits at the center of TAF's accelerator work. You will split your time roughly 50/50 between partner-facing and internal-facing work: on one side, building trusted relationships with NGO partners and translating their needs into actionable product roadmaps; on the other, driving execution with TAF's engineering team through structured agile processes.

You will get your hands dirty by building dashboards, scoping data pipelines, designing A/B tests, and unblocking engineers. You are expected to be as comfortable in SQL queries as you are in a partner discovery call. Within 90 days, you should have sufficient agency to run engagements independently. Within a year, you should be training others.

The core responsibilities for the job include the following:

Partner engagement (50%):

• Act as the primary interface with 3-4 NGO partners at any given time (building trust, scoping collaborations, and surfacing pain points through structured discovery).
• Translate partner needs into roadmaps and technical advisory on product, data, evaluation, and experimentation.
• Report back on learnings from partner work, trace patterns across different organizations, and help release the lessons learned in the public goods that benefit the whole sector.

Product and engineering execution (50%):

• Get your hands dirty with partners' platforms: build dashboards, data pipelines, AI evaluations, and production integrations; analyze data to extract trends; run AB tests; and perform user research.
• Define and drive product roadmaps across TAF's tools, translating complex partner workflows into clear engineering requirements. Run agile sprints with TAF's engineering team.
• Ship critical features and own the full loop from partner needing to ship product to feedback.

Team and talent (ongoing):

• Coach partner organization staff in the process, help upskill their technical and leadership skills, and help them hire for critical roles.
• Coach and mentor Lighthouse Fellows on how to navigate nonprofit partners, run structured engagements, and operate effectively in a resource-constrained environment.
• Contribute to TAF's internal playbook: document what works, codify engagement frameworks, and help build the institutional knowledge that makes us better over time.