Product Manager, Specialist

Job Description

Product Manager, Specialist | World Food Programme

The Tone:
This is a contract role at World Food Programme, located remotely with a posting duty station in Berlin, Germany. The World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian organization, dedicated to saving lives in emergencies and building pathways to peace, stability, and prosperity through food assistance. This role is crucial for ShareTheMeal, WFP’s award-winning fundraising app with over 1.9 million users, which serves as a key driver for an ambitious growth strategy in individual giving. The Product Manager will contribute to further developing the app with new features, increasing user engagement, and growing the user base, directly supporting WFP’s mission to achieve a world with zero hunger and serving those in need.

The TL;DR
• Type: Contract
• Location: Remote – Berlin

• Team: Private Partnerships (PSP) unit, reporting to the Head of Product for the ShareTheMeal initiative.
• Mission: Define and implement a product roadmap and strategy for the ShareTheMeal app to increase fundraising and achieve WFP’s zero hunger mission.
• Tech Stack: Amplitude, Metabase

What You’ll Actually Do
• Product Strategy: Develop and manage a product roadmap and strategy for ShareTheMeal, collaborating with external counterparts and WFP staff to derive options and prepare discussion documents for architecture and standards.
• User Research & Analysis: Lead on and perform both quantitative and qualitative user research and data analysis to guide product decisions, A/B tests, and manage follow-up UI/UX iterations and improvements.
• Feature Implementation: Implement new features and iterate on existing functionalities in collaboration with the ShareTheMeal development team.
• Cross-Platform Alignment: Lead on and align feature scopes across Web, native iOS, and native Android platforms by researching functional requirements, preparing clear specifications, and ensuring successful rollout with various stakeholders.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree. Expertise in product management, preferably focusing on transaction-focused applications within the e-commerce industry.
• Experience: At least 5 years of experience in product management of native iOS, native Android apps, and Web applications.
• Skills: Strong analytical abilities (both quantitative and qualitative), including proficiency with tools such as Amplitude and Metabase, and the ability to produce high-quality written materials. Excellent communication, coordination, and interpersonal skills to interact effectively and with diplomacy across a wide range of stakeholders, developers, designers, and content teams. Strong time management skills, enabling the ability to plan, anticipate requirements and obstacles, successfully juggle competing priorities, and work effectively to tight deadlines with a high degree of autonomy.
• Bonus: Knowledge of a second UN language.