Enterprise Systems Product Manager
International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) · New York, NY / Washington, DC / Remote (US)
Overview
IRAP is a global legal aid and advocacy organization, working to create a world where refugees and all people seeking safety are empowered to claim their right to freedom of movement and a path to lasting refuge. IRAP currently operates out of offices in the USA, Germany, Jordan, and Lebanon.
Responsibilities
- Gathering business requirements with input from multiple departments at IRAP.
- Evaluating technology solutions & vendors, recommending process and technology innovations to solve for those business requirements.
- Developing proposals for innovation including gap, cost & ROI analysis, prototyping, stakeholder buy-in, project planning, developing roadmaps.
- Supporting teams in the customization and maintenance of Marketing Cloud and NPSP in coordination with the existing IRAP-internal Salesforce team to ensure smooth functionality in a shared Salesforce instance.
- Translating business requirements to technology specifications for a team of external contractors to execute on.
- Implementing software with clear methodology of best practices in compliance with regulatory standards including requirements gathering, user story writing, work prioritization, developing solutions with the team, user acceptance testing, QA & coordinated release management.
- Identifying stakeholders and updating them on ongoing & future work on a regular basis.
- Managing a prioritized product backlog of business needs & resulting work on an ongoing basis.
- Executing on change management including training, release notes, enabling business users to self-serve their data hygiene and reporting needs.
- Conducting knowledge transfer and hand-off to enable IRAP’s IT Support team to handle ongoing staff support tickets.
Qualifications
Education
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- Bachelor’s degree, preferably in a technical discipline.
- Salesforce Administrator certification required, Advanced Administrator or Service Cloud
- certification preferred
Experience
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- 5+ years implementing enterprise business technology systems or solutions e.g. Salesforce, Zendesk, Workday, Oracle NetSuite, SAP.
- Experience with Salesforce implementations including architecture, design, and rollout.
- Experience administering Salesforce NPSP required
- Project Management experience, including managing all aspects of production release cycles, product planning and change management.
- Preferred experience with Agile framework and tools.
- Preferred experience with analytics platforms like Salesforce Tableau, Microsoft Power BI.
- Previous non-profit experience is a plus.
Values, Competencies, Skills
- Stakeholder-facing with ability to lead teams.
- Knowledge of change management best practices.
- Working knowledge of project management software like Asana, Jira, etc.
- Customer service orientation that helps IRAP staff get the most out of our software, whether they are experts or novices.
- Strong interpersonal and communications skills, including the ability to work with others across teams and to manage other staff remotely.
- Demonstrated capacity to concurrently manage multiple tasks and responsibilities.
- Excellent problem-solving, analytical and organizational skills.
- Willingness to be trained to learn new responsibilities.
- Possess a security conscious mindset and ability to use discretion and apply best practices and appropriate safeguards when handling confidential data and information systems.
- -Fluency in business English, both written and verbal, required. Additional languages are a plus.
Job-related Requirements
- The position may be remote in the U.S., or based in our NYC or D.C. office.
- flexibility with the working hours (40 hours/week); the role will need to be able to work during the hours of 9am - noon Eastern time to accommodate meetings with overseas staff.
- This position requires annual travel to certain IRAP locations, which may include: Berlin, Amman, and the U.S. offices between 1-3 weeks per year (IRAP pays for the travel, lodging, per diem).
- This position requires office availability in accordance with IRAP Hybrid work policy.
Benefits
- IRAP seeks to offer equitable and generous benefits to all employees. These include:
- Fully paid family health insurance
- Retirement options (with employer match)
- Extensive PTO (20 or more vacation days, 22 and more public/ org-wide holidays)
- Comprehensive leave time for sickness
- Disability and parenting (5 months of parental leave)
- Reimbursement for work from home equipment
- Generous opportunities for professional development