Product Manager

This is a role posted by Reval Recruiting on behalf of a client
Product Manager
Location:
Emeryville, CA

Workplace:
On-site

Employment Type:
Full-time

Work Authorization:
Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship now or in the future. This role does not offer visa sponsorship.

This role is posted on behalf of the following client: A private foundation focused on steering science and technology toward broadly beneficial, abundant futures. The organization supports ambitious programs at the intersection of AI, open science, and new institutions for accelerating scientific progress.

Role Overview
The client is seeking a Product Manager to lead the vision, strategy, and execution of a new open-access platform for publishing, exploring, and connecting scientific and technical knowledge. This role is ideal for a product leader who can translate a bold conceptual vision into a clear roadmap, partner closely with engineering and design, and ensure the final product truly serves researchers, writers, and knowledge-seekers. The team is nimble, so this person should be comfortable being scrappy and wearing multiple hats across user research, analytics, prototyping, roadmap development, and product execution.

What You'll Do

• Drive the product vision and strategy for a new open-access scientific and technical knowledge platform in alignment with the organization’s mission.
• Develop and maintain a clear product roadmap with thoughtful prioritization of features, milestones, requirements, specifications, and user stories.
• Partner closely with engineering and design to deliver high-quality, usable, technically feasible features while making tradeoff decisions and keeping teams aligned.
• Conduct user research and gather structured feedback from researchers, writers, and early adopters to inform product direction.
• Analyze workflows, pain points, and habits of scientific and technical users to shape product design, usability, information architecture, and content experience.
• Ensure the platform maintains high standards for performance, accessibility, reliability, and user experience.
• Coordinate with internal teams and external partners to support cohesive development and smooth collaboration.
• Communicate product decisions, timelines, tradeoffs, and progress clearly to leadership and stakeholders.
• Use performance metrics and qualitative feedback to prioritize opportunities for improvement and drive usage.
• Advocate for open science principles and incorporate them into product decisions and long-term planning.

Who You Are

• 4–7+ years of product management experience, ideally in content platforms, digital publishing, research tools, or adjacent fields.
• Demonstrated ability to lead product development from 0 to 1 in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.
• Familiar with open science concepts and contemporary research workflows.
• Experienced working closely with engineering and design, with the ability to translate technical constraints into product decisions.
• Technically fluent and comfortable reading specs, understanding system architecture, and discussing tradeoffs, ideally with experience in software development, technical product management, or complex web products.
• An exceptional communicator who is clear, structured, and succinct.
• Strong product intuition with a sharp sense for usability, information architecture, and content experience.
• Able to bring structure to open-ended problems and operate effectively in a scrappy, collaborative environment.
• Comfortable working on-site in Emeryville, CA, with some travel from time to time for in-person collaboration and work.

Compensation
Salary:
$200,000 - $300,000 per year