Senior Product Manager Save

Senior Product Manager

Full-time, exempt

Firm/Non-Negotiable- $140,000

Candidate must live in the Greater Seattle Area or San Francisco Bay Area to be eligible. 

About Magic Cabinet

Magic Cabinet ("MC") is a philanthropic foundation that seeks to fundamentally redefine how philanthropy and nonprofits partner for sustainable and thriving communities. We’re looking for a Senior Product Manager who is collaborative, community-centered, systematic, flexible, and creative. Reporting to the Head of Innovation & Design, the Senior Product Manager will steward the development of innovative tools to support our mission. 

Magic Cabinet's Mission: Magic Cabinet champions communities' work by partnering with nonprofits and other philanthropists to achieve the nonprofits' missions. We do this by providing long-term capacity-building grants, access to peer networks, and advocating for the broader adoption of collaborative, trust-based philanthropic practice. 

Magic Cabinet's Vision: We believe that nonprofits, community, and philanthropy can help build a just and equitable world by working in solidarity. 

Magic Cabinet's Values:

• Ongoing Partnership. We engage in deep, collaborative, long-term relationships through multi-year grants, our investments in nonprofits, and support.
• Equity. We purposefully and actively redistribute power to weigh community voice.
• Trust. We support authentic and reciprocal relationships amongst nonprofit peers.
• Flexibility. We are committed to listening and adapting to ever-changing community needs and contexts.
• Informed Decision Making. We ground ourselves in data and translate research and feedback into innovative practice.

Your role as a Senior Product Manager

The Senior Product Manager leads product development for new projects and pilots across foundation workstreams. This work will involve partnering closely with the Head of Innovation & Design and cross-functional team members to identify and understand opportunities, then develop and test solutions that advance our mission to shift philanthropy to center the needs and priorities of community-serving nonprofits. 

As the first product manager at Magic Cabinet, the Senior Product Manager will drive and facilitate efforts that shape the foundation’s philanthropic solutions offerings, trust-based participatory grantmaking programs, and internal innovation incubator processes. 

Senior Product Manager responsibilities include:

Product Efforts 

• Leads product development, strategy, and design processes from concept through development to launch with a collaborative, human-centered design approach. 
• Leads the co-creation of product requirements, specifications, timelines, and metrics. 
• Collaborates with internal teams as efforts require, including the Philanthropic Solutions, Grantmaking, Research, Design, and Communications teams. 
• Ensures that efforts are informed by data & insights and aligned with strategic priorities. 
• Prepares, maintains, communicates, and presents project records, reports, concepts, and other documentation.
• Facilitates project meetings and discussions, communicates project status, keeping internal teams and partners updated as needed.

Systems Development & Advancement 

• Contributes to the development of internal human-centered design/research & development culture and infrastructure. 
• Regularly participates in sharing successes and failures among the team to inform work and the team’s continuous learning and improvement.
• Ongoing inter-disciplinary networking and learning to augment individual and institutional knowledge and possibilities. 
• Seeks opportunities to learn from and share new approaches, models, and best/promising practices in philanthropy and systems design. 
• Attends and participates as needed in select Magic Cabinet board meetings, retreats, and donor cultivation events as ambassadors of Magic Cabinet’s mission.

Administrative Duties

• Utilizes computer and Internet-based software, including spreadsheets, presentation software, design tools, project management tools, video conferencing, survey administration, and collaborative documents.
• Participates in internal meetings and trainings.
• Participates in self- and peer-review processes.
• Participates in operational systems and procedures, such as expense tracking and documentation.
• All Magic Cabinet staff members are encouraged to participate in the betterment of Magic Cabinet’s procedures and processes.

Miscellaneous

• Participates in and supports other organizational efforts as needed. 
• Staff members may be asked to take on special projects for Magic Cabinet or additional tasks as assigned. 

You are well qualified if you have/are: 

• 5+ years of professional product management experience
• Demonstrated critical thinking skills and independent problem-solving experience 
• Excited by the prospect of new and creative strategies and tools that center community needs and tactics within the philanthropic sector 
• A high degree of emotional intelligence
• Highly organized, with keen attention to detail and process
• Intellectually curious with a deep respect for learning and a drive for sector-wide improvement
• Experience working with culturally, economically, and racially diverse groups
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including presentations and public speaking
• Resourceful, with the ability to be effective working independently and as part of a project team 
• Aware of societal and personal bias, comfortable engaging in dialogue surrounding its presence, and committed to dismantling its influence 
• A team player and collaborator with excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work with various partners and staff graciously and with a sense of humor 
• Comfortable working with teams across offices in multiple geographic locations
• The ability to commit to limited amounts of domestic travel 
• Direct experience in philanthropy or nonprofits is not required 

Application deadline: 12:00pm (Noon) on April 30th, 2025

Approximate Interview schedule: 

• Phone Call - Week of May 5th
• First Interview - Week of May 12th
• Second Interview - Week of May 19th
• Final Interview - Week of May 26th

Equal Opportunity Statement: Magic Cabinet is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate community leadership while cultivating an inclusive environment for all employees.