Product Fellow, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Fellowship
The 19th · Remote (US)
Overview
The 19th has opened applications for the product track in our yearlong Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Fellowship for HBCU alums. Fellows will spend a year working in the product team with a full-time salary and benefits. Fellows are embedded in their respective teams and receive mentorship and professional development. We also provide career coaching to prepare fellows for their path after their fellowship.
The ideal product fellow has previous experience:
- Working with designers, software engineers and/or product managers
- Working with apps, software, websites, or other digital products
- Some experience with project management
Fellows in the product track should expect to gain more experience in:
- Using design thinking to generate product ideas that meet audience needs, align with our mission and advance business goals
- Defining new features and experiments to test on our products, including our website, newsletters and aggregation apps such as Apple News
- Writing requirements and working with our technology team to test and ship products
- Measuring and defining the impact of our features and experiments
- Conducting user research and synthesizing learnings
- Contribute to roadmapping and quarterly planning
- Communicating goals and plans with stakeholders and triaging their feedback
Eligible candidates should be any one of the following:
- A recent graduate (within two years of graduation), early-career (three to four years’ experience) or mid-career alum (5-10 years’ experience) of a Historically Black College or University
- A graduating senior of a Historically Black College College or University with a graduation date prior to the anticipated fellowship start date of October 2025
- An individual who attended a Historically Black College or University for at least two years, and either transferred or did not graduate
- All applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. This can include conditional student/work visas, provided The 19th will not be required to take additional steps in sponsorship
If you have questions, you might find them in our FAQs on the fellowship page. If not, you can email [email protected].
About The 19th
The 19th is an independent, nonprofit newsroom reporting on gender, politics and policy.
Our goal is to empower women and LGBTQ+ people — particularly those from underrepresented communities — with the information, resources and tools they need to be equal participants in our democracy. We will do this through:
- Free-to-consume and free-to-republish journalism that reimagines politics and policy coverage through a gender lens.
- Deep-dive, evidence-based reporting that exposes gender inequity and injustice, and reveals surprising and original stories on the issues that most deeply affect the lives of women and LGBTQ+ people, from health care to the economy.
- A digital platform for civil conversations and community building, and national events that bring our readers into direct contact with their elected officials.
- A newsroom that reflects the racial, ideological, socioeconomic and gender diversity of American voters, and is devoted to covering everyone with empathy.
