Product Manager

09-Jan-2024

Harvard Law School

64744BR

Position Description

The Berkman Klein Center (BKC) at Harvard University’s Institute for Rebooting Social Media (RSM) is a three-year, “pop-up” research initiative to accelerate progress on social media’s most urgent problems, including misinformation, privacy breaches, harassment, and content governance. By convening participants across industry, government, civil society, and academia in timebound collaboration, the Institute aims to improve the state of digital social spaces through multi-model output. 

The Applied Social Media Lab (ASML), established within RSM, is hiring practitioners from industry to develop products, tools, and protocols for existing and new social media platforms. Teams of technologists will work in thematic ‘pods’, generating and driving new ideas, projects, and experiments around themes like Trust and Safety Tooling, Political Deliberation, Disinformation Mitigation and more. The lab’s output will range from white papers to fully-functional product prototypes. 

The Product Manager will bring both technical and management experience and expertise to the Applied Social Media Lab. This individual will “own” one of the Lab’s thematic pods, managing 3–4 engineers and overseeing the technical workflows of those engineers. A Product Manager will contribute their own technical insights to a pod, and will also work with senior ASML management and external stakeholders (e.g., the owners of open-source projects) to ensure that a pod’s technical goals and realized outputs are aligned with ASML’s broader vision of creating tech that centers the public interest.

As a Product Manager, you will: 

• Lead and coordinate a project team’s overall performance, scope, cost, and deliverables. 
• Manage a team of 3-4 engineers with a range of experience, backgrounds, and specialties.
• Distill product needs, prioritize features, align stakeholders, manage feedback, and ship compelling user experiences. 
• Drive the entire lifecycle of multiple projects or features at once.

Basic Qualifications

• Minimum of seven years’ post-secondary education or relevant work experience
• Supervisory experience

Additional Qualifications and Skills

We are looking for people who have:  

• Product Management experience at an agency, company, academic institution, or government.
• Experience leading, motivating, and coordinating cross-functional engineering teams. 
• Strong project management skills including planning and directing teams, strong communication and collaboration skills, ability to multi-task and keep projects on track. 
• Demonstrated ability to work up and down the product stack from spot-checking deliverables to presenting to executives. 
• Excitement to drive on products and projects in the public interest. 
• Ability to exercise sound and effective judgment in complex decision making

Additional Information

This is a term appointment currently expected to extend through 6/30/24 with potential for renewal subject to funding and departmental need. 

We regret that Harvard Law School is unable to provide visa sponsorship for staff positions.
All offers to be made by HLS Human Resources. 

Work Format Details

This position may be performed in-person or remotely; the option for hybrid work is also available.

About Us

Be a part of excellence and leadership in legal education and scholarship at Harvard Law School. We are a community of talented people from diverse backgrounds, lived experiences, and perspectives, dedicated to advancing the cause of justice all over the world. We value our differences and our diversity as a source of strength. We are committed to developing and inspiring our students and our workforce. Whoever you are, whatever you do, however you do it, Harvard Law School  is a place where you can thrive.

Benefits

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• Paid Time Off: 3-4 weeks of accrued vacation time per year (3 weeks for support staff and 4 weeks for administrative/professional staff), 12 accrued sick days per year, 12.5 holidays plus a Winter Recess in December/January, 3 personal days per year (prorated based on date of hire), and up to 12 weeks of paid leave for new parents who are primary care givers.
• Health and Welfare: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits, disability and life insurance programs, along with voluntary benefits. Most coverage begins as of your start date.
• Work/Life and Wellness: Child and elder/adult care resources including on campus childcare centers, Employee Assistance Program, and wellness programs related to stress management, nutrition, meditation, and more.
• Retirement: University-funded retirement plan with contributions from 5% to 15% of eligible compensation, based on age and earnings with full vesting after 3 years of service.
• Tuition Assistance Program: Competitive program including $40 per class at the Harvard Extension School and reduced tuition through other participating Harvard graduate schools.
• Tuition Reimbursement: Program that provides 75% to 90% reimbursement up to $5,250 per calendar year for eligible courses taken at other accredited institutions.
• Professional Development: Programs and classes at little or no cost, including through the Harvard Center for Workplace Development and LinkedIn Learning.
• Commuting and Transportation: Various commuter options handled through the Parking Office, including discounted parking, half-priced public transportation passes and pre-tax transit passes, biking benefits, and more.
• Harvard Facilities Access, Discounts and Perks: Access to Harvard athletic and fitness facilities, libraries, campus events, credit union, and more, as well as discounts to various types of services (legal, financial, etc.) and cultural and leisure activities throughout metro-Boston.

Job Function

Information Technology

Department Office Location

USA - MA - Cambridge

Job Code

I0859M IT Business Analysis Mgt V

Work Format

Hybrid (partially on-site, partially remote)

Department

Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society

Union

00 - Non Union, Exempt or Temporary

Appointment End Date

30-Jun-2024

Pre-Employment Screening

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EEO Statement

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