Product Manager_Product Studio

American Bible Society • Remote, US,

1d • Remote

About The Position

As a Product Manager in the ABS Product Studio, you’ll partner directly with one or more Ministry Leaders to turn complex ministry needs into digital experiences that deepen Bible access, engagement, and advocacy. You are comfortable as a strategist, project manager, designer, and technologist, leading through a product lifecycle that is evidence-driven and human-centered. You’re fluent with AI for research, prototyping, and ideation, and you know when to slow down for the human discernment ministry work demands.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of product management experience, including at least 2 years leading complex digital products end-to-end.
• A proven track record of taking products from concept through launch, with measurable outcomes.
• Deep fluency in user research, design thinking, and lean/agile delivery.
• Strong written and verbal communication, including comfort presenting to senior executives.
• Experience writing and managing user stories, roadmaps, and OKRs.
• Comfort working closely with designers and engineers, including providing feedback on UX and technical trade-offs.
• Working knowledge of analytics and experimentation.
• Familiarity with modern product tools (e.g., Monday.com, Jira/Confluence, Figma, Mixpanel/GA, Notion).
• Demonstrate desire and ability to support organizational biblical and religious goals and participate in regular work-related spiritual activities without reservation.
• Have a personal passion for and belief in the Word of God, its ability to transform lives, and the mission of American Bible Society.
• Demonstrate alignment with the vision, mission, and values of American Bible Society.
• Effective Communication: Ability to communicate effectively with team members and supervisors.
• Team Facilitation: Facilitates teamwork, encourages collaboration, and resolves conflict within the team.
• Cultural Awareness: Respects and values diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
• Service Interaction: Provides courteous and helpful service to service recipients (i.e. Internal & External Customers and Beneficiaries).
• Adaptability: Willing to learn and adapt to new tasks and processes.
• Task Prioritization: Manages personal time effectively and meets deadlines.
• Issue Identification: Identifies straightforward problems, proposes solutions and seeks help when needed.
• Initiative: Takes proactive steps to complete tasks, solve problems and take on new challenges.
• Candidates must pass a background check as a condition of employment. This may include criminal history, credit check, and verification of employment and education history.
• Employment is contingent upon satisfactory reference checks.
• Candidates must provide proof of eligibility to work in the United States.
• Candidates must sign and agree to uphold the ABS Affirmation of Biblical Community as a condition of employment.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with AI/agentic product workflows.
• Background with non-profit, ministry, or mission-driven organizations.

Responsibilities

• Own the product vision and roadmap for one product, in partnership with a ministry leader, translating complex ministry needs into clear, prioritized outcomes.
• Define strategy, priorities, schedule, resource allocation, and budget, and translate them into a prioritized backlog with a release plan.
• Define missional needs and measurable outcomes (objectives and key results), ensuring every effort advances the product's mission and delivers meaningful impact.
• Continuously monitor market trends and emerging technologies to inform product strategy.
• Apply human-centered design and design-thinking principles, facilitating workshops with cross-functional teams to align user needs with ministry and business goals.
• Conduct research and interview ministry stakeholders and end users to identify challenges, opportunities, and unmet needs.
• Analyze and synthesize user feedback, behaviors, and motivations into actionable recommendations that shape product decisions and validate strategy.
• Create wireframes or prototypes to visualize and test UX solutions to real user problems.
• Lead and motivate cross-functional teams to plan, build, and deliver high-quality, fully tested product enhancements that meet business goals and user expectations.
• Write and manage the flow of epics and user stories that guide development.
• Facilitate key agile ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Reviews, Retrospectives, Backlog Refinement) and remove obstacles so the team can execute efficiently.
• Ensure ABS team and vendor capacity align with product goals and budget.
• Ensure execution aligns with strategic priorities and key performance indicators.
• Establish structures to monitor product analytics and usage data, ensuring that performance insights are regularly reviewed and accessible to ministry leaders.
• Monitor vendor performance and SLAs, ensuring that contracts, renewals, and deliverables remain on track.
• Communicate proactively with ministry stakeholders, senior leadership, partners, and donors about product status, risks, trade-offs, and opportunities.
• Support proposal, fundraising, and business-development efforts through data dashboards, impact reports, product narratives, and data-driven storytelling.
• Synthesize annual and quarterly OKRs and report progress against KPIs to senior leadership.
• Evaluate post-launch outcomes and impact, presenting successes, challenges, and recommended solutions, and executing leadership direction with accountability.
• Partner with Marketing to express brand identity.

Benefits

• Equal employment opportunities to qualified individuals with disabilities
• Reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to participate in the application process and perform the essential functions of their job.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level