Senior Product Mangaer

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. 

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: 

• Possible Phone Call - Week of April 28th
• First Interview - Week of May 5th
• Second Interview - Week of May 12th
• Final Interview - Week of May 19th

Equal Opportunity Statement: 

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

Salary : $140,000