Product Manager
Good Growth
📍Remote (Global) 🕔 Part Time
💰~$5K USD ⏳ 02/03/2025
We are seeking an experienced and data-driven Product Manager to lead the development, expansion, and growth of our Asia Country Profiles platform. This role is crucial in shaping the product vision, managing the development process, and ensuring the platform meets the needs of animal advocacy organizations, funders, and researchers in Asia.
The successful candidate will be responsible for scaling the platform from its current 2-country prototype to cover 4 or more countries in Asia, with a focus on Southeast Asia, within 3-5 months. They will also develop a scalable platform architecture that can be expanded to other regions in partnership with external partners and researchers.
This role requires some familiarity with farmed animal advocacy (and the related data sources), but more importantly the know-how and vision to work with developers in creating a semi-automated data platform. The ideal candidate will be passionate about leveraging data to drive positive change in the sustainable food ecosystem and animal advocacy landscape across Asia.
Key Responsibilities
Project Management and Strategy:
Set clear deliverables and milestones for the Asia Country Profiles platform expansion
Develop and maintain a product roadmap for scaling from a prototype of 2 countries to a platform for 4+ countries within 3-5 months
Prioritize features and improvements based on user needs and strategic goals - a scalable platform that can accommodate multiple countries and regions (more about current technical specs of the platform here)
Work with the development team to ensure the infrastructure meets both user needs and resource constraints
Research and Data Extraction:
Work with development team to set up infrastructure that will efficiently extract data from global sources
Conduct desktop research (or in some cases work with local researchers) to find local sources of data
User/Stakeholder Engagement:
Engage with animal advocacy organizations, funders, and researchers to understand their data needs
Collaborate with external partners and researchers to explore opportunities for platform expansion
Facilitate workshops and training sessions to promote platform adoption and gather insights
Data Quality and Governance:
Establish data quality standards and governance processes for consistent information across country profiles
Ensure compliance with data privacy regulations and ethical data usage standards
Core Skills, Experience and Requirements
Experience in product management, preferably with data-centric products or platforms
Strong understanding of animal advocacy, farmed animal welfare, and alternative protein landscapes in Asia
Experience with data visualization
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
Can work between European and Asian timezones
Preferred Qualifications
Experience as a product owner, technical co-founder, or entrepreneur
Experience with open-access data platforms
Experience collecting country level data in LMICs, especially around food consumption/ production, agriculture and environment
Experience working with international NGOs or research organizations
Based in Southeast Asia and/or Southeast Asian language proficiency
Compensation and Project Timeline
This project will last anywhere from 3-5 months (part-time) depending on the Product Manager’s schedule (and alignment with the development team)
The project will ideally start sometime in March
The Product Manager will receive a project fee of USD 5000 for the entire project (paid 50% upfront, and 50% upon completion - payment schedule negotiable)
