Facebook

Product Manager, Strategic Initiatives

Posted on: 6 Feb 2021

Sunnyvale, CA

Job Description

Every day, people come to Facebook to connect with friends and family, discover what's going on in the world, interact with businesses, find potential customers, and build community. Facebooks Global Operations team exists to help them.

Facebook is looking for an experienced and entrepreneurial Product Manager to join our Strategic Initiatives (SI) Team. SI is a global team, which supports and enables the success of functional partners in Scaled Operations (SO) and Global Operations (GO) by offering close stakeholder collaboration, thought partnership, effective communication, and program excellence. In particular, this individual will join the New Products team within SI, which focuses on building new products and services to support Facebooks partner workforce. The Product Manager for the New Products team will work cross-functionally to drive the product roadmap, strategy, and solutions for the products in our portfolio.

Product Manager, Strategic Initiatives Responsibilities

* Deeply understand the architecture and integration points of Facebook's community support processes, products, and policies.

* Work with cross-functional partners from business, engineering and product teams, and vendors to build/improve the community support experience on our existing suite of products.

* Drive product vision, strategy and roadmap. Influence FB product roadmaps with prioritization and requirements of Global Operations.

* Guide products from concept to launch by translating business needs into implementable product requirements.

* Define, build, and track key performance metrics to measure success and identify and iterate on opportunities for optimization.

* Drive internal process improvements across multiple teams and functions.

* Requires at least 10% international travel.

Minimum Qualifications

* 5+ years of experience in software/systems product management leading the end-to-end product lifecycle including defining new solutions, product strategy, strategic product roadmapping, and building minimum viable products and scaling

* Strategic thinker with analytical and problem-solving experience

* Track record of operating autonomously across multiple teams, demonstrating creativity, being detail-oriented, and delivering results in an organized manner

* Experience in fostering cross-functional working partnerships with business, engineering, and product teams

* Experience influencing stakeholders without direct authority

* Bachelors Degree in computer science or other related fields

Preferred Qualifications

* Masters Degree in computer science or related fields

* End-to-end systems understanding

* Knowledge of functional areas like customer support, vendor support, UI/UX, or engineering

* Experience working with data visualization tools (e.g. Tableau)

Locations

About the Facebook company

Facebook's mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Through our family of apps and services, we're building a different kind of company that connects billions of people around the world, gives them ways to share what matters most to them, and helps bring people closer together. Whether we're creating new products or helping a small business expand its reach, people at Facebook are builders at heart. Our global teams are constantly iterating, solving problems, and working together to empower people around the world to build community and connect in meaningful ways. Together, we can help people build stronger communities we're just getting started.

Facebook is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at accommodations-ext@fb.com.

Facebook

Menlo Park, CA

Facebook, Inc. provides various products to connect and share through mobile devices, personal computers, and other surfaces worldwide. The company’s products include Facebook that enables people to connect, share, discover, and communicate with each other on mobile devices and personal computers; Instagram, a community for sharing photos, videos, and messages; Messenger, a messaging application for people to connect with friends, family, groups, and businesses across platforms and devices; and WhatsApp, a messaging application for use by people and businesses to communicate in a private way. It also provides Oculus, a hardware, software, and developer ecosystem, which allows people to come together and connect with each other through its Oculus virtual reality products. As of December 31, 2018, it had approximately 1.52 billion daily active users. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.