Overview
Survival and Flourishing Corp builds software for funders and grant evaluators, including the grant evaluation platform used by the Survival and Flourishing Fund. Our tools help philanthropists delegate grant-making discussions and decisions to trusted advisors, supporting more effective and impactful giving.
Our team of three engineers currently maintains three production web apps, including one with an iPhone and iPad app used by funders. These applications handle sensitive grant, evaluator, and funder data, and we have more software in development.
We’re hiring an insightful and independent Product Manager to enhance and maintain our grant evaluation software and the processes around it. The annual salary range for this role is $100,000–$150,000.
Apply using the form at the bottom of this page.
The role
This position will involve full-time product management work, reporting to Senior Product Manager Pete Michaud and collaborating frequently with Head of Engineering Joel Burget and CEO Ethan Ashkie.
What you’ll work on:
- Discovering and prioritizing product opportunities across the S-Process app, supporting spreadsheets, automations, and grant administration workflows
- Translating strategic vision into implementable plans and detailed specifications
- Proposing solutions to unexpected issues and triaging competing priorities
- Writing documentation, communications, and materials for team members, funders, recommenders, applicants, and the public website
- Meeting with Pete and other team members as needed (6–12 hours a week), which might include 1:1s, syncing with internal and external development teams, project planning, user interviews, and process shadowing
Qualifications
Experience translating vision into execution:
- Breaking down high-level strategic goals into detailed product specifications
- Creating actionable tickets and implementation plans from product specs
- Reasoning about complex systems with multiple user types, apps, and workflows
- Working independently without established PM processes or structures
Strong communication and influence skills:
- Building consensus and securing buy-in through clear reasoning rather than authority
- Writing for diverse audiences (technical team, leadership, external stakeholders, public)
- Making compelling cases for product direction and priorities
Experience with internal tools and systems:
- Managing products with slow feedback loops toward long-term impact goals
- Improving operational processes, automations, and workflows
- Creating visibility into project status and execution for leadership
Nice to have:
- Strong numeracy (e.g., calculus, matrix operations, utility theory)
- Coding ability, e.g., for web development or spreadsheet automation
- UI/UX design ability, e.g. with Figma
- Familiarity with SFF’s approach to grantmaking and high-impact philanthropy, or the ability to quickly gain domain context
You’re a great fit for our team if you are:
- Self-driven: you can own projects and get things done without outside prompting
- A great team member: you stay in sync with team priorities through communication, and support/unblock the work of teammates
- Rigorous: you’re detail-oriented and thorough in places where consistency and correctness are key
- Pragmatic: you understand when rigor is unnecessary and can move quickly
- Opinionated: you have clear taste and can justify your ideas to teammates
- Open-minded: you care more about becoming right than having been right in the first place
- Versatile: you may be an expert at managing project execution, but you can also design wireframes or rewrite automations
Our work and team
Our grant evaluation software has been used by philanthropists including Jaan Tallinn, Blake Borgeson, and the Future of Life Institute through the S-Process of the Survival and Flourishing Fund. We want to make our tools more information-dense and less cognitively taxing, enabling funders and evaluators to engage in more impactful giving.
We have a clear roadmap of high-value features and are expanding the team to build more, faster. You’ll collaborate with SFC Co-Owner Andrew Critch, CEO Ethan Ashkie, Head of Engineering Joel Burget, Senior Product Manager Pete Michaud, and the rest of the team.
In every role, we value teammates who communicate regularly, support each other, and are willing to take on the practical work needed to keep our applications and projects moving.
Salary and benefits
The annual salary range for this role is $100,000–$150,000.
Benefits include:
- Fully funded individual health, vision, and dental insurance
- Majority premium coverage for additional dependents
- Available health/wellness discounts and perks through the health insurance provider
- 6% Safe-Harbor 401(k) matching
- 9 weeks off per year, including PTO and holidays
- 12-week paid family leave
Organizational culture
SFC is a small team that works fully remotely; we do meet 2-4 times a year for an in-person week, usually in the Bay Area. We have a clear vision that we are ready to execute, and are looking for a talented product manager to help make it happen.
Work authorization
SFC does not have a standard process for applying for visas, but we can hire remote contractors to live and work outside the United States.
Application
Use the application form below to apply for the Product Manager role.