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Unify America

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B2C • Education • Social Impact

Unify America is an organization dedicated to fostering civic engagement and collaboration among Americans. Through interactive programs and events like the Unify Challenge and College Bowl, it encourages communities to address pressing public challenges by promoting dialogue and cooperation across different perspectives. By partnering with educational institutions, Unify America equips students with the civic skills needed for effective leadership and problem-solving in a diverse society.

11 - 50 employees

Founded 2020

👥 B2C

📚 Education

🌍 Social Impact

📋 Description

• Develop detailed project roadmaps, timelines, Gantt charts, and milestone plans that reflect dependencies and resource availability. • Continuously assess risk and develop mitigation plans to avoid scope creep and delays. • Identify gaps that require more formal processes, and current processes that could be improved, and improve both, seeking feedback to optimize as we go. • Work closely with your Democracy League PM counterpart to ensure project scope and timelines align with current resource availability, and flag anticipated future conflicts and resource needs. • Facilitate and document collaborative discovery sessions with stakeholders, users, and technical teams to elicit, define, and document requirements. • Identify gaps and ask the right questions to uncover implicit needs and constraints. • Work closely with the QA Lead to ensure requirements are clear, testable, and align with quality standards. • Translate complex concepts into clear deliverables with well-defined scope and rationale. • Work closely with executive stakeholders, designers, and engineers to capture and coordinate execution of features that align with organizational goals and user needs. • Lead regular stakeholder meetings and asynchronous conversations to align on goals, scope, timelines, and evolving requirements. • Serve as the primary point of contact for project communication, actively managing expectations and ensuring clarity within the team. • Provide consistent and transparent updates through status reports, dashboards, and visual project artifacts (e.g., Gantt charts, progress trackers, demonstrations). • Drive accountability and momentum by following up with owners, escalating blockers, and adapting plans as needed. • Ensure all team members understand the definition of success and how it will be measured.

🎯 Requirements

• Preferably a Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Business, or a related field; PMP or Agile certification a plus. • Three to six years of experience in managing software or digital product projects in an Agile, Scrum, or hybrid environment. • Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and manage multiple projects simultaneously. • Strong communication, facilitation, and interpersonal skills with a proactive, solutions-oriented mindset. • Experience using project management tools such as Jira, Asana, Trello, Microsoft Project, or similar platforms. • Excellent organizational and time-management skills; able to thrive in smaller organizations.

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible, self-managed PTO. • Medical, dental, and vision insurance. • 401k match up to 5%. • Internet and phone reimbursement. • A healthy, appreciative, feedback-driven workplace.