Global Director of Product

350.org is looking for a Director of Product  to define, plan and execute on a strategic vision for 350’s technical direction.  Your empowerment and support of the Product team to develop and release high impact projects is a vital role at a crucial moment for the climate and wider movements we amplify and support. 

About 350.org 

350.org is building a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis. Our online campaigns, grassroots organizing, and mass public actions are led from the bottom up by thousands of volunteer organizers in over 188 countries. 350.org works hard to organize in a new way—everywhere at once, using online tools to facilitate strategic offline action. We want to be a laboratory for the best ways to strengthen the climate movement and catalyze transformation around the world. The values that guide and drive our work are listed here. 

350.org is an equal opportunity employer. 350.org strives to be an inclusive and collaborative group of people who bring a variety of approaches to the work we do. We’re committed to the principles of justice, and we try to build a safe workplace where everyone is treated fairly and enjoys working together. We value new perspectives, ideas of all sorts, and different ways of working. Diverse perspectives and experiences improve the way 350.org carries out our work – including what we decide to work on and how creatively/effectively we do that. We do our best to make staff positions accessible to all potential team members, regardless of race, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, assigned gender, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or identity, religion or creed, veteran status, marital or parental status, and genetic information. We also strive to include team members in communities most impacted by climate change or impacted by other kinds of environmental, social, and economic injustice. 

About the Position

We are looking for a Global Director of Product who will bring deep technical and leadership skills to the helm of 350.org’s Product team, at an exciting moment for the organisation.

Our Product team is responsible for developing and stewarding 350.org’s activism technology to uplift and enable the work of campaigners and organisers around the world. Our tech stack includes website platforms including hundreds of diverse sites, broadcast communication tools including email and SMS, advocacy tools, forms, organising and fundraising platforms, CRM systems and data analytics.

As Director of Product you would lead the team to strategically assess the needs of the organisation, shape 350.org’s technical direction, ensure the best use of resources, and steward the team through an upcoming period of change and opportunity. You would empower the Product team to run impactful projects, product upgrades, build new capabilities for the future and work seamlessly with the wider organisation. This is a vital role at a crucial moment for the climate and wider movements we amplify and support.

In close collaboration with the Head of Public Engagement and as part of the PE Leadership Team, you will be instrumental in connecting the big picture of product goals with our wider vision for effective engagement; our blueprint to build a stronger, better connected, and more powerful climate movement. This includes bringing leadership and the product team’s expertise in testing and understanding our audiences to initiatives such as:

• Resourcing the Movement: We channel people’s emotional responses to the climate crisis into clear actions they can take. We will continue to build our supporter base with a focus on the Global South to strengthen our campaigns globally.
• Strengthening our role in shifting the overarching discourse on climate action: In order to achieve our ambitions, and be a part of the change that the world needs so urgently today, we will coach tech expertise internally and in the wider movement 
• Developing 350.org as a leader and innovator in the tech-for-good and social justice movement sectors.

Responsibilities:

Product Strategy & alignment

• Own the Product Strategy, vision and roadmap, part of our overarching Engagement Strategy, and ensure alignment with the organisation’s broad goals and objectives.
• Work with the Product team leads to weigh up strategic priorities f