311: Open Role for: Technical Product Manager

**Project Name**: 311 Data

**About**: The 311 Data project seeks to empower local Neighborhood Councils to improve the ideation and analysis of their initiatives using the wealth of publicly available 311 data

**Volunteer Opportunity**:

Technical Product Managers (TPMs) carry out responsibilities of PMs, yet their scope will narrow in on managing the engineering team.

##### Summary of PM Responsibilities

Taken from the PM Open Role...
>Product Managers (PMs) are responsible for driving project momentum and ensuring quality of the project board. PMs will coordinate with Lead Product Manager to...
> - plan project milestones with org-rep and communicate requirements to engineers, UX researchers, and designers
> - perform weekly maintenance on project board so that leads and org-rep have clear visibility on project momentum
> - create slides, reports, and documentation for leads, stakeholders, in addition to maintaining the historical record

##### Summary of TPM Responsibilities

TPMs are responsible for understanding technical requirements required to achieve the project's milestones. While they won't contribute code, they will focus on creating tickets, maintaining the project board, and supporting volunteers on the engineering team. TPMs on the 311 Data team should be comfortable writing frontend code (e.g. Javascript, HTML, CSS) and have familiarity with frontend frameworks (e.g. React).

In order to streamline direction and feedback from the org rep, TPMs will report directly to the Lead Product Manager.

**Duration**: On-going

**Meeting Times**:
- 311 Data General: Wed 7:00pm - 8:00pm PT (excluding 1st Wed of the month)
- 311 Data Product Planning: Wed 7:00pm - 8:00pm PT (1st Wed of the month)
- 311 Data PM: Thurs 7:00pm - 8:00pm PT (occurs every week)

**Who to communicate your interest to**
- [#311-data](https://hackforla.slack.com/archives/CJY4R382X)
- [#311-data-engineering](https://hackforla.slack.com/archives/C047H3LEJHZ)
- Slack name of person to contact in the channel: see who this issue is assigned to and @ message them in the channel above

[Read more about the project](https://www.hackforla.org/projects/311-data)