Tipping Points

Seeking Product Manager - Case Commons

Case Commons’ mission is to transform public sector human services through technology.  Case Commons enables workers serving the most vulnerable families and children to be more effective and efficient via new software tools. Casebook™, Case Commons’ marquee technology, is a collaborative, family-centered case management system that leverages the capabilities inherent in social networking technology for the public sector child welfare segment. A growing number of policymakers believe that Casebook™ can be a citizen portal for government services, including health, education and human services. Case Commons is funded by the $2.5 billion Annie E. Casey Foundation, which has spent 20 years pursuing human services system reform; since 2007 AECF has been building Casebook in partnership with Tipping Point Partners.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Strong desire and skills to succeed in a startup: tenacious, self-directed, flexible, strategic but can turn on a dime, able to inspire others and to be inspired
• Willingness to go the extra mile to make things happen; ability to travel 50% of time
• 2 to 5 years experience as a public sector social worker
• Prefer experience in product management using agile methodologies
• Experience in project management with large projects with multiple streams, complex dependencies and complicated stakeholder ecosystems
• Strong inter-personal and team skills, with active listening abilities and instincts
• Strong verbal and written communications skills, particularly ability to translate complex technical ideas into writing accessible by non-technical readers
• Exceptional analytical, visual, writing, and caring skills
• Common sense, limitless curiosity, terrific taste, and an appreciation for the absurd
• Multi-tasking fiend with a nearly photographic memory or tremendous organizational capabilities
• Nice to have: technical or scientific background; multiple languages; multicultural immersion experiences; actively engaged in social web

DESCRIPTION:

• Title: Product Manager, reporting to Head of Product Development
• Ecosystem: users, administration, domain experts, designers and software engineers from prototype through deployment
• Manage software development and customization, using Case Commons’ agile process
• Responsible for project management: design, scope, budget and quality
• Manage product plan and roadmap
• Produce and edit materials for user design meetings, story breakdown meetings, user tests, community management, and product marketing
• Translate field observations into detailed software development “stories”
• Demonstrate and explain existing product functionality to user community
• Design and conduct user testing
• Collaborate with and provide support to training team

About Tipping Point Partners.  Tipping Point Partners has worked on Casebook since 2007, leading product development and business functions.  Tipping Point builds and renovates Internet-based startups using innovative approaches to solving business model challenges. We look for opportunities to create new businesses that have significant social and/or cultural importance in markets that are ripe for disruption, both for-profit and not.  Since 2005, Tipping Point Partners’ unique approach to startups has included co-founding, interim management, strategic deal making, financing, investing and strategy, generally all at the same time. Our portfolio has included IGA Worldwide, FashionGPS, Mobile Commons, Cookstr, Rapid Ratings and many others. We achieve the highest and best use for our companies with an agnostic approach to capital sources and huge doses of sweat equity to accelerate development, extend runway and amplify opportunities. 

INTERESTED?
Send resume, biography, and link(s) to writing samples to art@tippingpointpartners.com, with a copy to christine@tippingpointpartners.com

Tipping Point Partners is seeking a part-time controller.

Job Opening:  Part-time Controller, Tipping Point Partners

Interested in building Internet startups? We are looking for a part-time Controller to help us manage our financial activities and those of some our younger portfolio companies. We promise make-or-break challenges, thrilling victories, great satisfaction and fun.

REQUIREMENTS:

·       CPA, CFA designations and/or finance or accounting degree

·       2-5 years of working experience in the following areas:

·       budget planning, forecasting and cash management

·       technology startup bookkeeping and accounting

·       not-for-profit bookkeeping and accounting

·       Fearless about technology and asking for help

·       Exceptional analytical, visual, writing, and caring skills

·       Common sense, limitless curiosity, terrific taste, and an appreciation for the absurd

·       Obsessive, detail-oriented person with a passion for simplicity and clarity

·       Process designer who can account for variety within human nature and the law of exceptions

DESCRIPTION

·       Controller, reporting directly to the CEO

·       Part-time, potential to lead to full-time position

·       Review current financial operations and recordkeeping and recommend changes

·       Establish financial management and control processes

·       Look for opportunities to achieve efficiencies, avoid risks and prevent surprises

·       Benefits available

·       Hourly rate, commensurate with experience

Tipping Point builds and renovates Internet-based startups using innovative approaches to solving business model challenges. We look for opportunities to create new businesses that have significant social and/or cultural importance in markets that are ripe for disruption, both for-profit and not.  Since 2005, Tipping Point Partners’ unique approach to startups has included co-founding, interim management, deal-making, financing, investing and strategy, generally all at the same time. Our portfolio has included IGA Worldwide, FashionGPS, Mobile Commons, Cookstr, Rapid Ratings and many others. We achieve the highest and best use for our companies with an agnostic approach to capital sources and huge doses of sweat equity to accelerate development, extend runway and amplify opportunities. 

INTERESTED?

Send resume, biography, and a writing sample to art@tippingpointpartners.com, with a copy to christine@tippingpointpartners.com