PRODUCT SPECIALIST
PRODUCT SPECIALIST
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Job Description
The Mayors Office for Economic Opportunity (NYC Opportunity) works to reduce poverty and broaden opportunity by advancing the use of data and evidence in program and policy design service delivery and budget decisions.
The initiatives that you will work on all share the common goal of delivering more effective services and helping residents address povertyrelated challenges. NYC Opportunity operates a portfolio of digital tools and offers our expertise across multiple areas including facilitating data integration to improve social service performance easing access to services and programs and designing new digital and inperson services with agency partners.
The Product team builds iterates and maintains a suite of digital products and services that:
improve the lives of lowincome and vulnerable New Yorkers; including ACCESS NYC Growing Up NYC Working NYC
make the Citys its equity poverty and workforce data more transparent and actionable; such as Equity NYC
design and pilot new tools to improve social service delivery; including My File NYC
support open source and scalable technologies: NYC Benefits Platform UI Patterns Framework
The team also helps define how the City of New York uses modern agile and usercentric approaches to build digital products.
The Product Specialist will support our Benefits Access portfolio; a suite of digital and data products that connects millions of New Yorkers to social services and benefits.
Reporting to the Senior Product Manager they will support driving new feature development refinements metric reporting and maintenance for ACCESS NYC; as well as supporting the growth and adoption of the NYC Benefits Platform opensource tools we develop and maintain in tandem with ACCESS NYC.
The Product Specialist will work with internal teams of product managers content strategists developers and interns and also with external stakeholders across government agencies that deliver benefits and services and engage the community of New Yorkers we serve and who will:
Research and manage updates for the ACCESS NYC Benefits Screener which lets households determine potential eligibility for 40 benefits based on factors such as income expenses and household composition.
Analyze complex eligibility criteria for public benefits
Research identify and analyze changes to eligibility criteria translate into tasks for developers to implement: updating drafting or deleting income tables if/then statements etc.
Lead the design and implementation of new eligibility screen rules including scoping working with agency partners on interpreting policy and working with developers to implement test and launch.
Investigate and identify how we might simplify the process to make it easier for tech and nontech people to update and manage.
Support the discovery research and development of new benefits access products and services
Design execute and interprets user and web experiments using Google Optimize for A/B and multivariate testing
Produce metrics and analytics reports for benefits access portfolio
Maintain product documentation
CITY RESEARCH SCIENTIST 21744
Qualifications :
1. For Assignment Level I (only physical biological and environmental sciences and public health) A masters degree from an accredited college or university with a specialization in an appropriate field of physical biological or environmental science or in public health.
To be appointed to Assignment Level II and above candidates must have:
1. A doctorate degree from an accredited college or university with specialization in an appropriate field of physical biological environmental or social science and one year of fulltime experience in a responsible supervisory administrative or research capacity in the appropriate field of specialization; or
2. A masters degree from an accredited college or university with specialization in an appropriate field of physical biological environmental or social science and three years of responsible fulltime research experience in the appropriate field of specialization; or
3. Education and/or experience which is equivalent to 1 or 2 above. However all candidates must have at least a masters degree in an appropriate field of specialization and at least two years of experience described in 2 above. Two years as a City Research Scientist Level I can be substituted for the experience required in 1 and 2 above.
NOTE:
Probationary Period
Appointments to this position are subject to a minimum probationary period of one year.
Additional Information :
The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic including but not limited to an individuals sex race color ethnicity national origin age religion disability sexual orientation veteran status gender identity or pregnancy.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
