Product Manager, Government Platform

What You’ll Own

• Design and scale a SaaS platform for early childhood state agencies and their operational teams
• Build data tools and workflows that enable leaders to understand supply, demand, funding, and usage
• Integrate Wonderschool’s government tools seamlessly with the provider and family platforms
• Deliver features that support compliance, subsidy management, policy reporting, and real-time dashboards
• Co-design solutions with government users to ensure engagement, usability, and real-world value
• Lead product demos and discussions with cabinet-level leaders and procurement teams
• Collaborate with implementation teams, systems integrators, and vendors to ensure performance
• Travel 3–5 days per month to meet with customers and support product design
• Build the early foundation for a product team that will scale with adoption
• Report directly to the CEO and eventually to the Head of Product

What You Bring

• Experience building or scaling complex enterprise SaaS platforms, ideally for regulated sectors
• Experience as a software engineer or deep technical fluency in engineering/product delivery
• Experience working with or at systems integrators (e.g., Accenture, Deloitte) on public sector modernization projects
• Track record of managing complex projects across internal and external stakeholders
• Experience writing, structuring, or responding to RFPs, and defining pricing and packaging
• Strong workflow design, enterprise integration, and data modeling experience
• Familiarity with compliance-heavy systems and government procurement cycles
• Comfort working with AI and LLMs to solve real-world information access or data reporting problems
• Exceptional communication skills and executive presence—can present confidently to CIOs and policy leaders
• Based in San Francisco and able to be in-office 3–5 days/week

What Success Looks Like

• State leaders use the platform weekly to make decisions, request expansions, and cite it as a critical part of their operations
• Government platform integrates seamlessly with provider and family products to enable unified program delivery
• Demos and decks are used successfully in procurement cycles to close new state deals
• Implementation timelines are hit reliably, with strong coordination across internal teams and system integrators
• The roadmap is led proactively, with tight loops between customer feedback, usage data, and product development
• The PM is seen internally as the expert on government needs and externally as a trusted partner by state leaders

Compensation

• Base salary starts at $140,000
• Includes equity
• Negotiable based on experience