Founding Product Manager
Founding PM to own a product area end-to-end, define roadmap through customer and founder collaboration, and ship AI products for 911 centers. Requires technical depth to prototype with engineers and high ownership.
Product Manager, Government Platform
Lead product development for a government-facing SaaS platform that helps state agencies manage early childhood education programs, data, and compliance. Requires enterprise SaaS experience, technical fluency, and regular in-office presence in San Francisco.
140k+San Francisco, CAProduct ManagementOnsite
About the role
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
Skills
Saas Platform DevelopmentEnterprise SaasData ModelingWorkflow DesignEnterprise IntegrationAi/LlmsRfp WritingGovernment ProcurementCompliance SystemsProduct Strategy
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