# Product Manager, Government Platform
**Company:** [Wonderschool](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/wonderschool)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Skills:** Saas Platform Development, Enterprise Saas, Data Modeling, Workflow Design, Enterprise Integration, Ai/Llms, Rfp Writing, Government Procurement, Compliance Systems, Product Strategy
**Posted:** 2026-05-23
> 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.
## Job Description
## 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
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