Product Engineer, OpenGov
$110-125k
OTE
Cloud ERP software for the public sector
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Cloud ERP software for the public sector
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$110-125k
OTE
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To power more effective and accountable government.
Role
Who you are
- 2–4 years of experience in product management, software engineering, or a closely adjacent technical role
- Ability to contribute to and navigate cross-functional engineering projects, with awareness of how your work connects to system architecture and broader team goals
- Experience conducting customer or stakeholder interviews, or translating technical requirements and user research into actionable engineering specs
- Solid written and verbal communication; can explain technical tradeoffs clearly, provide project updates, and incorporate feedback at key milestones
- Adapts to changing priorities and demonstrates a track record of shipping reliably
- Developing comfort with AI-assisted development workflows (e.g., AI-assisted coding, code review, or testing tools); willingness to become proficient is required
- Familiarity with design systems, component-based architecture, or API/data modeling is a plus
- Experience with modern SaaS architecture (APIs, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD) preferred.
- The following competency behaviors distinguish this level from adjacent ones:
- Contributes to cross-functional projects and adapts to changing needs; viewed as a reliable team member
- Provides regular updates and receives feedback at key milestones; developing strong listening and communication skills
- Understands specific functional areas and applies expertise to contribute to company goals
- Works within their function and occasionally interfaces in cross-program relationships
- Identifies and articulates problems, extracts simple insights, and proposes solutions within scope
What the job involves
- OpenGov is seeking a Product Engineer II to take on increasing ownership of a product area with cross-functional exposure
- This role is for developing practitioners who can contribute to discovery, roadmap input, and delivery with general direction from a lead, while growing their ability to operate independently. AI-native tooling accelerates execution — your job is to direct it toward the right outcomes for customers
- AI-native tooling handles a significant portion of what product managers and UX designers have historically spent their time on. That time is yours to redirect toward higher-leverage work. Specifically:
- Spec writing: AI drafts the first spec from your intent statement. You review, sharpen, and own what gets built
- UX design: AI generates mockups from the design system based on your flow definitions. Experience Architects maintain the system itself. You make the product decisions within it
- Research synthesis: AI clusters and themes interview notes, call transcripts, and support data. You interpret what it means for the roadmap and make the call
- Release content: AI generates release notes, in-app announcements, and enablement materials from your shipped features
- Code review: Automated review catches style, security, and regression issues. You stay accountable for quality outcomes — not the review queue
- Test coverage: AI generates test cases from the acceptance criteria you write. Your job is to write criteria that are precise enough to verify
- Competitive intelligence: AI monitors competitor moves and surfaces market signals. You form the point of view and decide what it means for your roadmap
- What AI does not do: understand your customers, make the call on what matters, own the outcome, or build the cross-functional trust that makes things ship. That is the job
- Define and communicate the product vision for your area — grounded in customer research, competitive context, and business goals; not inherited from committee
- Conduct and synthesize customer discovery: translate what you hear into clear, defensible decisions about what to build and what to cut
- Own the product roadmap: prioritize ruthlessly, explain your reasoning publicly, and revise it when new facts warrant it
- Define user experience flows and interaction patterns within the design system; escalate to Experience Architects when genuinely new system-level patterns are required
- Write clear intent documents that AI tooling can execute against; review and own AI-generated specs for accuracy, completeness, and correctness
- Partner with engineering to unblock builds, resolve ambiguity in real time, and make decisions during the development cycle without becoming a bottleneck
- Track adoption, usage, and business outcome metrics; use them to drive the next iteration, not just to report status
- Represent your product in customer conversations, QBRs, and cross-functional reviews — the full commercial picture, not just the feature set
- Identify gaps in AI harnesses and design system coverage; surface them as platform investment requests with clear business justification
Our take
As the world digitises, governments must innovate their operations to deliver the highest standard of service. OpenGov offers cloud software products to help governments manage performance, improve budgeting, and visualise operational intelligence, as well as providing comprehensive open data.
OpenGov is the leader in local government software. Its cloud-based products, which aided a number of public agencies through the pandemic, include citizen services, procurement, budgeting and planning capabilities - made comprehensive by a series of strategic acquisitions. The company's coherent and integrated software solution significantly reduces the stress on government systems, allowing them to work smarter and better for their citizens.
OpenGov serves over 1,600 governments across the US and continues to secure new clients. It has also made several partnerships towards improving its range of services, which will enable it to remain a powerful tool for governments wishing to digitally transform.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Feb 2022
$50m
LATE VC
Oct 2021
$50m
LATE VC
Total funding: $228m
Company benefits
- Work from anywhere
- Unlimited vacation
- Mission-driven colleagues
- World-class healthcare
- Professional development
Company HQ
China Basin, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Zachary Bookman
(Co-Founder & Chairman)Prior to co-founding OpenGov, was a Principal for Formation 8 and a Special Advisor with ISAF in Afghanistan, focusing on rule of law and governance.
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