Founding Product Manager, GovWell
$200-220k
+ Offers Equity
3+ days a week in office
Modern software for local government
Be an early applicant
Modern software for local government
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$200-220k
+ Offers Equity
3+ days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To build modern software products to help government serve communities better.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience in product-engineering roles, with end-to-end ownership of meaningful SaaS or platform products at a high-growth company
- Strong technical operator with IC coding experience; comfortable investigating workflows directly in the product and codebase, understanding system constraints, and working deeply with engineers
- Founder-mode product owner who operates with high autonomy, makes sound tradeoffs, and drives execution without heavy process or oversight
- Clear, concise written communicator who produces PRDs and decision docs that unblock engineers and align teams
- Strong sequencing and systems thinking; able to manage dependencies and evolve a coherent platform across multiple teams
- Deep curiosity about government workflows and constraints; prior govtech or public-sector exposure is a plus but not required
- Advanced AI user who actively leverages AI in daily work, product thinking, and everyday life
What the job involves
- GovWell is hiring a Founding Product Manager to maximize the impact of our engineering organization as we scale. This role owns cross-team product sequencing, prioritization, and problem framing to ensure we’re building the most valuable things for customers, in the right order, with clear tradeoffs and user outcomes
- You’ll work closely with engineering leads and design to identify the highest-leverage opportunities across the platform, develop deep understanding of government workflows and constraints, and translate that into clear plans that enable engineers to own execution end-to-end
- This role reports directly to GovWell’s founders. We operate in a hybrid model with regular in-person collaboration in our New York City office (3+ days per week)
- Own product sequencing and prioritization across teams, including quarterly and annual roadmaps with clear tradeoffs, dependencies, and rationale
- Independently ramp on the GovWell product by exploring workflows firsthand and using tools like Cursor and the codebase to understand system behavior and constraints
- Run customer discovery end-to-end, including calls, onsite visits, and workflow shadowing with government teams
- Write clear PRDs, specs, and problem statements that enable engineers to execute autonomously
- Partner deeply with engineering leads and design to frame problems correctly and ensure solutions fit into a coherent, scalable platform
- Prototype and iterate quickly using tools like Lovable, Figma, Cursor and AI prototyping to validate workflows before engineering investment
- Conduct competitive, domain, and regulatory research to inform product decisions
- Maintain platform coherence over time, preventing fragmentation across teams and product surfaces
Our take
Govwell creates software for planning and zoning within local governments, simplifying processes and modernising citizen services. With the intention of improving transparency, it is helping all sizes of government serve its communities better.
What stands out about GovWell’s workflow and automation technology is the fact that its platform is customisable. Government sectors, councils and organisations operate their tech in varying ways, and so GovWell serves these varying needs by allowing flexibility of use within its platform. This is facilitated by no-code tools to improve adaptability.
Ultimately, the platform helps local governments complete tasks in a fraction of the time. It’s a breath of fresh air in the sector, which isn’t known for its innovations, and GovWell has been smart to target this niche. It has seen good funding to support team expansion, enhanced product development and accelerated growth.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Aug 2024
$4.5m
SEED
Apr 2023
$1m
SEED
Total funding: $5.5m
Company benefits
- Equity ownership
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, with up to 100% of premiums covered for you and your partner
- 401(k) savings plan
- Unlimited time off
- Hybrid work environment
- A fully stocked kitchen, and drinks on hand
- Team events and gatherings sponsored by us
Company HQ
Rose Hill, New York, NY
Leadership
Ben Cohen
(CTO & Co-founder)Previously Founder of Cohen Realty & Construction. Was also a Software Engineer at UiPath, Amazon and Uber.
Troy LeCaire
(CEO & Co-founder)Previously Chief of Staff for the CEO of RippleMatch. Was a Campaign Intern for Senator Russ Feingold, Legislative Intern for Senator Tammy Baldwin and Legal Intern at Froelich Law Offices.
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