Product-Manager, Product-Owner, Product-Lead Jobs

Code for America believes government can work for the people, by the people, in the new digital age, and that government at all levels can and should work well for all people. For more than a decade, we’ve worked to show that with the mindful use of technology, we can break down barriers, meet community needs, and find real solutions.

Our employees build and transform government and community tools and services, making them so good they inspire change. We merge the best parts of technology, nonprofit, and government to help support the people who need it most.

With a focus on transparency and fairness, and deep empathy for partners in government and community organizations and the people that our partners serve, we’re building a movement of motivated change agents driven by meaningful results and lasting impact.

At Code for America, you contribute to exciting work while learning and developing in a supportive and flexible environment. Our compensation and benefits are holistic and thoughtfully curated to represent our employees and our mission. Help us drive real generational change that lasts.

Code for America is looking for a talented Lead Product Manager who will drive meaningful outcomes for the people and government partners we serve through our Safety Net, Tax Benefits, Criminal Justice products and/or rapid response work.

When building Code for America products, you'll develop meaningful products for individuals across the country, making it easier to access critical benefits and services, while also helping agencies deliver better digital services to the public in a way that lasts.

About the role:

As a lead Product Manager at Code for America, you will set product direction and strategy for a product or project and lead a cross-functional team in delivering it. You’ll solve complex problems and deliver user-centered products and services, drawing on deep expertise in product management, stakeholder management, agile delivery and modern software development. You’ll work across the matrix: day to day with your project team and program partners, and within the Product discipline to grow shared practices.

This role will report to the Director of Product and is expected to travel no more than 15% of the time.

Code for America is based in California and can employ those who reside full-time within the United States. This is a remote position.

In this position you will:

• Product strategy and direction
  • Develop and own the product strategy and roadmap for your product or project.
  • Partner with your program lead and cross-disciplinary team members to define the overall strategy for your project.
  • Make tradeoff decisions that balance user needs, partner expectations, scope and timeline within your project.
• Stakeholder alignment
  • Communicate product vision and strategy clearly to your team and internal stakeholders.
  • Drive alignment with government partners and other external stakeholders on product vision and strategy, partnering with program and other discipline colleagues as needed.
  • Contribute to scoping future opportunities in your product area in partnership with program leads.
• Delivery and team leadership
  • Lead a multidisciplinary team (which may include design, research and engineering) to test and deliver solutions that work for the people who need them most.
  • Work with fellow product managers and discipline leads to make sure your project delivers on its strategy and advances Code for America’s goals.
  • Identify and escalate risks with program and discipline leads, and determine mitigation strategies.
  • Develop and refine team processes with engineering and other leads so the team can focus on the right work and deliver efficiently.
  • Mentor other product managers and establish strong product practices within your team.
  • Model constructive communication: listen actively, give and receive feedback directly, address disagreements within the team promptly, and make space for differing perspectives.
• Model constructive communication within the team environment
  • Practice active listening and create space for team members to raise concerns and share feedback
  • Give and receive feedback constructively, and foster an environment where differing perspectives are welcomed
• Other duties as assignedEngage in ad hoc projects and initiatives as required by the organization's evolving needs.

About you:

This role is a great fit for a product manager who builds user-centered solutions in complex, multi-stakeholder environments and is skilled at aligning partners around delivery.

• 7+ years of product management experience.
• Proven ability to lead high-quality product development with agile methods, improving products iteratively through delivery cycles.
• Proven ability to interpret and use user research, usability testing and data analytics to make and validate product decisions.
• Strong product judgment: knowing when to prototype or build, when to experiment, and when to change direction.
• Experience writing and reviewing product strategy documents and feature specs, and giving thoughtful feedback to the team.
• Strong communication skills and experience managing internal and external stakeholders, including incorporating feedback when it serves the product, the project and the people we serve.
• Ability to make tough tradeoff decisions and facilitate productive conversations at key decision points.
• Ability to manage day-to-day delivery while connecting short-term progress to a longer-term vision.
• Ability to identify product issues and advocate to address them, whether through resourcing, scope or requirement changes.
• Ability to connect your team’s work to Code for America’s strategy and make recommendations that improve team outcomes.
• Curiosity about emerging AI tools and a commitment to using them responsibly and effectively.
• A deep commitment to Code for America’s mission of making government services work well for the people who need them most.

It’s a bonus if you have:

• Medicaid, public benefits, or insurance experience.
• Product advisory or consulting work with government, civic tech, or a highly regulated industry.
• Experience working directly with state or county government partners.

What you’ll get -

Salary:

Code for America’s salary bands are shared upfront as a part of our commitment to transparency and fairness. As part of our hiring practices, we target the 2nd quartile midpoint of the respective salary band for all new hires.

Offer targets and salary bands vary based on market / geographic location. The offer targets for this role range from $128,945 to $157,850,annually. Your Recruiter will discuss compensation in more detail & answer any related questions, during the initial Recruiter phone screen.

Benefits and Perks:

This role includes a comprehensive benefits package including the following:

• Values:
  • Leadership and teammates who share a strong work ethic and values, and who respect and care for one another
  • A collaborative, cross-functional, hardworking, and joyful environment
• Employee Enablement Support:
  • Laptop provided
  • A one-time $700 payment for remote environment setup; $200 stipend (in first paycheck) and up to $500 reimbursement, in accordance with our equipment policy
  • Cell phone and/or internet reimbursement of $50 per month
• Professional Development:
  • $500 annual (per calendar year) stipend towards professional development; prorated at time of hire
  • Up to $500 of professional development funds can be rolled over each year, up to a maximum of $1000
  • Training / guidance for staff required to utilize AI as part of their role, plus opportunities for employees to gain AI-related skills to support job and career growth
• Retirement & 401k Plans:
  • Employees receive a 100% employer match on the first 3% of contributions.
  • Employees with 3+ years of service receive an additional 50% match on contributions between 3% and 5%, for a maximum employer contribution of 5%
• Medical:
  • At least one no cost health insurance option for full-time employees for employee-only coverage
  • A minimum of 80% of the cost of dependent coverage
• Remote Work:
  • Code for America employees may work remotely across the US
  • Code for America employees main residence must be within the US
  • Full-time employees work 40 hours per week, Monday - Friday
  • Collaborative working hours: we aim to hold all internal meetings between 10 AM - 3 PM PT. We expect all Code for America staff to be available during these set working hours
• Time Off:
  • Open personal time off (subject to manager approval), a minimum of 14 paid holidays, and an org-wide closure from Christmas Day through New Year's Day
  • Paid sick time; up to 96 hours annually
  • 17 weeks of paid parental and family leave
  • 3 weeks of paid sabbatical after 5 years of service

Timeline:

From the time you are contacted by a Recruiter, you can expect a 1-2 month, or longer, hiring process. The specific hiring process and timeline goals for this role will be covered during the initial Recruiter phone screen. Code for America's standard interview process details are also available on our careers page.

Equal Employment Opportunity:

Code for America is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will not be discriminated against because of race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, citizenship status, disability, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, medical condition or any protected category prohibited by local, state or federal laws.

Code for America Workers United:

This position is not covered by a Collective Bargaining Agreement between Code for America and Code for America Workers United, affiliated with OPEIU, Local 1010. The agreement was ratified on January 13, 2026, and is currently in effect.

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About DeweyLearn

DeweyLearn exists to help organizations preserve and scale expert judgment. We believe the most valuable knowledge in any organization doesn’t live in manuals or policies, it lives in the decisions experts make every day. Our platform captures that expertise, transforms it into scalable AI systems, and applies it to authentic assessment, coaching, certification, quality assurance, and any workflow where human judgment matters.

DeweyLearn is an AI-powered human assessment and evaluation platform. Our multimodal system analyzes audio and video of real learning, training, and coaching sessions using observational frameworks developed with domain experts, then turns what it sees into structured insight for assessment, coaching, certification, and quality assurance. Our partners span higher education, corporate training, clinical practice, and K-12 education.

DeweyLearn won the GSV Cup grand prize at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit as the world’s best edtech startup, and recently closed a Series A led by SJF Ventures.

Tasks

About the role

You own end-to-end product management across existing verticals, new verticals, and internal tooling. Working with the Head of Product, you take a focused approach to understanding the problem, and building, validating, launching, and improving a solution that people actually use. Use cases might include a nursing simulation workflow, a repeatable solution for an existing customer need, or an internal tool that helps our team deliver faster.

This is a hands-on building role. You use agentic tools to compose existing DeweyLearn and third-party capabilities, configure workflows, and test working solutions. You partner with Customer Success and domain experts to understand the use case, and with Engineering and Product Delivery to deliver it successfully. You own the assigned product’s outcomes, then take on new opportunities as the solution becomes repeatable, and ongoing ownership is clear.

Requirements

What you'll do

Understand the use case: Partner with Sales, Customer Success, customers, and domain experts to identify the problem, current process, and evidence of value.

• Build the complete solution. Configure workflows, prompts, evaluation frameworks, and integrations using existing capabilities and agentic tools. Work with Engineering when platform changes are needed.
• Validate in real use. Test the full customer or internal workflow against agreed quality criteria, review failures with relevant domain and technical owners, and iterate.
• Launch and drive adoption. Coordinate readiness, onboarding, and handover with Product Delivery. Partner with Customer Success and Product Marketing on demos, enablement, and feedback.
• Own the outcomes. Track useful adoption, quality, time to first value, and commercial contribution. For internal tools, demonstrate time savings, improved throughput, or reduced errors.
• Make it repeatable. Reduce bespoke setup and support, build reusable workflows, and turn user learning into product improvements and roadmap input for the Head of Product.

About the Candidate

• Curiosity and adaptability: You learn new domains quickly and recognize when to involve specialists or engineers. You can move between industries and internal use cases while staying focused on outcomes. Experience in education, assessment, workflow automation, integrations, or AI evaluation is helpful, not required.
• Agentic building: You use AI tools to build working solutions, inspect outputs critically, troubleshoot failures, and improve them. You do not need to be a software engineer, but you enjoy making things work.
• Ownership and judgment: You can show useful things you have built and shipped, and explain your decisions and results. You may be early in your career; demonstrated ownership matters more than years in a PM title. Personal, academic, internal, and customer projects all count.
• Customer-close learning: You seek out users and domain experts, test assumptions in real workflows, and turn what you learn into concrete changes. You follow through beyond a demo and communicate tradeoffs clearly.

What this role is not

• Not a role with a ready-made playbook—you won’t always have a defined roadmap, established tools, or an existing solution. The Head of Product sets priorities; you take ownership of figuring out how to achieve the outcome.
• Not a coordination-only role — you build working solutions and own product outcomes, rather than only writing specs or tracking delivery.
• Not a solo engineering or domain-expert role — you work hands-on with agentic tools while partnering with customers, Customer Success, specialists, Engineering, and Product Delivery.

How we hire

We care about what you can do and how you think, not where you've done it. We're hiring for talent that amplifies the team. We evaluate candidates on concrete examples, demonstrably deep knowledge, and real work samples — and on the judgment and self-direction that come from having done work like this before, without a manager scripting the moves.

The team you're joining

DeweyLearn is a small, close-knit team, moving fast, with a deep conviction in the impact DeweyLearn can have on learning and learners. We emphasize fun and a high level of collaboration, while holding each other accountable to our shared outcomes. We hire on ability and judgment, not pedigree, and we trust deeply once we do. We bias toward straight talk, deliver on what we said we would, and treat play and curiosity as part of how the team discovers what to build. We refuse to ship work we wouldn't be proud of.

Benefits

Compensation & logistics

Medical benefits and flexible PTO. Remote-first, with occasional travel for customer visits and team events.

DeweyLearn, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit and business needs. The Company does not unlawfully discriminate against, nor does it tolerate unlawful harassment by any person, on the basis of race, color, religion or creed, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, veteran status, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, sex, sexual orientation, or any other basis protected under federal, state, or local law.

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