Director of Product
Code for America
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $143,884 - $176,138 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Develop and proactively communicate a clear, actionable vision for your group's focus area
- Translate organizational priorities and emerging opportunities into product strategy for your group, making clear choices about where to invest and where to say no
- Partner with the VP of Product and cross-functional leaders to ensure your group's strategy connects to the broader organizational strategy
- Proactively identify, scope, and validate emerging opportunities across areas, in collaboration with other Product Directors, disciplines and teams
- Consistently communicate product roadmaps, priorities, future potential opportunities, impact, and results across the organization
- Collaborate with Strategic Partnerships on thoughtful pricing and revenue negotiations and approaches
- Lead and develop a team of product managers, providing guidance, mentorship, and feedback
- Empower product managers to take accountability and ownership of their work
- Foster a culture of curiosity, collaboration, and continuous improvement within your team
- Build your team's capabilities for the AI era
- Partner with engineering, experience, and program leadership to ensure product priorities are informed by user needs, policy opportunities, and technical feasibility
Requirements
- 10+ years of product management experience or equivalent experience, with at least 3 years in a leadership role managing direct reports
- Familiarity with AI and emerging technologies, including practical understanding of how to apply them responsibly in product development
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate product strategy, trade-offs, and decisions to both technical and non-technical audiences and across different levels, including executive leadership
- Strong leadership skills with a focus on mentorship, team development, and fostering a collaborative team culture
- Skilled at building trust with new partners and stakeholders in contexts where there are complex-stakeholder dynamics and/or where relationships are still forming
- Experience working with agile methodologies and product delivery in dynamic, complex, high-priority environments, along with strong analytical skills and experience using data to inform product decisions and evaluate product performance
- Ability to manage competing priorities, balancing short-term goals with long-term strategic impact, and to communicate clearly with teams to facilitate their understanding of priorities
- Comfort with ambiguity, a preference for learning by doing over waiting for the perfect plan, and the ability to make progress when the path forward isn't clear
- A proven track record of driving product strategy and execution within cross-functional teams, delivering results that meet user needs and organizational objectives
- A deep commitment to Code for America's mission of making government services work well for the people who need them most.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Open personal time off
- Paid sick time
- 17 weeks of paid parental and family leave
- 3 weeks of paid sabbatical after 5 years of service
- $500 annual stipend towards professional development
- Up to $500 of professional development funds can be rolled over each year, up to a maximum of $1000
- $700 payment for remote environment setup; $200 stipend (in first paycheck) and up to $500 reimbursement for equipment
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
product managementAI technologiesagile methodologiesdata analysisproduct strategyproduct deliveryuser needs assessmentpricing strategyrevenue negotiationperformance evaluation
Soft Skills
communicationleadershipmentorshipcollaborationtrust buildinganalytical thinkingprioritizationadaptabilityproblem-solvingteam development