Director of Product - New Products
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Code for AmericaGovernment
Reside full-time within the United States, 10 AM - 3 PM PTFull-TimeDirector
Salary143884 - 176138 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Required Skills
- AgileArtificial Intelligence
Requirements
- 10+ years of product management experience or equivalent experience
- At least 3 years in a leadership role managing direct reports
- Curiosity, humility, and a learning mindset that embraces iteration and feedback
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Comfort with ambiguity, a preference for learning by doing over waiting for the perfect plan
- Proven track record of driving product strategy and execution within cross-functional teams, delivering results that meet user needs and organizational objectives
- Deep commitment to Code for America's mission of making government services work well for the people who need them most
- Demonstrated experience building new products from concept to launch, including leading discovery, validation, and go-to-market in ambiguous environments
- Experience running structured experiments or time-boxed pilots to validate product ideas before committing to full investment
- Experience partnering with business development or partnerships teams to shape and scope new product initiatives
Responsibilities
- Develop and proactively communicate a clear, actionable vision for your group's focus area, ensuring alignment with Code or America's organizational strategy and mission
- Translate organizational priorities and emerging opportunities into product strategy for your group, making clear choices about where to invest and where to say no
- Lead and develop a team of product managers, including managing people managers, providing guidance, mentorship, and feedback to support their growth
- Empower product managers to take accountability and ownership of their work, including understanding and shaping product strategy, roadmaps, discovery, and key deliverables
- Partner with engineering, experience, and program leadership to ensure product priorities are informed by user needs, policy opportunities, and technical feasibility
- Lead new product initiatives directly when needed, especially in early, ambiguous stages, and support PMs responsible for initiatives through scoping, validation, launch, finding product-market fit, and initial scaling
- Define product vision for initiatives that don't yet exist, evaluating and shaping new product bets across and beyond Code for Americas's core delivery areas
- Design and run time-boxed pilots with clear hypotheses, milestones, and decision points, and develop business plans that test whether new products can be sustained
- Stand up and coach new product teams, defining roles and ways of working for highly ambiguous environments
- Lead and participate in external conversations regarding areas of new exploration, representing and pitching Code for America’s capabilities
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