Forward Deployed Product Manager

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🕒 October 22

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $150k - $250k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

✅ Product Manager

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📋 Description

• Work directly with state government partners through discovery, architecture, and design • Understand users, policy environments, constraints, and workflows firsthand • Identify underlying customer problems beyond stated requirements • Act as a trusted product advisor to public-sector stakeholders • Own the end-to-end product picture across statewide wallets, citizen-facing portals, APIs, and underlying services • Help partners shape roadmaps and priorities and ensure solutions address real problems • Partner with engineering, design, and delivery leads from definition through deployment • Design and conduct user research with users, stakeholders, and end users • Conduct discovery and prototype where appropriate • Synthesize research into product decisions and roadmap direction • Navigate government relationships while introducing evidence that may challenge stated priorities • Identify patterns across customer deployments and connect needs to reusable product capabilities • Put work in front of small pilot groups and use findings to redirect the roadmap • Balance iteration speed with security, accessibility, and reliability requirements • Drive digital credential adoption by onboarding issuers, verifiers, and institutional partners • Develop high-leverage partnerships with university research programs, workforce boards, and employer networks • Own adoption KPIs and use creative, resourceful methods to improve them • Advise executive stakeholders including agency directors, university leadership, and ecosystem partners

🎯 Requirements

• 6–10+ years of product experience at startups or building new product initiatives • Experience in an early-stage environment where you personally shipped product and moved quickly • Zero-to-one experience taking a product from nothing to shipped or pursuing entirely new opportunities • Ideally, meaningful experience in education, workforce development, or adjacent sectors • Experience in government or another highly regulated environment • Genuine customer-embedded experience; forward-deployed product, solutions PM, implementation, or founder-led delivery experience counts • Demonstrated, hands-on user research experience, including designing and running discovery and turning it into product decisions • Technical depth sufficient to work comfortably with engineers and APIs, services, and system design • Comfort with ambiguity, broad surface area, and shifting priorities • Executive-level credibility with agency directors, university chancellors, and institutional partners • Based in the U.S. and excited to engage directly with state government partners • Passion for workforce development and expanding opportunity through technology • Must be eligible and able to pass a government background check • Nice to have: digital identity, IAM/ICAM, credentialing, or authentication systems background • Nice to have: familiarity with accessibility standards, FedRAMP, or NIST frameworks • Nice to have: public-sector procurement and contracting experience • Nice to have: prior engineering or deeply technical systems experience • Nice to have: experience building or growing multi-sided ecosystems, marketplaces, or platform adoption • Nice to have: education technology, learning and employment records, or workforce development program background

🏖️ Benefits

• Substantial travel to state government partner sites may be expected depending on the assigned engagement • Small, high-trust team with autonomy and judgment valued • Equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or veteran status

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