DescriptionYour ImpactAs a Senior Product Manager, you will own the strategy, roadmap, and outcomes for a defined product or major product area serving local government clients. You'll translate customer, market, and business insights into prioritized investments that improve usability, operational efficiency, and resident experience. In this role, you'll help shape portfolio-level direction, pioneer AI-powered capabilities, and deliver secure, scalable, and compliant solutions while partnering cross-functionally during
West Coast hours.What you'll do- Own and articulate the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for a defined product or major product area, ensuring alignment with company objectives, customer needs, and market opportunities.
- Build, prioritize, and maintain a roadmap informed by customer discovery, Voice of Customer inputs, product usage data, business priorities, and technical feasibility.
- Lead the end-to-end product lifecycle from discovery through delivery, launch, adoption, and ongoing iteration.
- Translate customer and business needs into clear product requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and prioritized backlogs.
- Partner closely with Engineering and Design to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions on time while balancing scope, risk, and dependencies.
- Make informed trade-offs across features, AI innovation, technical investments, integrations, and operational improvements to maximize customer and business impact.
- Ensure products meet security, accessibility, data privacy, and regulatory requirements applicable to local government clients.
- Conduct ongoing customer discovery, market research, and validation through experimentation and analysis of qualitative and quantitative data before and after launch.
- Serve as a trusted product advocate and advisor to customers, Sales, and internal stakeholders, including participation in customer meetings, demos, marketing events, and sales conversations as a product expert.
- Lead go-to-market activities, including launch planning, enablement, and post-launch optimization, in partnership with Product Marketing and go-to-market teams.
- Define, track, and analyze key product metrics related to adoption, engagement, retention, and business impact, using insights to drive continuous improvement.
- Pioneer AI-powered solutions that solve customer problems and can be leveraged or adopted across the broader product portfolio.
- Shape and influence the organization's approach to AI capabilities by collaborating with engineering and product peers on strategy, feasibility, and best practices.
- Leverage AI tools in day-to-day work to synthesize customer research, draft requirements and documentation, analyze product data, summarize meetings, and increase efficiency and impact.
- Identify and drive opportunities for meaningful product-to-product integrations and partnerships that increase portfolio value and customer outcomes.
- Mentor and guide other product managers through collaboration, knowledge sharing, and informal coaching.
- Act as a senior individual contributor who can provide guidance and decision support when directors are unavailable.
- Document product decisions, requirements, and outcomes to ensure transparency, alignment, and continuity across teams.
- Communicate product strategy, progress, risks, and results regularly to leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Contribute to improving product management standards, processes, and tooling across the organization.
- Other duties as assigned by leadership.
What we're looking for- Comfort working generally on West Coast (Pacific Time) hours, with flexibility outside standard hours to maintain real-time overlap and effective coordination with product and business partners.
- 5-8 years of experience in product management, preferably supporting SaaS or technology-driven products.
- Proven experience owning a product roadmap and delivering outcomes across the full product lifecycle.
- Experience working in agile product development environments.
- Demonstrated track record of pioneering new capabilities or approaches that were adopted more broadly.
- Product & Technical Skills
- Strong ability to translate customer and business needs into clear requirements and prioritized roadmaps.
- Comfort partnering closely with engineering teams and understanding technical concepts, architectures, trade-offs, and AI capabilities.
- Proficiency using AI tools such as generative AI assistants, GPTs, or copilots to accelerate research, writing, analysis, and day-to-day product management work.
- Experience using modern product and analytics tools such as Jira, Confluence, Jira Product Discovery, Figma, Pendo, or equivalent.
- Business & Strategic Acumen
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a data-driven mindset.
- Ability to think strategically at the portfolio level while managing execution details.
- Ability to connect product decisions to customer outcomes and business results.
- Experience leading go-to-market initiatives and product launches.
- Communication & Influence
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to tailor messages to different audiences.
- Proven ability to influence and align cross-functional stakeholders without formal authority.
- Comfort presenting to customers, executives, and in sales contexts as a trusted product expert.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor and guide other product managers.
- High degree of autonomy and self-direction; able to identify problems and drive solutions independently.
- Bachelor's degree in business, computer science, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Experience in GovTech, enterprise SaaS, or complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
- Demonstrated success with AI implementation, innovation programs, or emerging technologies.
Why CivicPlusCompensation and benefits
- Estimated Salary Grade Range: $119,000 - $181, 000
- Anticipated Hiring Range: $165k - $175k
- The actual salary offer will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience and is based on a 40-hour work week.
- Benefits: Comprehensive health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, Flexible Time Off, 401(k) plan, and more.
Our Hiring Process- Introductory call with Talent Acquisition
- Interview with the Hiring Manager
- Panel Interview with CivicPlus team members, including an interview project activity
- Offer
Note: The process may vary slightly depending on the role.
Additional Information- CivicPlus is currently unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Applicants must be authorized to work in the US.
- This position will remain open until Friday, July 24, 2026 at 2pm CT. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible, as applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, and the posting may close earlier at the discretion of the Talent Acquisition team.
- At CivicPlus, we embrace AI and automation as tools that help people work smarter, move faster, and focus on higher-value work that strengthens communities. We encourage thoughtful, responsible use of technology to improve efficiency, support innovation, and enhance the employee and customer experience-while keeping human judgment, collaboration, and accountability at the center of what we do.
