Location: Remote, New York City, or Oakland, CA
Role Type: Full-time
Compensation: $150,000
Reports to: Chief Impact Officer
Visa sponsorship: Not available
Hires remotely in: United States
Experience: 5+ years
Senior Product Managers at Recidiviz own big, complex, mission-critical problem spaces and turn them into high-impact, highly-loved software. You'll work with engineers, designers, and justice system leaders to identify opportunities, ship products, and iterate fast. Travel is part of the role and planned collaboratively - but the role is remote-flexible with offices in NYC and Oakland for those who prefer hybrid.
Please note: We expect this role will require 10-25% of time spent traveling domestically across the US, about 1-3 trips per quarter. We expect these trips to include visits to prisons and parole offices.Core responsibilities- Lead strategy and execution for one or more of our key agency partnerships and flagship product lines - from vision to wireframe to deployment and iteration
- Translate ambiguous real-world needs into smart, user-centric product decisions in collaboration with state partners, engineers, and designers
- Drive product discovery with grit and creativity - conducting interviews, mapping workflows, and testing hypotheses in scrappy ways
- Define metrics, track outcomes, and communicate impact across internal and external audiences
- Foster a strong product culture grounded in clarity, curiosity, and urgency
- Roll up your sleeves to help with whatever it takes - we're a small team, and we all pitch in
Wild successIn your first year at Recidiviz, you might:
- Launch a new tool that helps thousands of people safely exit the correctional system - and scale that tool to be used in multiple states within months.
- Own a portfolio of tools that enable decision makers in corrections to improve reentry outcomes of justice-impacted individuals.
- Collaboratively define a product vision and strategy that reimagines the criminal justice system into an engine for economic mobility.
Minimum qualifications- 5+ years of experience in product management building user-facing software
- Strong product sense and strategic intuition - you can see the big picture and sweat the details
- Comfortable leading through ambiguity and independently making calls with imperfect data
- Proven ability to collaborate with complex stakeholder relationships with empathy, diplomacy, and clarity
- Love being scrappy - you spot opportunities others miss and aren't afraid to roll up your sleeves to chase them. You treat constraints as catalysts, not roadblocks, and bring ingenuity to both strategy and execution.
- Technical fluency - you're comfortable working closely with engineers and understanding architectural tradeoffs
- Passion for our mission to make the criminal justice system more humane, equitable, and effective
- Willing to travel: We expect this role will require 10-25% of time spent traveling domestically across the US, about 1-3 trips per quarter. These trips include visits to prisons and parole offices.
Preferred qualifications- Experience shipping products in government, health, criminal justice, or similarly complex domains
- Background in startups, civic tech, or other resource-constrained, impact-driven environments
- Strong storytelling skills for motivating teams, aligning stakeholders, and driving change
- Corrections industry working experience, or lived experience navigating the corrections system
CompensationCompensation is standardized based on roles and responsibilities. This ensures equitable compensation and responsible stewardship of our resources. As such, we do not negotiate compensation offers.
The compensation for this role is $155,000.
What we offer- Effective, extremely thoughtful colleagues, working together on a mission that matters
- 90% medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage for you and your dependents
- Flexible time off, including 20 days of PTO, 3 days of paid volunteering time, and 13 paid holidays per year
- 401(k) retirement plan with 5% company match and no vesting period
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave
- Complimentary One Medical membership (availability based on location)
- Partnership with Carrot to provide employees with inclusive fertility and family-forming benefits, as well as a small but growing number of hormonal health and gender-affirming care benefits
- Monthly ClassPass credit for personal wellness
- Free mental health support via Talkspace
- Well-located offices in Oakland and Manhattan, with the flexibility to work remotely or go into either office as you choose
- An annual company offsite and other ad-hoc gatherings
- All the exhilarating challenges and stretch opportunities of a tech startup, combined with the mission-driven heart of a nonprofit
