About the Company

An early-stage, fast-growing software company is building AI-native products for state and local government. It was founded by a repeat entrepreneur following a successful exit, and revenue is compounding quickly.

The company's thesis is straightforward: most citizens experience government as slow and wasteful, and a large share of that frustration traces back to the software agencies are forced to run on. Replacing decades-old systems with modern, AI-driven tooling changes what a county clerk, a permitting office, or a school district IT team can actually accomplish in a day — and citizens feel the difference.

Internally, the company operates as an AI-native organization. Every team member is expected to use tools like Claude Code to automate meaningful portions of their own work, and the product development process is designed around that assumption rather than bolted onto it.

The Opportunity

This is a product role with an unusually wide aperture. The Forward Deployed Product Manager sits directly with government customers, learns how their operations actually work, and then builds the solution — not a requirements document handed to an engineering team, but working software shipped with AI coding tools.

The role also carries a P&L. Success is measured in business outcomes for the product area, not engagement dashboards or velocity charts. That makes this closer to running a line of business than to traditional product management, with the autonomy and the accountability that implies.

For someone who wants to see the full loop — customer conversation to shipped product to revenue — inside a category that is genuinely being rebuilt from zero, there are few cleaner versions of that job.

What the Role Involves

1. Defining and shipping AI-driven solutions that change how public sector agencies operate day to day.
2. Working on-site with government customers to understand their workflows in detail and translate them into product requirements that survive contact with reality.
3. Owning the roadmap and prioritization for a government-facing product area end to end.
4. Building software directly, using Claude Code and adjacent AI tooling as a primary means of production.
5. Managing a P&L and owning the commercial results of the product area — not just adoption metrics.
6. Designing the AI-native product process itself, keeping it lean, fast, and repeatable as the company scales into new agencies and product lines.

What the Team Is Looking For

1. High agency and high velocity. This person defaults to action, moves quickly, and holds an exceptional standard for their own output.
2. Early-stage startup experience, ideally paired with roughly 6+ years in product management.
3. Genuine skill with public sector customers — the ability to build trust with agency stakeholders, navigate procurement realities, and stay credible in a room full of career civil servants.
4. An AI-native approach to building product, with substantial hands-on use of AI coding tools such as Claude Code or Cursor strongly preferred.
5. A well-calibrated sense of where AI is headed — the ability to extrapolate capability curves and build for what models will do in twelve months, not only what they do today.
6. Real conviction about improving the public sector through modern technology.
7. Based in New York City or willing to relocate for in-office work.

This role is based out of the company's Flatiron office and works closely with the founder and the platform engineering team.