Founding Product Manager

GovWell is building an AI operating system to transform how governments serve communities, focusing on local agencies. The Founding Product Manager will maximize the impact of the engineering organization by owning product sequencing, prioritization, and problem framing to ensure valuable outcomes for customers.

Responsibilities:

• Own product sequencing and prioritization across teams, including quarterly and annual roadmaps with clear tradeoffs, dependencies, and rationale
• Independently ramp on the GovWell product by exploring workflows firsthand and using tools like Cursor and the codebase to understand system behavior and constraints
• Run customer discovery end-to-end, including calls, onsite visits, and workflow shadowing with government teams
• Write clear PRDs, specs, and problem statements that enable engineers to execute autonomously
• Partner deeply with engineering leads and design to frame problems correctly and ensure solutions fit into a coherent, scalable platform
• Prototype and iterate quickly using tools like Lovable, Figma, Cursor and AI prototyping to validate workflows before engineering investment
• Conduct competitive, domain, and regulatory research to inform product decisions
• Maintain platform coherence over time, preventing fragmentation across teams and product surfaces