Founding Product Manager

Holly is an HR platform built for city and county government, helping local governments modernize their workforce management. They are seeking a Founding Product Manager to own new product modules end-to-end, working closely with government HR officials to translate user needs into actionable product development.

Responsibilities:

• Scope and architect new product modules (~60% of time)
• Turn user signal into product direction. Translate ambiguous problems into clear, actionable specs and PRDs, giving engineers and designers the user context to build from without guessing
• Test hypotheses in code. Prototype and iterate quickly with AI build tools — Claude (Artifacts / Claude Design), Lovable, v0, Figma, Cursor — to pressure-test workflows before committing engineering time
• Drive product velocity. Shepherd features from idea to shipped product, owning scope and sequence decisions end-to-end, and doing anything and everything to unblock teams
• Shape what success looks like. Co-own the product metrics that define whether a feature is working - adoption, engagement, time saved - and use them to decide what to double down on or cut
• Talk to users and run research (~20% of time)
• Talk directly to our customers. Learn about how they actually solve their problems, using genuine curiosity to uncover unique insights
• Master labor relations end to end. Work closely with customers and subject matter experts to understand costing, grievances, negotiation, MOUs backwards and forwards so you can spot where the real pain lives and which features would actually move the needle
• Grow the team's understanding of our userbase. Build and maintain user personas that sharpen how the whole team understands government HR users - and use them to form hypotheses worth testing
• Lead how Holly uses AI for product development (~20% of time)
• Partner with engineering. Help build AI into the product from the ground up, outlining AI-powered features to solve old problems in novel ways
• Level up how the team works. Build internal tooling, reusable skills, or interesting automations that level up the team - everything from managing personal to dos to doing QA to ideating on new features
• Own AI quality. Write, test, and maintain the production system prompts behind Holly's AI features, and define how we measure "good" - building eval sets from real examples and iterating against them, not vibes
• Take what works and bring it to Holly. Stay current on what's changing in AI and how product teams are using AI to move faster. Translate "what's newly possible" into tomorrow's roadmap