Founding Product Manager

GovWell•New York, NY

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

GovWell is hiring a Founding Product Manager to maximize the impact of our engineering organization as we scale. This role owns cross-team product sequencing, prioritization, and problem framing to ensure we’re building the most valuable things for customers, in the right order, with clear tradeoffs and user outcomes. You’ll work closely with engineering leads and design to identify the highest-leverage opportunities across the platform, develop deep understanding of government workflows and constraints, and translate that into clear plans that enable engineers to own execution end-to-end. This role reports directly to GovWell’s founders. We operate in a hybrid model with regular in-person collaboration in our New York City office (3+ days per week).

Requirements

5+ years of experience in product-engineering roles, with end-to-end ownership of meaningful SaaS or platform products at a high-growth company.
Strong technical operator with IC coding experience; comfortable investigating workflows directly in the product and codebase, understanding system constraints, and working deeply with engineers.
Founder-mode product owner who operates with high autonomy, makes sound tradeoffs, and drives execution without heavy process or oversight.
Clear, concise written communicator who produces PRDs and decision docs that unblock engineers and align teams.
Strong sequencing and systems thinking; able to manage dependencies and evolve a coherent platform across multiple teams.
Deep curiosity about government workflows and constraints; prior govtech or public-sector exposure is a plus but not required.
Advanced AI user who actively leverages AI in daily work, product thinking, and everyday life.

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.