Product Manager, Government Platform

The role

You will lead development of a SaaS platform for early childhood state agencies, helping them understand supply and demand, shape policy, and improve program delivery. You will work with government leaders, integrators and internal teams on product design and adoption.

What you will do

• Design and scale a SaaS platform for early childhood state agencies and their operational teams
• Build data tools and workflows that enable leaders to understand supply, demand, funding, and usage
• Integrate Wonderschool's government tools with the provider and family platforms
• Deliver features that support compliance, subsidy management, policy reporting, and real-time dashboards
• Co-design solutions with government users to ensure engagement, usability, and real-world value
• Lead product demos and discussions with cabinet-level leaders and procurement teams
• Collaborate with implementation teams, systems integrators, and vendors to ensure performance
• Travel 3-5 days per month to meet with customers and support product design
• Build the early foundation for a product team that will scale with adoption
• Report directly to the CEO and eventually to the Head of Product

Required qualifications

• Experience building or scaling complex enterprise SaaS platforms, ideally for regulated sectors
• Experience as a software engineer or deep technical fluency in engineering or product delivery
• Experience working with or at systems integrators (e.g., Accenture, Deloitte) on public sector modernization projects
• Track record of managing complex projects across internal and external stakeholders
• Experience writing, structuring, or responding to RFPs, and defining pricing and packaging
• Strong workflow design, enterprise integration, and data modeling experience
• Familiarity with compliance-heavy systems and government procurement cycles
• Comfort working with AI and LLMs to solve real-world information access or data reporting problems
• Exceptional communication skills and executive presence, able to present confidently to CIOs and policy leaders
• Based in or willing to work from the Rincon Hill, San Francisco office in-office 5-6 days a week

Benefits

• Equity

Before you apply

• Candidates must be based in or willing to work from the Rincon Hill, San Francisco office in-office 5-6 days a week
• Expected to use agentic tools like Claude Code, Hermes, and OpenClaw to automate the product management cycle
• Expected to attend events on nights and weekends when needed, such as farmers markets, parent events and community gatherings

About the company

Wonderschool is building an integrated platform for early childhood education used by providers, families and state governments. It is a Series B company that has raised $50M+ from investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Goldman Sachs.