Product Manager

Location: Remote, New York City, or Oakland, CA

Role Type: Full-time

Compensation
: $135,000

Hires remotely in: United States

Experience: 3+ years

Recidiviz is thrilled to be hiring a Product Manager to join our team! We’re a small, fast-moving nonprofit that builds tools that impact criminal justice decision making and outcomes. That’s where you come in. We’re looking for a creative, high-agency product leader who can help shape our roadmap, rally cross-functional teams, and bring impactful ideas to life with scrappy execution and strategic insight.

Recidiviz is creating safer, healthier communities by improving outcomes for people in the criminal justice system. We build technology to reduce the number of people in prison and to help criminal justice leaders embrace data-driven decision‑making.

Using software tools and thoughtful product design, we’ve been able to safely and permanently reduce incarceration and improve outcomes. We work side‑by‑side with leaders of the criminal justice system, people in prison and on supervision, and ecosystem partners to build a better path forward. In addition to the revenue we earn from state partners, some of the most respected philanthropists and foundations support our work.

People who succeed at Recidiviz lead with kindness and humility, assume good intent, learn from failure, and fix problems when they see them. They are excited to work arm in arm with government leadership and staff to improve outcomes. They are great listeners. They build deep relationships with and empathy for the people we work with and the people who our mission serves, even when those two groups feel at odds.

Product Managers at Recidiviz own big, complex, mission‑critical problem spaces and turn them into high‑impact, highly‑loved software. You’ll work with engineers, designers, and justice system leaders to identify opportunities, ship products, and iterate fast. Travel is part of the role and planned collaboratively — but the role is remote‑flexible with offices in NYC and Oakland for those who prefer hybrid.

Please note:
We expect this role will require 10‑25% of time spent traveling domestically across the US, about 1‑3 trips per quarter. We expect these trips to include visits to prisons and parole offices.

• Lead strategy and execution for one or more of our state partner portfolios — from vision to wireframe to deployment and iteration
• Translate ambiguous real‑world needs into smart, user‑centric product decisions in collaboration with state partners, engineers, and designers
• Drive product discovery with grit and creativity — conducting interviews, mapping workflows, and testing hypotheses in scrappy ways
• Define metrics, track outcomes, and communicate impact across internal and external audiences
• Foster a strong product culture grounded in clarity, curiosity, and urgency
• Roll up your sleeves to help with whatever it takes — we’re a small team, and we all pitch in

In your first year at Recidiviz, you might:

• Launch a new tool that helps thousands of people safely exit the correctional system — and scale that tool to be used in multiple states within months.
• Own a portfolio of tools that enable decision makers in corrections to improve reentry outcomes of justice‑impacted individuals.
• Collaboratively define a product vision and strategy that reimagines the criminal justice system into an engine for economic mobility.
• 3+ years of experience in product management building user‑facing software
• Strong product sense and strategic intuition — you can see the big picture and sweat the details
• Comfortable leading through ambiguity and independently making calls with imperfect data
• Proven ability to collaborate with complex stakeholder relationships with empathy, diplomacy, and clarity
• Love being scrappy — you spot opportunities others miss and aren’t afraid to roll up your sleeves to chase them. You treat constraints as catalysts, not roadblocks, and bring ingenuity to both strategy and execution.
• Technical fluency — you’re comfortable working closely with engineers and understanding architectural tradeoffs
• Passion for our mission to make the…