Product Manager

• →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 criminal justice system more humane, equitable, and effective
• Willing to travel: We expect this role will require 10-25% of time spent traveling domestically across the US, about 1-3 trips per quarter. These trips include visits to prisons and parole offices.

• Experience shipping products in government, health, criminal justice, or similarly complex domains
• Background in startups, civic tech, or other resource-constrained, impact-driven environments
• Strong storytelling skills for motivating teams, aligning stakeholders, and driving change
• Corrections industry working experience, or lived experience navigating the corrections system

Recidiviz was an all-volunteer effort until early 2019, when Clementine, Andrew, and Joshua founded the organization. Since then, we’ve built an A-team of software engineers, designers, product managers and domain experts, from companies like Google, Apple, Dropbox, Opower, and Sidewalk Labs. Recidiviz was part of Y-Combinator’s 2019 class and has received support from some of the most respected philanthropists and foundations, including Ford Foundation, Mackenzie Scott, Schmidt Futures, Arnold Ventures, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and the Mozilla Foundation.

Today, Recidiviz works with (and earns revenue from) over 18 state partners – big and small, red and blue – and covers more than 40% of the US incarcerated population. We have helped to get tens of thousands of people out of the criminal justice system, safely and equitably, and saved states nearly $1 billion. In the next five years, Recidiviz plans to partner with 40 states and help 250,000 people who are stuck in the system to get out and stay out. In addition to partnering with state Departments of Corrections, Recidiviz collaborates with and learns from partners – from organizations like the Correctional Leaders Association (CLA) to community based organizations and justice-impacted individuals, whose perspectives guide our work.

To learn more about how we do what we do, check out our 2024 Year in Review, read some press coverage, or watch our TED Talk. And if you’re really keen to see our work, you can dive into our Github :).

Lasting change is always built on diversity. Recidiviz recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, disability, age, veteran status, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, gender identity and all protected status as required by applicable law. We consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a special need that requires accommodation, please let us know in your application. Even if you don't think you meet all the criteria above, drop your resume, and we'll take a look – you might be great for another role or another time!