Product Manager, Government Platform
WonderschoolSan Francisco, California, United States · Posted May 11, 2025Description
The Opportunity
Wonderschool is building the first integrated platform for early childhood education - used by providers, families, and now, state governments. As Product Manager for our Government Platform, you will lead the development of software that enables early childhood agencies to understand supply and demand, shape policy, and improve program delivery at scale. We’ve raised $50M+ from Andreessen Horowitz, Goldman Sachs, and others, and are rapidly expanding our impact through state partnerships.
This role is part product strategy, part enterprise execution, and part field leadership. You’ll travel regularly to meet with senior government leaders, own the development of deeply integrated systems, and design data and AI tools that help agencies make faster, smarter decisions. You’ll also collaborate with integrators and internal teams to drive adoption, compliance, and long-term platform engagement.
What You’ll Own
- 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 seamlessly 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
What You Bring
- Experience building or scaling complex enterprise SaaS platforms, ideally for regulated sectors
- Experience as a software engineer or deep technical fluency in engineering/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 - can present confidently to CIOs and policy leaders
- Based in our office in Rincon Hill, San Francisco, in-office 5-6 days a week
What Success Looks Like
- State leaders use the platform weekly to make decisions, request expansions, and cite it as a critical part of their operations
- Government platform integrates seamlessly with provider and family products to enable unified program delivery
- Demos and decks are used successfully in procurement cycles to close new state deals
- Implementation timelines are hit reliably, with strong coordination across internal teams and system integrators
- The roadmap is led proactively, with tight loops between customer feedback, usage data, and product development
- The PM is seen internally as the expert on government needs and externally as a trusted partner by state leaders
Why Join WonderschoolWe operate with urgency, clarity, and focus. As a Series B company with significant capital and a rapidly growing customer base, we’re building real products that generate revenue and deliver economic value. If you care about solving hard financial problems and want to build with speed and ownership - you’ll thrive here. The role's base salary starts at $140,000, includes equity, is negotiable and aligns to the appropriate experience of the individual.
How You'll Work
- You are expected to use agentic tools like Claude Code, Hermes, and OpenClaw to build loops that automate the product management cycle - gathering feedback, developing prototypes, running tests, and shipping to production - both on your own and with your team.
- You go where customers are to learn. That means showing up at events on nights and weekends when needed - farmers markets, parent events, and community gatherings - and doing the work to understand customers firsthand.
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