About the role
Why We Need You
Over the past year, GovEagle has built strong product-market fit (5x revenue) and a customer base that loves us (10x DAU). Defense primes and top federal integrators run their RFP lifecycle on GovEagle inside FedRAMP and AWS GovCloud environments, and they keep asking us to do more of their growth work. Today the product thinking that turns those asks into what engineering builds sits with our two cofounders.
We are hiring our first product manager to take over that ground, working directly with the CTO. You'll talk to customers, decide what matters, write specs engineering can build from, and make sure what ships lands. Our core platform is now a scaling problem, and the new products we're adding are still zero to one, so you'll do both. As the team grows, this role grows into leading product.
What You'll Do
- Own the product loop. Run customer discovery and call reviews, turn what you hear into prioritized specs, and own features from definition through launch and adoption.
- Be in the room with customers. Join customer calls on feature requests and new product scoping, and own the follow-through so customers see their feedback ship.
- Scope new products. Take new product areas from first customer conversations to a scoped plan, prototypes, and a first release.
- Run the engineering cadence. With the CTO, run cycle planning and the priorities doc, keep Linear honest, and own release readiness: QA checklists, dogfooding, and the call on whether a release ships.
- Own the product numbers. Define and track adoption, retention, and account health on our analytics dashboard, and run projects to move whatever is lagging.
- Build with AI. Prototype with AI coding tools so engineering sees a working version, not just a doc.
What We're Looking For
- 3+ years as a product manager at a software company, ideally B2B, where you owned features from discovery through launch.
- You can walk us through something you shipped: who asked for it, what you decided, how you measured it, and what broke.
- You've gathered requirements from customers who pay for the product, and you're comfortable running those conversations yourself.
- Technical enough to hold your own with engineers and read code; no formal CS degree required.
- You build with Claude Code, Cursor, or similar, and you know where not to trust them.
- You write clearly enough that a customer and our engineers act on the same doc.
- U.S. citizen (required): this role works with customer data subject to export controls.
- Able to work in person in New York City four days a week.
Nice to have: Experience at a startup between seed and Series C, or a product that sells to enterprise buyers. No government or GovCon background needed; we'll teach you the domain.
What Success Looks Like in Your First 90 Days
- 30 days: Shadowed the CTO on every customer and planning call; reviewed the last quarter of discovery transcripts; shipped your first spec.
- 60 days: Running cycle planning and release QA; leading customer calls on feature requests; adoption and health metrics live for every account.
- 90 days: Own one product area end to end, from discovery to adoption, and engineering's priorities doc is yours.
About GovEagle
GovEagle's AI platform helps government contractors win more work. Our AI agents dramatically reduce RFP response times by helping teams shred requirements, build compliance matrices, deliver exhaustive outlines, and draft compelling narratives. We're well capitalized ($10M from Y Combinator, Strategic Cyber Ventures, Sorenson Capital, and others) and based in NYC.
Benefits: medical, dental, and vision insurance; 401(k); generous PTO.
How we hire: a founder conversation, a product case study built from a real customer situation (bring your AI tools), and a half-day onsite. About two weeks start to finish. Don't meet every qualification? Apply anyway.
Why Join Us
- High ownership: we hire smart people and get out of the way.
- AI-native: get deep on the frontier of AI agents, in the product and in how we work.
- Customer love: work directly with customers who are getting real value.
- Team: we're in person in NYC. Here we are at the holiday party.