Director of Product
About the role
Director of Product at Recidiviz leading a high-performing product management team to scale product strategy, governance, and AI-enabled workflows in a nonprofit tech environment focused on reducing incarceration and improving outcomes in the criminal justice system.
Responsibilities
- Lead, develop, and build a high-performing PM team. Manage and mentor experienced PMs and emerging leaders — including senior ICs who own product areas deeply and those growing toward management. Own the full hiring engine from sourcing to close: pipeline development, interview design, and offer process. You run a high-performing team, and you measure your success by the growth and impact of the people around you.
- Build the systems that give the team clarity and stability. Partner with People Ops to own and evolve the career ladder, performance frameworks, and onboarding that make this team feel like a place worth building a career. You know what great looks like at every level and you make that visible.
- Build the cross-functional trust that makes great product work possible. Partner closely with engineering, design, data science, and policy and coach the PMs to do the same. Collaborate with executive leadership and state government stakeholders, and help the team stay close to frontline staff and the people most affected by the criminal justice system.
- Set the strategic context that guides the team's work. Define a clear direction for the PM team — helping each PM understand where their area fits in the bigger picture, what to prioritize, and why it matters. Help PMs define strategies for their areas, translate ambiguity into clear priorities, and make more confident product calls.
- Move the team toward the future of product. AI is reshaping what it means to be a PM — and your job is to help the team stay ahead of that shift. Champion and model AI-assisted workflows across discovery, scoping, and prototyping. Set standards for using these tools with judgment, not just speed. Develop the adaptability and craft that will make your PMs exceptional long after their time at Recidiviz.
Qualifications
- 10+ years in product management, with at least 5 years managing a team; you've led both senior ICs and emerging leaders and know how to get the best from each
- Deep care for the growth and wellbeing of the people you manage — you measure your success by theirs
- Exceptional communication and relationship skills — you earn trust quickly, especially with people who have strong opinions and high standards
- Experience coaching PMs toward management readiness — you've developed future managers, not just individual contributors
- Comfort operating in ambiguity, with the ability to create clarity and momentum where little exists
- Proven ability to build people systems from scratch — career ladders, performance frameworks, onboarding programs — in a fast-moving environment
- Experience running recruiting at scale: pipeline building, interview design, and closing candidates in a competitive market
- Strong strategic instincts: you can zoom out to see the system, identify what's misaligned, and help teams make better decisions with less friction
- A builder's mindset paired with strategic rigor — you see gaps, you close them, and you leave things better than you found them
- Ability and willingness to travel, about one trip per quarter
Skills
Benefits
- Effective, extremely thoughtful colleagues, working together on a mission that matters
- 90% medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage for you and your dependents
- Flexible time off, including 20 days of PTO, 3 days of paid volunteering time, and 13 paid holidays per year
- 401(k) retirement plan with 5% company match and no vesting period
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave
- Complimentary One Medical membership (availability based on location)
- Partnership with Carrot to provide inclusive fertility and family-forming benefits, and additional health benefits
- Monthly ClassPass credit for personal wellness
- Free mental health support via Talkspace
- Well-located offices in Oakland and Manhattan with remote work flexibility
- Annual company offsite and other ad-hoc gatherings
- Opportunity to work on mission-driven tech at a nonprofit with startup-scale challenges
About Recidiviz
Helping create a smaller, fairer, safer justice system
Recidiviz is a non-profit technology company that drives meaningful changes in criminal justice systems and improved outcomes for justice-impacted individuals. Criminal justice data today is inefficient and ineffective: researchers, advocates, policymakers and practitioners each need funding and time for data collection and cleaning (for almost any data at all), and most data collected is too stale by the time it’s compiled to be useful. Recidiviz has built an open-source platform to ingest data from across data silos, link it, standardize it, and expose it in usable formats to the ecosystem. We provide products and analyses on top of this platform to help government agencies understand how their justice systems are functioning, set and track progress towards goals, drive evidence-based improvements to practice and policy, and ensure justice-impacted folks reenter their communities as safely and quickly as they can.