Founding Product Manager

CivilGrid • Boston, MA

116d

About The Position

CivilGrid is a venture-backed SaaS construction tech company building the 'Google Maps for the Underground.' Come help us disrupt a $4.7T US industry segment that desperately needs innovation. This opportunity has tremendous upside as it scales. CivilGrid aggregates public and proprietary utility, geotechnical, environmental, and jurisdictional data. The consolidated information is sold via our collaborative SaaS mapping platform to engineers and developers who need it to make early-stage decisions on real estate and infrastructure projects. Real time data access reduces labor and project delays, accelerates decision making and reduces project risk. Collaborative features ensure faster information flow and decisioning inside and outside the organization and better project insight retention over time.

Requirements

• Builder-first mindset: Thrive in early-stage environments (Series B or earlier) where things are messy and undefined.
• Outcome focused: Prioritize why over what and able to unpack complex customer pain points.
• Product taste: Impeccable product taste and strive for simplicity.
• Technical fluency: Comfortable working side-by-side with engineers; able to read architecture diagrams and translate requirements.
• Execution machine: Know how to spec features clearly, scope tradeoffs, and drive to outcomes.
• Strong communicator: Able to translate between technical and non-technical language with ease.
• Research-driven: Comfortable leading discovery with customers and validating product directions.
• 5+ years of experience as a PM or similar role.

Nice To Haves

• Civil engineering or construction-adjacent experience.
• Engineering background or ERP/technical product experience.

Responsibilities

• Own and prioritize the product roadmap across bugs, customer needs, and new features.
• Drive clarity from messy inputs—bugs, feature requests, customer pain points—into clear specifications.
• Partner closely with design & engineering on scoping, resourcing, and execution.
• Lead customer discovery and research to validate what to build next.
• Build lightweight processes, tools, and frameworks that will scale with CivilGrid as we grow.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity
• Health insurance
• Flexible and remote-friendly work environment
• FSA (health and dependent care)
• Unlimited PTO

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees