Head of Product

Change.org

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About The Position

A new startup within Change.org is building a civic technology platform with the mission of building less polarized and more effective democracies resilient to the growing impact of AI. We are searching for a Founding Head of Product who will translate an ambitious vision for better democracies into a product that can drive mass public adoption and effective policy outcomes at global scale.
The platform leverages AI (LLMs, bridging algorithms, and world modeling) and millions of human voices to identify the >80% of issues most people agree on locally and nationally, and will mobilize millions of voters to incentivize elected officials to support those common-ground policies. We're already partnering with Republican and Democratic mayors across the US to pilot this new platform locally, and we’ll announce a “National Citizen’s Congress” later this year - a live video-based civic dialogue with representative groups of Americans from every Congressional district on the most important national issue each week to identify cross-partisan solutions. We’ll then expand to the other major democracies globally in which Change.org already has hundreds of millions of users.
We’re looking for a world-class product leader who can translate a complex, multi-stakeholder civic problem into a product people actually want to use. You have experience building 0 to 1 consumer internet products as well as deploying at scale to millions of users. You understand and embrace AI as a means to create better experiences and to unlock functionality and scale that was previously impossible. You build in an AI-first way yourself, using AI to move faster, think more clearly, and multiply your own impact. Most critically, you want to be part of a pragmatic and ambitious team made up of some of the best builders in the world operating with urgency to solve one of the most important problems of our time: building healthier democracies.

Requirements

• 10+ years of product management experience at product-led organizations, with significant time in consumer-facing products
• Demonstrated experience taking a product from 0 to 1 — defining the vision, shipping the MVP, and iterating into product-market fit
• Strong evidence of product craft and design taste. You can point to products you've shaped and explain the decisions behind them
• Track record of building and leading high-performing product teams
• Experience using AI tools to improve speed and quality of work; experience designing consumer AI product experiences is a plus!
• Experience operating in politically sensitive or multi-stakeholder environments where the product must earn trust across audiences with competing incentives is a plus

Nice To Haves

• Experience using AI tools to improve speed and quality of work; experience designing consumer AI product experiences is a plus!
• Experience operating in politically sensitive or multi-stakeholder environments where the product must earn trust across audiences with competing incentives is a plus

Responsibilities

• Define the product vision and strategy — translate a complex, multi-stakeholder problem into a roadmap that sequences bets intelligently and makes clear what we are not building.
• Ship the MVP and iterate into product-market fit — own the end-to-end experience: how someone first encounters the platform, how they participate in a deliberation, how their input gets synthesized, and how the resulting policy positions reach decision-makers.
• Build an AI-native product organization — establish the workflows, tooling standards, and team norms that make AI the default mode of building. Model what AI-first product development looks like in practice: from how the team discovers user needs to how it ships, measures, and iterates.
• Build the measurement architecture — define what success looks like at every stage. Establish the metrics, feedback loops, and learning systems that tell us whether the product is working, what's driving engagement, and where to invest next. Move fluently between qualitative insight and quantitative rigor.
• Set the bar for product development — attract and develop builders who want to work on one of the hardest and most important product problems in the world. Establish the culture of craft, speed, intellectual honesty, and user obsession that defines how this team operates.

Benefits

• The annual salary is $330,000 USD + 20% target bonus. Our compensation philosophy is based on pay equity. All of our salaries are determined before we launch a role – they are based on a predetermined salary scale and the level on that scale.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed