NationGraph
Public Sector Data
HeadofProduct
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“Head of Product at NationGraph. Skills: product strategy, product leadership, customer intuition, prioritization, cross-functional leadership, decision making, communication. Own the company-wide product strategy, roadmap, and product narrative.. Define the core user, workflows, and product surfaces that NationGraph should be optimized around.”
What You'll Achieve.
Make public sector data accessible and actionable for businesses selling to cities, counties, state agencies, schools, and special districts.; Make uncommon knowledge common, because public data should actually be public.; Define the next chapter of NationGraph’s product: who we build for, what workflows we win, how our product differentiates, and how we translate our data advantage into a product customers cannot live without.; Turn a large, complex market opportunity into a focused, high-velocity product organization.; Ensure the product directly supports acquisition, retention, expansion, and customer love.
Industry & Context.
Translate complex data and workflows into elegant, opinionated software.; Translate ambiguity into product direction.; Make decisions with incomplete information and create clarity in ambiguous environments.; Solve complex, uncharted problems.
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
8+ years of product leadership experience, including experience leading product at a high-growth technology company., Experience owning product strategy for a complex B2B software product., product taste. You have clear opinions about what makes products simple, elegant, useful, and differentiated., Experience building or scaling data-intensive, workflow-heavy, AI-enabled, or GTM-oriented products., Ability to operate across altitude: company strategy, product vision, roadmap, user workflows, UX details, and execution tradeoffs., customer intuition. You can quickly understand users, identify pain, and translate ambiguity into product direction., Exceptional prioritization judgment. You know how to sequence work, say no, and create focus., cross-functional leadership across engineering, design, sales, marketing, customer success, and executive teams., Ability to make decisions with incomplete information and create clarity in ambiguous environments., communication skills. You can write, present, and explain product strategy clearly to technical and non-technical audiences., Track record of hiring, mentoring, and raising the bar for product managers or product-oriented teams.
Nice to Have
Experience as a technical (co) founder, early product executive, or first senior product hire at a high-growth startup., Experience building products for sales, revenue teams, GTM operations, data teams, or enterprise workflows., Experience with AI-native products, data enrichment, search, graph-based systems, or workflow automation., Experience building products with usage-based, credit-based, or data/API-based pricing models., Experience selling or building into regulated industries, enterprise, or complex B2B markets., Experience partnering closely with technical teams on data infrastructure, product architecture, APIs, integrations, or large-scale data systems.
What You'll Do.
Own the company-wide product strategy
and product narrative.
and product surfaces that NationGraph should be optimized around.
Translate a broad market opportunity into clear product priorities and sequencing.
Partner with the founders to make high-conviction decisions about what we build — and what we do not build.
Turn customer conversations
and product usage into a clear product direction.
Work closely with engineering to translate product strategy into crisp execution plans.
Create product operating cadences across discovery
Develop the frameworks we use to evaluate product bets
and long-term platform investments.
Partner with sales and customer-facing teams to ensure the product directly supports acquisition
and workflow should come together in the product experience.
Raise the bar for product quality
and eventually scale a high-performing product organization.
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner closely with engineering and design.; Work with sales and customer-facing teams.; Regularly partner with engineering, design, sales, customer success, and marketing on end-to-end product narratives.; Partner with sales and customer-facing teams to ensure the product directly supports acquisition, retention, expansion, and customer love.; Partner closely with technical teams on data infrastructure, product architecture, APIs, integrations, or large-scale data systems.
Communication Scope
Can write, present, and explain product strategy clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
Process & Methodology
Create product operating cadences across discovery, prioritization, shipping, feedback, and iteration., Develop the frameworks we use to evaluate product bets, roadmap tradeoffs, customer requests, and long-term platform investments.
Full Job Description
About NationGraph NationGraph is making public sector data accessible and actionable for businesses selling to cities, counties, state agencies, schools, and special districts. NationGraph’s data and intelligence engine provides buying signals derived from millions of public sector sources. Founded in 2024, NationGraph is dedicated to making uncommon knowledge common, because public data should actually be public. Learn more at nationgraph.com http://nationgraph.com You’ll Join A Team That: - Has successfully built, scaled, and sold companies in the past. - Built software infrastructure processing billions of dollars in transactions. - Is backed by world-class VCs and operating partners who’ve invested in, and built, iconic companies. - Is building at the intersection of public sector data, AI, workflow automation, and go-to-market intelligence. - Believes product is not just a function, it is the clearest expression of company strategy. - Moves extremely fast, values sharp thinking, and expects every person to materially shape the trajectory of the company. About The Role: - Own product strategy and product leadership in our rapidly growing startup. - We are looking for an exceptional product leader with strong opinions about building world-class products, deep customer intuition, and the ability to turn complex data and workflows into elegant, opinionated software. - You will work directly with the founders to define the next chapter of NationGraph’s product: who we build for, what workflows we win, how our product differentiates, and how we translate our data advantage into a product customers cannot live without. - This is a highly strategic and hands-on leadership role. You will shape product direction, partner closely with engineering and design, work with sales and customer-facing teams, and help build the operating system for how product decisions get made. - You will be critical in turning a large, complex market opportunity into a focused, high-velocity pr
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