Product Policy Manager / Lead

Who We Are

Open Government Products (OGP) operates like a startup within the government; We are a fast-paced, dynamic team of engineers, designers, and product managers dedicated to public good. We autonomously identify opportunities to solve public problems using tech, rapidly prototype, and launch solutions—from citizen apps to automating public agency operations. Embracing an open-sourced and flat hierarchy, we cut through bureaucracy to focus on real-world, user-centric innovations that drive change.

The Role

Policy work often involves long clearance chains, repeated rounds of review, and a clear separation between those who set direction and those who execute it. This can leave capable officers with less room to act on their judgment than their experience warrants.

If that gap is familiar to you, this role is built differently: closer to delivery, end-to-end ownership of the policy implementation loop, where your judgment carries weight because you understand the work rather than because of your grade, and where you're expected to raise a problem as soon as you see it rather than wait for it to surface elsewhere.

Policy written apart from delivery tends to look sou