Hires remotely in: United States
This role sits at the center of Recidiviz's ability to scale. As Director of Product and Design, you’ll lead and develop a team of experienced product managers and designers—people with years of domain expertise and a deep commitment to the mission. Your job is to make each of them sharper, more supported, and more impactful: setting strategic context, building the people systems that help them grow, and creating the conditions for them to build products that actually get used on a daily and weekly basis.
You'll report to the Chief Impact Officer and serve as a key partner on product direction, team health, operational standards, and organizational strategy as Recidiviz scales nationally. Some travel to our state partners, internal team gatherings, and offsites is expected.
Wild success
Here are a few things you might accomplish in your first year that would demonstrate wild success in this role. Some of these will be the direct result of your work. Others will be because of the conditions you've set for a great team to do great things.
Compensation is standardized based on roles and responsibilities. This ensures equitable compensation and responsible stewardship of our resources. As such, we do not negotiate compensation offers.
The compensation for this role is: $201,250.
More about Recidiviz
Recidiviz was an all-volunteer effort until early 2019, when Clementine, Andrew, and Joshua founded the organization. Since then, we've built an A-team of software engineers, designers, product managers and domain experts, from companies like Google, Apple, Dropbox, Opower, and Sidewalk Labs. Recidiviz was part of Y-Combinator's 2019 class and has received support from some of the most respected philanthropists and foundations, including Ford Foundation, Mackenzie Scott, Schmidt Futures, Arnold Ventures, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and the Mozilla Foundation.
Today, Recidiviz works with (and earns revenue from) over 20 state partners — big and small, red and blue — and touches over 46% of the country's incarcerated population. We have helped to get hundreds of thousands of people out of the criminal justice system, safely and equitably.
To learn more about how we do what we do, check out our 2025 Year in Review, read some press coverage, or watch our TED Talk.
An important note
Lasting change is always built on diversity. Recidiviz recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, disability, age, veteran status, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, gender identity and all protected status as required by applicable law. We consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a special need that requires accommodation, please let us know in your application.
Even if you don't think you meet all the criteria above, drop your resume, and we'll take a look — you might be great for another role or another time!
Recidiviz is creating safer, healthier communities by improving outcomes for people in the criminal justice system. We build technology to reduce the number of people in prison and to help criminal justice leaders embrace data-driven decision-making.
Using software tools and thoughtful product design, we've been able to safely reduce incarceration and improve outcomes. We work side-by-side with leaders of the criminal justice system, people in prison and on supervision, and ecosystem partners to build a better path forward. In addition to the revenue we earn from state partners, some of the most respected philanthropists and foundations support our work.
People who succeed at Recidiviz lead with kindness and humility, assume good intent, learn from failure, and fix problems when they see them. They are excited to work arm in arm with government leadership and staff to improve outcomes. They are great listeners. They build deep relationships with and empathy for the people we work with and the people who our mission serves, even when those two groups feel at odds.
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