About the Role
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.Key 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.
- Build the measurement architecture — define what success looks like at every stage.
- Set the bar for product development — attract and develop builders who want to work on one of the hardest product problems in the world.
Core Competencies
- Innovation Mindset: World-class at 0 to 1 product development with a track record in high-ambiguity environments.
- Exceptional Product Craft: Recognize the difference between a functional product and one people love.
- Builder Mindset: Experience building and scaling early-stage products while defaulting to action.
- Systems Thinking Across Domains: Ability to reason across technology, civic participation, AI, and political incentives.
- Leadership & People Management: Experience in building and scaling multi-disciplinary product organizations.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Skilled at creating clarity, trust, and shared ownership across teams.
Target Experience
- 10+ years of product management experience at product-led organizations, significant time in consumer-facing products.
- Demonstrated experience taking a product from 0 to 1.
- Strong evidence of product craft and design taste.
- Track record of building and leading high-performing product teams.
- Experience using AI tools to improve speed and quality of work is a plus.
- Experience operating in politically sensitive or multi-stakeholder environments is a plus.
