Responsibilities

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.
Core responsibilities
Own the outcomes: Drive positive correctional outcomes by expanding product-market-impact fit, building long-term organizational sustainability, and scaling what works to more states—ensuring tools deliver immediate usability and sustained weekly active engagement.
Lead and develop a high-performing team: Manage and mentor PMs, designers, and emerging leaders. Build cohesive cross-functional rituals, streamline team operations, and drive adoption of shared UI standards to increase execution speed and state-by-state consistency.
Build cross-functional trust: Partner closely with engineering, data science, state engagement, and marketing, coaching your team to do the same. Keep teams close to frontline staff, government leadership, and justice-impacted individuals through grounded, trauma-informed discovery practices.
Set strategic context: Define a clear direction so every PM and designer understands where their area fits, what to prioritize, and why it matters. Partner with and coach team members as they navigate complex policy and administrative constraints, helping them land on clear roadmaps and intuitive user workflows.
Modernize workflows and execution: Help the team stay ahead of shifts in technology by modeling AI-assisted workflows across discovery, scoping, and prototyping—accelerating delivery speed without sacrificing rigor or user empathy.
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.
Active adoption & impact: Recidiviz’s product portfolio achieves deeper impact—measured by high weekly active tool usage, stronger client executive support, and steady launch momentum.
People growth: Multiple team members have grown into meaningfully new scope—a first-time manager, a senior IC owning a harder problem, or someone who was stuck and is now thriving.
Operational velocity: User feedback loops and reusable components are cleanly integrated into product cycles, eliminating redundant work and accelerating state deployments.

Director of Product at Recidiviz · LumiJobs

Director of Product

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Recidiviz

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