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# Founding Product Manager at GovEagle

- **Company:** GovEagle
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $180k–$200k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/GovEagle/1698e3fd-1b1d-4d69-9f1e-6c34d3b3f337

## Job description

## Why We Need You

Over the past year, GovEagle has built strong product-market fit (5x revenue) and a customer base that loves us (10x DAU). Defense primes and top federal integrators run their RFP lifecycle on GovEagle inside FedRAMP and AWS GovCloud environments, and they keep asking us to do more of their growth work. Today the product thinking that turns those asks into what engineering builds sits with our two cofounders. We are hiring our first product manager to take over that ground, working directly with the CTO. You'll talk to customers, decide what matters, write specs engineering can build from, and make sure what ships lands. Our core platform is now a scaling problem, and the new products we're adding are still zero to one, so you'll do both. As the team grows, this role grows into leading product.

## What You'll Do

- Own the product loop. Run customer discovery and call reviews, turn what you hear into prioritized specs, and own features from definition through launch and adoption.
- Be in the room with customers. Join customer calls on feature requests and new product scoping, and own the follow-through so customers see their feedback ship.
- Scope new products. Take new product areas from first customer conversations to a scoped plan, prototypes, and a first release.
- Run the engineering cadence. With the CTO, run cycle planning and the priorities doc, keep Linear honest, and own release readiness: QA checklists, dogfooding, and the call on whether a release ships.
- Own the product numbers. Define and track adoption, retention, and account health on our analytics dashboard, and run projects to move whatever is lagging.
- Build with AI. Prototype with AI coding tools so engineering sees a working version, not just a doc.

## What We're Looking For

- 3+ years as a product manager at a software company, ideally B2B, where you owned features from discovery through launch.
- You can walk us through something you shipped: who asked for it, what you decided, how you measured it, and what broke.
- You've gathered requirements from customers who pay for the product, and you're comfortable running those conversations yourself.
- Technical enough to hold your own with engineers and read code; no formal CS degree required.
- You build with Claude Code, Cursor, or similar, and you know where not to trust them.
- You write clearly enough that a customer and our engineers act on the same doc.
- U.S. citizen (required): this role works with customer data subject to export controls.
- Able to work in person in New York City four days a week.

Nice to have: Experience at a startup between seed and Series C, or a product that sells to enterprise buyers. No government or GovCon background needed; we'll teach you the domain. What Success Looks Like in Your First 90 Days

- 30 days: Shadowed the CTO on every customer and planning call; reviewed the last quarter of discovery transcripts; shipped your first spec.
- 60 days: Running cycle planning and release QA; leading customer calls on feature requests; adoption and health metrics live for every account.
- 90 days: Own one product area end to end, from discovery to adoption, and engineering's priorities doc is yours.

## About GovEagle

GovEagle's AI platform helps government contractors win more work. Our AI agents dramatically reduce RFP response times by helping teams shred requirements, build compliance matrices, deliver exhaustive outlines, and draft compelling narratives. We're well capitalized ($10M from Y Combinator, Strategic Cyber Ventures, Sorenson Capital, and others) and based in NYC. Benefits: medical, dental, and vision insurance; 401(k); generous PTO. How we hire: a founder conversation, a product case study built from a real customer situation (bring your AI tools), and a half-day onsite. About two weeks start to finish. Don't meet every qualification? Apply anyway.

## Why Join Us

- High ownership: we hire smart people and get out of the way.
- AI-native: get deep on the frontier of AI agents, in the product and in how we work.
- Customer love: work directly with customers who are getting real value.
- Team: we're in person in NYC. Here we are at the holiday party.

## About GovEagle

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: GovEagle is an AI-native platform that helps government contractors respond to federal Requests for Proposals (RFPs) in hours instead of weeks.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage; Y Combinator W23)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, USA
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Gabe Villasana (CEO & Co-Founder) and Akash Mandavilli (CTO & Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI-powered software for government contracting (GovCon)
- **Target customers**: B2B, targeting government contracting firms, defense contractors, and public sector proposal teams
- **Mission / Purpose Statement**: To become the Salesforce for government contractors — one platform to identify, respond to, and manage government proposals and awards. The company’s core insight is that “GovCon doesn’t have a writing problem. It has a continuity problem.”

## Products & Services
- **GovEagle Platform (SaaS)**: An AI-native platform that connects to a customer’s existing data (SharePoint, Salesforce, past proposals) and uses proprietary AI (no AI training on customer data) to automatically extract RFP requirements, evaluation criteria, and task areas. It generates compliant “pink-team” drafts in the customer’s voice and template, with full citations to source material. Supports Section L/M analysis, compliance matrices, and pink-team drafting.
- **Deployment Options**: Cloud, on-premise, or portable hardware. Offers FedRAMP Moderate Equivalent (NIST 800-53 compliant) and ITAR-ready capabilities (all engineers are U.S. persons).
- **Integration**: Works within Microsoft 365, designed to fit existing proposal workflows without requiring a process reset.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Total Funding**: $3M raised (Seed round of $2.5M closed ~1 year ago, per CB Insights)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (W23 batch), Strategic Cyber Ventures
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Claims customers have seen an 80% reduction in proposal time and 50%+ increase in proposal throughput.
  - Customers have won over $1B in cumulative awards using the platform.
  - Team size of 25 employees (as of early 2025).
  - Actively hiring across Sales (SDR, Account Executive) and likely engineering roles (product designers and domain experts mentioned).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Purpose-built for GovCon**: Unlike generic AI writing tools, GovEagle is specifically trained for federal proposal workflows, including Section L/M analysis and compliance matrices.
- **Enterprise-grade security**: FedRAMP Moderate Equivalent, NIST 800-533 compliance, ITAR-ready, and zero data retention/retraining by AI providers — addressing the strict security and compliance needs of defense and government work.
- **Contextual continuity**: The platform carries institutional knowledge from opportunity to opportunity, solving the “continuity problem” that plagues government contracting teams where key context lives in people’s heads rather than in reusable knowledge bases.
- **No process reset**: Integrates directly into existing Microsoft 365 workflows and proposal processes, minimizing change management friction.

## Strategic Focus
- Near-term: Expand customer base among government contractors and deepen the platform’s capabilities as a full lifecycle tool — from opportunity identification through proposal management to award management.
- Product direction: Moving beyond just proposal drafting toward becoming a comprehensive platform for the entire GovCon business development lifecycle (the “Salesforce for government contractors”).
- Continuing to hire for go-to-market roles (Sales, Customer Success) and engineering talent to scale the product.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: Small team (25 people) with “high ownership, concrete impact.” Described as a place where engineers, product designers, and domain experts do “meaningful work at the intersection of AI and federal contracting.” Team is hands-on from onboarding through ongoing use — “best-in-class support” is a core value.
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Headquarters in New York, NY. Roles appear to be NYC-based, but exact policies (hybrid vs. in-office) should be confirmed during the interview process.
- **Notable Perks & Engineering Culture**:
  - Co-founders bring deep technical expertise: Gabe is a published ML researcher who built AI at Stripe, Lyft, and Amazon; Akash is a 2x founder with AI experience at Meta and federal sales at IBM.
  - Backed by Y Combinator (W23) and Strategic Cyber Ventures — combining startup velocity with deep government tech roots.
  - Focus on solving a high-impact, real-world problem: helping contractors win public sector work more efficiently and compliantly.
  - Likely early-stage equity, significant ownership, and a tight-knit team dynamic.

## Sources
1. [goveagle.com](https://www.goveagle.com/) — Official company website
2. [goveagle.com/about](https://www.goveagle.com/about) — About page (team, history, backers)
3. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/goveagle) — Y Combinator company profile
4. [ycombinator.com/jobs](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/goveagle/jobs) — YC job listings
5. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/goveagle) — CB Insights company data

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