Find work in the United States.

A simpler way to find your next job.

Jobs in the United States

25+ jobs

Save this search

Added 8 mins ago
SG
Backend Software Engineer, Weather & Aviation
Spire Global
Boulder, CO
- $34,986 USD / year
We're seeking a Senior Backend Software Engineer who has helped production systems scale, harden, and stay reliable as usage and expectations grew. You'll own critical services end to end,…
Added 14 mins ago
W
(USA) Senior, Software Engineer
Walmart
SUNNYVALE, CA
- $117,000 to $234,000 USD / year
Own delivery of scoped features and models through collaborative engineering teams, ensuring alignment with platform and system objectives.
Added 15 mins ago
W
Software Engineer II | Bentonville, Arkansas
Walmart
BENTONVILLE, AR
- $80,000 to $155,000 USD / year
As a Software Engineer II, you will deliver high-quality software solutions by collaborating with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and maintain scalable applications and services.…
Added 15 mins ago
W
(USA) Principal, Software Engineer
Walmart
SUNNYVALE, CA
- $143,000 to $286,000 USD / year
The (USA) Principal, Software Engineer leads the design and delivery of scalable platform capabilities, driving innovation in cloud-native architectures and AI/ML integration. This role…
Added 15 mins ago
W
Principal, Software Engineer - Walmart Data Ventures
Walmart
BELLEVUE, WA
- $132,000 to $264,000 USD / year
The Principal Software Engineer leads platform engineering efforts by delivering scalable, cloud-native solutions and reusable infrastructure components that support long-term technical…
Added 15 mins ago
W
Staff, Software Engineer
Walmart
Sunnyvale, CA
- $143,000 to $286,000 USD / year
Join Walmart as a Staff Software Engineer to lead the design, development, and deployment of scalable platform capabilities, including infrastructure, tooling, and AI/ML frameworks. This…
Added 15 mins ago
W
(USA) Staff, Software Engineer
Walmart
BENTONVILLE, AR
- $110,000 to $220,000 USD / year
Walmart is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the development and delivery of scalable platform capabilities, including infrastructure, tooling, and AI/ML frameworks. This role…
Added 21 mins ago
Solutions Lead, International Upmarket
Toast
Remote, United States
…a 40-site group their own menu, their own workflows and the systems they already run, in their market's version of the product. Tailor it to each person in the buying group, from the head…
Added 42 mins ago
Full Stack Engineer (React Native)
Blink - The Employee App
Remote, United States
…like never before. Blink, a mobile-first employee experience platform, puts everything employees need right in their hands. With teams in Boston, London, and Sydney, we're making waves…
Added 49 mins ago
Senior Contract Software Engineer (Data & Platform)
Nimble
Remote, United States
We're looking for a senior contractor to help tackle some of our most challenging data and platform problems. You'll work directly with our engineering team on high-impact projects with…
Added 1 hour ago
Senior Data & Communications Systems Engineer
Peraton Inc
Stennis Space Center, MS
Added 1 hour ago
UO
Senior FPGA Development Engineer
University of Colorado Denver
Boulder, CO
- $34,986 USD / year
The Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) is seeking an FPGA Design Engineer IV to serve as a senior technical leader for flight digital logic used in spaceflight science…
Added 1 hour ago
Systems Engineer - Mergers & Acquisitions Integration
BKF
Remote, United States
The Systems Engineer – M&A Integration executes technical integration activities associated with mergers and acquisitions. The role supports the onboarding of acquired companies into BKF’s…
Added 1 hour ago
Systems Engineer - Mergers & Acquisitions Integration
BKF
Remote, United States
The Systems Engineer – M&A Integration executes technical integration activities associated with mergers and acquisitions. The role supports the onboarding of acquired companies into BKF’s…
Added 1 hour ago
Systems Engineer - Mergers & Acquisitions Integration
BKF
Remote, United States
The Systems Engineer – M&A Integration executes technical integration activities associated with mergers and acquisitions. The role supports the onboarding of acquired companies into BKF’s…
Added 1 hour ago
Systems Engineer - Mergers & Acquisitions Integration
BKF
Remote, United States
The Systems Engineer – M&A Integration executes technical integration activities associated with mergers and acquisitions. The role supports the onboarding of acquired companies into BKF’s…
Added 1 hour ago
Systems Engineer - Mergers & Acquisitions Integration
BKF
Remote, United States
The Systems Engineer – M&A Integration executes technical integration activities associated with mergers and acquisitions. The role supports the onboarding of acquired companies into BKF’s…
Added 1 hour ago
Systems Engineer - Mergers & Acquisitions Integration
BKF
Remote, United States
The Systems Engineer – M&A Integration executes technical integration activities associated with mergers and acquisitions. The role supports the onboarding of acquired companies into BKF’s…
Added 1 hour ago
Quality Engineer
Better Impact
Remote, United States
…approach to quality that holds up across a portfolio of different…
Added 1 hour ago
Senior Software Engineer (AI-Native)
Telegent, Inc.
Pleasant Grove, UT
You've written enough code and built enough systems at scale to show real mastery. You get the git versioning jokes and the Linux memes, and your servers hiccup in fear of Kai Lentit 😆
Added 1 hour ago
Senior AI Operations Engineer (Senior Software Engineer)
Vizient, Inc.
Centennial, CO
Added 1 hour ago
Senior AI Operations Engineer (Senior Software Engineer)
Vizient, Inc.
Centennial, CO
Added 1 hour ago
MI
Senior Cloud Systems Administrator
Maxar Intelligence I
Westminster, CO
- $109,000 to $167,000 USD / year
Added 1 hour ago
HPC Systems Engineer
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Boulder, CO
Join the High-Performance Computing Systems Group (HSG) at NCAR and help power cutting-edge Earth system science! As an HPC Systems Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in engineering and…
Added 1 hour ago
2027 Cloud Solutions Engineer / Site Reliability Grad Intern
The Aerospace Corpor
Colorado Springs, CO
…innovative solutions that span satellite, launch, ground, and cyber systems for defense, civil and commercial customers. When you join our team, you'll be part of a special collection of…

Spruce Systems, Inc.

Forward Deployed Product Manager

United States

$150,000 to $250,000 USD / year

Apply About employer

Applications open in a new tab.

Job details

Pay: $150,000 to $250,000 USD / year
Experience: 6–10+ years of product experience at startups or on new product initiatives.
Posting language: English
Posted: Oct 22, 2026

Original job description

FORWARD DEPLOYED PRODUCT MANAGER

Location: U.S. (Remote, but must be based in the United States)

Travel: Depending on the assigned engagement, substantial travel to state government partner sites may be expected

Clearance: Must be eligible and able to pass a government background check

ABOUT SPRUCE

Our mission is to let users control their data across the web. We build privacy-preserving, standards-based digital identity and credentialing systems that help governments and institutions increase access to important services and benefits programs while reducing fraud. We believe the right approach to product management is critical to combining high standards of usability, security, and privacy into a seamless user experience and driving broad adoption.

THE ROLE

We are seeking a Forward Deployed Product Manager to sit alongside our government customers during discovery, architecture, and design, sometimes while engineering is building, and help them work out what they actually need and why.

You will support specific deployments, from statewide identity programs to large-scale education and workforce credentialing initiatives. Each must be localized to its own ecosystem: stakeholders, user demographics, regulations, and program objectives. Even as we sell a product to a customer, we treat the overall program as a product with its own governance, roadmap, and objectives. Much of this work is customer-driven today and requires hands-on engagement with individual implementations, even as we work to consolidate what we learn into reusable Spruce products. Holding both at once is the job.

A credential is only useful if someone issues it, someone accepts it, and someone carries it. So beyond discovery, you own adoption for your program: getting issuers to issue, verifiers to verify, and end users to adopt, with startup-style resourcefulness and measurable KPIs. In some cases, you will source and build the first pilot group yourself.

The surface area is broad, and you should be good at taming unknowns and complexity. One week you may be shaping the roadmap for a statewide digital identity wallet, the next a citizen-facing portal, the next the APIs and microservices underneath. You are responsible for the end-to-end product picture, how those pieces fit together, and ultimately outcomes for our customers’ customers.

This is not a roadmap-and-quarterly-planning role. We move quickly, put work in front of small pilot groups, and let evidence change the plan. At the same time, this is identity infrastructure, where security, accessibility, and reliability matter. Knowing what can be iterated on quickly and what absolutely cannot is central to doing this job well.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES

CUSTOMER-EMBEDDED DISCOVERY

Work directly with state government partners through discovery, architecture, and design
Understand their users, policy environment, constraints, and workflows first-hand
Look past stated requirements to the underlying problem the customer is actually trying to solve
Navigate government relationships thoughtfully: introduce user evidence that may challenge stated priorities, and influence direction without damaging the relationship

END-TO-END PRODUCT OWNERSHIP

Hold the full product picture across user-facing experiences and the APIs and services beneath them, often across several interconnected initiatives at once
Help partners shape and sequence their roadmap, and make sure what gets built solves the real problem
Partner closely with engineering, design, and delivery leads from definition through deployment

HANDS-ON USER RESEARCH

Personally design and run research: talk to stakeholders and end users directly, run discovery, prototype where appropriate
Synthesize what you learn into product decisions and roadmap direction
Bring user evidence into conversations where requirements are often treated as fixed

There is no research team or technical product manager counterpart behind this role. You do this work yourself, whether that means digging into agency rules, legislation, user interviews, or codebases.

ECOSYSTEM BUILDING AND ADOPTION

Drive adoption of digital credentials across your program’s ecosystem: onboard issuers, verifiers, and institutional partners with startup GTM resourcefulness
Find high-leverage partnerships (university research programs, workforce boards, employer networks) that multiply impact beyond your own direct effort
Own adoption KPIs and find creative, resourceful ways to move them

JUDGMENT ABOUT PACE VERSUS RISK

Put work in front of small pilot groups early and let findings redirect the roadmap
Draw clear lines around what cannot be iterated on loosely: security, accessibility, and reliability
Make and defend those calls with engineering and with customers

Where this role ends. This is a forward-deployed role, not a core product role: you own outcomes for your engagements, not Spruce’s product-line roadmap. But you are the person closest to the field, so we expect you to notice when a problem extends beyond a single agency and flag what should become reusable Spruce capability.

WHAT YOU BRING

6–10+ years of product experience at startups or on new product initiatives. Former founder or founding-team operator is the ideal profile
Zero-to-one experience: you have taken a product from nothing to shipped, or identified and pursued entirely new opportunities
Meaningful experience in education, workforce development, or adjacent sectors
A real interest in workforce development and expanding opportunity through technology
Experience in government or another highly regulated environment
Customer-embedded experience: forward-deployed product, solutions PM, implementation, or founder-led delivery all count
Hands-on user research: you have designed and run discovery yourself and turned it into product decisions
Enough technical depth to read a codebase, hold your own with engineers on APIs, services, and system design, and make tradeoffs they respect. You do not need to be an engineer
Credible at the executive level: comfortable holding a room with agency directors, university chancellors, and institutional partners
Based in the U.S. and excited to engage directly with state government partners

NICE TO HAVE

Background in digital identity, IAM/ICAM, credentialing, or authentication systems
Experience building or growing multi-sided ecosystems, marketplaces, or platform adoption
Background in education technology or learning and employment records
Familiarity with accessibility standards, FedRAMP, or NIST frameworks
Experience navigating public sector procurement and contracting
Prior engineering or deeply technical systems experience

WHY THIS ROLE MATTERS

Shape identity and credentialing systems that millions of residents will actually use
Work directly with senior government stakeholders on mission-critical infrastructure
Operate at the intersection of policy, engineering, research, and real-world delivery
Help build the education and workforce credential ecosystems that connect people to opportunity
Help turn individual state deployments into durable product capability
Join a small, high-trust team where autonomy and judgment matter

At SpruceID, we value diversity of perspectives and backgrounds. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or veteran status.

Apply About employer

Report this job