Senior Product Manager (Platform and AI)
Location: United States—Remote
A note on length — this posting is intentionally longer than most. That is deliberate. It gives you a realistic preview of the role and clear guidance on how to present your application, so we suggest reading it in full.
About SOVRA
SOVRA is a leading public procurement platform trusted by more than 7,000 government agencies and over 1 million suppliers across North America. Our work sits at the intersection of technology, public service, and accountability, helping governments operate more efficiently and transparently on behalf of the communities they serve.
What makes SOVRA unique is our deep focus on the public sector. Our solutions are purpose-built to solve real, complex procurement challenges, balancing compliance with usability and innovation. That commitment has been recognized with the Achievement of Excellence in Procurement (AEP) Certification from the National Procurement Institute, reflecting our high standards and impact on the market.
At SOVRA, the work you do matters. Every improvement we make helps public organizations stretch taxpayer dollars further, operate with greater transparency, and deliver better outcomes for millions of people. We're a growing, mission-driven company where smart, curious people come together to build technology that serves the public good.
Learn more at sovra.com http://sovra.com.
About the job
SOVRA is adding a Senior Product Manager, Platform and AI, a newly created position that supports a new generation of AI-native procurement products on one shared platform. The role suits someone who wants to help shape what public procurement looks like next and who is drawn to making that work better for the agencies that run it.
The person in this role owns a buyer-side product area on the new platform, which spans request intake, sourcing and solicitation building, evaluation, and contract lifecycle management. The role brings AI into the buyer's daily workflow, from drafting solicitations to evaluating responses, and helps agencies move from SOVRA's established platforms to the new one.
Every road repaired, classroom equipped, and clinic stocked starts with a procurement. The role works closely with Engineering, Design, Sales, Customer Success, and Marketing, and its output is held to the standard that public sector audiences expect for accuracy, accessibility, and accountability.
What will your main responsibilities look like?
Product Strategy & Customer Discovery
- You spend time with agency buyers, evaluators, and contract managers, map how procurement work gets done, and frame problems worth solving before anyone writes a line of code.
- You decide on evidence, combining usage data, customer interviews, solicitation analysis, win/loss feedback, and continuous market intelligence to prioritize the roadmap and shape positioning.
- You write clear, testable requirements and acceptance criteria at the pace of a short release cycle, and work with the Product Owner to define and prioritize the backlog.
AI Product Ownership
- You own a buyer-side product area on the new platform, setting vision, roadmap, and priorities while balancing strategic goals, customer commitments, and engineering capacity.
- You decide where AI acts, where it assists, and where a person stays in control across buyer workflows, and you define how each AI feature is evaluated and monitored in production.
Delivery & Public Sector Readiness
- You build clickable or coded prototypes with AI-assisted tools, test them with real users alongside Design before engineering commits, and use AI across your daily work.
- You treat accessibility (WCAG 2.2 AA and ADA), data residency and privacy, security review, public procurement law and policy, and ERP and finance integration as product features.
Launch & Commercial Performance
- You partner with Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success on launch plans, packaging, pricing, demos, and RFP responses, taking…