Product Manager

AwardSpring; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) match

Unlimited PTO

Paid parental leave

Job summary

AwardSpring is a growing SaaS company based in Chicago, offering a hybrid work model. We are seeking a Product Manager who ships code, owns outcomes from discovery to delivery, and stays close to customers to define meaningful metrics.

You will lead product initiatives in a fast-moving AI-native environment, collaborating with engineers and designers to deliver features that matter. 3+ years in product and strong judgment are essential.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in product roles or equivalent.
• Comfortable in a codebase without an engineering background.
• Ability to ship features and make product calls.

Responsibilities

• Own outcomes from discovery through delivery.
• Ship features with agentic tools; engineering reviews and hardens.
• Make the priority and quality calls.
• Stay in front of customers.
• Define and track your area's metrics.

Skills

Product management

Customer focus

Strong product judgment

Ship code

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

Job description

Careers

Product Manager

• Full-Time
• Chicago, IL
• Product Management

$100,000 - $135,000 / year

Who we are

AwardSpring is an established, growing SaaS company that partners with hundreds of colleges, universities, and foundations across the US and Canada to award scholarships and manage their donors. We complete the virtuous cycle of giving, getting, and giving again, on a mature, multi-tenant platform, with a small, focused team.

About This Role

You ship code, not just specs. You own outcomes across discovery, decisions, and delivery in your area, shipping features with agentic tooling that engineering reviews and hardens. You make the product calls, stay close to customers, and don't wait to be told what matters.

How we work

We're an AI-native product team. Nearly 100% of the code in our product is AI-generated, and every IC (engineer, PM, designer) ships features end-to-end with agentic tooling. The lines between disciplines are intentionally blurred: PMs ship code, engineers make product calls, designers prototype in production. We hire for fluency in agentic development, not time in any one stack.

If you've been building this way on nights and weekends because your day job won't let you (rigid stack, no token budget, "that's not how we do things here"), this is the place where it's the actual job.

What you'll do

• Own outcomes from discovery through delivery in your area
• Ship features with agentic tools; engineering reviews and hardens
• Make the priority and quality calls
• Stay in front of customers
• Define and track your area's metrics

Who you are

• 3+ years in product as a PM, tech lead, founder, or equivalent, now shipping with Claude Code, Cursor, or comparable tools
• Comfortable in a codebase without an engineering background
• Strong product judgment
• You'd rather ship impact than write docs

What we give you

• Top-tier AI tooling with unlimited token budgets
• Day-one access to the latest models as they ship
• A mature, multi-tenant production codebase with real users and real stakes
• Health, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) match, unlimited PTO, and paid parental leave

Our values

Lead with humanity. Genuine empathy for our team, our customers, and the students and donors they serve. That includes candor, saying the hard thing because you respect the person enough to say it.

Take smart risks. Urgency. Bold, informed bets before the picture is fully clear. Run the experiment instead of winning the debate.

Take pride in the process. Fast is the standard and thoughtfulness is non-negotiable. Eyes on the work you control, not the scoreboard.

Own the results. We measure everything. Accountability runs on data, not vibes, and we can tell the difference between an honest miss and a broken process.

A note on workspace

Hybrid, based in our West Loop / Fulton Market office in Chicago, roughly three days a week.

Equal Opportunity Employer

AwardSpring is an equal opportunity employer and hires without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status. We're committed to an inclusive, harassment-free workplace.