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[Careers](https://awardspring.com/careers)

# Associate Product Manager

-   Full-Time
-   Chicago, IL
-   Product Management

$85,000 - $110,000 / year

[Apply for this role](https://awardspring.com/careers/associate-product-manager/apply)

## 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've got real product instincts and you've started shipping with AI tools instead of just writing tickets. You want to build, not hand off specs, and go deeper than your current role allows. We care more about how fast you learn than how long you've been at it. You'll work next to senior builders who'll show you how we ship.

## 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

-   Ship well-scoped product work end-to-end with agentic tooling and senior review
-   Learn the codebase and our agent workflows fast
-   Get in front of customers early
-   Push on specs that don't hold up

## Who you are

-   0–2 years in
-   You've shipped something real with AI tooling, a side project or an internal tool, not just documented it
-   Genuinely curious about customers and product
-   Hungry to build

## 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

ACTION

Take initiative, be accountable, share what you know.

DETERMINATION

Simplify and improve, get past obstacles with creativity and persistence.

HUMANITY

Empathy and kindness in every interaction.

IMPROVEMENT

Grow daily, add value to clients and teammates.

## A note on workspace

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

## AI in our hiring

We use AI tools to assist in screening applications and assessing fit. Final hiring decisions are made by humans. Prefer a review without AI assistance? Email our hiring team at [careers@awardspring.com](mailto:careers@awardspring.com) to request it. It will not disadvantage you.

## 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.

[Apply for this role](https://awardspring.com/careers/associate-product-manager/apply)