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🗓️ Openings for August 1:1 navigation conversations. If you’re trying to figure out how to move into civic tech or what your next move looks like once you’re there, reach out via civicworkstudio.com/contact with what you’re trying to figure out and your LinkedIn. These conversations are confidential. I’ll follow up with availability and rates.
🍎 New York City launched the Public Interest Technology (PIT) Crew earlier this week and took a huge step forward for in-house technology capability. The PIT Crew will consist of five in-house teams of product managers, designers, engineers, researchers, and data experts, embedded across city agencies to build digital tools in a matter of months instead of years. With $5.24 million in city funding built into the operating budget, this is a big commitment to rethinking how the city approaches technology. Working in a product model, the first team is already at work on a complaint portal, built with the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, to enforce the city’s new Click to Cancel rule. While 30 staff in a City that employs over 300,000 will not be able to address everything, the dedicated capacity and the mission to make interacting with government dignified and delightful for every New York is an important one. The teams are currently hiring for Senior Product Engineers, Senior Product Designers and Senior Product Managers.
🌺 Hawai’i is building a customer experience team inside of their Medicaid department. States are facing a hard deadline to implement Medicaid work requirements by Jan. 1, 2027, and the challenge of how to address this new administrative burden while continuing to deliver service has been one of the hardest challenges Medicaid agencies are facing. Hawai’i’s Med-QUEST decided that instead of staffing up for the short-term, they will build the in-house capacity needed to use an interactive approach to fix the real problems people are facing. They are hiring senior product managers, designers and software engineers with the help of Tech Talent Project. Learn more here.
🪢 New York State recently signed an executive order announcing a new effort, Regulatory Reset, to use AI to help state agencies eliminate or modernize antiquated requirements. There are over 18 million words of codified statute in New York State, and in partnership with Recoding America and Stanford University, state teams will review references found to fees; signature or notary requirements; fax, mail, telegraph and other outdated technologies; as well as task forces, councils and mandatory reports. One such mandatory report is on the state of sour cherries throughout New York; there are laws still on the books that require a special permit for a woman to work later hours. This work is related to the public call for suggestions to cut red tape announced earlier this year. See the executive order here.
👑The idea of digital sovereignty is reaching mainstream news and politicians. The New York Times reported this week on the European search for digital sovereignty, reducing dependency on tech from the United States and China. France's AI minister put it bluntly: full autonomy isn't realistic and the real question is what dependencies are acceptable. This is a massive challenge though. Europe doesn’t have the same type of venture capital or philanthropic culture that tech companies have come to rely on, and there is only one European large language model. But there will be billions spent over the next few years to try and make it a reality. Closer to home, the New York City Committee on Government Efficiency included the idea of digital sovereignty in their preliminary report about potential changes to the City Charter.
📋 Marci Harris of Popvox recently shared a prototype of a tool to help agencies understand the obligations they are under when a new law is put in place. This idea seems pretty obvious on the surface - if a law is developed that means that agencies need to do certain things, give them a list. But in reality, that isn’t how it works. Her substack piece “What if every new law came with a to-do list?” takes a look at what this could look like based on the recently enacted H.R. 6644, the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act that includes at least 208 obligations.
🚶 Sam Brenner from the City of Boston shared about Boston’s unique approach to changing how the city manages parking and curb space. In February, Boston launched Curb Lab to create and maintain a real-time digital understanding of parking regulations and build tools that help residents navigate parking. They now have a database covering the 700+ miles of Boston curb policies and are continuing to find unique ways to introduce new curb management policies.
🧑💻 Curious about vibe coding? Civic Tech Field Guide is hosting civic vibe coding show & tells to help demonstrate how people across the field are using new tools. Nathan Storey kicked off the series sharing his Civic AI tools, a set of bridges between all the open government data that has been published. Watch here.
🧑🎓 Stanford’s Ethics, Technology, and Public Policy for Practitioners course is open for applications. This course is very popular among folks in the civic tech community as a space to dive into discussion on some of the questions, like the ethics of AI use, that come up everyday. Applications are open until August 10, 2026. Apply and learn more here.
🔍 Virtual: Join ChiHackNight for a talk on Auditing Police AI in Public - Lessons from the ShotSpotter Debate for the AI Era in Public Policy with Robert Vargars, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Justice Project at the University of Chicago. Tuesday, July 21, 2026. Register here.
🍩LA: Data + Donuts is hosting Dan Hoffman from LA County Planning to talk about LA County Planning’s Tree Hub. Thursday, July 23. Register here.
📞 Virtual: Join Nava Labs Demo Day to see their latest prototype. Nava Labs has developed a voice AI tool to help reduce caseworker documentation burden as part of their initiative exploring the potential of AI and other technologies to support caseworkers and families connecting with the social safety net. Thursday, July 23. Register here.
⛲Chicago/Virtual: Join ChiHackNight for an event with the Obama Foundation on Tuesday, July 28, 2026. Details to be announced. Register here.
🌦️ Seattle: Join Bloom Works and U.S. Digital Response for a Public Interest Tech Happy Hour on Thursday, August 6. Register here.
🎨 Allegheny County, PA is hiring for their first dedicated UX design role - Senior Product Designer. This is a foundational moment for how the County builds and delivers digital services. The person who steps into this role will not be maintaining an existing design practice; they will be creating it.
📊 First 5 Alameda County is looking for a Director of Data Services. This is an exciting opportunity to lead the strategic direction of data services at an organization dedicated to improving outcomes for young children and families. You’ll drive data innovation, influence organizational strategy, and build a culture of data-informed decision-making while leading a talented team.
🐻 Help lead California’s response to One Big Beautiful Bill / H.R. 1 and strengthen the CalFresh and Medi-Cal safety net for millions of Californians as a mid/senior-level public service fellow. You’ll report into the California Health & Human Services (CalHHS) CIO, this is a high-impact, cross-functional role working across CalHHS, DHCS, CDSS, the Governor’s Office, ODI, LWDA, and other state agencies and departments to coordinate a statewide portfolio of HR1 response initiatives, support executive decision-making, and drive implementation.
🍀 The Massachusetts Executive Office of Education is hiring a Director of Public Digital Services. The person in this role will lead the team focused on the agency’s public digital service strategy, improving how constituents, families, educators, institutions, providers, and agency partners interact with the Education Secretariat’s programs and services online. You’ll work closely with Mass Digital Services and other secretariats to improve digital services across the Commonwealth.
🐻 The City of Long Beach is hiring a new Director of Technology & Innovation. Long Beach has long been one of the most innovative municipal IT organizations, but is looking for a leader to help through a period of modernization. Help define how the City works with AI, manages technology needs associated with the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games and more.
There are over 230 jobs listed right now at techjobsforgov.com and there are new ones added every day. The newsletter includes a selection of roles currently open.
🍎 Senior Product Designer | NYC Office of Technology & Innovation | up to $160k (closes August 14)
🔔 Senior Product Designer | Allegheny County Department of Information Technology | up to $115k
🦀 Director of Digital Workplace Innovation | Maryland State Retirement and Pension System | up to $129k (closes July 31)
🦀 UX/UI Designer | Federal Student Aid - U.S. Department of Education | up to $173k (closes August 14)
🌺 Organizational Change Manager | State of Hawaii, Department of Accounting and General Services
🍀 Director of Public Digital Services | Massachusetts Executive Office of Education | up to $199k
🍀 Director of IT Product Strategy & Portfolio | Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Office of Economic Development (EOED) | up to $170k
🍎 Senior Product Manager (5 positions) | NYC Office of Technology & Innovation | up to $180k (closes August 14)
🍎 Product Manager | NYC Office of Technology & Innovation | up to $150k (closes September 4)
🏔️ Deputy Program Director of Service Delivery | Colorado Department of Revenue | up to $142k (closes July 26)
💻 HR1 Coordination and Response Fellow | California Health and Human Services Agency | (closes August 3)
🌦️ IT Project Manager – Senior/Specialist | Data & AI Governance Projects | Washington State Department of Transportation | up to $134k (closes July 19)
🐻 Broadband and AI Senior Analyst- Library Department | City of San Jose | up to $144k (closes July 27)
🍎 Data Scientist | NYC Consumer and Worker Protection | up to $101k (closes September 7)
🍎 Director of Administrative and Operational Analytics | NYC Department of Design & Construction | up to $153k (closes August 29)
🍎 Director of Analysis & Evaluation | NYC Emergency Management | up to $116k (closes August 9)
🍎 Director of Policy Metrics | NYC Office of Criminal Justice | up to $130k
🦀 Data Scientist (FT Contract) | Maryland Department of Health | up to $58/hr (closes July 21)
🦀 Data Analyst | Comptroller of Maryland | up to $80k (closes July 23)
🔔 Data Scientist | Allegheny County Department of Human Services | up to $120k (closes August 1)
🌽 Data Engineer & Program Analyst | Illinois State Treasurer, Data Team | up to $95k (closes July 31)
🌵 Data Governance Supervisor | Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System | up to $82k
🐻 Director of Data Services | First 5 Alameda County | up to $201k
🍎 Senior Product Engineer (13 positions) | NYC Office of Technology and Innovation | up to $180k (closes August 14)
🍎 Application Developer for Capital Integrated Data Solutions | NYC Department of Parks and Recreation | up to $109k (closes July 24)
🐊 Lead AI Application Programmer Analyst | Tarrant County | up to $107k
🏔️ Lead Cloud Platform & Dev Ops Engineer (Remote within CO) | University of Colorado | $122k (closes August 14)
🏔️ Senior Delivery Engineer | Colorado Office of Information Technology | up to $145k
🌽 Information Technologies Director | City of Champaign | up to $226k (closes July 31)
🐻 Director of Technology & Innovation | City of Long Beach | up to $270k (closes August 10)
🐻 Chief of Knowledge Bank and Platform Services | CA Governor’s Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation | up to $14k/month (closes July 20)
🐻 Associate Chief Information Officer | Santa Clara County | up to $365k (closes July 27)
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