Full Job Description
What this role is
If landing the first design partners and shaping the product around what institutions need is
appealing to you, then this is a role for you.
You own the product rigor and quality of the custody product, and - because we're
pre-commitment - you're hands-on in landing and learning from the first institutional
design partners and you make sure every idea is pressure-tested against evidence, specified
well, and either advanced or killed cleanly.
Concretely, you will:
• Lead design-partner discovery and validation with a small set of institutional
custodians, help land the first relationships, and turn what they actually need into
product direction.
• Own the bar for evidence: every feature or direction is gated against defined
proof-of-concept exit criteria.
• Translate complex systems concepts into precise product specifications that engineers
can build against without a second translation layer.
• Pressure-test competitive and threat-model claims (e.g. how our
enforcement-and-evidence story actually differs from incumbents)
• Maintain the roadmap and manage cross-functional dependencies, timelines, and
sequencing as the product takes shape.
Proven track record as a product manager for complex software, infrastructure,
especially when the target audience is technical and skeptical.
• Experience with web3, enterprise workflows and polices, and/or financial
applications is highly preferred.
• Demonstrated analytical rigor, including defining success metrics, establishing clear
decision criteria, and making defendable, evidence-based product calls.
• Strong program management skills, with the ability to navigate dependencies,
timelines, and cross-functional coordination in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.
• Exceptional communication skills, capable of distilling complex technical concepts for
both engineering teams and non-technical institutional stakeholders.
• Comfort with a remote, owner-governed, distributed team; strongly self-directed.
