Head of Product Management
A fast-growing software company providing technical and product development and marketing support for the Hedera network, as well as community and enterprise solutions that enable faster app development. Composed of an international team of builders and innovators including Hedera Co-founders Mance Harmon, and the inventor of hashgraph, Dr. Leemon Baird. Hashgraph is a technology company that has developed the Hashgraph consensus algorithm, a system for replicated state machines with guaranteed Byzantine fault tolerance. They also offer HashSphere, a private, permissioned DLT network built with Hedera technology.
About Hashgraph
As the team providing engineering and support for the core Hedera platform, Hashgraph sits at the intersection of old and new. We enable a sustainable, scalable, and secure decentralized infrastructure for building a wide range of applications and enterprise solutions, from financial services to supply chain management and beyond. Hashgraph delivers open source engineering and support for the core network platform, including Hedera Consensus Service, Hedera Token Service, and Hedera Smart Contract Service. We also build and deliver open-source tools for the overall benefit of the Hedera community, such as HashScan, a ledger explorer for the Hedera public ledger. Hashgraph also develops APIs and open source components for services including: loyalty token management, bond issuances, NFT marketplaces, and peer-to-peer payments. Hashgraph provides resources such as blogs, videos, case studies, and papers to help users navigate the digital economy. Their offerings include HashSphere, a private, permissioned DLT network currently in beta, which is built with enterprise-grade Hedera technology. The company, formerly Swirlds Labs, rebranded to Hashgraph to signify a return to its Hedera roots. At its core is the Hashgraph consensus algorithm, a system designed for replicated state machines that guarantees Byzantine fault tolerance.
Skills
About the Role
You will bring outside credibility on payments, settlement, and banking-rail use cases to sharpen how the product is defined and positioned. You will own go-to-market execution, turning an engineering-driven roadmap into real customer and partner traction. You will build and close external partnerships with node operators, on/off-ramp providers, and financial institutions, working closely with BD and Marketing. You will design and run trials with external stakeholders to prove the product works outside your own walls. You will ensure release readiness on performance, security, and usability by asking tough questions before launch. You will own and represent the product roadmap end to end, own P&L in partnership with Sales and Engineering leadership, and run program management across every stakeholder group, reporting directly to executive leadership.
Requirements
- Real operating experience in payments, settlement, or banking-rail businesses, understanding cross-border payments, stablecoins, on/off-ramps, and players like SWIFT and Stripe
- An established professional network across financial services and fintech
- Proven go-to-market and program management range, able to define product positioning and use cases with the market and run the room across many stakeholders
- A track record of closing external partnerships with node operators, exchanges, or on/off-ramp providers
- Executive presence, comfortable reporting to and influencing C-suite and founder-level stakeholders
- Experience and ability to raise capital for a technology project or company
- Leadership experience within cross-border payments, settlement, treasury management, decentralized exchanges, and interoperability
- Blockchain and distributed ledger technology expertise, ideally within Layer 1 ecosystems
- Knowledge of the fintech regulatory and operational landscape
Responsibilities
- Bring in outside credibility on payments, settlement, and banking-rail use cases to sharpen how the product is defined and positioned
- Own go-to-market execution for the product, turning a roadmap Engineering is already driving into real customer and partner traction
- Build and close external partnerships with node operators, on/off-ramp providers, and financial institutions in lockstep with BD and Marketing
- Design and run trials with external stakeholders such as node operators, partners, and customers to prove the product works outside internal walls
- Ensure release readiness on performance, security, and usability by asking tough questions before launch
- Own and represent the Product Roadmap end to end
- Own P&L in partnership with the Sales and Engineering leadership team
- Run program management across every stakeholder group, including schedule and reporting, and keep BD, Marketing, and Engineering in sync