Product Manager, Node Economics
Skills
About the Role
You will own incentive systems, compensation frameworks, and performance infrastructure that shape node operator behavior and network economics. You will translate economic models into production-ready systems and tooling, design and automate payment workflows, deliver clear performance insights, and communicate complex economic concepts to operators and partners.
Requirements
- Experience owning performance rewards or compensation systems end-to-end
- Experience translating models into product or operational decisions with data scientists or economists
- Ability to communicate complex economic or quantitative concepts clearly to external stakeholders
- Experience designing or improving payment and compensation workflows and reducing manual processes
- Track record driving cross-functional work across engineering data and operations without direct authority
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and building structured processes
- Understanding of incentive design and token economics (preferred)
- Experience with crypto economics staking mechanisms or token-based incentive systems (preferred)
- Background working with external partners operators or ecosystem participants (preferred)
- Exposure to data science or quantitative research environments (preferred)
- Understanding of oracle networks validator economics or decentralized infrastructure systems (preferred)
- Direct experience with staking protocols or node operator programs (preferred)
- Academic or professional background in mechanism design game theory or quantitative finance (preferred)
- Experience at a protocol L1 L2 or infrastructure company where token economics were central (preferred)
Responsibilities
- Own incentive and compensation systems end-to-end
- Translate economic models into production-ready systems and tools
- Build and ship performance-based mechanisms to drive operator accountability
- Design and automate payment and compensation workflows
- Deliver performance insights and tooling for operator visibility
- Communicate economic changes and program details to external stakeholders
- Shape operator allocation and evaluation processes across products
- Collaborate with economics, data science, and engineering teams