Product Manager
Stellar is an open-source blockchain network designed to facilitate fast, low-cost cross-border payments and financial transactions globally.
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About Stellar Development Foundation
Stellar is an open-source blockchain network focused on improving global financial access by enabling fast, secure, and low-cost cross-border transactions. It connects financial institutions, payment systems, and individuals to transfer digital and fiat assets. With a mission to promote financial inclusion, Stellar is designed to serve both developed and underserved markets, offering interoperability between traditional and blockchain-based financial systems.
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About the Role
Join Stellar Development Foundation's product team to shape the next chapter of the Stellar network. This generalist product role may span core protocol, enterprise payments and tokenization, DeFi, developer experience and tooling, or AI agents transacting on-chain. You will collaborate with engineers, designers, and ecosystem partners to take ideas from problem to shipped product, using AI tools to accelerate discovery and delivery.
Requirements
- 3+ years of product management experience shipping software products end-to-end
- Experience using AI tools such as Claude, Cursor, or v0, including building working prototypes
- Ability to translate user needs into long-term vision and near-term technical requirements
- Strong written and verbal communication
- Comfort with technical products and ambiguity
- High user empathy and a high bar for quality
- Bonus: experience with blockchain, crypto, fintech, developer-facing products, payments, DeFi, enterprise platforms, open-source projects, or the Stellar network and Soroban smart contracts
Responsibilities
- Ramp on the Stellar network, products, and ecosystem within the first 30 days
- Ship a first small improvement end-to-end within the first 30 days
- Own a product area and build a prioritized roadmap within 90 days
- Establish a steady delivery cadence with the team
- Define and drive product strategy and roadmap
- Talk to users, developers, and partners
- Translate user needs into product vision and requirements
- Use AI tools to accelerate discovery and delivery
- Generate prototypes, mockups, and working demos
- Partner with Engineering and Design to ship high-quality products
- Measure product impact after launch
- Balance current network needs with the longer-term future
Benefits
- Competitive health, dental, and vision coverage
- Flexible time off and 15 company holidays
- Paid parental leave and pregnancy disability leave
- $80 monthly gym reimbursement
- Life and AD&D insurance up to $50K
- Short- and long-term disability coverage
- 401K with 4% match
- Health and dependent care FSA accounts
- $250 monthly commuter benefit
- Health Savings Account contributions
- Family building benefits
- Wellbeing benefits
- $1,500 annual learning and development budget
- Daily lunch and snacks in the office
- Company retreats
- Lumen-denominated grants