Senior Product Manager, Node Economics
Chainlink Labs helped pioneer decentralized finance and now works with the world's largest financial institutions to enable transactions across the tokenized asset economy. It builds and operates the Chainlink platform, serving financial market infrastructures, asset managers, and top DeFi protocols.
About Chainlink Labs
Chainlink Labs is a company at the center of the shift of global finance onchain, working with financial market infrastructures, asset managers, and leading DeFi protocols. The company employs a world-class team of over 600 developers, researchers, and capital markets experts with deep experience in cryptography and decentralized systems, working toward building Chainlink into the global standard for onchain finance. Chainlink Labs operates a unified platform powering a global system of onchain finance across DeFi and TradFi, enabling significant transaction value across a multi-chain ecosystem, and has been battle-tested on mainnet for years with a strong security track record. Its clients and partners span capital markets, DeFi, gaming, and other major verticals, including partnerships with institutions such as ANZ Bank, DTCC, Swift, Sygnum, Fidelity International, and Fireblocks.
Skills
About the Role
You will own and evolve the full operational layer of the NOP network. You will define the strategy, drive the roadmap, and deliver the tooling, infrastructure, and standards that let the network scale with high reliability and reduced manual overhead. You will design operational models and automation, ship portals and dashboards that give internal teams and Node Operators the capabilities to move faster, and establish documentation and standards for the broader operator ecosystem. You will engage directly with engineers and external operator communities to influence technical and operational decisions.
Requirements
- Proven end-to-end ownership of infrastructure or operational products
- Demonstrated ability to automate or systematically reduce manual operational workflows at scale
- Experience setting up maintaining and improving operational systems and workflows
- Ability to make pragmatic tooling choices without over-engineering
- Ability to engage as a peer with engineers and interpret technical architecture
- Proven ability to own structured communications to external partners or operator communities
- Experience operating across multiple stakeholder groups
- Track record of influencing and delivering outcomes without direct authority
- Experience navigating ambiguous environments and building structured processes
Responsibilities
- Own the operational layer of the NOP network
- Define strategy and drive the product roadmap for NOP operations
- Build infrastructure and operational standards to improve reliability and scalability
- Design operational models and automation to reduce manual workflows
- Ship tooling such as portals dashboards and workflow systems for internal teams and Node Operators
- Establish documentation and standards for the operator ecosystem
- Engage with engineers on technical infrastructure and tooling decisions
- Communicate with external partners and operator communities