Head of Product

FirstMile Ventures; United States; Sur place; USD 180 000 - 260 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Hashgraph is building a cross-ledger settlement solution for institutional use. This role leads product requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and the roadmap, closely collaborating with business development on go-to-market and reporting status directly to the founders and executive team.

You will design trials with validators, partners, and customers, and decide release readiness with a focus on performance, security, and usability.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in product management or leadership roles in finance or payments.
• Direct experience with FX, payments, settlement, or banking infrastructure.
• Proven ability to own roadmaps and write PRDs for engineering teams.
• Experience presenting to executives or boards.

Responsabilités

• Own the product requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and roadmap.
• Collaborate with business development for go-to-market execution.
• Report product status and changes to founders and executive team.
• Design and run trials with validators, partners, and customers.
• Make release readiness calls on performance, security, usability.
• Coordinate program management across BD, Marketing, and Engineering.

Connaissances

Product leadership

Roadmap ownership

FX & payments domain

End-to-end PRD writing

Executive communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Description du poste

About Hashgraph:

Hashgraph is a fast-growing software company committed to supporting, developing and servicing Hedera, an open source, proof-of-stake platform. Hedera is EVM-compatible and has been specifically built to meet the needs of enterprise and web3 applications, which require speed, security, stability and sustainability. Hedera’s public network is governed by industry-leading organizations, spanning 11 sectors and 14 regions who oversee the development and direction of the decentralized platform.

Why this role exists:

Assets are landing on ledgers faster than anyone has built a way to move them between ledgers. Collateral sits on one chain while the position it should be margining sits on another. Delivery-versus-payment and payment-versus-payment both work inside a single ledger and both break the moment the two legs live in different places. The available workarounds are bridges, which have lost more than $2.8 billion since 2021.

The team that built Hedera from the ground up is now building a cross-ledger solution for institutional settlement: collateral mobility, DvP, PvP, cross-border payments, and FX across public and private ledgers that do not otherwise interoperate.

In this role, you will:

• Own the product requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and roadmap.
• Work closely with business development on go-to-market execution for the product. Define the product the market needs and business development can sell..
• Report product status and roadmap changes directly to the founders and executive team.
• Design and run trials with external validators, partners, and customers.
• Make the release readiness call on performance, security, and usability. Ask the tough questions before launch, not after.
• Run program management across every stakeholder group. Keep BD, Marketing, and Engineering in sync.

What success looks like in 12 months:

• Live settlement for the priority use cases of cross-border payments, settlements, treasury management, and tokenized deposits, with named institutional counterparties moving real value.
• You will have built working on/off-ramps supporting the use cases above.
• BD, marketing, and engineering each independently say you are the reason they are shipping faster.

What you bring:

Core capabilities:

• 10+ years in product management, product leadership, or an equivalent operating role.
• 5+ years of that inside FX, payments, settlement, clearing, custody, collateral management, or banking infrastructure.
• Real operating experience in FX exchange, payments, settlement, or banking-rail businesses. You understand cross-border payments, stablecoins, on/off-ramps, and how players like SWIFT and Stripe fit together.
• Direct working knowledge of at least two of: FX execution and settlement, cross-border payments, DvP or PvP settlement, collateral mobility, treasury operations, tokenized deposits.

Functional expertise:

• Experience owning a roadmap end to end, including making the right, hard calls.
• Experience writing product requirements that an engineering team built from directly.
• Experience presenting to executives, boards, or institutional steering committees.

Preferred skills and experience:

• Distributed ledger or Layer 1 experience.
• Work inside a consortium, governing council, or member-owned network model.
• Exposure to CCIP, Circle and ARC, Canton, Ripple, or comparable enterprise platforms.
• Stablecoin mechanics, on-ramps and off-ramps, tokenized collateral.
• First product hire or zero-to-one experience at an early-stage company.

Candidates who meet the basic qualifications and none of the preferred should still apply. The preferred list is learnable in a quarter.

Travel to customer, validator, and partner sites, including international travel will be required.