Senior Product Manager

Helius; New York (NY); Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Generous vacation

Wellness budgets

Learning and travel

Job summary

Helius is hiring a senior product leader to own the developer platform, including real-time streaming, data APIs, RPC infrastructure, and tooling. You will work closely with engineering, sales, and customers to balance latency budgets, guarantees, and pricing strategies while writing specs and prototypes to validate ideas.

The role emphasizes hands-on product thinking, strong technical depth, and the ability to operate autonomously in a remote-first, fast-moving environment with high-impact

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product management experience on technical, developer-facing products.
• Engineering experience and working coding ability.
• Crypto experience in blockchain ecosystems and on-chain data.
• Experience serving demanding technical customers, preferably trading/fintech.
• Strong pricing instincts for usage-based infrastructure products.
• Exceptional written communication for async teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the product roadmap for the developer platform, balancing requests, infra investments and new bets.
• Spend real time with customers to understand latency budgets and delivery guarantees.
• Write specs and memos for engineers with clear context.
• Define pricing, packaging, and enterprise deal strategies.
• Drive end-to-end launches with positioning, docs, migrations and communications.

Skills

Product management

Engineering experience

Crypto experience

Customer engagement

Pricing instincts

Technical writing

Autonomous work

Tools

Kafka

gRPC

WebSockets

RPC APIs

Job description

About Helius

Helius is building the core infrastructure for Solana - empowering developers to create the next generation of crypto-powered applications. Our mission is to accelerate the development of internet capital markets by making it easier, faster, and more intuitive to build on-chain.Thousands of teams - from early-stage startups to industry leaders like Coinbase, Phantom, and Jupiter - rely on Helius APIs, webhooks, and indexing tools to power their products. Backed by Haun Ventures, Founders Fund, and Foundation Capital, we’re a small, senior team obsessed with performance, simplicity, and scalability in decentralized systems.Read our [Helius Manifesto]( to see how we work and what we value.

About the Role

This is a senior product role at Helius - you'll own product across our entire data platform: real-time streaming (LaserStream), historical and archival data, RPC infrastructure, APIs, webhooks, and developer tooling. Our customers are engineers at trading firms, wallets, and data platforms, and the product decisions that matter to them are latency budgets, delivery guarantees, and API ergonomics.Our best engineers make product decisions, and we expect our PM to return the favor. You should write enough code to use our products the way customers do - prototype an idea, reproduce a bug, contribute when it's the fastest path to shipping. You won't ship production systems, but you should never need someone to show you what our APIs feel like to build against.The engineering problems are hard: throughput, fan-out, ordering, historical replay. The product problems are harder to see: which guarantees to promise, what a firehose should cost, how to make a powerful primitive easy to adopt. Your job is making the platform cohere - one roadmap, one pricing logic, one developer experience.You'll be embedded with engineering, in the room on enterprise deals, and constantly in front of customers. This product has real traction and real revenue. You're not building from zero - you're deciding where it goes next.

What You’ll Do

Own the product roadmap across the Helius developer platform, balancing customer requests, infrastructure investments, and new product betsSpend real time with customers - trading firms, wallets, indexers - understanding their architectures, latency budgets, and where our products fit or fall shortUse our products hands-on and make code contributions where they’re the fastest path: prototypes, example integrations, reproducing customer issues, and improving developer-facing toolingTrack the competitive landscape closely (streaming providers, data API vendors) and translate it into positioning, pricing, and build/kill decisionsDefine product guarantees: delivery semantics, ordering, SLAs, and the trade-offs we’re willing to make between performance, cost, and simplicityWrite specs and decision memos that give staff-level engineers clear context without prescribing implementationOwn pricing and packaging across the platform, including enterprise deals and usage-based modelsDrive launches end-to-end: positioning, documentation, migration guides, changelogs, and developer communication - including sensitive comms like pricing changes, billing corrections, and migration noticesInstrument and track what matters: adoption, activation, usage growth, churn signals, latency and reliability SLOs, and revenueBuild the lightweight product processes a senior remote team actually needs (and kill the ones it doesn’t).

What You’ll Bring

5+ years of product management experience on technical, developer-facing products - streaming/messaging systems, data infrastructure, APIs, market data, or similarEngineering experience and working coding ability - you can write code, integrate against our APIs yourself, and prototype without waiting on an engineer. It can be minimal, but it must be real.Genuine technical depth: you understand distributed systems trade-offs, can reason about throughput, backpressure, and delivery guarantees, and can hold your own with staff engineersCrypto experience - you’ve built in, worked on, or shipped products for blockchain ecosystems and understand how on-chain data, wallets, and transactions workExperience serving demanding technical customers - ideally trading firms, fintech, or other latency-sensitive users - and turning their raw feedback into prioritized product decisionsA track record of owning product outcomes: adoption, revenue, or retention numbers you can speak toStrong pricing instincts for usage-based infrastructure productsExceptional written communication - we’re remote and async-heavy, and your specs and memos need to stand on their own, including customer-facing comms on sensitive topicsComfort operating with high autonomy as the primary product voice in the companyNice to Have

Nice to Have

Prior experience as a software engineer, or a history of shipping meaningful code contributions as a PMDirect experience with real-time market data, event streaming (Kafka, gRPC streaming, WebSockets at scale), or exchange/trading infrastructureSolana-specific experience - you’ve built on Solana or worked deeply with its data model, RPC layer, or ecosystemExperience as an early, founding, or lead PM at an infrastructure or devtools company

Why Helius?

High-impact work

Your code will power applications used by millions across the Solana ecosystem, including Coinbase, Jupiter, and Phantom.

Serious engineering

Build fast, reliable systems and user experiences across distributed infra, high-throughput backends, and modern frontend stacks.

Ownership & growth

Lead critical initiatives, influence architecture and product direction, and take on more responsibility as the company scales.

Remote-first flexibility

Work where you’re most effective with a flexible, fully distributed team.

Competitive comp & perks

Market-leading salary, meaningful equity, generous vacation, wellness budgets, and support for learning and travel.

Mission-driven team

Join ambitious builders who move fast, take ownership, and are shaping the future of decentralized apps.