Director of Product, Core

Career Renew is recruiting for one of its clients a Director of Product, Core - candidates can be based anywhere.

We are a remote first and globally distributed, with English as our primary language for communication. We are looking for self-starters who are excited about working in a fast-paced startup environment. We do not require contributors to live in specific time zones, but much of the team lives and works in the European and US time zones. Contributors should endeavour to make themselves available as needed for scheduled team and company events.

What we need from you

Our core product is all of the infrastructure, language, and packages that are required for any developer to build smart contracts and applications on top of our rollups. We need someone who cares deeply about the needs of blockchain developers and infrastructure providers, has seen the shortcomings of other chains from a developer perspective, and needs to fix those issues. You will be the voice of our developer customers and a key driver of our project’s success. This is a senior position with extremely high impact. Someone who succeeds in this role will likely have the skills to be a Founder, VP of Product or CPO at most web3 or tech startups.

You’ll get to:

• Dive deep into the needs of Blockchain developers, infrastructure providers and other key stakeholders
• Drive the future of L2 and L3 Blockchain development, enabling new applications and experiences
• Set up organizational structures to support the above goals
• Work with a collaborative team, made of the smartest minds in the industry

Areas of Responsibility

• Discover, evaluate and represent the needs of Blockchain developers, infrastructure providers, and other key stakeholders for our core products
• You will drive strategic development of our core blockchain client, our smart contracting language - Sway - and our SDKs, which developers use to interact with and build applications on top of our Rollups. Together, these form the foundation of our Rollup OS, unlocking performance, state minimization, and interoperability to the L2 Rollup world.
• Deeply understand the technologies and competitive landscape of blockchains, to be able to develop the right strategic bets both on core technology and end user applications. 
• Establish, align the company around, and drive execution of the roadmap for major versions of our Rollup OS core code
• Own the success of our core product
• Work tightly with engineering, DevRel, growth, edge, and ecosystem teams to achieve the above objectives
• Drive user and product oriented thinking throughout the organization
• Build organizational processes and muscle to achieve the above objectives in a sustainable way

Requirements

• Must have an engineering background 10 years, plus or minus, of experience across product and engineering
• Success as a Director of Product or higher at a smaller organization; success as a Group Product Manager or higher at a larger organization
• Experience with shipping developer-facing products, including specific roles and contributions in the development and launch process
• Hands-on experience in integrating external libraries/packages or working with mission-critical integrations as a developer, detailing the scope of involvement and impact on the project
• Empathy and first hand experience of  what developers need from highly available, mission critical applications, release cycles, etc.
• Successfully launched and managed products that serve developers
• Have successfully coached and mentored other product managers, or have overseen their work directly
• Able to build immediate respect with engineers
• Demonstrated experience driving change within an organisation, all the way up to the C-Suite Management of both internal teams and vendors
• Significant experience with Web3 or Crypto a large plus