Senior Product Manager

Helius

11d•Remote

About The Position

Helius is building the core infrastructure for Solana, aiming to accelerate the development of internet capital markets by simplifying on-chain building. Thousands of teams, including major players like Coinbase, Phantom, and Jupiter, utilize Helius's APIs, webhooks, and indexing tools. The company is backed by prominent investors and is characterized by a small, senior team focused on performance, simplicity, and scalability in decentralized systems. This senior product role involves owning the entire data platform, encompassing real-time streaming (LaserStream), historical and archival data, RPC infrastructure, APIs, webhooks, and developer tooling. The target customers are engineers at trading firms, wallets, and data platforms, for whom factors like latency, delivery guarantees, and API ergonomics are paramount. The role requires a product manager who can make product decisions informed by engineering principles, and who can contribute code to prototype ideas, reproduce bugs, and facilitate faster shipping. The engineering challenges are significant, involving throughput, fan-out, ordering, and historical replay. The product challenges are more nuanced, concerning the definition of guarantees, pricing models for data streams, and the adoption of powerful primitives. The core responsibility is to ensure the platform's coherence in terms of roadmap, pricing, and developer experience. The role involves close collaboration with engineering, participation in enterprise deals, and direct customer engagement. The product has established traction and revenue, and the role focuses on guiding its future development.

Requirements

5+ years of product management experience on technical, developer-facing products - streaming/messaging systems, data infrastructure, APIs, market data, or similar
Engineering 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 engineers
Crypto experience - you've built in, worked on, or shipped products for blockchain ecosystems and understand how on-chain data, wallets, and transactions work
Experience serving demanding technical customers - ideally trading firms, fintech, or other latency-sensitive users - and turning their raw feedback into prioritized product decisions
A track record of owning product outcomes: adoption, revenue, or retention numbers you can speak to
Strong pricing instincts for usage-based infrastructure products
Exceptional 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 topics
Comfort operating with high autonomy as the primary product voice in the company

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

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