Senior Product Manager

Matter Labs•,

7d•Remote

About The Position

Matter Labs is seeking an exceptional Senior Product Manager to own product outcomes end-to-end, from discovery through delivery, measurement, and iteration. This role operates at the intersection of Web3-native engineering and institutional finance, translating deep technical capabilities into products that meet rigorous institutional requirements. The ideal candidate will reconcile startup speed with financial-system rigor, serve as a credible partner to engineering and business development, support sales in closing institutional deals, and contribute to company strategy. This position demands extreme ownership and a drive to create impactful change in global finance.

Requirements

Reconciliation of Competing Forces: Ability to practically reconcile Web3 engineering principles with institutional requirements, fast iteration with financial-system rigor, and technical depth with commercial urgency.
Engineering-Credible Partnership: Earn engineering trust through thoughtful tradeoff weighing, deep technical reasoning, intellectual honesty, and treating technical debt as a first-class citizen.
Business-Credible Partnership: Earn BD trust by engaging deeply with customers, translating commercial objections into product clarity, and finding scalable product paths.
Strategic Ownership: Maintain a written, opinionated strategy for your area, reviewed quarterly.
Market Research: Understand the competitive and ecosystem landscape, including differentiators and areas for improvement.
Exceptional Communicator: Create alignment across teams with different incentives, contexts, and communication styles; ask the right questions to uncover what matters, resolve ambiguity, and move decisions forward with clarity, humility, positivity, and a bias for action.
Proactive Executor: Ship outcomes end-to-end, pull others toward goals, and be motivated by blockers to move faster.
Builder Who Leads by Example: Thrive in the feedback loop between customers and engineers.
AI-Native: Utilize AI to enhance productivity and clarity.
First-Principles Thinker: Structure complex problems into clear mental models.
Hungry: Possess an insatiable appetite for learning and a willingness to be wrong.
Mission-Driven: Combine passion for the company's mission with a drive to build a world-defining company.
Energized by Ambiguity: Take action as the primary way to gather information and thrive in ambiguous settings while providing transparency and confidence.
Meaningful Institutional Finance Exposure: Direct experience building products for financial institutions or regulated financial infrastructure, with an understanding of risk, compliance, controls, SLAs, procurement.
Product Excellence: Proven track record of taking a product from 0 to PMF or scaling an existing one through a significant inflection.
TradFi Fluency: Fluent in banking, payments, and capital markets terminology.
Technical Fluency: Experience shipping complex technical products, ability to discuss architecture, tradeoffs, and implementation details.
GTM: Contributed to world-class Go-To-Market strategy or execution.
Digital Assets Fluency: Deep understanding of blockchain mechanics, familiarity with Web3 dev tools, first-hand experience with on-chain protocols, and ability to translate Web3 concepts to non-crypto audiences.

Responsibilities

Customer Discovery: Immerse yourself in customer workflows, constraints, motivations, and pains to maintain strong intuitions and data-backed positions on product direction.
Roadmap Alignment: Synthesize customer learnings, the existing roadmap, sales requests, and engineering priorities into a sequenced plan for execution.
Outcomes Ownership: Own initiatives from identification of needs to impactful solutions, defining what to build and why, identifying and reconciling tradeoffs, and overcoming cross-functional blockers.
Measurable Outputs: Introduce and own metrics for tracking and iterating on product performance.
Sales Enablement: Review sales collaterals, join prospective calls, and collaborate with BD to close deals.
Institutional-Grade Product Readiness: Integrate institutional requirements such as control, permissioning, auditability, performance guarantees, operational clarity, risk, SLAs, and procurement into product decisions.
Cross-Functional Facilitation: Proactively identify and resolve blockers across technology, sales, and marketing teams.