Product Manager

Summary

Join Blockfrost, a leading provider of blockchain APIs, as a Product Manager and lead the development and management of key products from conception to launch. You will be responsible for defining product strategy, collaborating with cross-functional teams, conducting market research, and ensuring successful product delivery. This role requires strong leadership skills, a deep understanding of blockchain technology, and experience in product management within a technical environment.

Requirements

• Have strong leadership skills, be resourceful and use initiative
• Demonstrate competency with requirements elicitation, analysis, specification, verification, and management practices and the ability to apply them in practice
• Develop productive relationships with a variety of levels and roles and manage user expectations effectively
• Be user driven and develop a strong understanding of stakeholder needs
• Leverage strong interpersonal skills to drive innovation in product development with a team of world-class engineers and Scientists
• Have exemplary people and communications skills coupled with the savvy and maturity needed to garner the respect of senior management and clients
• A keen desire and belief on the impact that blockchain and crypto aligned to IOGs vision
• A user of web3 products knowing first hand the UX, economics and impact of our products
• Curious and naturally engages with users, partners and others stakeholders directly to gain insights
• Engage, champion and contribute to Open Source Software communities
• Keep up to date with the status of competitors from a technical and business perspective
• Proven technical capabilities (Computer Science degree or equivalent experience)
• 5+ years experience working in software development
• 5 years of experience in product management or related role
• Experience collaborating with highly technical engineering, design and business teams
• Experience developing blockchain or infrastructure technologies such as database or middleware
• Experience working in an Agile environment and leading highly technical product teams
• Experience implementing processes to define metrics and measure the success of products that are launched

Responsibilities

• Be the main point of contact for your product, ensuring seamless end-to-end operation and demonstrating leadership without formal authority
• Drive a structured product planning process (e.g., Quarterly Product Planning, QPP) to align stakeholders on short-term deliverables (6 months) and long-term objectives (12–18+ months)
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build and maintain a robust quarterly roadmap for your product, balancing near-term execution with long-term vision
• Create and manage formal documentation, including Market Requirements Documents (MRDs), Product Requirements Documents (PRDs), and Feature Requirements Documents (FRDs), ensuring traceability back to market needs and stakeholder feedback
• Maintain rigorous version control of all product documents to reflect evolving insights, user feedback, and business requirements
• Work with customers, partners, and cross-functional groups (e.g., marketing, communications, design) to ensure that their needs are captured in the roadmap and inform product updates
• Collaborate with marketing and communications teams to clarify how product changes will impact the user community and the wider market, supporting creation of collateral and messaging
• Partner with business development to evaluate new opportunities, building them into the roadmap based on strategic alignment and potential value
• Conduct ongoing market research to stay abreast of industry and community needs, blockchain and cryptocurrency trends, and competitor activity
• Quantify potential opportunities and validate assumptions with surveys, interviews, and data analysis
• Leverage findings in MRDs & PRDs and update requirements documents regularly, revisiting them each quarter as part of QPP
• Work closely with Program Management, Engineering, and QA teams to ensure features are delivered in the right sequence and meet expectations regarding quality, functionality, and schedule
• Define priorities for product development in collaboration with internal stakeholders, ensuring alignment with broader business goals and user needs
• Lead rigorous quarterly reviews to assess product progress, revalidate requirements (MRDs, PRDs, FRDs), and make adjustments based on new insights
• Engage and contribute to relevant Open Source Software communities, championing your product and seeking feedback
• Monitor and evaluate community input, integrating valuable suggestions back into your product roadmap and documentation
• Drive product through its full lifecycle—from the initial concept to launch, release management, and post-launch operations
• Prepare and deliver product-level content such as blogs, technical documentation, and presentations to support marketing and business development
• Participate in quarterly product planning (QPP) sessions to share key updates, insights, and roadmap adjustments with the broader organization

Preferred Qualifications

• Ideally, experience in finance or web3
• At least 1 year of business experience of blockchain or cryptocurrency technology, ideally around L1 and L2 scaling solutions

Benefits

• Remote work
• Laptop reimbursement
• New starter package to buy hardware essentials (headphones, monitor, etc)
• Learning & Development opportunities
• Competitive PTO