Responsibilities
- Drive end-to-end product strategy for the Anchorage’s engagement with protocol ecosystems, balancing near-term commitments with long-term platform investments.
- Develop and maintain a strategic lens on the blockchain landscape to identify which ecosystems, consensus mechanisms, and on-chain primitives warrant investment and how to sequence them.
- Drive comprehensive go-to-market strategy alongside sales and partnerships, defining success metrics and iterating based on data and market feedback.
- Demonstrate the ability to understand system architecture deeply enough to set sound technical direction with engineering leadership.
- Drive cross-functional initiatives that span engineering, design, sales, compliance, and external partners while resolving ambiguity and maintaining momentum across multiple workstreams.
- Contribute strategic insights that shape company-level priorities and influence leadership decisions beyond your immediate team.
- Develop and leverage a deep understanding of Anchorage's business model, regulatory landscape, and competitive positioning to inform ecosystem strategy.
- Build trusted relationships with senior leaders across departments to ensure alignment on priorities, surfacing trade-offs early, and driving shared accountability.
- Navigate and improve organizational processes to increase the Protocols team's efficiency, predictability, and quality of output.
- Represent the Protocols organization to senior leadership, the board, and external partners, articulating strategy, progress, and trade-offs with clarity and conviction.
- Enable cross-functional collaboration through consistent, transparent communication and thoughtful influence on decision-making at every level.
- Serve as a knowledge partner to leadership on blockchain ecosystem trends, helping the company stay ahead of market shifts.
Requirements
- 7+ years of product management experience, with at least 2 years leading or managing other product managers.
- Meaningful experience in blockchain, DeFi, or protocol-adjacent companies, and you understand the nuances of ecosystem dynamics, not just the technology.
- A track record of defining and executing multi-quarter product strategies that required navigating ambiguity, competing priorities, and cross-functional dependencies.
- A background in engineering or a demonstrated ability to go deep on technical architecture when the situation demands it.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, enabling you to distill complex ecosystem trade-offs into crisp narratives for leadership, partners, and your team.
- Your empathy and adaptability not only complement others' working styles but also embody our culture of curiosity, creativity, and shared understanding.
- You are deeply invested in optimizing the end-user experience and leveraging it to create business value.
Nice to Have
- You have shipped products that required direct collaboration with protocol foundations or core development teams.
- You have built or contributed to ecosystem evaluation frameworks, partnership models, or integration playbooks at a previous company.
- You have written your own smart contract or dApp.
- You have experience managing P&L accountability or revenue targets tied to product decisions.
