Head of Product Management

Hashgraph is a fast-growing software company committed to supporting, developing and servicing Hedera, an open source, proof-of-stake platform. They are seeking a Head of Product Management to own the go-to-market and program execution for a new payments and settlement product, ensuring it lands with real customers and partners.

Responsibilities:

• Bring outside-in credibility on payments, settlement, and banking-rail use cases to sharpen how we define and position the product
• Own go-to-market execution for the product. Turning a roadmap Engineering is already driving into real customer and partner traction
• Build and close external partnerships with node operators, on/off-ramp providers, financial institutions, all in lockstep with BD and Marketing
• Design and run trials with external stakeholders - node operators, partners, and customers - to prove the product works outside our own walls
• Ensure for release readiness on performance, security, and usability by asking the tough questions before launch, not after
• Own and represent the Product Roadmap end to end
• Own P&L in partnership with the Sales and Engineering leadership team
• Run program management across every stakeholder group. Schedules, reporting, and keeping BD, Marketing, and Engineering in sync. Utilizing direct, executive-level reporting to leadership

Requirements:

• Real operating experience in payments, settlement, or banking-rail businesses. You understand cross-border payments, stablecoins, on/off-ramps, and how players like SWIFT and Stripe fit together
• An established professional network across financial services and fintech that opens doors, not just informs opinions
• Proven go-to-market and program management range: you can define a product's positioning and use cases with the market, and also run the room across a dozen stakeholders
• A track record of closing external partnerships with node operators, exchanges, or on/off-ramp providers
• Executive presence. Comfortable reporting to and influencing C-suite and founder-level stakeholders
• Experience and ability to raise capital for a technology project / company
• Leadership experience within cross-border payments, settlement, treasury management, decentralized exchanges, and interoperability
• Blockchain and distributed ledger technology expertise, ideally within Layer 1 ecosystems
• The fintech regulatory and operational landscape that shapes what's actually shippable
• Direct experience with Canton, Arc, Ripple, or comparable enterprise blockchain platforms
• Prior work inside Layer 1 ecosystems
• Experience operating within governing council or consortium-based network models