Senior Product Manager

About Matter LabsMatter Labs builds private settlement infrastructure that lets regulated institutions settle directly with each other without exposing data, ceding control, or waiting days. Global finance moves $4 quadrillion a year on systems designed for paper and telex. The institutions that built them - from DTCC to NYSE to the world's largest banks are now actively replacing them. We're building what comes next.Our core product, Prividium, gives each institution its own private settlement environment (a Prividium Zone) with independent governance and built-in interoperability across counterparties, asset classes, and jurisdictions. Settlement happens through zero-knowledge proofs: one party proves a transaction is valid without revealing any underlying data to the counterparty. The only private settlement infrastructure built on zero-knowledge cryptography.Founded in 2018. Backed by a16z and Union Square Ventures. A fully remote team of around 90 with eight years of production zero-knowledge infrastructure behind us, now pointed at the biggest problem in institutional finance.About the roleWe're looking for an exceptional Senior Product Manager to own outcomes end to end - from discovery through delivery, measurement, and iteration. The role sits at the intersection of Web3-native engineering and institutional finance. You’ll turn deep technical capabilities into products that hold up under real-world institutional requirements, while reconciling the tensions between startup speed and financial-system rigor. You'll be a credible partner to both engineering and BD, support sales in closing institutional deals, and contribute to company strategy. You'll have extreme ownership and drive outcomes that change the landscape of global finance.Key Responsibilities Customer Discovery. Immerse yourself in customer workflows, constraints, motivations, and pains. Capture revealed preferences and weigh them against stated preferences and internal vision. Use this to maintain strong intuitions and data-backed positions on where the product should go. Roadmap Alignment. Synthesize customer learnings, the existing roadmap, sales requests, and engineering priorities into a sequenced plan that different teams can execute against. Outcomes Ownership. Own outcomes from vaguely identified needs to solutions with real-world impact. Define what to build and why. Identify, surface, and reconcile tradeoffs. Push through cross-functional blockers. Be the CEO of whatever initiative you’re involved with. Measurable Outputs. Introduce metrics wherever helpful. Own tracking and iterating based on them. Sales Enablement. Review personalized sales collaterals. Join prospective calls. Work closely with BD to help close deals. Institutional-Grade Product Readiness. Bake real institutional requirements — control, permissioning, auditability, performance guarantees, operational clarity, risk, SLAs, procurement — into product decisions from day one. Cross-Functional Facilitation. Find blockers throughout tech, sales, and marketing and proactively help unblock them. What are we looking forThe Intangibles Reconciliation of Competing Forces. 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 with thoughtful tradeoff weighing, deep technical reasoning, intellectual honesty, and treatment of 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 rather than reacting to every request as a bespoke feature. Strategic Ownership. Maintain a written, opinionated where-to-play / how-to-win for your area, reviewed quarterly. Market Research. Understand the competitive and ecosystem landscape: who else is solving adjacent problems, wher...