Senior Product Manager at Mina Protocol

  • Job opening

Mina Foundation is a public benefit corporation serving the Mina Protocol, the world's lightest blockchain. Mina Protocol's native cryptocurrency is the first cryptocurrency with a lightweight, constant-sized blockchain. The Foundation supports participants, strategically allocates resources, ensures network health and security, promotes the adoption of zkApps and champions MINA in the wider world. MINA’s small size blockchain solves three of the most difficult challenges in the blockchain space - privacy, scalability, and decentralization. The Senior Technical Product Manager will be joining the team that’s bringing this vision to reality.

Responsibilities

The Sr. Technical Product Manager will:

Develop product roadmap & strategy for various parts of the protocol & product

Evaluate and prioritize specific opportunities and areas of improvement for the Mina protocol

Develop product requirements

Collaborate with engineering, cryptography & other teams in the ecosystem to design, develop, build, QA, and release new products & developer tools for the Mina protocol

Collaborate with the ecosystem participants (e.g. node operators and developers) to address their needs, communicate product roadmap, and incorporate their feedback into product roadmap

Requirements

Ideal candidates will have:

5+ years of previous experience in product management of one or more successful products or services

Some understanding of blockchain or distributed systems

Strong technical background (ideally a software engineering or CS background)

Excellent communication skills

Familiarity with technical concepts such as API’s, GraphQL, blockchains or distributed systems, etc

About Us

Mina Foundation stewards the Mina Protocol - the world's lightest blockchain, powered by participants. Our team is fully remote and globally distributed. Mina Foundation is overseen by a stellar team of directors who are industry-leading experts.

We're working on technologies with the potential to reimagine social structures. We believe it's important to incorporate diverse perspectives from conception through realization. This is a chance to join a small, collaborative team and have a ton of independence while working on fascinating cross-disciplinary problems that span cryptography, engineering, product design, economics, and sociology. We also offer competitive compensation both in salary and equity as well as top-of-the-market benefits.


Name

Senior Product Manager at Mina Protocol

Description

We’re seeking a Senior Technical Product Manager who can navigate the interdisciplinary tradeoffs that come with using cryptography and zk-Snarks, a novel technology in the world of blockchains, to build decentralized computing systems that put people back in control of their digital lives.

Location

Remote, Oregon, United States