Senior Technical Product Manager

Accountabilities: Product strategy and roadmap ownership: Define, execute, and continuously refine the product roadmaps for Hardhat and EDR, ensuring alignment with long-term strategic objectives, developer needs, and ecosystem priorities. Product prioritization and decision-making: Own decisions about what to build next, balancing developer impact, engineering effort, technical constraints, ecosystem requirements, and long-term product sustainability. Requirements and documentation: Write and maintain product requirements documents (PRDs), feature specifications, and product design documentation that translate complex needs into clear, actionable guidance for engineering teams. Technical product execution: Take ownership of core product management activities, driving feature definition, scope, prioritization, and execution in collaboration with engineering leadership and development teams. Developer experience and product design: Define user experience expectations and developer-facing functionality, ensuring that APIs, command-line interfaces (CLIs), configuration options, and other product surfaces remain intuitive and consistent. Engineering collaboration: Work closely with the CTO, Head of Engineering, engineering managers, and software engineers to align dependencies, establish delivery sequences, assess trade-offs, and support effective technical decision-making. Technical feasibility assessment: Evaluate architectural constraints, implementation complexity, and engineering trade-offs to ensure product requirements are realistic, appropriately scoped, and aligned with broader technical objectives. Developer needs and ecosystem research: Identify high-impact problems through developer feedback, ecosystem engagement, and an understanding of Ethereum development workflows, translating insights into actionable product opportunities. Bug and feedback prioritization: Identify opportunities to improve existing products, prioritize bugs and user feedback, and help remove blockers that affect development progress or the developer experience. Cross-functional communication: Serve as the primary product point of contact for engineering teams, providing clear and consistent guidance on product decisions, requirements, and user experience expectations. Product quality and consistency: Ensure that features are delivered with a coherent user experience across both products, supporting reliable workflows for writing, testing, compiling, and deploying smart contracts. Stakeholder alignment: Build strong relationships with internal leaders, engineers, and external ecosystem partners to maintain transparency, communicate product direction, and ensure decisions reflect both immediate needs and long-term goals. Requirements Product management experience: At least five years of professional experience as a Product Manager or Product Owner working on technical, developer-facing products or platforms. Software engineering background: At least two years of previous professional experience as a Software Engineer, including hands-on development in a strongly typed programming language such as TypeScript, Rust, C++, C#, Java, or Go. Developer tools expertise: Experience building or managing developer-focused products, such as APIs, software development kits (SDKs), command-line interfaces (CLIs), IDE integrations, or infrastructure platforms. Technical product judgment: Ability to evaluate technical feasibility, architectural limitations, implementation complexity, and engineering trade-offs, partnering effectively with engineers to make pragmatic product decisions. Product strategy and roadmap management: Demonstrated ability to define product direction, prioritize competing initiatives, manage dependencies, and align delivery plans with broader strategic goals. Requirements definition: Experience translating developer needs and business objectives into clear PRDs, feature specifications, product documentation, and actionable engineering requirements. End-to-end product execution: Strong understanding of product discovery, design, iteration, prioritization, development, and release processes, with accountability for outcomes throughout the product lifecycle. User-focused mindset: Proven ability to understand developer workflows, identify friction points, and make thoughtful product decisions that balance usability, technical quality, and ecosystem needs. Cross-functional collaboration: Experience working closely with engineering teams and technical leadership, facilitating discussions, resolving ambiguities, and building alignment around complex product decisions. Communication skills: Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly and establish trust with engineers and ecosystem stakeholders. Autonomy and ownership: Strong problem-solving skills, sound judgment, and the ability to independently identify high-impact opportunities, make decisions, and drive progress in a distributed environment. Ethereum ecosystem knowledge: Practical familiarity with Ethereum protocols, developer tools, smart contract development, or related infrastructure is expected. Adaptability and strategic thinking: Ability to navigate complex technical environments, balance immediate priorities against long-term product goals, and maintain a clear product vision as ecosystem needs evolve. Benefits ETH grant: A vesting grant denominated in Ether (ETH) as part of the total compensation package. Unlimited paid time off: Flexibility to take time off while maintaining alignment with team responsibilities and project commitments. IT equipment budget: Financial support to obtain the equipment needed for an effective remote working setup. Annual learning and development budget: Dedicated funding to support professional growth, technical learning, and continued development. Location-specific statutory benefits: Benefits required by local law, depending on the employment contract and country of employment. Fully remote work: The flexibility to work remotely from Europe, subject to the role's eligible time zones. Meaningful professional impact: The opportunity to shape open-source infrastructure used by developers across the Ethereum ecosystem. Technical and strategic ownership: Significant influence over product direction, roadmaps, developer experience, and prioritization decisions. Collaborative engineering culture: Work alongside experienced engineers and technical leaders in an environment that values robust engineering and pragmatic decision-making. Lean operating model: Lightweight processes designed to encourage autonomy, reduce unnecessary bureaucracy, and support focused product development. Continuous learning: Opportunities to deepen your expertise in developer tooling, blockchain infrastructure, and open-source product development.