VP of Product

Our client empowers the $2T telco market to move onto the blockchain, with an open, and efficient network for all. They are building a network that enables any party to become a provider of connectivity (and even financial services), bringing blockchain benefits to existing telcos but also opening the world up for new methods of providing connectivity - mesh networks, peer to peer, etc, pushing the economic benefits back to the participants. Their goal is to build the last singular network for the planet, accessible to anyone and owned by everyone.

Company Audience:

• Telcos are increasingly required to compete with banks on financial services
• Billions of end-users struggling with multiple expensive accounts and hard-to-access crypto and blockchain-based financial services
• Connectivity hubs like airlines, cruise ships, local hot spots, in need of ancillary revenues and looking to improve user experience and loyalty
• Blockchain community, looking for ’legos’ - product functionality - that can easily be integrated into existing products and services. Blockchain projects can both bring users to their network, as well as bringing functionality that can be unlocked for the users of their network

Position:

A VP of Product would bring a level of organization, advocacy, and strategy to their product Org to support its continued evolution as a core node within the organization. They’ll focus their time on both helping level-up and improve the function of the product team’s various functions – Design, PM, and Product Ops – as well as providing transparency and communication channels to the rest of the company to interface with product.

Ideal Candidate:

• Prior start-up, fast growth, B2C blockchain product experience a MUST
• Focused on execution: Someone that can scale products to generate $100M+ to $1B+ in annual revenues
• Intuition and skills: Someone that has the right intuition on what the users want and can iteratively market test things quickly before overcommitting to building
• Ambitious: Someone that is excited about building a top-10 digital asset that can be owned and used by billions of users in the world
• Relevant experience: Someone with 10+ years of product leadership experience with multiple of our audiences

Requirements:

• Prior deep expertise in people management, ideally within organizations they respect that attract top-tier talent
• Demonstrable strategy/planning ability, knowledge of how a ramped-up, successful tech company looks and acts like. Bonus points for Blockchain, B2B, or telco space
• Hiring ability – great judgment on candidates, strong understanding of the definition of success and culture, ability to sell and close- Strong network to tap into
• Own: The strategic thinking required to unlock global product adoption with different stakeholders and for billions of users. Evolution and scaling of the product org over time. The establishment of new processes/competencies and training/transition to others. The visible communication/advocacy of product both internally and externally. Close collaboration with the engineering team.
• Teach: How to communicate, organize efforts, drive decisions, and manage expectations “up”, “down”, and cross-functionally on behalf of product within the org. In other words, teach everyone about everyone else’s viewpoint in an effective, efficient, productive, way. How to effectively people-manage a scaling org.
• Learn: Everything about the experience of their users, customers, and partners, for every detail of company product. The internal workings of the org, including priorities/vision/needs of product team members and leadership.
• Improve: The predictability and throughput of every stage/function of the product org. The product development cycle – adding the next-level of judgment, accountability, and transparency. The alignment of the product org with the rest of the business and their needs.

Company Values:

Thinking in possibilities: Our client realizes that most in the world see the world in terms of everything that is not possible. They believe the future is made by those who look at what is possible. Seeing a path of what is possible through all that is not possible requires intellectual curiosity, dedication, and diligence. They are big thinkers and believers but also pragmatists focused on relentless execution.

Integrity of word, thought, and action: Integrity is in what is behind our clients’ words, thoughts, and actions. They help themselves and others to stay close to why they do things, so they can align, together, for the highest purpose.

Diversity of perspectives: A good discussion is one that at the end, has all participants feel that the other participants understood them, even if they have different ideas. This requires trust, vulnerability, and compassion. Our client believes organizations, where people can truly co-create, will thrive and excel.

Winning with purpose: They are mission-first and realize that winning is a requirement to achieve lasting change that benefits all of humanity. Even though they love to compete for good, we know winning itself is not the same as success, it’s needed to succeed.

Ownership is key: When they own their successes and failures, their best qualities, and flaws, they can truly work in a team, as a team. Ownership unlocks greatness as a team because it enables them to support and be supported.

The excellence of being: Excellence is an expression of being, of what they want for themselves and others. It is passion turned into action. Our client shares a desire to learn and excel while being comfortable with failing. Excellence comes out when they’re courageously open about what they desire for this world.

Unity in consciousness: They/you understand that they are all one. They are all working towards moving humanity forward in their own unique ways. Our client firmly believes that there is infinitely more that unites them than that separates them. Their work is to bring that out in the world

Benefits:

• Competitive salary with generous shares/tokens options plan
• Unlimited PTO and flexible remote options
• Company Paid Medical, Dental, Vision Benefits
• 401k with 100% match up to 4%
• WFH benefits
• Annual Professional Development Budget
• Monthly Commuter Budget
• Contribution to Lifetime, ClassPass, etc
• Therapy and Personal Coaching support