Senior Product Manager - Programming Languages and Tooling - Midnight

IOHK • Full-time • Remote (United Kingdom) • 2d ago

Who are we?

IOHK, is a technology company focused on Blockchain research and development. We are renowned for our scientific approach to blockchain development, emphasizing peer-reviewed research and formal methods to ensure security, scalability, and sustainability. Our projects include decentralized finance (DeFi), governance, and identity management, aiming to advance the capabilities and adoption of blockchain technology globally.

We invest in the unknown, applying our curiosity and desire for positive change to everything we do. By fueling creativity, innovation, and progress within our teams, our products and services are designed for people to be fearless, to be changemakers.

About Midnight:

IOG's Midnight Tribe is a business technology provider and core contributor to the Midnight Network, a blockchain platform for developing decentralized applications that safeguard personal and commercial data. The Midnight Network is the first blockchain to offer programmable data isolation by leveraging zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs to enable selective disclosure of what information is visible on-chain and is designed to help developers implement necessary business policies, such as meeting regulatory requirements.

Compact, Midnight’s domain-specific language, is a strongly statically typed, bounded smart contract language, designed to be used in combination with TypeScript for writing smart contracts.

What the role involves:

As Senior Product Manager for Programming Languages and Tooling at Midnight, you will be responsible for creating feature requirements to evolve the language and developer tooling roadmaps, grooming and prioritizing the backlog, developing epics and user stories, and defining acceptance criteria for each. You will work closely with Product Design, Marketing, and Developer Relations to identify and translate features into requirements for the Language Architecture and Engineering Squad and ecosystem partners. You will balance business needs with technical requirements, and recommend alternative technical approaches to meet product requirements when needed. You will be excellent at identifying user needs and working with cross-functional teams to deliver product releases.

Collaborate with the Product Designers, Developer Relations Engineers, Language Architects and Engineers, and customers to provide input into the product roadmap and drive the execution of products and features from concept to launch in a fast-paced environment
Translates product roadmap features into well-defined product requirements including features, epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria
Leads the language and developer tooling functional design process based on an intimate knowledge of the users and technology
Prioritizes and maintains the sprint backlog for assigned product features, balancing the requirements of stakeholders
Works with cross-functional teams and various stakeholders, including analytics, design/user experience, engineering, testing, and developer relations
Turns data insights into products with actionable outcomes for target personas
Works in an Agile environment and continuously reviews the business needs, refines priorities, outlines milestones and deliverables, and identifies opportunities and risks
Partners with operations departments to define the user experience for internal users, including production support and monitoring
Works with product design, developer relations and product marketing to provide input into the go-to-market plan, and collaborates with the commercial team to ensure they have what they need to be successful
Develops and maintains appropriate tracking and reporting of product performance post-launch to evaluate future investment

Requirements

Who you are:

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
Demonstrable proficiency in 3+ programming languages, ideally spanning several programming idioms (procedural, functional, object-oriented, …)
Demonstrable experience with the capabilities and limitations of ZK proving systems
7+ years of experience as a Product Manager or similar role in product management in programming languages, developer tooling, blockchain, web3, or SaaS companies
Technical background with knowledge of software development
Domain expertise with Agile, Jira and Github
Proficient in Agile methodologies and leading technical, design, and business teams
Hands-on experience managing all stages of the product life cycle, from ideation to rollout
Effective stakeholder management and relationship-building skills
Team spirit and good communication abilities
Good organizational skills
Project management experience in the context of product development
Track record of implementing metrics and measuring product success
Strong collaboration with software development and marketing teams
Product Management certification (CPM, AIPMM) is a plus
Balance of technical knowledge and business acumen
Have strong leadership skills, be resourceful and use initiative while exercising personal accountability for your product
Demonstrate competency with requirements elicitation, analysis, specification, verification, and management practices and the ability to apply them in practice
Leverage strong interpersonal skills to drive innovation in product development with a team of world-class engineers and Scientists
Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage, influence, and inspire partners and stakeholders to drive collaboration and alignment across levels and roles
Have a deep understanding of programming languages such as TypeScript
Have a deep understanding of blockchain and cryptocurrency technology, keeping abreast of industry developments and trends in the product landscape
Keep up to date with the status of competitors from a technical and business perspective

Are you an IOGer?

Do you find yourself questioning the status quo? Do you tinker with ideas and long to turn those ideas into solutions? Are you able to spark thoughtful debates, bringing out the inquisitiveness in others? Does the promise of continuously growing excite you? Then get ready to reimagine everything you thought wasn’t possible because that’s what it means to be an IOGer - we don’t set limits, we break them.

Benefits

Remote work
Laptop reimbursement
New starter package to buy hardware essentials (headphones, monitor, etc)
Learning & Development opportunities
Competitive PTO

At IOG, we value diversity and always treat all employees and job applicants based on merit, qualifications, competence, and talent. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.