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Hashgraph is a fast-growing software company building Hedera, an open-source, proof-of-stake platform designed for enterprise and web3 applications requiring speed, security, stability, and sustainability. Hedera's public network is governed by industry-leading organizations across 11 sectors and 14 regions.
The company is now building a cross-ledger solution for institutional settlement, addressing a critical market gap: assets are landing on ledgers faster than infrastructure exists to move them between ledgers. Current workarounds (bridges) have lost over $2.8 billion since 2021. This new product will enable collateral mobility, delivery-versus-payment (DvP), payment-versus-payment (PvP), cross-border payments, and FX across public and private ledgers that do not otherwise interoperate.
As Head of Product, you will own the product definition and roadmap, reporting directly to the founder. You will define product requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and the complete roadmap. You'll work closely with business development on go-to-market execution, ensuring the product aligns with what the market needs and what BD can sell. You'll report product status and roadmap changes directly to founders and the executive team.
Key responsibilities include designing and running trials with external validators, partners, and customers; making release readiness decisions on performance, security, and usability; and running program management across all stakeholder groups to keep business development, marketing, and engineering synchronized.
Success in 12 months means achieving live settlement for priority use cases (cross-border payments, settlements, treasury management, tokenized deposits) with named institutional counterparties moving real value. You will have built working on/off-ramps supporting these use cases, and BD, marketing, and engineering will each independently credit you as the reason they're shipping faster.
International travel to customer, validator, and partner sites will be required.
REQUIREMENTS:
Core Capabilities:
- 10+ years in product management, product leadership, or equivalent operating role
- 5+ years in FX, payments, settlement, clearing, custody, collateral management, or banking infrastructure
- Real operating experience in FX exchange, payments, settlement, or banking-rail businesses; deep understanding of cross-border payments, stablecoins, on/off-ramps, and how players like SWIFT and Stripe fit together
- Direct working knowledge of at least two of: FX execution and settlement, cross-border payments, DvP or PvP settlement, collateral mobility, treasury operations, tokenized deposits
Functional Expertise:
- Experience owning a roadmap end-to-end, including making difficult strategic calls
- Experience writing product requirements that engineering teams built from directly
- Experience presenting to executives, boards, or institutional steering committees
Preferred Skills and Experience:
- Distributed ledger or Layer 1 experience
- Work inside a consortium, governing council, or member-owned network model
- Exposure to CCIP, Circle and ARC, Canton, Ripple, or comparable enterprise platforms
- Stablecoin mechanics, on-ramps and off-ramps, tokenized collateral
- First product hire or zero-to-one experience at an early-stage company
Note: Candidates meeting basic qualifications without preferred experience are encouraged to apply; the preferred list is learnable in a quarter.
