Product Manager - Blockchain

Who We Are:

Horizen Labs is pioneering privacy-focused, zero-knowledge technology that powers a more secure and interconnected digital world. Founded in 2019, we're at the intersection of research, protocol development, and ecosystem growth, enabling scalable, verifiable solutions through platforms like zkVerify and Horizen. From high-impact projects like ApeChain to a specialized consulting arm in zero-knowledge ecosystems, we are a global team united in transforming the landscape of Web3 and digital trust. Join our team in New York, Milan, and remotely to help redefine what's possible in the decentralized world.

At Horizen Labs, our people are our greatest asset, and we are creating a culture of empowered individuals who are eager to bring their ideas to life. We believe diversity drives the innovation and engagement necessary to build a truly remarkable product. We operate on a hybrid model with a distributed global workforce who works in partnership with our satellite offices in New York City, NY and Milan, Italy. Are you ready to help us change the future with the next cutting-edge blockchain technology? Join us!

The Role

As an ideal candidate, you are an experienced product manager with a track record of creating a link between the end users and the engineering teams. You enjoy collaborating with the developer community, engineering, product marketing and the business team to deploy a product strategy that leads to satisfied paying customers.  Specifically you enjoy building blockchains focused on delivering innovative cryptography solutions to both the web3 and web2 spaces.

What You’ll Own

Product Strategy and Vision

• Strategy, management, and rollout for blockchains and web3 tools (e.g. wallets, block explorers, javascript libraries, APIs, SDKs and more)

• Maintain and evolve our company-wide standards/frameworks and work with the various engineering teams to implement them

Product Development

• Identify, prioritize and track emerging needs in our Product roadmap

• Use data-driven decision making in the product prioritization and development process

• Manage the 3rd party solutions team to develop code samples in a variety of languages to help developers more easily consume our products

• Work with our Business Development and Marketing teams to get broad adoption of the tools and products in our ecosystem

Stakeholder Management

• Build a strong developer community

• Share product plans and progress on KPIs during company wide team leads meetings

Qualifications:

• Technical Proficiency: strong understanding of blockchain technology, cryptocurrencies, smart contracts, decentralized applications and cryptography.

• Product Management Experience: At least 2 years hands-on track record in web3 as a product manager shipping successful products or at least 5 years in an adjacent field like tech or fintech.

• Analytical skills: data-drive approach to decision making and experience with various analytics tools

• Communication and project management: Experience in organizing product roadmaps with an emphasis on defining minimum viable products, constant iterations, with frequent releases and over-communication of strategy, implementation details and results.

• Leadership / stakeholder management: Must have excellent leadership and relationship building skills and must be exceptional at communicating with senior management as well as with colleagues from technical and non-technical backgrounds

• Experience with DeFi, NFTs or other blockchain applications

• Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, or other project management tools

• Previous involvement with startups, preferably in the web3 / blockchain industry

• Fintech experience

Horizen Labs is an equal opportunity employer

Horizen Labs is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please send an email to recruiting@horizenlabs.io and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.