Head of Product Management

The role:

Hashgraph has spent years proving Hedera works at production scale. Now we're building something new on top of it - a payments and settlement product - and that depends on one thing: whether the go-to-market is being driven by someone who has actually operated in that world. We are hiring a Head of Product Management to own that go-to-market and program execution - not a deep technical expert, but a market-facing, customer-facing, use-case-facing product leader. This is the person who aligns internal teams: BD, Marketing, Engineering, Executives - and external partners - on/off-ramps, Financial Institutions - behind one shipped, trusted product

This role exists to ensure that our new product - built for instant settlement of trades and payments, domestic or cross-border -  lands with real customers and partners. The initial focus areas are cross-border payments, settlements, treasury operations, and tokenized deposits. This is a role for someone who is comfortable defining the product alongside the market, not just executing an already-fixed spec.

In this role, you will:

• Bring outside-in credibility on payments, settlement, and banking-rail use cases to sharpen how we define and position the product
• Own go-to-market execution for the product. Turning a roadmap Engineering is already driving into real customer and partner traction.
• Build and close external partnerships with node operators, on/off-ramp providers, financial institutions, all in lockstep with BD and Marketing.
• Design and run trials with external stakeholders - node operators, partners, and customers - to prove the product works outside our own walls.
• Ensure for release readiness on performance, security, and usability by asking the tough questions before launch, not after.
• Own and represent the Product Roadmap end to end.
• Own P&L in partnership with the Sales and Engineering leadership team.
•  Run program management across every stakeholder group. Schedules, reporting, and keeping BD, Marketing, and Engineering in sync. Utilizing direct, executive-level reporting to leadership.

What success looks like in 6-12 months:

• You will have delivered live solutions for our priority use cases: cross-border payments, settlements, treasury management, and tokenized deposits.
• You will have operationalized a production network by recruiting and onboarding node operators.
• You will have built working on/off-ramps supporting the use cases above.
• Internal stakeholders from BD, Marketing, and Engineering view you as a force multiplier, not a bottleneck.

What you bring:

Core capabilities:

• Real operating experience in payments, settlement, or banking-rail businesses. You understand cross-border payments, stablecoins, on/off-ramps, and how players like SWIFT and Stripe fit together.
• An established professional network across financial services and fintech that opens doors, not just informs opinions.
• Proven go-to-market and program management range: you can define a product's positioning and use cases with the market, and also run the room across a dozen stakeholders.
• A track record of closing external partnerships with node operators, exchanges, or on/off-ramp providers.
• Executive presence. Comfortable reporting to and influencing C-suite and founder-level stakeholders.
• Experience and ability to raise capital for a technology project / company

Functional expertise:

• Leadership experience within cross-border payments, settlement, treasury management, decentralized exchanges, and interoperability.
• Blockchain and distributed ledger technology expertise, ideally within Layer 1 ecosystems.
• The fintech regulatory and operational landscape that shapes what's actually shippable.

Nice to haves:

• Direct experience with Canton, Arc, Ripple, or comparable enterprise blockchain platforms.
• Prior work inside Layer 1 ecosystems.
• Experience operating within governing council or consortium-based network models.