Head of Product

About the role

This Head of Product will partner with the CEO to shape the overall product strategy, translating a shared vision into a clear, prioritized roadmap. The role involves owning the portfolio of product initiatives, deciding what gets developed, and managing trade-offs across current and future projects. Success in this position means consistently delivering products that drive significant business value, measured by key performance indicators tied directly to company objectives.

The role requires leading and developing a team of product managers, designers, and UX researchers. This includes full accountability for team performance, hiring, and coaching to foster growth. The Head of Product will establish high standards for the product team's operations, from meeting management to cross-functional context transfer, ensuring efficient and effective collaboration. This person will also drive execution alongside engineering, business development, design, and marketing teams.

A core responsibility is to act as the voice of the customer and the market, synthesizing both qualitative and quantitative data to inform product decisions. This involves defining and implementing product operating standards and a commitment to a data-driven culture. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of product management craft, including structured discovery, idea validation, and ruthless prioritization based on effort versus impact.

The salary for US employees ranges from $225,000 to $250,000 USDC, in addition to a token allocation over four years.

Skills that matter here

• product management: This role requires extensive experience in product management, including defining strategy, owning product portfolios, and driving execution.
• team leadership: A key aspect of this position is leading, developing, and coaching a team of product managers, designers, and UX researchers.
• data analysis: The Head of Product will define and track product KPIs, championing a data-driven culture to ensure measurable business value.
• DeFi: Fluency in DeFi is preferred for understanding the landscape of financial primitives in crypto, although not strictly required.
• traditional finance: A background in traditional finance or regulated asset markets is required, ideally in private markets, capital markets, or institutional fintech.
• AI integration: While not explicitly detailed, AI integration is listed as a skill, suggesting potential future or current relevance to product development.

Who this role suits

• You are a seasoned product leader with 5-10+ years of experience, including at least 2 years managing product teams.
• You have a proven track record of shipping products that delivered significant revenue or user growth, demonstrating ownership of outcomes.
• You are adept at building healthy, high-functioning teams and setting clear expectations and collaboration norms.
• You possess a deep understanding of traditional finance or regulated asset markets and can apply this knowledge to on-chain solutions.

From the employer

What You'll Do

• Partner with the CEO on product strategy — bringing your own point of view, challenging assumptions, and translating shared vision into a clear prioritized roadmap with defined success criteria.
• Own the portfolio of product initiatives: recommend what gets started, advocate for what gets killed, and manage tradeoffs across product initiatives and future bets.
• Lead and develop a team of product managers, designers, and UX researchers — with full accountability for team performance, hiring, and coaching your team to help them grow.
• Set the standard of what good looks like for the product team — from how we run meetings and capture decisions, to how we transfer context across functions — and hold the team to that standard.
• Drive cross-functional execution alongside Engineering, BD, Design, and Marketing.
• Define and implement product operating standards, and you’re not above getting into the details when it matters.
• Define, track, and report on product KPIs that tie directly to business objectives — you believe in and champion a data driven culture where what we ship produces measurable business value.
• Act as the voice of the customer and the market, synthesizing qualitative and quantitative signals into clear product decisions.

What You'll Bring

• Experience and leadership — 5–10+ years of product management experience, with at least 2 years managing teams across product management, design, and research.
• Proven people manager and leader — you know how to build teams that are healthy and high-functioning, and you set the expectations and collaboration norms that make teams operate well.
• Track record of outcomes — you have shipped products that drove significant revenue and/or user growth. You have owned outcomes, not just roadmaps.
• Deep PM craft — you know how to run structured discovery, validate ideas before building them, write a sharp PRD, and prioritize ruthlessly based on effort versus impact.
• Domain background — background in traditional finance or regulated asset markets is required — ideally in private markets, capital markets, or institutional fintech. DeFi/crypto fluency is preferred but not required.

What Orca Offers

• Salary: 225,000 - 250,000 USDC (Range for US employees)
• Token allocation: 175,000 - 200,000 ORCA over 4 years (Range for US employees)
• Opportunity to learn and develop Solana DeFi.
• Flexible work schedule.
• Home office stipend.
• Wellness stipend.
• Opportunity to co-work with the team multiple times a year from at different locations around the world, fully covered by Orca.
• Option to work remotely or from Orca’s office in New York City.
• Paid subscriptions to GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, or other tools that make you more productive.