Senior Product Manager

About the role

As a Senior Product Manager at Blockworks, you will take ownership of a significant part of the product portfolio. This includes developing product strategy, making trade-offs, and ensuring teams focus on high-value problems. Your work will involve understanding customer needs from exchanges, institutional investors, and crypto companies to identify problems worth solving, transforming these insights into clear priorities for product development.

A key aspect of this role is people leadership, as you will manage three Product Managers. You will be responsible for their growth, setting clear expectations, and providing direct feedback while ensuring they maintain ownership of their respective products. This position requires someone who can mentor and develop other product leaders, fostering their independence and capability.

Beyond direct product and team leadership, you will contribute to elevating Blockworks' overall product development practices. This involves improving discovery, prioritization, and internal processes to create a more consistent operating rhythm. You will guide teams to ship faster, make better decisions, and act on feedback, with a strong emphasis on experimentation and continuous iteration based on product usage and customer insights.

The expected salary for this full-time exempt position ranges from $150,000 to $200,000.

Skills that matter here

• product management: This role requires 4+ years of experience in product management, with a focus on leading product development from discovery to launch.
• managing Product Managers: At least 2 years of experience directly managing Product Managers is essential, including developing their skills and leadership.
• enterprise software: Experience building enterprise software for sophisticated customers, especially those involving complex data, content, and workflows, is required.
• APIs: Comfort working with APIs, data models, and integrations is necessary for technical product considerations.
• product development processes: You will be responsible for improving how the product team operates, including discovery, feedback loops, planning, and prioritization.

Who this role suits

• You are a leader who thrives on developing others and can point to instances where you helped PMs become stronger, more independent leaders.
• You are comfortable with ambiguity and experimentation, willing to break down ambitious ideas into focused releases and iterate quickly.
• You possess a strong customer intuition, gained from engaging with sophisticated clients in complex industries.
• You are a builder who can rapidly prototype ideas to communicate concepts effectively, even in the age of AI.

From the employer

What You’ll Do

As our Senior Product Manager, you will own a meaningful area of our product portfolio while managing three Product Managers who lead other products across Blockworks. Your specific product ownership will be shaped by your experience and where you can have the greatest impact.

• Develop Product Managers: Set clear expectations and give direct feedback to help PMs grow while maintaining real ownership over their products.
• Develop Product Strategy: Turn customer needs, company objectives, and market opportunities into clear priorities. Make difficult tradeoffs and keep teams focused on the highest-value problems.
• Understand Our Customers: Spend time with exchanges, institutional investors, enterprises, and crypto companies to develop deep customer intuition and identify problems worth solving.
• Raise the Product Bar: Improve how we build products at Blockworks by strengthening our discovery, prioritization, and internal processes. Create a more consistent product operating rhythm that helps teams ship faster, make better decisions, and act on feedback.
• Ship and Iterate: Break ambitious ideas into focused releases that allow teams to learn quickly. Study product usage and gather customer feedback to identify what is and is not working, then continuously improve what we build. Experimentation is frequent at Blockworks. Comfort with being uncomfortable is a must.

What You’ve Done Before

You have 4+ years of product management experience, including at least 2 years directly managing Product Managers. You have helped PMs become stronger, more independent product leaders. You are also a strong product builder. You have owned a meaningful product area from discovery through launch and can point to the decisions you made and outcomes you produced. In the age of AI, you are comfortable building prototypes that communicate your ideas quickly, without creating a time sink. You have built enterprise software for sophisticated customers, ideally products that combine complex data, content, and workflows. You are comfortable working with APIs, data models, integrations, and other technical product considerations. You have helped improve how a product team operates, whether through better discovery, feedback loops, planning, prioritization, or product development processes.

Salary, Benefits, & How We Work

This is a full-time exempt position with an expected salary of $150,000 - $200,000.

Benefits:

• Remote-First: We're a remote-first organization with an office in NYC for you to utilize as you please.
• 100% Medical Coverage for You: Close to fully paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for you, and a significant portion covered for your dependents.
• Flexible PTO: We have a flexible paid time off policy that doesn't limit the number of vacation days you can take.
• Parental Leave: At Blockworks, all team members are eligible for 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave.
• Hardware Stipend: Every team member has a stipend to use to purchase the tools and technology that help them be their most productive.
• Learning & Growth Stipend: Every team member has a stipend to spend on their skill growth and professional development.
• Career Growth: We prioritize skill growth and career development, and we have a clear, documented structure to take the guesswork out of individual development and career progression.
• Global & Diverse Team: We're a global team, and we're committed to creating an open, inclusive, and diverse work culture.