Director, Technical Product Management

The role:

We are hiring a Director, Technical Product Management to bring clarity, cohesion, and execution rigor to Hedera’s core protocol and developer platform.This role exists to ensure that protocol evolution, developer experience, and ecosystem needs translate into a coherent, high-quality, and widely adopted product roadmap.Without this role, we risk fragmented roadmap decisions, degraded developer experience, and slower ecosystem adoption.

The impact you'll have:

In this role, you will:

• Own the roadmap across core Hedera services (HTS, Smart Contracts/EVM, Consensus, SDKs, Mirror Nodes)
• Partner directly with Engineering Managers and architects to co-author design docs and HIPs
• Drive product development from concept → prototype → production → iteration
• Operate in an open-source model: triage GitHub issues, engage contributors, and shape public roadmaps
• Translate real-world developer feedback into product requirements and prioritized execution
• Ensure production readiness across releases: backward compatibility, security coordination, and launch quality
• Elevate developer experience through documentation, SDK improvements, and ecosystem engagement

What success looks like in 6-12 months:

• A clear, publicly visible roadmap aligned with engineering and the developer community
• Multiple shipped protocol features (HIPs) with measurable adoption
• Significant improvement in developer onboarding and time-to-first-success
• A high-functioning open-source product loop (issues → specs → releases)
• Trusted technical partnership with engineering, DevRel, and ecosystem stakeholders

What you bring:

Core capabilities:

• Deep technical product thinking across distributed systems, APIs, or blockchain
• Ability to operate as a technical peer to senior engineers and architects; ideally, you are an engineer who has decided to focus on Product.
• Strong product judgment: prioritization, tradeoffs, and system-level decision making
• Bias toward action—you are comfortable prototyping, testing, and iterating quickly
• Ability to translate complex systems into clear product direction

Functional expertise:

• APIs, SDKs, and backend platform design
• Distributed systems concepts (consensus, state, transactions, performance)
• Developer platforms and infrastructure products
• Open-source product development and community engagement
• Writing technical specs (RFCs, HIPs, design docs)

Nice to haves:

• Experience with blockchain/Layer 1 ecosystems
• Open-source contributor or maintainer experience
• Domain expertise in tokenization, DeFi, payments, or identity