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Overview
Join Stellar Development Foundation as a Product Manager to work on blockchain technology and create equitable access to the global financial system. Competitive salary and benefits offered. The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) is a non-profit organization focused on working with and supporting change-makers to create equitable access to the global financial system through blockchain technology. SDF provides grants, investments, funding, and other awards to builders and organizations. SDF also develops resources and tooling on the Stellar network to help unlock real world utility.
You Will
- •In your first 30 days: ramp on the Stellar network, our products, and the ecosystem; meet your engineering, design, and partner counterparts; and ship a first small improvement end-to-end.
- •Within 90 days: own a product area, build a prioritized roadmap grounded in real user and ecosystem needs, and establish a steady delivery cadence with your team.
- •Define and drive product strategy and roadmap for your area, across one or more of: core protocol, enterprise, DeFi, developer experience, and agents.
- •Talk to users, developers, and partners constantly, and translate their needs and pain points into a compelling vision and crisp, actionable requirements.
- •Use AI tools to accelerate discovery and delivery — generating prototypes, mockups, and working demos to validate ideas before committing engineering time.
- •Partner closely with Engineering and Design to ship high-quality products with urgency, and measure their impact after launch.
- •Balance the needs of the network today with the longer-term future you are building toward.
USA Benefits/Perks
- •Competitive health, dental & vision coverage with most plans covered at 100% for the employee + any dependents
- •Flexible time off + 15 company holidays including a company-wide holiday break
- •Generous paid parental leave for all parents, plus paid pregnancy disability leave for birthing parents
- •Gym reimbursement ($80 per month)
- •Life & ADD (up to $50K)
- •Short & Long term disability
- •401K with 4% match
- •Health & Dependent Care FSA Accounts
- •Commuter benefits with $250/month employer contribution
- •Health Savings Account (HSA) with monthly employer contribution
- •Family building benefits through Kindbody
- •Wellbeing benefits (One Medical, Rightway, Headspace)
- •L&D budget of $1,500/year
- •Daily lunch and snacks in office
- •Company retreats
Requirements
- •3+ years of product management experience shipping software products end-to-end.
- •A track record of using AI tools (e.g., Claude, Cursor, v0, and similar) to accelerate your work — including building working prototypes, not just writing specs.
- •The ability to translate user needs and pain points into both a long-term vision and near-term technical requirements.
- •Strong written and verbal communication; you can align engineers, designers, and partners around a plan.
- •Comfort with technical products and ambiguity; you operate from first principles with a strong bias to ship.
- •High user empathy and a high bar for quality.