Director of Product at LayerZero Labs

<h1><strong>LayerZero</strong></h1> <p><strong><em>The Future is Omnichain.</em></strong></p> <p>Founded in 2021, LayerZero’s vision is to create a community of cross-chain developers, building dApps that are no longer constrained by individual blockchain capabilities. With LayerZero's simple, generic messaging protocol, builders will develop cross-chain dApps designed to unify the power of individual blockchains.</p> <p>We are funded by the best investors in the world including:</p> <p>a16z, Sequoia, PayPal, Binance Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Uniswap Labs, Circle Ventures, Delphi</p> <h1><strong>ABOUT THE ROLE</strong></h1> <p>LayerZero is standing up a product discipline for the first time at scale. We have an aggressive roadmap, strong engineering, and a clear inflection point as a company. We need someone who can define what great product looks like here, build and protect the team that executes it, and operate credibly at the executive level.</p> <h1><strong>WHAT YOU’LL DO</strong></h1> <ul> <li>Build and lead LayerZero's product function - define the operating model, hiring bar, and culture of the team from the ground up.</li> <li>Directly manage IC PMs across our product lines; set standards, unblock execution, and develop the team.</li> <li>Be the product voice at the executive level - represent the product function in leadership discussions on roadmap, resourcing, and strategic direction.</li> <li>Own the cross-product roadmap; ensure all product lines are moving in a coherent direction with clear priorities.</li> <li>Drive alignment between engineering, BD, and the product team - translate business and technical context into executable product strategy.</li> <li>Set and defend the hiring bar for every PM LayerZero brings in; own the process from intake through close.</li> <li>Protect the team from context-switching, misaligned priorities, and organizational drag - create the conditions for ICs to do their best work.</li> </ul> <h1><strong>ABOUT YOU</strong></h1> <ul> <li>You have 7+ years in product, including 2+ years managing PMs or leading a product function.</li> <li>You are crypto-native or have deep technical product experience in adjacent infrastructure - developer platforms, financial infrastructure, or security-critical systems.</li> <li>You have operated at the executive level and can hold your own in strategic conversations with engineering and BD leadership.</li> <li>You have hired and developed strong ICs; you know what great product talent looks like and how to attract it.</li> <li>You have a builder mentality - you have shipped products yourself and maintain technical credibility wi