Senior Product Manager, Matter Labs
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Scaling Ethereum with Zero Knowledge Proofs
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Scaling Ethereum with Zero Knowledge Proofs
101-200 employees
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101-200 employees
Company mission
To advance personal freedom for all.
Role
Who you are
- Reconciliation of Competing Forces. Practically reconcile Web3 engineering principles with institutional requirements; fast iteration with financial-system rigor; and technical depth with commercial urgency
- Engineering-Credible Partnership. Earn engineering trust with thoughtful tradeoff weighing, deep technical reasoning, intellectual honesty, and treatment of technical debt as a first-class citizen
- Business-Credible Partnership. Earn BD trust by engaging deeply with customers, translating commercial objections into product clarity, and finding scalable product paths rather than reacting to every request as a bespoke feature
- Strategic Ownership. Maintain a written, opinionated where-to-play / how-to-win for your area, reviewed quarterly
- Market Research. Understand the competitive and ecosystem landscape: who else is solving adjacent problems, where we are differentiated, where we are behind, and what market shifts should change our product decisions
- Exceptional Communicator. You create alignment across teams with different incentives, contexts, and communication styles. You know how to ask the right questions in the right forums to uncover what matters, resolve ambiguity, and move decisions forward. Communicates with clarity, humility, positivity, and bias for action.”
- “A Barrel, Not Ammunition”. You ship outcomes end to end and pull others toward goals; you're not waiting to be pointed at a problem. Blockers that would stop others merely motivate you to move faster
- Builder Who Leads by Example. You’re a builder who thrives in the feedback loop between customers and engineers
- AI-Native. You use AI to push your limits, ship faster, and think clearer. Your entire way of working changed drastically with every step-function improvement in the models
- First-Principles Thinker. Rigorous from first principles, structures complex problems into clear mental models
- Hungry. Insatiable appetite for learning coupled with a joy of being wrong
- Mission-Driven. Combine a passion for our mission to advance personal freedom for all with a passion to build a world-defining company, reaching PMF at scale
- Energized by Ambiguity. Enjoy taking action as the only path to gather information. Thrive in ambiguous settings while giving a sense of transparency balanced with confidence to stakeholders
- Meaningful Institutional Finance Exposure. Direct experience building products for financial institutions or regulated financial infrastructure. Understands risk, compliance, controls, SLAs, procurement, and applies this from day one
- Product Excellence. You've taken a product from 0→1 to PMF, or scaled an existing one through a meaningful inflection
- TradFi Fluency. You speak banking, payments, capital markets fluently
- Technical Fluency. You've shipped complex technical products, can hold your own on architecture, tradeoffs, and implementation details, and are keen to ask the right questions
- GTM. You’ve contributed to world-class GTM strategy or execution
- Digital Assets Fluency. Deep grasp of blockchain mechanics, familiarity with Web3 dev tools, first-hand experience with onchain protocols, and ability to translate Web3 trust guarantees to non-crypto-native audiences
What the job involves
- We're looking for an exceptional Senior Product Manager to own outcomes end to end - from discovery through delivery, measurement, and iteration
- The role sits at the intersection of Web3-native engineering and institutional finance
- You’ll turn deep technical capabilities into products that hold up under real-world institutional requirements, while reconciling the tensions between startup speed and financial-system rigor
- You'll be a credible partner to both engineering and BD, support sales in closing institutional deals, and contribute to company strategy
- You'll have extreme ownership and drive outcomes that change the landscape of global finance
- Customer Discovery. Immerse yourself in customer workflows, constraints, motivations, and pains. Capture revealed preferences and weigh them against stated preferences and internal vision. Use this to maintain strong intuitions and data-backed positions on where the product should go
- Roadmap Alignment. Synthesize customer learnings, the existing roadmap, sales requests, and engineering priorities into a sequenced plan that different teams can execute against
- Outcomes Ownership. Own outcomes from vaguely identified needs to solutions with real-world impact. Define what to build and why. Identify, surface, and reconcile tradeoffs. Push through cross-functional blockers. Be the CEO of whatever initiative you’re involved with
- Measurable Outputs. Introduce metrics wherever helpful. Own tracking and iterating based on them
- Sales Enablement. Review personalized sales collaterals. Join prospective calls. Work closely with BD to help close deals
- Institutional-Grade Product Readiness. Bake real institutional requirements — control, permissioning, auditability, performance guarantees, operational clarity, risk, SLAs, procurement — into product decisions from day one
- Cross-Functional Facilitation. Find blockers throughout tech, sales, and marketing and proactively help unblock them
Our take
While the Ethereum network offers users highly rated security, the trade-off is that its network volume isn’t sufficient to support fast, cheap transactions. Matter Labs is one of a small number of companies that are building scaling protocols through its zero-knowledge proof-driven product, zkSync.
It’s not the only company of its kind, with the likes of Arbitrum and Optimism also receiving plenty of publicity and funding. However, Matter Labs' zero-knowledge proof approach has been praised for both its transaction speed and security. If it were easy, however, many more companies would be doing it, so it appears that Matter Labs has made a significant headstart on the competition.
Over the last couple of years, the startup has secured some major funding from high-profile investors such as Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), and Union Square Ventures. Matter Labs released its renamed ZkSync Era - a zero-knowledge, open-source security platform on Ethereum in 2023. Matter Labs is now predicting zero-knowledge cryptography to outlive alternative "optimistic" security tech from the likes of Arbitrum.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
94% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Nov 2022
$200m
SERIES C
Nov 2021
$50m
SERIES B
Total funding: $258m
Leadership
Alex Gluchowski
(Co-Founder & CEO)Has co-founded two previous startups, wellbeing platform Somuchmore (acquired by Urbansportsclub), and camper-rental startup PaulCamper.
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