Senior Product Manager

Matter Labs builds private settlement infrastructure that lets regulated institutions settle directly with each other without exposing data, ceding control, or waiting days. Global finance moves $4 quadrillion a year on systems designed for paper and telex. The institutions that built them - from DTCC to NYSE to the world's largest banks - are now actively replacing them.

This is the most interesting unsolved problem in finance: settlement that is instant and cryptographically enforced, yet preserves the control, auditability, and confidentiality regulated institutions are bound to. Solving it means reconciling two worlds long thought incompatible - Web3's trust guarantees and institutional-grade governance. The incumbents aren't waiting to be disrupted; they're racing to replace their own rails, and they need infrastructure that can carry them. We're building what comes next.

Our core product, Prividium, gives each institution its own private settlement environment (a Prividium Zone) with independent governance and built-in interoperability across counterparties, asset classes, and jurisdictions. Settlement happens through zero-knowledge proofs: one party proves a transaction is valid without revealing any underlying data to the counterparty. The only private settlement infrastructure built on zero-knowledge cryptography.

Founded in 2018. Backed by a16z and Union Square Ventures. A fully remote team of around 90 with eight years of production zero-knowledge infrastructure behind us, now pointed at the biggest problem in Banking and Capital Markets.

We're looking for an exceptional Senior Product Manager to own outcomes end to end - from discovery through delivery, measurement, and iteration. 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Institutional-Grade Product Readiness. Bake institutional requirements - control, permissioning, auditability, performance guarantees, operational clarity, risk, SLAs, procurement — into product decisions from day one.

• Roadmap Alignment. Synthesize customer learnings, the existing roadmap, sales requests, and engineering priorities into a sequenced plan that different teams can execute against.

• Sales Enablement. Review personalized sales collaterals. Join prospective calls. Work closely with BD to help close deals.

• Cross-Functional Facilitation. Find blockers throughout tech, sales, and marketing and proactively help unblock them.

• 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.

• 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.

• Strategic Ownership. Maintain a written, opinionated where-to-play / how-to-win for your area, reviewed quarterly.

• Reconciliation of Competing Forces. Practically reconcile Web3 engineering principles with institutional requirements; fast iteration with financial-system rigor; and technical depth with commercial urgency.

• 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.”

• First-Principles Thinker. Rigorous from first principles, structures complex problems into clear mental models.

• “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-Fluent. You use AI daily to prototype, analyze, and write - and can show concretely how it raised the speed and quality of what you ship.

• Hungry. Insatiable appetite for learning coupled with a joy of being wrong.

• Mission-Driven. You believe privacy-preserving settlement is how open financial infrastructure reaches regulated institutions, and you want to build the world-defining company that makes it real.

• 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.

We want to see proof of excellence in as many of the below:

• Product Excellence. You've taken a product from 0→1 to PMF, or scaled an existing one through a meaningful inflection.

• Meaningful Banking and Capital Markets Experience. Direct experience building products for financial institutions or regulated financial infrastructure. Understands risk, compliance, controls, SLAs, procurement, and applies this from day one.

• 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, first-hand experience with onchain protocols, and ability to translate Web3 trust guarantees to non-crypto-native audiences.

• This job is not on easy mode. We love what we do and we work hard to achieve our goals. This job requires flexible working hours across stakeholders in different time zones.

• The job is fully remote; some travel is necessary to get the job done.

• We believe in executors. Vision-only or narrative-heavy leaders without execution depth won’t thrive here. Leaders who empower others while getting their hands dirty do thrive.

• Matter Labs, as well as all of tech, is at an inflection point. Our entire roadmap can change in response to fundamental structural changes. You must be adaptive and open-minded, driven by output and team success.

• USA Remote: work wherever you’re most effective within the United States; optional travel to team or industry events.

• Freedom & ownership culture: no time tracking, minimum bureaucracy-only results matter.

For more on how we work, check out our Team Handbook