Experience shaping product or business strategy for crypto or digital-asset offerings specifically, beyond technical architecture
Experience across multiple blockchain networks or protocol families
Experience with HSMs, secure enclaves, or hardware-backed key-management infrastructure
Experience in regulated banking, fintech, payments, or institutional digital assets
Recognition as a technical reference in crypto, blockchain security, or distributed systems
Location: Palo Alto, United States
Our recruitment process may involve the use of artificial intelligence–enabled tools, such as automated interview transcription and analysis, to support the evaluation process. Artificial intelligence is not used to make final hiring decisions; all decisions are made by human reviewers
Deep, hands-on technical expertise in blockchain and crypto systems — protocols, on-chain data, custody, signing/key management, wallets, asset movement, or smart contracts
A sustained record of Staff+ level technical leadership with impact spanning multiple teams or domains
Demonstrated ability to translate deep protocol/technical understanding into customer-facing product decisions and business outcomes, not just architecture
Experience leading highly complex, ambiguous, security-critical initiatives requiring both technical depth and cross-functional judgment
Ability to reason about business models, product strategy, and market positioning alongside technical tradeoffs
Ability to influence engineering leaders, product leaders, security, risk, and compliance stakeholders without formal authority
A strong record of mentoring senior/staff engineers and raising the quality of technical and product decision-making around them
Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to build alignment across technical and business audiences in high-stakes environments