Product Manager

Machine intelligence will soon take over humanity’s role in knowledge-keeping and creation. What started in the mid-1990s as the gradual off-loading of knowledge and decision making to search engines will be rapidly replaced by vast neural networks - with all knowledge compressed into their artificial neurons. Unlike organic life, machine intelligence, built within silicon, needs protocols to coordinate and grow. And, like nature, these protocols should be open, permissionless, and neutral. Starting with compute hardware, the Gensyn protocol networks together the core resources required for machine intelligence to flourish alongside human intelligence.

The Role

• Take high-level product direction and drive delivery by owning the specification and coordinating engineering and research work.
  
  

Responsibilities

• Convert user feedback into detailed product requirements, narratives, and technical specifications.
• Use data to better understand user needs, optimise the product experience, and guide future product development.
• Regularly report on progress and maintain context amongst stakeholders, both non-technical and technical.
• Understand both the commercial considerations and the technical implementation details and rapidly unblock issues by deep diving on either side when required.
  
  

Competencies

Must have

• Proven success driving product delivery at a high-growth startup in a competitive industry.
• Experience driving product delivery at a top-tier machine learning and/or blockchain company.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to concisely communicate complex topics to a range of audiences.
• Experience designing and delivering infrastructure-level products aimed at developers.

Preferred

• Experience with research-heavy products at the cutting-edge, where solutions are theoretical / technically unproven.

Nice to have

• Hands on programming experience

Compensation / Benefits

• Competitive salary + share of equity and token pool
• Fully remote work - we hire between the West Coast (PT) and Central Europe (CET) time zones
• Relocation Assistance - available for those that would like to relocate after being hired (anywhere from PST through CET time zones)
• 3-4x all expenses paid company retreats around the world, per year
• Whatever equipment you need
• Paid sick leave
• Private health, vision, and dental insurance - including spouse/dependents [🇺🇸 only]
  
  

Our Principles

Autonomy

• Don’t ask for permission - we have a constraint culture, not a permission culture
• Claim ownership of any work stream and set its goals/deadlines, rather than waiting to be assigned work or relying on job specs
• Push & pull context on your work rather than waiting for information from others and assuming people know what you’re doing

Focus

• Small team - misalignment and politics scale super-linearly with team size. Small protocol teams rival much larger traditional teams
• Thin protocol - build and design thinly
• Reject waste - guard the company’s time, rather than wasting it in meetings without clear purpose/focus, or bikeshedding

Reject mediocrity

• Give direct feedback to everyone immediately rather than avoiding unpopularity, expecting things to improve naturally, or trading short-term pain for extreme long-term pain
• Embrace an extreme learning rate rather than assuming limits to your ability/knowledge
• No quit - push to the final outcome, despite any barriers