About the Role
The Stellar Development Foundation is seeking a Product Manager to help shape the future of the Stellar network. This generalist role involves owning product areas such as core protocol, enterprise payments, DeFi, developer tooling, or AI agents. You will work with engineers and designers to take ideas from problem to shipped product, utilizing AI tools to accelerate discovery and delivery.
Responsibilities
- Define and drive product strategy and roadmap for core protocol, enterprise, DeFi, developer experience, or AI agents.
- Engage with users, developers, and partners to translate needs into a compelling vision and actionable requirements.
- Utilize AI tools to generate prototypes, mockups, and working demos for idea validation.
- Partner with Engineering and Design to ship high-quality products with urgency.
- Measure product impact post-launch.
- Balance current network needs with long-term strategic goals.
Requirements
- 3+ years of product management experience shipping software products end-to-end.
- Proven track record of using AI tools like Claude, Cursor, or v0 to build working prototypes.
- Ability to translate user needs into long-term vision and technical requirements.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Comfort with technical products and ambiguity.
- High user empathy and a high bar for quality.
Skills
- Product Management
- AI-assisted prototyping
- Technical product strategy
- Stakeholder management
- Blockchain/Crypto/Fintech knowledge
- Developer-facing product experience
- API/SDK/CLI development
- Payments and DeFi
- Soroban smart contracts
Location
- USA
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 3+ years
Salary/Compensations
- $155,000 - $205,000
Benefits
- Competitive health, dental, and vision coverage
- Flexible time off and 15 company holidays
- Paid parental leave and pregnancy disability leave
- Gym reimbursement ($80/month)
- Life & ADD insurance
- Short & Long term disability
- 401K with 4% match
- Health & Dependent Care FSA
- Commuter benefits ($250/month)
- HSA with employer contribution
- Family building benefits through Kindbody
- Wellbeing benefits including One Medical, Rightway, and Headspace
- L&D budget of $1,500/year
- Daily lunch and snacks in office
- Company retreats
- Lumen-denominated grants
About the Company
- The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) is a non-profit organization founded in 2014.
- SDF supports the growth of the Stellar blockchain network, an open-source platform for financial products and services.
- The organization focuses on creating equitable access to the global financial system through blockchain technology.
- SDF provides grants, investments, and tooling to NGOs, corporations, and developers building on the network.
Equal Opportunity
- SDF is committed to diversity and is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other protected basis.
