Product Lead, Protocol Ecosystems

Responsibilities

Technical Skills:

• Drive end-to-end product strategy for Anchorage’s engagement with protocol ecosystems, balancing near-term commitments with long-term platform investments.
• Develop and maintain a strategic lens on the blockchain landscape to identify which ecosystems, consensus mechanisms, and on-chain primitives warrant investment and how to sequence them.
• Drive comprehensive go-to-market strategy alongside sales and partnerships, defining success metrics and iterating based on data and market feedback.
• Demonstrate the ability to understand system architecture deeply enough to set sound technical direction with engineering leadership.

Complexity and Impact of Work:

• Drive cross-functional initiatives that span engineering, design, sales, compliance, and external partners while resolving ambiguity and maintaining momentum across multiple workstreams.
• Contribute strategic insights that shape company-level priorities and influence leadership decisions beyond your immediate team.

Organizational Knowledge:

• Develop and leverage a deep understanding of Anchorage's business model, regulatory landscape, and competitive positioning to inform ecosystem strategy.
• Build trusted relationships with senior leaders across departments to ensure alignment on priorities, surfacing trade-offs early, and driving shared accountability.
• Navigate and improve organizational processes to increase the Protocols team's efficiency, predictability, and quality of output.

Communication and Influence:

• Represent the Protocols organization to senior leadership, the board, and external partners, articulating strategy, progress, and trade-offs with clarity and conviction.
• Enable cross-functional collaboration through consistent, transparent communication and thoughtful influence on decision-making at every level.
• Serve as a knowledge partner to leadership on blockchain ecosystem trends, helping the company stay ahead of market shifts.

Requirements

• 7+ years of product management experience, with at least 2 years leading or managing other product managers.
• Meaningful experience in blockchain, DeFi, or protocol-adjacent companies, and understanding of ecosystem dynamics.
• Track record of defining and executing multi-quarter product strategies navigating ambiguity, competing priorities, and cross-functional dependencies.
• Background in engineering or demonstrated ability to go deep on technical architecture.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

Nice-to-Haves

• Shipped products requiring direct collaboration with protocol foundations or core development teams.
• Built or contributed to ecosystem evaluation frameworks, partnership models, or integration playbooks.
• Written your own smart contract or dApp.
• Experience managing P&L accountability or revenue targets tied to product decisions.