# Senior Product Manager

**Company:** [Baselayer](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/baselayer)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Product Management
**Salary:** $210k – $290k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Product Management, Product Strategy, Product Requirements Documents, Wireframing, UX Design, Roadmapping, Prioritization, Product Launches, B2B SaaS, Fintech, Entity Resolution, Fraud Detection, Risk Management, Compliance, Architecture
**Posted:** 2026-09-01

> Own Baselayer’s zero-to-one product strategy for expanding beyond financial institutions while managing the existing roadmap and launch process. The role requires 5+ years of product management experience, strong technical and UX judgment, and a track record of shipping products that generate material revenue.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

### New Product Definition and Scoping
- Scope new products for verticals beyond financial institutions, from initial thesis through detailed product specification.
- Translate market opportunities into product requirements, including target users, workflows, success metrics, and explicit out-of-scope decisions.
- Create PRDs, one-pagers, wireframes, decision logs, and launch criteria.
- Own product direction and rationale while partnering with engineering and design on implementation.

### Specifications and Design Partnership
- Write implementation-ready specifications.
- Produce wireframes and flow diagrams to clarify tradeoffs and drive early decisions.
- Partner with design on UX and product craft.
- Run specification reviews to identify ambiguity before development.

### Roadmap and Prioritization
- Own and sequence the roadmap for the existing product surface.
- Make daily prioritization decisions that focus engineering on high-leverage work.
- Establish a predictable planning cadence.
- Stop work that is not delivering sufficient value.

### Cross-Functional Execution
- Drive execution across engineering, design, sales, marketing, customer success, and growth.
- Run launches through scope lock, build, beta, and general availability.
- Establish clear handoffs and ownership across launch stages.
- Connect product development with what is sold, supported, and marketed.
- Operate with high ownership and urgency, making decisions and being accountable for outcomes.

## Requirements
- 5+ years of product management experience.
- At least one zero-to-one product scoped, shipped, and grown into material revenue.
- Experience partnering closely with senior engineering leaders, such as CTOs, VP-level engineering leaders, or founding engineers.
- Strong written communication, including specifications, briefs, and one-pagers.
- Strong product and UX judgment, with the ability to defend decisions and revise them when appropriate.
- Founder-level ownership and urgency.
- Comfortable discussing technical concepts and participating in architecture conversations.
- Bias toward shipping.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience taking products into new verticals or adjacent markets.
- Background in B2B SaaS, fintech, identity, KYB, fraud, risk, or compliance.
- Early-stage company experience with broad product ownership.
- Experience as the first product manager at a venture-backed startup.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Salary: $210,000–$290,000 plus equity.
- Flexible paid time off.
- 100% company-paid health, dental, and vision premiums.
- 401(k) with company match.
- HSA contributions on applicable plans.
- $250 monthly gym stipend.

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