Head of Product bei Paradigm

Paradigm is a San Francisco-based investment firm focused on crypto and frontier technologies across the globe, with over $10 billion in assets under management. We make investments in companies and protocols at all stages, ranging from early-stage venture financing rounds to growth equity to liquid token assets.

Paradigm was co-founded in 2018 by Matt Huang (former Partner at Sequoia Capital) and Fred Ehrsam (co-founder of Coinbase). Since then we’ve been hard at work building a world-class team of brilliant mutants to investigate the world’s most beautiful technical problems. Our research-driven approach helps us build relationships with founders and entrepreneurs, but it also reflects our broader goal of growing the crypto ecosystem globally and accelerating crypto’s ability to advance the world we live in. We believe that crypto will ultimately redefine money, finance, and the internet itself, and this technological revolution will have a fundamental and long-lasting impact on the global economy.

We’re looking for a Head of Product. This person will lead the development of Paradigm’s “brain:” a multifaceted internal operating system. Today that system includes portfolio management, complex financial and analytical data, and extensive records on talent and companies within our network.

Paradigm’s core product is decisions about markets, products, and people. Crypto’s uniquely programmable and transparent nature gives us the ability to build powerful tools to enhance the quality of those decisions - tools that would be impossible to build in any other time and in any other industry. We’re incredibly excited to see what the right person can do in this role.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Drive product vision: determine what to build in addition to building it, in service of the larger mission of "improve Paradigm's internal brain"

• Make decisions about buy vs. build with respect to AI tooling

• Obsession with the user problem/pain point: you are curious and empathetic, eager to sit with users and deeply understand their needs, translating those to product requirements and/or wireframes

• Lead the engineering team, more in terms of defining and executing on a product roadmap than on day-to-day management and mentorship

• Sprint management: clearly scoping requirements and driving team to deliver

• Clearly communicate with the leadership team and across other stakeholders within Paradigm on what's being built and how it will serve those teams' larger goals

QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of experience working with world-class engineering teams to build highly quantitative and/or financial products

• Enough hands-on technical experience to win the respect of elite engineers

• Background in writing code (comes from being an engineer previously)

ATTRIBUTES

• Exceptional team player

• Extreme open-mindedness

• Clear and concise communication, in both 1:1 and public settings

• Empathy toward the concerns of others, both within and outside Paradigm

• Adaptability in rapidly changing circumstances

• Highly curious; fast learner

• Interest in frontier technologies and crypto markets