Senior Technical Product Manager

The Nomic Foundation is a non-profit advancing the Ethereum ecosystem. We build open-source runtimes, compilers, build systems, and deployment solutions that are used by tens of thousands of developers. We emphasize robust engineering and lean processes, allowing for quick decision-making and distraction-free software development.

### What you’ll do - Own and execute product direction for Hardhat & EDR - Own, execute, and continuously refine the Hardhat and EDR product roadmaps in close collaboration with our CTO, our Head of Engineering, engineering managers, and engineering teams. - Act as the primary owner of product prioritisation decisions for “what we build next,” weighing developer impact, engineering cost, ecosystem needs, and long-term strategy. - Act as the primary point of contact for engineers for product and UX guidance during feature development, ensuring consistency and a high quality user experience across our products. - Take over core product responsibilities currently handled by Head of Engineering and CTO, including writing PRDs and product documentation, structuring feature definitions, and maintaining alignment through regular 1:1s. - Ensure requirements are technically realistic, clearly scoped, and shaped by an understanding of ecosystem trade-offs and long-term implications. - Define UX expectations, API behavior, and developer-facing feature design from the developer’s perspective. - Decide how new functionality should surface (API, CLI, interface, configuration, etc.), ensuring consistency and coherence across Hardhat and EDR. - Work closely with engineering teams to align on dependencies, sequencing, and trade-offs. - Autonomously identify the highest-impact problems, improve prioritisation of bugs and feedback, and help unblock development. - Build strong trust with engineering teams by representing the product perspective clearly, pragmatically, and consistently in both internal and ecosystem-facing conversations.

### Who we’re looking for - Minimum of 5 years of proven work experience as a Product Manager or Product Owner on technical, developer-facing products or platforms. - Minimum of 2 years of prior professional experience as a Software Engineer, with hands-on work in a strongly typed language such as TypeScript, Rust, C++, C#, Java, or Go. - A strong user-focused product mindset, with demonstrated judgment around trade-offs, collaborative problem-solving, and accountability for end-to-end outcomes. - Experience translating developer needs into clear product requirements, PRDs, and product design documentation. - Process-driven product work experience across discovery, design, iteration, and release cycles. - Ability to evaluate technical feasibility, architectural constraints, and engineering trade-offs from a product perspective, in close collaboration with engineers, enabling sound and pragmatic product decisions. - Experience building or managing developer tooling, such as APIs, SDKs, CLIs, IDE integrations, or infrastructure platforms, either as an engineer or product manager. - Exposure to Ethereum protocol, tooling, or developer workflows, with a practical understanding of related infrastructure.

### Compensation and benefits - Vesting ETH grant as part of total compensation - Unlimited PTO - Budget for IT equipment - Annual Learning & Development Budget - Statutory benefits specific to your location (depending on the employment contract)

The Nomic Foundation is a non-profit organization advancing the Ethereum ecosystem by developing open-source engineering software, including Hardhat, the most widely used Ethereum development environment, along with runtimes, compilers, build systems, and deployment solutions. Their goal is to empower developers, improve the developer experience on Ethereum, and ensure its continued success.[1][2][3][4]