Head of Product / Lead Product Manager

Full-time/Company: Ethena Labs

Ethena is building the financial infrastructure for the next generation of digital dollars, powered by USDe. As Head of Product you’ll lead the product organisation and take hands-on ownership of the company’s flagship consumer product currently in stealth.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of two Product Managers, setting standards for process and prioritisation
• Be the single accountable owner for the flagship consumer product: define vision, roadmap, and success metrics
• Stand up a lightweight product operating system (discovery, prioritisation, roadmap, PRDs, decision-logs)
• Establish scalable processes for support, risk, and compliance in collaboration with legal
• Own the product budget and manage outsourced dev and agency relationships for cost-efficiency and quality
• Scale the product team and operating culture as the business grows

Requirements

• Track record managing products with 100K+ monthly active users
• Experience mentoring or leading Product Managers, ideally in lean or high-growth environments
• Have personally led and shipped payments or banking products; deep knowledge of consumer money products
• Evidence-based approach to measuring consumer fintech products and understanding retail user behaviour
• Comfortable operating as a credible peer to founders and taking ownership from technical founders; strong written and verbal communication
• Hands-on: willing to write specs, review flows, and dig into data with minimal resources
• Strong UX judgment and design sensibility for complex customer-facing platforms; bias toward action