Product Director

Role Description

Working directly with the CTO, you'll own product for Rise's ramps and identity surfaces - the two systems every customer touches first and trusts most. This is a hands-on, technical product role, not a coordination seat: you'll set direction, sit in the architecture discussions, negotiate with providers, dig into the funnel data yourself, and be accountable for the outcomes. Multiple engineering leads report to you, each owning a product area - so you're accountable for delivery, not just for the plan.

• Ramps: money in and money out
  • Own the end-to-end product for funding and payout - ACH, wires, SEPA, local rails in the markets we serve, and stablecoin and crypto on/off-ramps.
  • Own the customer experience of moving money: time to first successful deposit, payout success rate, settlement times, and the clarity of every state in between (pending, held, returned, failed).
  • Drive rail and provider strategy: evaluate, select, and negotiate with banking partners, PSPs, and on/off-ramp providers, and own the business case for each - coverage, cost per transaction, FX spread, settlement speed, and reliability.
  • Lead new market and new currency expansion - which corridors we open next, what rails they require, and what it takes to launch them.
  • Own the economics: transaction cost, FX, fees, and margin on money movement, with a clear view of unit economics per corridor and per rail.
  • Reduce failure and friction - returned payments, rejected transfers, mismatched beneficiary details, reconciliation breaks - and turn recurring support load into product fixes.
  • Set direction on the hard parts underneath the surface: how balances stay correct, how a duplicate or timed-out payment is handled, how we reconcile against providers, and what happens when one fails.
  • Define and own provider redundancy: what happens when a rail or provider goes down, and how quickly we route around it.
• Identity: turning verification into product
  • Own what we build on top of verified identity.
  • Rebuild onboarding around what we already know.
  • Build the attestation layer as a real product.
  • Build federation - the surface that lets a customer take their Rise-verified status to a partner, protocol, or counterparty.
  • Ship business identity as more than a form.
  • Turn verified identity into leverage elsewhere in Rise.
  • Give customers something to look at: clear status, clear reasons, and a path forward when something is pending or fails.
• Product leadership
  • Lead a group of engineering leads, each accountable for a product area.
  • Grow those leads: give them room to own their product, back their judgment.
  • Own the roadmap across both areas: strategy, prioritization, sequencing, and the trade-offs.
  • Write clear specs and decision records that engineers can build from.
  • Work directly with compliance, finance, operations, support, and engineering.
  • Be the internal and external voice for these products.

Qualifications

• Authorized to work in the United States and U.S.-based.
• 8+ years in product management, including senior or leadership scope.
• High ownership, accountability, and the capacity to execute.
• Experience leading engineers, or leading through engineering leads.
• Deep understanding of blockchain and crypto payment ecosystem.
• Direct experience with crypto on/off-ramps, and banking integrations.
• Experience with KYC/KYB and identity verification products.
• Comfort working closely with compliance and regulatory stakeholders.
• Excellent communicator.
• Experience with Ethereum based products like wallets, exchanges, ramps, or tokens.

Requirements

• Experience launching payment corridors in multiple countries or regions.
• Experience in a regulated, funds-handling environment (MSB, EMI, licensed payments business).
• Data fluency - you write your own queries (SQL) and build your own funnel analysis.
• AI powered workflow, using AI daily to accomplish your work.
• Fraud and risk product experience.

Benefits

• Base salary: $190,000–$230,000, commensurate with experience.
• Meaningful equity in a growing company.
• Unlimited PTO and a flexible work schedule.
• 401(k) with a 3% company contribution.
• Fully remote within the United States.