Product Manager

Location New York Employment Type Full time Location Type Hybrid Department Product The 4 biggest blockchain strengths are also its weakness Permissionless nature leads to fragmentation of meaning Decentralization leads to too many standards Immutability leads to exponential data + query infrastructure complexity Neutrality means that no one is accountable for interpretations Blockchain data is public. It is not usable at institutional scale. Despite being open, blockchain data is fragmented, hard to interpret, and painful to maintain. Even a simple question like “Who are the largest Ethereum token holders over time?” can require running nodes, ingesting full chain history, decoding contracts, cleaning edge cases, and writing complex SQL. Blockchains are optimized for writes, not reads. They are built for consensus and execution, not searchability, standardization, or financial interpretation. Blockchains are computers, not databases. Every protocol defines its own schema. The same economic action can be encoded in dozens of different ways. The result: Fragmented standards Exponential complexity No accountability for interpretation Events without economic meaning Finance cannot operate on that, it needs an effective system of record. Allium is building the System of Record for Onchain Finance Allium ingests, verifies, and standardizes data across 140+ blockchains and 30+ petabytes of history. We close four structural gaps that prevent blockchains from becoming systems of record: Semantic Gap: Translating raw events into financial concepts like payments, trades, deposits, and staking income Standardization Gap: Mapping thousands of protocols into a single canonical cross chain schema Infrastructure Gap: Read optimized, globally distributed data at web scale Accountability Gap: Auditable methodology, SLAs, and SOC 1 and 2 compliance The result is a neutral, canonical data layer institutions can build on with confidence. Finance is moving onchain Stablecoins, tokenized assets, trading, staking, and lending are growing rapidly. Institutions need a trusted source of truth for onchain financial activity, just as they rely on Bloomberg or DTCC in traditional markets. Raw blockchains cannot serve that role. As AI agents begin transacting autonomously, the requirement becomes even stricter. Agents cannot reason over raw event logs. They need structured data, attribution, condition checks, and auditability. Allium is the read layer that makes onchain finance usable for humans and machines. Who We Serve Allium powers three core personas with the same canonical data foundation:

1. Finance, Accounting, and Risk Teams They need reliable, audit grade answers. They rely on Allium for financial reporting, reconciliation, compliance, risk monitoring, and defensible metrics that can stand up to auditors and regulators.
2. Engineers and Product Teams They need low latency, production ready infrastructure. They use Allium to power wallets, trading systems, payment rails, staking infrastructure, and real time applications that cannot break.
3. Strategy, Research, and Executive Teams They need clarity and insight. They use Allium to understand ecosystem economics, market structure, user behavior, competitive dynamics, and where capital is flowing onchain.

and of course.. agents . Our customers and users include Visa, Stripe, G‑SIB Banks, Big 4 Accounting firms, BCG, Coinbase, Phantom, Uniswap and cited by the Federal Reserve. The Role: Be the PM for the system of record for onchain finance. Do you want to work at the intersection of autonomous finance and finance moving onchain? Do you believe systems of record define entire industries? Do you understand why blockchains, as powerful as they are, are not effective systems of record on their own? Allium exists because reading blockchains at institutional scale is fundamentally hard. Blockchains record events. Finance requires meaning, standardization, auditability, and performance. That gap is where we operate. At Allium, you’ll help define: How institutions interpret stablecoin supply and flows How asset managers calculate staking income and P&L How wallets power real‑time balances across chains How regulators validate onchain disclosures How AI agents will reason about financial state before executing capital At Allium, you won’t be optimizing button colors. You’ll be defining how Visa understands stablecoins, how Institution XYZ calculates staking revenue, how wallets show real‑time balances, and how regulators verify onchain disclosures. We're hiring a Product Manager to help us build and scale the data products that power the next wave of institutional blockchain adoption. You'll work across Allium's full product surface (spanning APIs, data streams, datashares, and rich user experiences) and own the roadmap for how we deliver high‑fidelity blockchain data to some of the most demanding clients in finance and fintech. This is a hands‑on, generalist yet technical PM role. You'll be embedded with engineering, working directly in the weeds of data modeling decisions, API design tradeoffs, and enterprise integration requirements. You'll understand the shape of our data as well as our customers do, and have enough taste (we love food) to know when a product surface is genuinely good versus technically functional but painful to use. We are looking for someone special. High agency (with agents). Slightly obsessed. Comfortable with ambiguity. Energized by defining new standards where none exist. What You’ll Do Drive the roadmap and execution for Allium's core data product surfaces: APIs, data streams, data shares, and enterprise dashboards Translate complex, data-dense customer requirements from clients like financial institutions, analytics platforms, and compliance teams into clear, scoped product specs Work hands‑on with data pipelines and schemas (writing SQL, reviewing data models, and QA‑ing outputs) to deeply understand what we're shipping Design intuitive product experiences for inherently complex datasets, bringing both rigor and taste to dense data interfaces Lead customer discovery and feedback sessions to identify gaps, prioritize features, and inform vertical‑specific product strategy Partner with the GTM team to create clear product narratives and differentiated positioning for enterprise deals Drive delivery across a distributed engineering team, managing dependencies and tradeoffs with clarity and low friction What We’re Looking For 3+ years of product management experience or 2+ years of engineering experience with meaningful time spent on data‑intensive products (APIs, data pipelines, analytics platforms, or similar) Strong SQL fluency: you can write and review queries, understand indexing and performance tradeoffs, and navigate complex schemas without help Working knowledge of API architecture and data delivery patterns: REST, streaming, webhooks, datashares (e.g., Snowflake Data Sharing, BigQuery) Genuine familiarity with finance and/or crypto: you understand the domain well enough to quickly grasp what institutional clients actually need and why Sharp product taste: you've built for data‑dense interfaces before and know the difference between a UI that's technically complete and one that's genuinely usable Strong written and verbal communication: you can write a crisp spec, run a focused discovery call, and give a clear product update to leadership Nice to Have Love telling stories with data Experience at a data infrastructure, fintech, or blockchain company Familiarity with blockchain data concepts: UTXO vs account models, on‑chain labeling, transaction tracing, token standards Experience supporting enterprise sales cycles: writing positioning docs, joining customer calls, or owning product‑level RFP responses Why this role is different: Systems of record are not just products. They are gravity wells. If we do our job correctly, institutions build on top of our schemas. AI agents query our data before acting. Regulators reference our definitions. Product teams ship faster because the foundation is reliable. This is not a feature factory role. It is a standards‑setting role. If you are the kind of person who: The abstractions you define may become industry standards (and thinks accounting standards are underrated intellectual achievements) Decide how economic actions are represented across chains (why is a blockchain a system of record Influence how AI systems reason about onchain state Can't sleep because you're worried your clawdbot is not working hard enough. (We have a top 0.1% user of claude code in the world at Allium) You will likely love this job. New York-based. In person. High ownership. High trust. High standards. We are building the system of record for onchain finance. Come help define it! Don't take our word for it, what our customers say about us What some ~cool people have to say about us: The Information's Top 50 Startups ( ) Mario Gabriele from The Generalist's Future 50 Startup List: Tomasz Tungus from Theory Ventures: Bucky Moore from Kleiner Perkins: Ok.. now for some tough love, here are the values we strive for at Allium: Pro Athlete Mindset - Consistency. Day in and day out, in pursuit of excellence. A win yesterday does not guarantee (or even imply!) a win tomorrow. I hope anyone who supports a failing sports team will feel the pain cough Man United fan’s of inconsistency Figure It Out & Extreme Ownership - Every day is unexplored territory. There are new engineering frameworks, new legal docs, new compliance, new sales, new regulations, and new operational procedures every single day. If you don’t know it, learn it. If you can’t learn it, find someone or a product that does it. If you can’t find someone, find someone who can find someone. It is never lack of resources, but lack of resourcefulness. High Agency - (One of) the highest commonality between all successful people is their responsiveness, most successful billionaire CEOs still reply to emails within minutes (within working hours). And when you reply, respond fast with effective solutions - and even better, resolutions. If you’re looking for a superpower, you can’t go wrong with responsiveness. Well of course this doesn't make sense when you're an engineer coding in flow, but in general high agency of problem solving gets one very far in life Leading from the Front - No one is going to listen (and adopt) your suggestion unless you lead by example. It’s one thing to say We need to do XYZ this better & it’s another thing to build an MVP and say “This is the way we should do things”. The proof of work and momentum goes a long way. Strong Opinions On the Future (loosely held) It is okay to be wrong, but what is not okay is not to have an idea of how a better future should be. Alliumites take pride in trying to improving everything about the company all the time. Sense of (allium) business smell - There are number of folks who live to eat at Allium, but the Allium smell we are talking about is that we love folks who naturally want to know why and how the work they are doing builds leverage for their teammates and also relates to the business goals About the team We invite people of all backgrounds ( We have engineers who learnt coding much later in life, who learned coding on the side, we have engineers who are still in school and we also have engineers who went to the top schools (CMU, Stanford, UIUC, UPenn, Oxford, NUS, Cornell), all are welcome if one comes in with a curious mind and an infectious work ethic. Administrative Benefits Medical, Dental, Vision, Life and AD&D insurance - US folks get 100% coverage for Gold plans, 80% for dependents Ownership - Meaningful early-stage equity. Every full‑time employee receives a stock option grant so you can share directly in Allium's upside Time off - Flexible, trust‑based paid time off. We encourage people to take the rest they need. In every country we hire, our policies meet or exceed local statutory vacation requirements Retirement - Company sponsored 401(k) plan in US so you can save pre‑tax for the long term Note: The sun never sets on Allium - we hire from any geographical location as long as you are willing to overlap 2 hours overlap on NYC mornings Mon‑Thurs from 10am-12pm ET. We have people based in New York, Seattle, Singapore and Australia All applicants have to answer this pop quiz: 'What is an Allium? What is your favorite Allium?' Bonus points for the right pronunciation. #J-18808-Ljbffr Theory Ventures