Senior Product Manager

Matter Labs builds the cryptographic infrastructure for global finance. The team created ZKsync and shipped the first production zero-knowledge rollup, and is now building Prividium: a network of private blockchains for regulated institutions, where privacy, settlement, and institutional rulebooks are enforced by proof rather than by operator trust. Our goal is to move financial markets onto infrastructure where trust comes from proof verification rather than human verification, and the work ahead is enormous.

Prividium provides institutions with a private blockchain environment which they have full control over while remaining connected to the broader digital assets ecosystem. This lets institutions to move assets or information across different firms without exposing their books or handing control to a central platform. Prividium gives each institution infrastructure it controls, with shared verification where the market needs trust. An institution builds upon its own ledger, and a proof checked against Ethereum lets counterparties, regulators, and the market rely on the outcome without seeing the book behind it. We believe this is the infrastructure that is needed to close the gap between digital assets and the broader capital markets ecosystem.

Prividium is already running in production at the institutional level. Deutsche Bank's Project DAMA 2, a tokenized fund platform associated with the MAS Project Guardian pilot, is built on Prividium and stands as a production reference for the model. Prividium also underpins Cari Network, a permissioned tokenized deposit network for US community and regional banks, including KeyCorp, M&T, Huntington, First Horizon, and Old National.

Founded in 2018. Backed by a16z and Union Square Ventures. A fully remote team of around 90 with eight years of production zero-knowledge infrastructure behind us, now pointed at the biggest problem in Banking and Capital Markets.

We're looking for a Senior Product Manager to build out specific capital markets applications on top of Prividium to accelerate adoption. This role will span going deep on customer calls to planning the initial buildout and working directly with our engineering team. The ideal candidate brings capital markets depth to the Prividium product to build out applications in areas like collateral management, repo, and tokenized deposits.

This is a hands-on individual contributor seat, not an exec one. You'll be in customer rooms regularly in working sessions with product and engineering teams, and you'll work with accounts directly. You’ll work with the Head of Product and Head of Sales on use-case strategy and broader GTM to enable you to focus on getting real applications into production and working closely with our partners.

• Outcomes Ownership. Own the applications from a rough signal to something banks use in production. Define what to build and why. Identify, surface, and reconcile tradeoffs. Push through cross-functional blockers. Own the outcome of whatever initiative you’re driving.

• Measurable Outputs. Introduce metrics wherever helpful. Own tracking and iterating based on them.

• Customer Discovery. Immerse yourself in customer workflows, constraints, motivations, and pains. Capture revealed preferences and weigh them against stated preferences and internal vision. Use this to maintain strong intuitions and data-backed positions on where the product should go as well as what future products we should build.

• Institutional-Grade Product Readiness. Build institutional requirements into product decisions from day one: control, permissioning, auditability, risk, SLAs, procurement.

• Roadmap Alignment. Synthesize customer learnings, the existing roadmap, sales requests, and engineering priorities into a sequenced plan that different teams can execute against.

• Sales Enablement. Review personalized sales collaterals. Join prospective calls. Work closely with BD to help close deals.

• Cross-Functional Facilitation. Find blockers throughout tech, sales, and marketing and proactively help unblock them.

• Engineering-Credible Partnership. Earn engineering trust with thoughtful tradeoff weighing, deep technical reasoning, intellectual honesty, and treatment of technical debt as a first-class citizen.

• Business-Credible Partnership. Earn BD trust by engaging deeply with customers, translating commercial objections into product clarity, and finding scalable product paths rather than reacting to every request as a bespoke feature.

• Market Research. Understand the competitive and ecosystem landscape: who else is solving adjacent problems, where we are differentiated, where we are behind, and what market shifts should change our product decisions.

• Strategic Ownership. Maintain a written, opinionated where-to-play / how-to-win for your area, reviewed quarterly.

• Reconciliation of Competing Forces. You can hold Web3 engineering instincts and institutional requirements in the same head, and you move fast without breaking what a bank needs to trust.

• Exceptional Communicator. You create alignment across teams with different incentives, contexts, and communication styles. You know how to ask the right questions in the right forums to uncover what matters, resolve ambiguity, and move decisions forward. Communicates with clarity, humility, positivity, and bias for action.”

• First-Principles Thinker. Rigorous from first principles, structures complex problems into clear mental models.

• “A Barrel, Not Ammunition”. You ship outcomes end to end and pull others toward goals; you're not waiting to be pointed at a problem. Blockers that would stop others merely motivate you to move faster.

• Builder Who Leads by Example. You’re a builder who thrives in the feedback loop between customers and engineers.

• AI-Fluent. You use AI daily to prototype, analyze, and write — and can show concretely how it raised the speed and quality of what you ship.

• Hungry. Insatiable appetite for learning coupled with a joy of being wrong.

• Mission-Driven. You believe privacy-preserving settlement is how open financial infrastructure reaches regulated institutions, and you want to build the world-defining company that makes it real.

• Energized by Ambiguity. Enjoy taking action as the only path to gather information. Thrive in ambiguous settings while giving a sense of transparency balanced with confidence to stakeholders.

We want to see proof of excellence in as many of the below:

• Product Excellence. You've taken a product from 0→1 to PMF, or scaled an existing one through a meaningful inflection.

• Meaningful Banking and Capital Markets Experience. Direct experience building products for financial institutions or regulated financial infrastructure. Understands risk, compliance, controls, SLAs, procurement, and applies this from day one.

• Technical Fluency. You've shipped complex technical products, can hold your own on architecture, tradeoffs, and implementation details, and are keen to ask the right questions.

• GTM. You’ve contributed to world-class GTM strategy or execution.

• Digital Assets Fluency. An understanding of blockchain mechanics, first-hand experience with onchain protocols, and ability to translate Web3 trust guarantees to non-crypto-native audiences.

• This job is not on easy mode. We love what we do and we work hard to achieve our goals. This job requires flexible working hours across stakeholders in different time zones.

• The job is fully remote; some travel is necessary to get the job done.

• We believe in executors. Vision-only or narrative-heavy leaders without execution depth won’t thrive here. Leaders who empower others while getting their hands dirty do thrive.

• Matter Labs, as well as all of tech, is at an inflection point. Our entire roadmap can change in response to fundamental structural changes. You must be adaptive and open-minded, driven by output and team success.

• USA Remote: work wherever you’re most effective within the United States; optional travel to team or industry events.

• Freedom & ownership culture: no time tracking, minimum bureaucracy-only results matter.

For more on how we work, check out our Team Handbook