Bitcoin Mining Product Manager, Proto

Proto is accelerating the world's transition to an open economy with products that increase access and independence for everyone. We're building hardware and software that will help decentralize bitcoin mining and enable new and innovative use cases for bitcoin mining. We're developing our products in the open - you can read more at mining.build. Come build the future of money with us!

The Mining Development Kit (MDK) Product Manager will enable chip sales and new mining applications by defining and driving the future of our Mining Development Kit, as well as contributing to our mining rig products, in close collaboration with our Field Applications Engineering team and others across hardware and software engineering, sales, and operations.

In addition to the above, you will:

• Understand customer pain points, gather customer insights, and conduct competitive analyses to inform product definition and provide feedback to our chip and system design teams
• Work closely with our Hardware Engineering Program Managers to drive the product development process from concept to launch
• Define requirements, clarify implementation details, and make strategic, technical, and design tradeoff decisions as needed
• Effectively communicate product tradeoffs, updates, and priorities to internal stakeholders including senior leadership
• Work closely with marketing to develop product messaging, pricing, and go-to-market
• Contribute to strategy and longer term vision for our mining products in collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders
• Bring transparency and open development to the mining industry by sharing our work and inviting scrutiny

You Have

• 8+ years of professional experience
• Demonstrated success enabling chip or system sales through product definition, marketing, or sales efforts
• Technical background in silicon and systems - you’ve probably been in an FAE role at some point in your career
• Consistent emphasis on and empathy for customer needs
• Bias to action – if it needs doing, you’re already working on it, and with the right level of scrappiness for the task
• Bonus: experience with renewable energy, heating, or bitcoin mining systems
• Bonus: experience defining and productizing software APIs of any kind

We’re working to build a more inclusive economy where our customers have equal access to opportunity, and we strive to live by these same values in building our workplace. Block is an equal opportunity employer evaluating all employees and job applicants without regard to identity or any legally protected class. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, and always assess candidates on an individualized basis.

We believe in being fair, and are committed to an inclusive interview experience, including providing reasonable accommodations to disabled applicants throughout the recruitment process. We encourage applicants to share any needed accommodations with their recruiter, who will treat these requests as confidentially as possible. Want to learn more about what we’re doing to build a workplace that is fair and square? Check out our I+D page.

Block will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and “fair chance” ordinances.