# Director of Product

**Company**: LayerZero Labs
**Location**: Vancouver, BC
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

LayerZero Labs is standing up a product discipline for the first time at scale. We have an aggressive roadmap, strong engineering, and a clear inflection point as a company. We need someone who can define what great product looks like here, build and protect the team that executes it, and operate credibly at the executive level.

## Responsibilities

- Build and lead LayerZero's product function - define the operating model, hiring bar, and culture of the team from the ground up.

- Directly manage IC PMs across our product lines; set standards, unblock execution, and develop the team.

- Be the product voice at the executive level - represent the product function in leadership discussions on roadmap, resourcing, and strategic direction.

- Own the cross-product roadmap; ensure all product lines are moving in a coherent direction with clear priorities.

- Drive alignment between engineering, BD, and the product team - translate business and technical context into executable product strategy.

- Set and defend the hiring bar for every PM LayerZero brings in; own the process from intake through close.

- Protect the team from context-switching, misaligned priorities, and organizational drag - create the conditions for ICs to do their best work.

## Requirements

- You have 7+ years in product, including 2+ years managing PMs or leading a product function.

- You are crypto-native or have deep technical product experience in adjacent infrastructure - developer platforms, financial infrastructure, or security-critical systems.

- You have operated at the executive level and can hold your own in strategic conversations with engineering and BD leadership.

- You have hired and developed strong ICs; you know what great product talent looks like and how to attract it.

- You have a builder mentality - you have shipped products yourself and maintain technical credibility with engineers.

- You can navigate competing opinions and organizational complexity while keeping the team focused on outcomes.

- You communicate with precision and default to overcommunication in ambiguous situations.

- You thrive in environments with strong opinions, low process, and high autonomy.

## Skills

### Required
- product management
- crypto
- technical product experience
- executive level operation
- team management
- strategic conversations

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