Common Prefix

Head of Product

Common Prefix

1 day ago

## Common Prefix Common Prefix is a blockchain R&D company with the mission to solve the foundational scientific and engineering challenges that stand in the way of mainstream adoption, particularly in interoperability, scalability, and usability. We combine formal scientific research with production-grade engineering. We have contributed to **Axelar**, **XRP Ledger**, **Ethereum Foundation**, **Sui**, **Flashbots**, and elsewhere, and are trusted partners to protocols building critical infrastructure. We're hiring a full-time **Head of Product**. You will own the product function end-to-end: deciding what we build, who we build it for, and how we know it is working. You will work closely with our scientists, engineers, and BD team to turn deep research into products people actually want to use. --- ### What you'll do - **Own the product roadmap** - Decide what we build next and why, in collaboration with the senior leadership - Write clear specs that capture the problem, the user, and the success criteria - Cut scope ruthlessly to ship faster and learn sooner - **Design the user experience** - Map out user flows for complex on-chain interactions and make them feel simple - Work with designers and engineers to turn flows into shipped product - Build opinionated taste into every screen, transaction, and error state - **Run experiments and measure what matters** - Define the metrics that tell us whether a product is working - Instrument products properly and set up dashboards the whole team can read - Design and run A/B tests where the traffic supports it, and qualitative experiments where it does not - Treat the roadmap as a series of hypotheses to validate or kill - **Stay close to the market** - Use the products our partners, competitors, and the rest of the ecosystem ship, every day - Know the major protocols, wallets, aggregators, and frontends, and the people building them - Track what users are actually doing on-chain and translate that into product opportunities - **Talk to users constantly** - Run user interviews with developers, integrators, and end users of our infrastructure - Sit in on partner calls with BD to hear pain points first-hand - Bring the user voice into every product decision --- ### What we're looking for - Shipped products to real users in crypto, DeFi, or web3, with metrics you can point to - Deep, current knowledge of the blockchain ecosystem and the products people actually use - Strong UX sense, with examples of flows or products you designed (UI design skills welcome, not required) - Hands-on experience with product analytics, A/B testing, and lean startup style experimentation - Comfortable spending money to test a market, and equally comfortable killing a product when the data says so - Stellar written and oral communication, in English - High agency, low ego, biased toward shipping --- ### What we offer - The opportunity to shape products used across the blockchain ecosystem, with the support of a strong and influential team in the space - A salary of **$120k-$180k** annually (depending on level), plus stock options - Unlimited PTO - A budget for the equipment and tools you need to do great work - Fully remote, or work from our Athens office if you prefer - Opportunities to travel with work throughout the year - The opportunity to work and learn from world-class scientists from major universities in the field of blockchains, cryptography, and consensus - The chance to work with diverse partners, with many innovative projects, to learn the ins-and-outs of the blockchain market as it develops, and to remain on the bleeding edge of the latest developments in our field --- *We are not accepting outreach from recruiters or staffing agencies. Direct applications only.* When applying, mention the word **CANDYSHOP** to show you read the job post completely.

Business Development Lead

Common Prefix

2 days ago

## Common Prefix **Common Prefix** is a blockchain R&D company with the mission to solve the foundational scientific and engineering challenges that stand in the way of mainstream adoption, particularly in interoperability, scalability, and usability. We combine formal scientific research with production-grade engineering. Our team publishes in top-tier peer-reviewed venues and builds open-source infrastructure used across major blockchain ecosystems. We have contributed to advanced systems including **Axelar**, **XRPL**, **Sui**, and **Flashbots**, and are trusted partners to protocols building critical infrastructure. --- ## Business Development Lead We're hiring a full-time **Business Development Lead**. You'll play a pivotal role in helping us expand our business so that we can reach more partnerships that fit our mission and vision, as we establish ourselves as the technology leader in the blockchain-powered global economy. --- ### What you'll do - **Keep up with the latest developments in the blockchain ecosystem** - Know all the important and influential companies and people in the space, and what they are building - Keep up with the trends in the space - Develop a deep understanding of the details of what people are building and explain it to the rest of the team - **Keep up with the blockchain market** - Learn the ins and outs of the current market trends in blockchain technology - Stay abreast with the important investors in the field (a16z, Paradigm, Bain Capital Crypto, etc.), where they are investing, and their theses - Read the blogs of influential companies and people in the field (Vitalik, Paradigm, etc.) - Keep track of the investments taking place in the field, how much money companies are raising, and their purpose - **Understand our products** - Talk to our scientists and engineers to understand our product strengths and weaknesses - Use our products day-to-day to understand their strengths and weaknesses - **Help us scale our existing partnerships** - Talk to our partners to understand their needs - Understand our partners' priorities and how they are using our products - Understand how our products help realize the broader vision and mission of each of our partners - In case a partnership is lost, understand why and how we can do better, and effect the changes within the product and team to ensure we learn and grow - **Help us close new partnerships** - Bring new protocols and ecosystems such as chains, asset issuers, and exchanges onto our products and infrastructure - Get our products distributed through the major wallets, aggregators, and frontends, and negotiate the commercial terms that go with it - Reach out to prospective partners and run the first meeting to identify their needs - **Participate in the community** - Travel to all the important annual conferences in the field - Travel between US East Coast, US West Coast, Europe, and Asia, outside of conferences, to meet with existing or prospective partners or influential people in the space - Promote our company in these conferences by talking to people who may be interested, and explaining what we do - Stay informed about the geopolitical landscape in interoperability --- ### What we're looking for - An excellent overview of blockchain technologies and their market - BD experience in the blockchain interoperability space - Strong network of connections with asset issuers, Layer-1s, Layer-2s, CEXs, DEXs, and other DeFi protocols - Stellar interpersonal skills, written and oral communication, happy to talk to people and socialize - Professional knowledge of English --- ### What we offer - The opportunity to shape the blockchain ecosystem, market, community, and future with the support of a strong and influential team in the space - A salary of **$90k-$130k annually** (depending on level), plus stock options - Unlimited PTO - A budget for the equipment and tools you need to do great work - Fully remote, or work from our Athens office if you prefer - Many opportunities to travel with work throughout the year - The opportunity to work and learn from world-class scientists from major universities in the field of blockchains, cryptography, and consensus - The opportunity to work with other senior engineers, learn from them, and teach them best practices and technologies - The chance to work with diverse partners, with many innovative projects, to learn the ins-and-outs of the blockchain market as it develops, and to remain on the bleeding edge of the latest developments in our field --- > *We are not accepting outreach from recruiters or staffing agencies. Direct applications only.* When applying, mention the word **CANDYSHOP** to show you read the job post completely.