Hi,
I hope each of you is staying well, safe and socially responsible š
I havenāt sent an issue in a while. I do plan to continue sending them. The job listings feel more important than ever in these uncertain times.
This issue will include some Blockchain PM thoughts I collected over the past few weeks.
To start, I would greatly appreciate some help writing this newsletter. Iām having a hard time keeping up with it. Assistance from a volunteer or two would help get these issues back on a regular, every two week cadence.
Also, our Telegram group has over 50 members. Itās silent though. If youād like to help manage that community, please let me know. Otherwise, please do contribute and donāt hesitate to start conversations in there. I keep an eye on it and believe others do too.
Iāve also been wondering about the perspective that project or product management is a āluxuryā that crypto projects canāt afford. Itās starting to feel to me that at least some projects are starting to feel this way.
Developers are first priority. Then comes community builders. Maybe a researcher or two follow. Then maybe, just maybe, a PM gets fit into the picture.
This feels short-sighted to me. I see an effective PM as someone who increases the return on its developer spend investment.
This is a tough sell to projects though, particularly in tight financial times, as those weāre in now. Yet without a PM, the return on the developer spend investment diminishes, as inefficiency increases.
Iām thinking about this as I read Black Swan, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Although Iām only working through the intro at the moment, he talks about the value of preventing problems going unrecognized.
By this he means that people who prevent problems from happening are often taken for granted, because the problem never manifests. As a result, the actions the person has taken are unrecognized and the efforts unappreciated. I feel like the work PMs do falls into this category.
So I think thatās it for now. Catch you soon, hopefully in about two weeks.
And now, on to this weekās jobsā¦
Hiring Pulse - Unknown, while these job listings are active at the time of publication, itās unclear whether or not the companies are actually hiring or not š¤
Product Manager, Crypto at Robinhood
Technical Product Manager (Remote) at Lightning Labs
Product Manager at Unstoppable Domains
Senior Product Manager at Bison Trails Co.
Technical Project Manager/Scrum Master at Huobi
Technical Project Manager at Bakkt
Senior Product Manager at Harbor
Product Manager - Mobile at Kraken
Senior Product Manager at Paxos
Associate Product Manager at AxiomZen
Head of Product, Platforms at AxiomZen
Group Product Manager at 80Twenty (Coinbase Custody?)
Senior Product Manager at Overstock
Business Product Strategy Senior Manager ā US at Revolut
Senior Product Manager at Bittrex
Technical Product Manager, DAML-on-X Team at Digital Asset
Project Manager at Flipside Crypto
Sr. Trading Product Manager at eToro
Product Manager at Horizon Blockchain Games
Project Manager at Aeternity Blockchain
Project Operator, IPFS at Protocol Labs
Technical Product Manager at 3box
Chris
P.S. - Have you joined theĀ Blockchain PM Telegram communityĀ yet?