Head of Product - Paradigm

Paradigm is a San Francisco-based investment firm focused on crypto and frontier technologies across the globe, with over $10 billion in assets under management. We make investments in companies and protocols at all stages, ranging from early-stage venture financing rounds to growth equity to liquid token assets.

Paradigm was co-founded in 2018 by Matt Huang (former Partner at Sequoia Capital) and Fred Ehrsam (co-founder of Coinbase). Since then we’ve been hard at work building a world-class team of brilliant mutants to investigate the world’s most beautiful technical problems. Our research-driven approach helps us build relationships with founders and entrepreneurs, but it also reflects our broader goal of growing the crypto ecosystem globally and accelerating crypto’s ability to advance the world we live in. We believe that crypto will ultimately redefine money, finance, and the internet itself, and this technological revolution will have a fundamental and long-lasting impact on the global economy.

We’re looking for a Head of Product. This person will lead the development of Paradigm’s “brain:” a multifaceted internal operating system. Today that system includes portfolio management, complex financial and analytical data, and extensive records on talent and companies within our network.

Paradigm’s core product is decisions about markets, products, and people. Crypto’s uniquely programmable and transparent nature gives us the ability to build powerful tools to enhance the quality of those decisions - tools that would be impossible to build in any other time and in any other industry. We’re incredibly excited to see what the right person can do in this role.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Drive product vision: define what to build and build it, advancing Paradigm’s mission to improve its “internal brain.

• Evaluate buy vs. build: make strategic decisions around AI tooling.

• Champion the user: deeply understand user problems and pain points through direct engagement, translating insights into product requirements and wireframes.

• Lead engineering execution: own the roadmap and delivery process rather than day-to-day management.

• Manage sprints: scope requirements clearly and drive timely delivery.

• Communicate effectively: keep leadership and stakeholders aligned on priorities, progress, and impact.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of experience building quantitative and/or financial products with world-class engineering teams.

• Technical depth and hands-on experience sufficient to earn the respect of top engineers

• Prior background as a software engineer with coding experience.

ATTRIBUTES

• Exceptional collaborator and team player.

• Open-minded and adaptable in fast-changing environments.

• Clear, concise communicator in both 1:1 and group settings.

• Empathetic toward colleagues and stakeholders.

• Highly curious and a fast learner.

• Strong interest in frontier technologies and crypto markets.