Group Product Manager - Ecosystem

Fuel is a high-performance blockchain operating system that redefines what's possible on Ethereum. By combining unparalleled throughput with the core principles of decentralisation and security, our platform simplifies the development process for builders worldwide. The Fuel Virtual Machine, with its ground-breaking state minimization and parallel transaction execution capabilities, sets a new standard for Ethereum Rollups, overcoming existing limitations in protocol development.

Since our 2019 launch with Fuel V1, we've been focused on enhancing Ethereum's scalability. Our innovations, like the Fuel Virtual Machine and the Sway programming language, provide developers with a powerful, user-friendly environment.

We're a passionate, intelligent and empathetic globally dispersed team, united by a love for innovation and a commitment to shaping the future of blockchain technology—one ground-breaking solution at a time.

Who You Are:

• You’re optimistic. You’ve got positive energy and see opportunities where others see problems.

• You’re a lifelong learner. You’re eager to dive deep into emerging technologies, from Ethereum Rollups to decentralised finance, and you thrive on mastering new concepts.

• You’re a team player. You believe in the power of collaboration and are ready to push boundaries with a group of like-minded innovators. You welcome the challenge of stepping out of your comfort zone to achieve something great.

• You’re high agency. You believe in your ability to impact outcomes and take proactive steps to make things happen. Instead of waiting for instructions or letting obstacles deter you, you create solutions and drive projects forward with determination and resourcefulness.

• You’re courageous. In a rapidly changing industry like ours, you’re not afraid to voice your ideas, and challenge the status quo. You have the confidence to tackle difficult problems and the resilience to see them through.

• You steer clear of performative crypto trends. You’re mission-driven, focused on substance and prefer actions that drive real results over following popular narratives.

Our Ecosystem is a complex landscape of partnerships, internally and externally built applications and infrastructure, and a wide variety of user groups. Your job will be to understand this ecosystem, its users groups and stakeholders, and to drive the Product Strategy for serving them. This is not an entry level position. It requires not only product sense, but also a keen eye for market forces and partner selection. Someone who succeeds in this role will likely have the skills to be a VP of Product or CPO at many organisations.

You will get to:

- Dive deep into the needs of Blockchain ecosystem participants, including but not limited to application developers, application end users, and infrastructure providers

- Drive how an entire ecosystem of applications is grown and maintained

- Work with a collaborative team, made of the smartest minds in the industry

- Set up the most appropriate team and org design to support the above goals

Areas of Responsibility

- Discover, evaluate and represent the needs of Fuel’s ecosystem constituents, from application developers to end users

- Understand the competitive landscape and influence how Fuel can uniquely position itself within that landscape

- Establish, align the company around, and drive execution of the edge and ecosystem product roadmap

- Make build / buy / partner decisions to drive the growth of Fuel’s ecosystem

- Own the success of Fuel’s greater ecosystem enablement and product strategy

- Work tightly with leadership, growth, engineering and core teams to achieve the above objectives

- Drive user and product oriented thinking throughout the organisation

- Build organisational processes and muscle to achieve the above objectives in a sustainable way

Required Experience

- 10 years, plus or minus, of experience across product and engineering

- Success as a Director of Product or higher at a smaller organisation;

- Success as a Group Product Manager or higher at a larger organisation

- Understands which products are best built internally vs externally in an ecosystem setting

- Have successfully taken multiple products through the entire go-to-market lifecycle, from discovery through shipment to growth

- Have successfully coached and mentored other product managers, or have overseen their work directly

- Demonstrated experience driving change within an organization, all the way up to the C-SuiteManagement of both internal teams and vendors

- Significant experience with Web3 or Crypto a large plus Corp dev or VC experience a large plus

- Bonus Points: a background in Philosophy