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Role Description

As Director of Technical Product Management on the Platform Engineering team at Ava Labs, you will link Engineering and Business Development. Your role is essential to ensure Avalanche blockchain's technology meets the needs of our key external clients and developers.

This central, pivotal role bridges the gap between opportunity sourcing by Business Development and infrastructure creation by Engineering. The primary focus is to develop a long-term, comprehensive product vision and strategic roadmap that spans multiple complex, intersecting product areas. This vision must address current market demands while proactively anticipating future trends and disruptive forces, and will directly inform executive-level prioritization and investment decisions. You will be accountable for defining measurable outcomes tied to platform adoption, ecosystem growth, and strategic partner enablement, ensuring roadmap decisions translate into durable business impact.

A critical responsibility is institutionalizing innovation across Engineering and Product groups. This involves establishing frameworks, processes, and fostering a culture of continuous experimentation. Success hinges on deep collaboration with Engineering, Business Development, Clients, and Builders to ensure the integrated product portfolio delivers exponential value and maintains market leadership.

Key Responsibilities

• Technical Stakeholder Engagement: Lead collaboration with the Business Development team in conducting in-depth technical discussions with external clients, builders, and institutional partners. Serve as the senior product authority in technical consultation processes, translating complex architectural concepts into language that directly aligns with the client’s strategic business objectives and long-term ROI.
• Requirement Elucidation and Specification: Serve as the "Voice of the Builder" within the Engineering organization. Accurately capture nuanced feedback from external parties and convert ambiguous business requirements into precise technical specifications and defined user stories that inform platform-level decisions.
• Roadmap Prioritization and Influence: Co-own and drive the strategic platform roadmap in partnership with Engineering leadership, systematically integrating external market demands into the core development lifecycle. This role will directly influence strategic decision-making regarding future product development, focusing on which technical solutions address the most critical real-world problems and unlock ecosystem growth. Establish durable product operating mechanisms across Platform Engineering, including prioritization frameworks, roadmap governance, experimentation models, and post-launch measurement. Institutionalize repeatable processes that improve decision quality, execution velocity, and strategic clarity.
• Platform Capability Analysis: Continuously evaluate the current platform's feature set against competing offerings and evolving client requirements. Identify critical missing features or foundational primitives that are currently impeding the adoption by major applications, and define scalable, standardized solutions that reduce bespoke development.
• Technical Translation & Business Case Development: Actively participate in architecture review sessions, engaging senior engineers with informed questions regarding technical trade-offs. Transform complex technical proposals into clear business cases, including a quantified analysis of the projected impact. Utilize data analysis to effectively mediate and resolve disagreements between Engineering and Business Development teams, ensuring alignment around long-term platform strategy.

Qualifications

• Capacity to engage in sophisticated architectural discussions with Engineers while simultaneously articulating the return on investment (ROI) for a technical strategic shift to C-suite executives or Business Development leadership.
• A robust technical foundation, typically demonstrated by an academic degree in Computer Science or substantial prior professional experience in an Engineering role before transitioning into Product Management.
• Proactively identify systemic requirements that extend beyond immediate client requests, recognizing patterns and initiating the development of standardized, unified platform solutions.
• Thorough comprehension of the web3 landscape, specifically concerning primitives such as consensus mechanisms, execution environments (especially the EVM), ZK cryptography, etc. Prior familiarity with the Avalanche ecosystem is highly advantageous.
• Ability to effectively leverage data and client intelligence to discern between "must-have" features essential for platform dominance and "nice-to-have" technical innovations.
• Demonstrated ability to operate with Director-level autonomy, influencing senior stakeholders and shaping cross-functional strategy.

Benefits

• Join a global, world-class team of experts in computer science, economics, finance, marketing, and law.
• Be a pioneer in a new technology that will have implications across a range of verticals such as finance, gaming, investing, collectibles, among many others.
• Work in a highly passionate environment focused on redefining the way people build and use finance and decentralized applications.

Company Description

Ava Labs is committed to diversity in the workplace and we’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not hire on basis of race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, parental status, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, or any other basis protected by local, state or federal law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.