[Hiring] Senior Product Manager @Ava Labs

Role Description

We’re looking for a Senior Product Manager to help define, develop and execute Fortary’s institutional platform across trading, lending, and liquidity. This is a strategic solutions focused role at the intersection of product, markets, and infrastructure—focused on building best-in-class digital asset solutions for sophisticated financial institutions.

• Define and develop the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Fortary with a focus on institutional trading, lending and liquidity, aligning with company objectives.
• Execute cross-functionally with engineering, business development, marketing, and design to deliver impactful product outcomes.
• Research and understand customer needs across institutional segments to inform product direction.
• Define and benchmark institutional competitors with a focus on institutional trading, lending, and liquidity to differentiate Fortary with its clients.
• Define market opportunities and develop them into clear product strategies, prioritized roadmaps, and revenue streams.
• Develop and scale core platform capabilities across Fortary, ensuring a seamless, secure, and high-quality user experience.
• Work closely with engineering and design teams to scope, prioritize, and deliver product milestones.
• Engage with institutional clients and partners to gather feedback, validate solutions, and drive adoption.
• Deliver go-to-market strategy, product positioning, and successful product launches.
• Translate complex technical concepts into clear requirements and business value for internal and external stakeholders.
• Execute effectively in a fast-paced, evolving environment where adaptability and ownership are critical.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product management experience in fintech, blockchain, cryptocurrency, or financial services.
• Experience building trading, lending and liquidity products for institutional clients (e.g., asset managers, hedge funds, banks, market makers, or fintech platforms).
• Familiarity with institutional financial workflows, such as custody, onboarding, compliance, regulatory reporting, and trading and lending related processes.
• Exposure to trading systems or workflows (e.g., execution, liquidity access, OMS/EMS, or trading platforms).
• Experience driving products through the full lifecycle, from discovery and design to launch and iteration.
• Strong ability to define and lead product strategy and translate it into actionable roadmaps.
• Experience working cross-functionally with engineering, design, and go-to-market teams.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret data and market trends.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to bridge technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience working with APIs, platforms, or developer-facing products.
• Deep experience with institutional trading systems, market structure, liquidity venues, and B2B2C products.

Requirements

• Experience with digital asset infrastructure, including custody, wallets, or DeFi protocols.
• Technical background or experience working closely with engineering on complex systems.
• Experience delivering go-to-market strategy in fintech or crypto products.
• Startup experience and/or experience building 0→1 products.
• Background in financial services, capital markets, or management consulting.

Benefits

• This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary, a final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location.

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.