About the company
IO Global Founded in 2015, IO Global is one of the world’s pre-eminent blockchain research and engineering companies, best known for the Cardano blockchain platform. We are a fully decentralized, remote-working organization committed to the highest principles of academic rigour and evidence-based software development. The company builds high-assurance blockchain products for public and private sector clients. Our goal is simple – to fuel our drive to be best in class by giving you the opportunity, resources and support to deliver your finest work to date. You’ll work with some exceptionally talented and friendly individuals who are always open to new ideas and ways of working. IO Global is an advocate of decentralized remote working, with 300 people working in more than 50 countries. Everyone has a different skill set, a different culture, and is at a different stage in their life. We aim to make collaboration between diverse people fun, exciting, and always rewarding. Many companies say they ‘think outside the box’ – for IO Global it’s more, ‘we think outside the geography’.
Job Summary
Responsibilities
📍Drive product end to end from initial concept to launch, through to implementation. 📍Market requirements establishing customer needs and the opportunity satisfying those needs. 📍Requirements that reflect activities of competitors from a technical and business perspective. 📍Collaboration with research to utilise their work and deliver requirements for future work. 📍A product strategy that reflects current with developments in technology and business trends. 📍Ecosystem mapping and relationships to ensure IOG goes to market with strong partners. 📍A working product roadmap in Jira that reflects priorities used to plan and execute delivery. 📍Customer and partner interviews and relationships that substantiate our underlying thesis. 📍Collaboration and inputs to the product marketing process. 📍Ownership of legal requirements in collaboration with internal counsel. 📍Delivery of features that meet business expectations in terms of quality, function and schedule. 📍Engage and contribute to Open Source Software communities. 📍Collaboration across products on product roadmap integration points and dependencies. 📍Write content including blogs, presentations and technical documentation where necessary.
Requirements
📍Key Competencies 📍A bias for action and a self-starter who proactively acts without direction 📍Ability to interface to technical and business roles equally 📍Desire to gain insights from customers, partners and users directly 📍Ability to grasp deep software technical concepts and work directly with engineering 📍Core product management skills: market requirements, product requirements, roadmapping 📍Ownership of their product championing it and driving it through natural resistance to delivery 📍Collaborative approach to innovation bringing together different disciplines for a full solution 📍Strong presentation skills to internal and external customers 📍A keen interest in Blockchain and Cryptocurrency technology 📍Process driven ensuring support for, and refinement of, a consistent process 📍Data driven with a focus on using data to support decisions 📍A positive outlook to help carry teams through difficult periods of delivery and seeking market fit
