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# Senior Product Manager, Fortary at Ava Labs

- **Company:** Ava Labs
- **Location:** United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-03-31
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ava-labs/97608e4c-26fe-4861-b212-c7e4149189eb

## Job description

Looking to join a world-class blockchain development team? Ava Labs makes it simple to deploy high-performance solutions for Web3, led by innovations on Avalanche. The company was founded by Cornell computer scientists, who partnered with Wall Street veterans and early Web3 leaders to execute a promising vision for redefining the way people build permissionless networks. Ava Labs is redefining the way people create value with Web3. Join us as we empower people to easily and freely digitize all the world’s assets on one open, programmable blockchain platform. We’re looking for a Senior Manager - Product to lead the strategy and execution of Fortary’s institutional platform across trading, lending, and liquidity. This leader will define the long-term vision at the intersection of product, markets, and infrastructure—focused on building best-in-class digital asset solutions for sophisticated financial institutions.

You'll define the long-term product vision, strategy, and investment priorities across Fortary’s institutional trading, lending, and liquidity offerings. Working closely with engineering, design, business development, and executive leadership, you'll align product investments with customer needs, market opportunities, regulatory requirements, and business objectives to drive sustainable growth. This role requires deep expertise in institutional market structure and workflows, exceptional strategic judgment, and the ability to translate complex market dynamics into scalable products and measurable business outcomes.

The ideal candidate brings a proven track record of defining and scaling successful B2B fintech or digital asset products, shaping long-term product strategy, and leading complex cross-functional initiatives. They thrive in fast-paced, high-growth environments, combining strategic thinking with strong execution and the ability to influence senior stakeholders across the organization. In this role, you'll help define Fortary's institutional product strategy, guide investment decisions across key product areas, and drive adoption and commercial success with institutional clients globally.

## WHAT YOU WILL DO

- As the business architect for trading, lending, and liquidity, the Senior Product Manager will define and lead the long-term product vision, portfolio strategy, and investment priorities for Fortary's institutional trading, lending, and liquidity platform, ensuring alignment with company objectives and growth strategy. The plan will consider a build, buy, partner approach to enrich these capabilities across the Fortary Roadmap.
- Partner with executive leadership to shape product strategy, prioritize investments, and drive strategic initiatives that accelerate Fortary's institutional business
- Execute cross-functionally with engineering, business development, marketing, and design to deliver measurable customer and business outcomes
- Develop deep insights into institutional client needs, market structure, and competitive dynamics to identify new market opportunities and inform product strategy
- Build trusted relationships with institutional clients and strategic partners to validate product direction, strengthen adoption, and identify new growth opportunities
- Own product commercialization in partnership with executive leadership and business development, including go-to-market strategy, product positioning, pricing considerations, and successful launches
- Define and benchmark institutional competitors with a focus on institutional trading, lending, and liquidity to differentiate Fortary with it’s clients
- Develop and scale core platform capabilities across Fortary, ensuring a seamless, secure, and high-quality user experience
- Drive prioritization and investment decisions across multiple product initiatives, balancing customer value, technical complexity, regulatory considerations, and commercial impact
- Drive the development and scaling of secure, reliable, and high-performance institutional platform capabilities across trading, lending, liquidity, and related services
- Execute effectively in a fast-paced, evolving environment where adaptability and ownership are critical

## WHAT YOU WILL BRING

- 10+ years of product management experience in fintech, blockchain, cryptocurrency, or financial services
- Business architect experience building a product/platform path to support trading, lending, and liquidity in a traditional and digital asset environments
- 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
- Deep knowledge of 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

## NICE TO HAVE

- 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

(**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.)

WHY AVA LABS? If you've ever thought about joining an early stage Web3 company - this is it! We're a global, world-class team of experts in computer science, economics, finance, marketing, and law with offices in New York City and Miami. We're highly passionate about Web3 and redefining the way people build and use finance and decentralized applications of all kinds. The company received early-stage funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Initialized Capital, and Polychain Capital, with angel investments from Balaji Srinivasan and Naval Ravikant. Join us and 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.

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.

## About Ava Labs

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Blockchain infrastructure, Web3, decentralized finance (DeFi), enterprise blockchain solutions
- **Target customers**: B2B – enterprises, financial institutions, developers, and projects building on Avalanche; also B2C through the Core wallet
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Empower people to easily and freely digitize all the world's assets on one open, programmable blockchain platform."

## Products & Services
- **[Avalanche]**: High-performance blockchain network (smart contract platform) designed for scalability, low latency, and low transaction costs. Supports custom blockchains (subnets) and is used for DeFi, gaming, and enterprise applications.
- **[AvaCloud]**: Fully managed, custom blockchain launchpad – enables organizations to deploy production-ready blockchains in minutes without managing infrastructure.
- **[Core Wallet]**: Native digital asset wallet (browser extension and mobile) for managing assets, staking, and interacting with Avalanche dApps.
- **[Avalanche Policy Coalition]**: Educational resource providing information on blockchain and Web3 fundamentals, applications, and policy for regulators and the public.
- **[Fortary]**: Institutional custody solution (product under development) for secure digital asset storage and management.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $640M (as of latest ICO in September 2021)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Andreessen Horowitz, Initialized Capital, Polychain Capital, Three Arrows Capital, Dragonfly Capital, NGC Ventures, Balaji Srinivasan, Naval Ravikant, Mastercard (program partnership)
- **Growth Signals**: 195 employees (+3.1% YoY); operates in 26 countries; active job postings (5 as of mid-2026); growing ecosystem of projects on Avalanche; recent focus on institutional custody (Fortary)

## Competitive Advantages
- **High-performance architecture**: Avalanche is one of the fastest smart contract platforms (sub-second finality, high throughput) – a key differentiator vs. Ethereum and other L1s.
- **Custom subnet capability**: Allows enterprises and projects to launch their own sovereign blockchains with customizable rules, fee models, and validators.
- **Strong academic and engineering pedigree**: Founded by Cornell computer scientists; team includes experts from top tech and finance firms.
- **Deep ecosystem backing**: Supported by major crypto VCs and a large community of developers and projects.

## Strategic Focus
- **Digitizing real‑world assets**: Continuing to expand the use of Avalanche for tokenizing securities, real estate, and other traditional assets.
- **Institutional custody (Fortary)**: Building secure, compliant custody solutions to attract financial institutions and large asset managers.
- **Ecosystem growth**: Supporting builders on Avalanche through grants, partnerships, and the AvaCloud platform to accelerate adoption.
- **Global expansion**: Strengthening presence in key regions (Asia, Europe, Middle East) through local teams and university engagement.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & values**: Emphasizes shared vision, integrity, community, innovation, and decisive action. Team is described as “intensely exciting and supportive” with a focus on ethical, sustainable solutions.
- **Remote & hybrid policy**: Remote‑first with offices in New York City (Brooklyn) and Miami. Employees have flexible on‑site expectations; offices serve as collaboration hubs.
- **Perks & benefits**: Competitive compensation, comprehensive insurance (short‑/long‑term disability, life insurance), 401k (non‑matching), commuter benefits, unlimited PTO, volunteer time‑off, team activities, and remote‑friendly networking.
- **Engineering culture**: Uses modern tech stack (Rust, Go, Solidity, TypeScript, React, Kubernetes, Docker). Strong emphasis on science‑fueled innovation and learning from mistakes.
- **Global team**: Employees across 26 countries; talent sourced from top companies like Coinbase, AWS, Lyft, and Cornell Blockchain.

## Sources
1. [avalabs.org – About & Careers](https://www.avalabs.org/)
2. [avalabs.org – Careers Page](https://www.avalabs.org/careers)
3. [LinkedIn – Ava Labs Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/avalabsofficial)
4. [Built In – Ava Labs Profile](https://builtin.com/company/ava-labs)
5. [Greenhouse Job Board – Ava Labs](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/avalabs?gh_src=9a15c6d64us)

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