Founding Product Manager / Director of Product

What you’ll do

• Own product development: Take full ownership of the end-to-end development process for our platform, from ideation to execution. You’ll lead the charge in building core features ensuring they meet the needs of our customers in the fintech and crypto space.
• Drive product strategy: Define the product vision and strategy, prioritizing features and initiatives that will solve complex global employment and compensation challenges. 
• Collaborate cross-functionally: Work closely with engineering, legal, compliance, and operations teams to bring a vision to life, ensuring alignment and clear communication across all departments.
• Engage with customers: Interface directly with enterprise clients to gather feedback and insights, translating those into product improvements and new features that drive adoption.
• Create clear product documentation: Develop and maintain comprehensive product documentation, user guides, and other external content to ensure smooth onboarding and a seamless user experience for customers.

What you’ll bring

• Hands-on experience: You’ve been the first/early PM or founder at a fintech or SaaS startup, bringing products from idea to market at scale.
• Deep financial product expertise: Experience building fintech products with complex regulatory needs.
• Cross-functional leadership: Proven ability to work closely with engineering and legal to deliver world-class products.
• Customer-focused: Comfortable engaging with enterprise customers, gathering feedback, and translating it into actionable product features.
• Clear communicator: Skilled at producing high-quality documentation and content for external users, ensuring clarity and ease of use.

Why Toku?

• Global impact: Define the new standard for stablecoin and token compensation.
• Growth opportunity: You’ll start as a hands-on IC but have the opportunity to scale the product team as the company grows.
• Compensation & Benefits: Competitive salary, significant equity ownership, premium health coverage, home office setup, and regular team offsites (the last one was in Tokyo).

Who we’re looking for

• 5+ years of founder or product management experience, ideally with multiple successful fintech product launches.
• A proven track record of building products that scaled beyond $20M+ ARR.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with an ability to create clear, engaging product collateral for both internal and external stakeholders.
• You must personally test-drive all functionality before shipping it and make significant edits to the documentation to ensure accuracy and clarity.
• Ability to thrive with significant autonomy and responsibility.
• An interest and understanding of crypto products.