Product Manager, Node Economics

You will own incentive systems, compensation frameworks, and performance infrastructure that shape node operator behavior and network economics. You will translate economic models into production-ready systems and tooling, design and automate payment workflows, deliver clear performance insights, and communicate complex economic concepts to operators and partners.

Responsibilities

• Own incentive and compensation systems end-to-end
• Translate economic models into production-ready systems and tools
• Build and ship performance-based mechanisms to drive operator accountability
• Design and automate payment and compensation workflows
• Deliver performance insights and tooling for operator visibility
• Communicate economic changes and program details to external stakeholders
• Shape operator allocation and evaluation processes across products
• Collaborate with economics, data science, and engineering teams

Requirements

• Experience owning performance rewards or compensation systems end-to-end
• Experience translating models into product or operational decisions with data scientists or economists
• Ability to communicate complex economic or quantitative concepts clearly to external stakeholders
• Experience designing or improving payment and compensation workflows and reducing manual processes
• Track record driving cross-functional work across engineering data and operations without direct authority
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and building structured processes
• Understanding of incentive design and token economics (preferred)
• Experience with crypto economics staking mechanisms or token-based incentive systems (preferred)
• Background working with external partners operators or ecosystem participants (preferred)
• Exposure to data science or quantitative research environments (preferred)
• Understanding of oracle networks validator economics or decentralized infrastructure systems (preferred)
• Direct experience with staking protocols or node operator programs (preferred)
• Academic or professional background in mechanism design game theory or quantitative finance (preferred)
• Experience at a protocol L1 L2 or infrastructure company where token economics were central (preferred)