Product Manager — Agentic Payments & Wallets

What we're building

Nethermind is exploring the next generation of crypto payments and wallet infrastructure — where AI agents, humans, and APIs transact value seamlessly:

• x402 / Agentic Payments: Building "Stripe for x402" — the payments, billing, and analytics infrastructure for machine-to-machine and agent-to-agent commerce. Think: subscriptions, credits, refunds, and developer tooling on top of the x402 protocol.

• Agentic Wallet: A mobile-native, intent-based wallet combining traditional AA (ERC-4337) capabilities with agent-driven automation, adaptive security, and privacy-preserving payments. Users say what they want ("stake $50 in ETH"), and the wallet figures out how.

These are early-stage ventures — some with prototypes, some still in research. The products will evolve based on what we learn from the market.

What we need

A Product Manager who thrives in ambiguity and can take products from 0 1. This is not about optimizing existing funnels or shipping incremental features. It's about:

• Discovering whether a product should exist at all

• Finding the first customers who desperately need it

• Shaping the product based on real conversations, not assumptions

• Moving fast with small teams to test hypotheses

You'll work closely with:

• Potential customers: infra providers, agent developers, protocol teams, DeFi power users

• Small, scrappy engineering teams building prototypes

• BD/partnerships to source design partners and early pilots

• Leadership to validate venture direction and resource allocation

Role & Responsibilities

1) Customer discovery & market research

• Talk to 50+ potential customers in the first 3 months: compute providers, API sellers, wallet users, agent builders, DeFi protocols

• Identify who has the burning pain: "Who will pay for this today, not in 2 years?"

• Map the competitive landscape and understand why existing solutions fail

• Synthesize insights into clear hypotheses about what to build and for whom

2) Shape the product from zero

• Translate messy customer feedback into a focused product vision

• Define the wedge: the smallest, most compelling version that unlocks the first paying customers

• Write lightweight specs and work directly with engineers to iterate fast

• Kill ideas that don't validate — pivot without emotional attachment

3) Secure design partners & early pilots

• Source and close 2–5 design partners willing to co-develop and provide real feedback

• Negotiate early pilot terms (paid or strategic value exchange)

• Build relationships that turn into case studies and word-of-mouth

4) Plan go-to-market (GTM)

• Define the initial target segment and positioning ("Who is this for? Why us? Why now?")

• Create lightweight sales collateral and demo materials

• Work with BD to identify outreach channels and partnership opportunities

• Plan pricing hypotheses and validate willingness to pay

5) Own the narrative & stakeholder alignment

• Communicate progress, learnings, and pivots clearly to leadership

• Build conviction internally for continued investment (or recommend sunsetting)

• Represent the product externally at conferences, calls, and in content

Success looks like (first 6–12 months)

This is not about MRR or DAUs yet. It's about validation:

• Design partners secured: 2–5 committed partners actively testing with you

• Validated problem-solution fit: Clear evidence that the wedge solves a real pain

• Letters of intent or paid pilots: Early revenue signals, even if small

• Hypothesis log: Documented learnings — what worked, what didn't, what pivoted

• GTM playbook draft: Initial positioning, ICP, and channel strategy ready to scale

• Team alignment: Engineering, BD, and leadership aligned on next phase

Requirements

• 3+ years in Product Management, with at least 1 year in a 0 1 or early-stage environment (startup, new product line, or venture studio)

• Demonstrated ability to find product-market fit through customer discovery, not just feature shipping

• Strong customer development skills: you've done hundreds of customer interviews and can synthesize patterns

• Comfortable with high ambiguity: no roadmap handed to you, limited data, fast pivots

• Excellent written and verbal communication — you can pitch, write specs, and run customer calls

• Familiarity with crypto/Web3: wallets, DeFi basics, on-chain payments, developer tooling

• Bias to action: you ship scrappy MVPs and learn, rather than waiting for perfect specs

Nice to have

• Experience with payments infrastructure (Stripe, payment rails, billing systems)

• Familiarity with AI/agent products and how agents interact with APIs and wallets

• Understanding of account abstraction (ERC-4337), intent-based architectures, or x402 protocol

• Background in B2B developer tools or platform/marketplace products

• Existing network in the crypto/Web3 ecosystem (infra providers, protocols, VCs)

Why this role is different

• You're not inheriting an established product with existing users — you're building from scratch

• You'll have real ownership and influence on product direction

• You'll work on the frontier of AI + crypto + payments — an emerging category with massive TAM

• Nethermind brings credibility, security expertise, and ecosystem relationships — but you bring the product instincts

Working model

Remote-first, globally distributed team.