8-12+ years in Product Management or equivalent 5+ years on deeply technical platforms (distributed systems, cloud infra, databases, or blockchain) Comfortable with design docs, tradeoffs, and reading/co-authoring code/design documents Fluent with APIs/SDKs/back-end systems Track record of shipping enterprise-grade software and developer platforms Hands-on familiarity with at least one of Java/Kotlin/Go/TypeScript Excellent written communication and customer discovery skills