Senior Technical Product Manager - Tether

Vision & Strategy

• Own and articulate the long-term product vision for Keet as the world's leading private, peer-to-peer communication app, with a clear path to 1 billion users.
• Analyze WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, LINE, WeChat and emerging competitors to identify where P2P gives Keet an unfair advantage, and build the roadmap around it.
• Present product vision, strategy, metrics and progress to the board and executive leadership with clarity and conviction.
• Define a growth strategy across acquisition, activation, retention and virality, with measurable targets at every stage.

Technical Product Leadership

• Develop a deep working understanding of the Holepunch P2P stack (Pear runtime, Bare, Hypercore, Hyperswarm, HyperDHT, Autobase, Hyperbee) and translate its capabilities and constraints into product decisions.
• Partner with core engineering on hard P2P problems at scale, including NAT traversal, offline sync, multi-device support, large groups, push notifications, and battery and data efficiency on mobile.
• Own the real-time calling experience (1:1 and group voice and video, plus screen sharing) to a quality bar that matches or beats Google Meet and Zoom.
• Define clear feature tiers with explicit labels for stable versus experimental functionality.

Rapid Prototyping with AI

• Use AI coding and design tools to build working prototypes and demos that prove concepts before committing engineering resources.
• Turn ideas into something the team, users and the board can see and touch within days.

Execution & Team Leadership

• Lead the product team and run the sprint cadence end to end, covering planning, prioritization, standups, reviews and retrospectives.
• Own deliverables from conception through release, testing and post-launch iteration, ensuring core functionality works reliably every time.
• Maintain issue trackers and roadmaps that accurately reflect priorities and sprint commitments.
• Coordinate across engineering, QA, design, marketing and business stakeholders, and manage cross-team dependencies across the Holepunch and Tether ecosystem.
• Provide transparent updates on status, risks and timeline changes, and hold direct conversations about accountability when needed.

Mobile & Distribution

• Own the mobile release process across iOS and Android. This includes App Store and Google Play submissions, review guidelines, compliance, store listings, ratings and release management.
• Oversee desktop distribution and installers across macOS, Windows and Linux.
• Build crash reporting, debugging and analytics systems, privacy-preserving by design, that turn user reports into actionable engineering data.

Mandatory

• 8+ years of product management experience, including significant time in a senior or lead role owning a consumer product end to end.
• Strong product sense, with a proven track record of setting product vision and driving it to measurable outcomes at scale (tens of millions of users or more).
• Experience leading engineers who ship products, including running sprint cadences with predictable delivery across cross-functional teams.
• Deep JavaScript and React skills. You can read and write production code, review pull requests, and build working prototypes yourself.
• Intuition for distributed and local-first systems. You don't need P2P expertise, because our core abstracts it away, but you should be able to reason about sync, offline behavior and consistency trade-offs.
• Hands-on experience shipping and scaling mobile apps on iOS and Android, with deep familiarity with App Store and Google Play logistics, review processes and release management.
• Experience with real-time voice and video calling products (such as Google Meet, Zoom, FaceTime or WhatsApp calls) and the quality, latency and reliability trade-offs involved.
• Demonstrated ability to use AI tools to rapidly prototype and demonstrate product concepts.
• Exceptional communication skills, with experience presenting vision and strategy to boards, executives and investors.
• A strong understanding of urgency versus importance, and the judgment to make fast, high-quality decisions with incomplete information.
• You thrive in a high-intensity, fast-moving environment, set an exceptionally high bar, and are willing to go above and beyond, including extended hours, when the mission demands it.
• Excellent written and spoken English.

Nice to have

• Product leadership experience at a major messaging app such as WhatsApp, Telegram, LINE, WeChat, Signal, Viber or KakaoTalk.
• Experience with peer-to-peer technologies, distributed systems or decentralized protocols. Prior exposure to Holepunch, Pear or Hypercore is a strong plus.
• Experience growing a product in emerging markets or across multiple regions and languages.
• A background in privacy, encryption or security-focused products.
• Familiarity with Electron, React Native or similar cross-platform frameworks, as well as installer systems, boot performance and Linux packaging (Snap, AppImage, Flatpak).
• A solid understanding of testing approaches (unit, integration, end-to-end), test automation and performance testing.
• An engineering background or computer science degree.
• Experience with Git, issue trackers and modern collaboration tools.