Product Manager - Allium

Allium makes blockchain data accurate, simple and fast

Blockchain data is hard, messy, and chaotic

When we started out in late 2021 our thesis was simple - blockchain data, despite it being public and free, was difficult to understand, clunky to access and troublesome to maintain. Answering a simple question like “Who are the biggest Ethereum token holders over time?” requires an engineering team to run their own RPC nodes, ingest the full history of the blockchain, clean the data, transform the data and finally summon a wizard to cast a complex SQL query.

Accessing data is hard because blockchains are optimized for Writes and not Reads

Why is it so hard? Blockchains have historically been optimized for Writes (getting data onto the blockchain) and less for Reads (getting data OUT of the blockchain). This is because optimization efforts were focused on increasing transaction throughput and building fault tolerant and scalable consensus algorithms. This neglect makes it hard to get data out efficiently and reliably at scale.

Parsing and interpreting blockchain data requires both deep domain expertise and data manipulation

To quote Tim Roughgarden, Columbia Professor, “Blockchains are (virtual) computers, not databases.”  They are Turing machines that support general computations, and anyone can write and deploy their own smart contract for their own use case. This nearly infinite number of use cases leads to the fragmentation of data schemas for different purposes. Standardizing these schemas requires deep domain expertise to turn esoteric technical outputs into clear information for specific concepts like tokens, NFTs, stablecoins and DEXs.

Allium abstracts the complexity with a simple way to query blockchain data

Allium tames the chaos by ingesting, sanitizing, and standardizing all this data. As of this post, the data we’ve archived across 100+ blockchains is in the petabytes and growing exponentially.

Google and Bloomberg had to organize the world's public financial and webpage data, Allium is on a mission to do the same for blockchain data

This is one of the rare times in history where indexing a giant public dataset is sorely needed by all - similar to what Bloomberg did for financial data and what Google organized for public webpage data. With this indexed data, we are fortunate to support trailblazers in this industry and play some role the industry’s most exciting trends:

About our customers

We serve 2 groups of customers today with the same data but different platform. Analysts who need to answer data questions about the blockchain (think BI) and Engineers who need highly reliable data queryable in near realtime (think Application backends). Our customers include the biggest institutions Visa, Stripe, Grayscale and also the biggest crypto companies such as Phantom, Uniswap. Allium is one of the unique companies in the industry that bridge blockchain and non blockchain worlds.

The Role

We're hiring a Product Manager to help us build and scale the data products that power the next wave of institutional blockchain adoption. You'll work across Allium's full product surface — spanning APIs, data streams, datashares, and rich user experiences — and own the roadmap for how we deliver high-fidelity blockchain data to some of the most demanding clients in finance and fintech.

This is a hands-on, generalist yet technical PM role. You'll be embedded with engineering, working directly in the weeds of data modeling decisions, API design tradeoffs, and enterprise integration requirements. You'll need to understand the shape of our data as well as our customers do — and have enough taste to know when a product surface is genuinely good versus technically functional but painful to use.

What You'll Do

• Drive the roadmap and execution for Allium's core data product surfaces: APIs, data streams, datashares, and enterprise dashboards
• Translate complex, data-dense customer requirements from clients like financial institutions, analytics platforms, and compliance teams into clear, scoped product specs
• Work hands-on with data pipelines and schemas — writing SQL, reviewing data models, and QA-ing outputs — to deeply understand what we're shipping
• Design intuitive product experiences for inherently complex datasets, bringing both rigor and taste to dense data interfaces
• Lead customer discovery and feedback sessions to identify gaps, prioritize features, and inform vertical-specific product strategy
• Partner with the GTM team to create clear product narratives and differentiated positioning for enterprise deals
• Drive delivery across a distributed engineering team, managing dependencies and tradeoffs with clarity and low friction

What We're Looking For

Required

• 3+ years of product management experience or 2+ years of engineering experience with meaningful time spent on data-intensive products (APIs, data pipelines, analytics platforms, or similar)
• Strong SQL fluency — you can write and review queries, understand indexing and performance tradeoffs, and navigate complex schemas without help
• Working knowledge of API architecture and data delivery patterns: REST, streaming, webhooks, datashares (e.g., Snowflake Data Sharing, BigQuery)
• Genuine familiarity with finance and/or crypto — you understand the domain well enough to quickly grasp what institutional clients actually need and why
• Sharp product taste: you've built for data-dense interfaces before and know the difference between a UI that's technically complete and one that's genuinely usable
• Strong written and verbal communication — you can write a crisp spec, run a focused discovery call, and give a clear product update to leadership

Nice to Have

• Experience at a data infrastructure, fintech, or blockchain company
• Familiarity with blockchain data concepts: UTXO vs account models, on-chain labeling, transaction tracing, token standards
• Experience supporting enterprise sales cycles — writing positioning docs, joining customer calls, or owning product-level RFP responses
• Comfort with Python for light scripting or data exploration

Don't take our word for it, what our customers say about us (https://www.allium.so/blog#love)

What some ~cool people have to say about us:

• Mario Gabriele from The Generalist's Future 50 Startup List: https://www.allium.so/post/allium-named-awardee-of-the-generalists-inaugural-future-50-startups
• Tomasz Tungus from Theory Ventures: https://tomtunguz.com/allium/
• Bucky Moore from Kleiner Perkins: https://www.kleinerperkins.com/perspectives/allium-series-a/

Ok.. now for some tough love, here are the values we strive for at Allium:

• Pro Athlete Mindset - Consistency. Day in and day out, in pursuit of excellence. A win yesterday does not guarantee (or even imply!) a win tomorrow. I hope anyone who supports a failing sports team will feel the pain (cough Man United fans) of inconsistency
• Figure It Out & Extreme Ownership - Every day is unexplored territory. There are new engineering frameworks, new legal docs, new compliance, new sales, new regulations, and new operational procedures every single day. If you don’t know it, learn it. If you can’t learn it, find someone or a product that does it. If you can’t find someone, find someone who can find someone. It is never lack of resources, but lack of resourcefulness.
• High Agency - (One of) the highest commonality between all successful people is their responsiveness, most successful billionaire CEOs still reply to emails within minutes (within working hours). And when you reply, respond fast with effective solutions - and even better, resolutions. If you’re looking for a superpower, you can’t go wrong with responsiveness. Well of course this doesn't make sense when you're an engineer coding in flow, but in general high agency of problem solving gets one very far in life
• Leading from the Front - No one is going to listen (and adopt) your suggestion unless you lead by example. It’s one thing to say We need to do XYZ this better & it’s another thing to build an MVP and say “This is the way we should do things”. The proof of work and momentum goes a long way.
• Strong Opinions On the Future (loosely held) It is okay to be wrong, but what is not okay is not to have an idea of how a better future should be. Alliumites take pride in trying to improving everything about the company all the time.
• Sense of (allium) business smell - There are number of folks who live to eat at Allium, but the Allium smell we are talking about is that we love folks who naturally want to know why and how the work they are doing builds leverage for their teammates and also relates to the business goals

About the team

We invite people of all backgrounds (https://www.allium.so/about). We have engineers who learnt coding much later in life, who learnt coding on the side, we have engineers who are still in school and we also have engineers who went to the top schools (CMU, Stanford, UIUC, UPenn, Oxford, NUS, Cornell), all are welcome if one comes in with a curious mind and an infectious work ethic.

Administrative Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life and AD&D insurance - US folks get 100% coverage for Gold plans, 80% for dependents
• Ownership - Meaningful early-stage equity. Every full-time employee receives a stock option grant so you can share directly in Allium's upside
• Time off - Flexible, trust-based paid time off. We encourage people to take the rest they need. In every country we hire, our policies meet or exceed local statutory vacation requirements
• Retirement - Company sponsored 401(k) plan in US so you can save pre-tax for the long term

Note: The sun never sets on Allium - we hire from any geographical location as long as you are willing to overlap 2 hours overlap on NYC mornings Mon-Thurs from 10am-12pm ET. We have people based in New York, Seattle, Singapore and Australia

All applicants have to answer this pop quiz: "What is an Allium? What is your favorite Allium?". Bonus points for the right pronunciation.