Director of Product

About the Role

Director of Product New York, New York Lightyear – Product Management / Full-time / Hybrid apply for this job Lightyear is looking for a commercially-minded Director of Product to join our team. The Director of Product will own the end-to-end product and go-to-market function, with a particular emphasis on product roadmap, product-market fit, methodology definition, design-partner development, and the technical sale across data subscribers and financial institutions. As Director of Product, you will own and shape what we build and who we build it for: defining the index methodology in partnership with our data team, running the design-partner research sprint, translating buyer pain into product requirements, and carrying the technical half of the sales conversation that turns interest into paying customers. You will translate a complex, technical data product into clear value for both infrastructure operators and investors, while building the early commercial motion from zero. This role is perfect for those who are as comfortable shaping methodology and product detail with engineers as they are sitting across from a FinOps lead, a quant fund, or an exchange partner and closing the deal. What you ll do Product amp; Methodology Own the product roadmap and definition of product-market fit, from MVP through the index family Partner with the data and engineering team to define and defend the index methodology — what is measured, how it is weighted, normalized, and chain-linked — to a standard credible to subscribers, investors, and eventually exchange partners Translate buyer pain surfaced in research and design-partner work into concrete product requirements, feature decisions, and methodology constraints Define the monetizing mini-products (observability, procurement/routing, and the evaluation harness) and prioritize the build sequence that best generates proprietary data Own the distinction between the cited flagship index and the sub-index family, and the product...