Head of Product - Asian Timezones

Company Overview hermeneutic research is a best-in-class proprietary trading firm. It deploys research-driven discretionary and systematic strategies as well as makes strategic long-term investments.

The partners' decade-long history of success in trading and business building and a firm-wide cultural emphasis on alpha generation, open debate, relentless iteration, and teamwork are key to the firm's continued expansion in a challenging market environment that has hamstrung competitors.

A hard-wired emphasis on risk management and opportunistic market participation ensure that hermeneutic research will continue its growth trajectory in the coming decades.

Job Overview

We are a discretionary crypto trading firm where traders and researchers make high-conviction decisions using proprietary data, tools, and workflows.

Our edge depends not only on the quality of our people, but also on the internal systems that help them investigate markets, test ideas, understand risk, and act quickly with confidence. This is a founding Head of Product role. Today, product work is handled across trading, research, and engineering.

Your mandate is to build the product function from the ground up: discovery, prioritization, requirements, roadmap ownership, product quality, adoption, and eventually the team. At our firm, “product” means internal, proprietary systems built for our own traders, researchers, and engineering teams.

We do not build retail products, and we do not serve external customers. Your users are expert practitioners inside the firm. Your job is to understand their workflows deeply, identify the highest-leverage problems, and ensure engineering builds the right systems to solve them. You will start hands-on.

You will sit with traders and researchers, understand real decisions and investigations, write the early requirements yourself, and establish the standards for how product work should be done. As the scope grows, you will hire and lead a small product team while stayi