Royal is creating an open market for true ownership of music.
For the first time, artists can share music rights directly with fans, building a new revenue stream that empowers them to retain control over their work.
Music ownership has been limited to labels and private equity groups — a setup that has resulted in only 12% of recorded music revenue
going to artists (and 0% going to fans). With royal, artists create more value for their music, powering their career while taking their fans on the journey with them.
This is the beginning of an era where artists and fans see each other as partners. Royal is at the forefront of this movement, developing new technologies leveraging the blockchain to unlock the power of ownership both for artists and fans.
Product managers are key contributors to define who and what we do at royal. You will be a pioneering a new industry and setting the standard for others to follow. Your role as a Product Manager will be to uphold the quality of thinking that informs what the team does and set the pace of that work.
What you will do...
- Directly drive top-line revenue by introducing new Payments products that enable the Royal ecosystem to function.
- Accountable for the roadmap for Royal’s payments, define product requirements, and own partnerships to support new product initiatives. You deeply understand the payments industry and are able to apply that knowledge to make web3 accessible.
- Understand user and business needs, research solutions, evaluate options, and lead stakeholders through tradeoffs.
- Develop, communicate, and align your product vision with designers, engineers, finance, legal and other stakeholders.
- This is a highly technical role, where you will be expected to understand and communicate the complexities of the payments industry, especially as it relates to technology, compliance, risks and the implementation of payment solutions.
- Partner with marketing, communications and other team members to determine GTM strategy for new feature and product releases.
- Define new products and features with strategy docs, forecasting, specs, wireframes, and user flows. Own and drive execution of team roadmap.
What you have...
- Previous product management experience (at least 4+ years), preferably with a consumer-facing crypto or fintech product.
- Experience launching new payment methods or partner integrations within the traditional payments ecosystem of gateways, PSPs, payment networks, merchant services providers, issuers, and acquirers is desirable.
- Experience launching new payment methods or partner integrations within the crypto payments ecosystem of onramps and offramps, across both card payments and ACH/SEPA.
- Proven ability to work directly with stakeholders, customers, and technical teams.
- Proven ability to clearly articulate business needs and turn those into written requirements.
- Ability to clearly define complex technical requirements and craft high quality solutions while accounting for and weighing edge cases.
- A drive to question assumptions and define and validate hypotheses.
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Royal has an office in Austin, TX and employees located throughout the United States. We value diversity on our team reflecting the diversity of music.
We are crypto natives who have built top consumer tech product, with leaders from Instagram, dYdX, Youtube, Opendoor, Cooley, Andreessen Horowitz and other top technology and music companies. We are musicians, producers, DJs and visual artists.
Royal is well capitalized from leading venture firms Founders Fund, Paradigm, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Atomic and a long list of top angel investors and artists.
Our co-founders:
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Justin Blau performs as 3LAU and has created over $20 million in music NFTs
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JD Ross co-founded Opendoor (NASDAQ:$OPEN) and was general partner at Atomic Ventures (co-founders of Hims & Hers + over a dozen startups)