Product Manager

Job description

## 🌍 **About Hopae** At **Hopae**, we're building the world's most trusted digital identity platform — private, secure, and built for real life. We believe identity should be in your control — not locked behind outdated systems or centralized gatekeepers. Our product, Hopae Connect, lets businesses verify real people across borders through a single API — no need to build country-by-country integrations themselves. Our technology powers instant, privacy-first verification across fintech, credentials, supply chain, and gaming — for IDV providers, e-signature platforms, and enterprises who need identity to just work, everywhere. Backed by top global investors, Hopae operates across **Seoul, Paris, Luxembourg, and San Francisco**, bringing together exceptional talent from over 10 nationalities. We move fast, think globally, and build products that define the future of identity. ## 💡 Why You’ll Love It Here - **Global DNA:** Work with exceptional peers across Seoul, Paris, and San Francisco - **High Impact:** Build technology shaping the global trust and identity landscape - **Ownership Culture:** No micromanagement — full trust, full accountability - **Elite Standards:** Work fast, learn fast, and grow with world-class peers - **Inclusive & Respectful:** 10+ nationalities, diverse perspectives, one vision - **Growth Mindset:** Access mentorship, leadership visibility, and continuous learning ## 🎯 **What You Will Do** At Hopae, Product Managers sit at the heart of everything we build. You'll work closely with engineering, design, research, and business teams to shape products that define how the world verifies identity — at scale, across borders, and without compromise. We're hiring PMs across Hopae. **hConnect** — our core API product that lets businesses verify real people across borders through a single integration. PMs here own the developer-facing product experience, shape how enterprises and IDV providers connect to global eID systems, and drive adoption across fintech, credentials, supply chain, and gaming verticals. **Research** — our frontier team pushing the boundaries of digital identity. The current focus is building a hardware-based, in-person identification solution — a genuinely hard, genuinely new problem at the intersection of physical and digital trust. PMs here work in a more exploratory, zero-to-one environment. Across both teams, you will: - Own your product area end-to-end — from discovery and roadmap to launch and iteration - Translate complex regulatory, technical, and user requirements into clear, shippable specs - Define success metrics and hold yourself accountable to them - Work closely with engineers, designers, and legal/compliance to ship features that are both technically sound and commercially meaningful - Partner with Sales and Business Development to understand what customers need — and what the market is ready for - Communicate priorities clearly and push back when needed — you are the decision-maker for your surface area - Represent the voice of the customer internally, and the voice of the product externally ## 🧠 **Who You Are** You've shipped real products, own your decisions, and thrive without a playbook. You think in first principles, communicate with precision across time zones, and are genuinely excited about the future of digital identity. - You have a B2B SaaS background, can hold your own in a technical conversation, and understand how product decisions move deals. - You're comfortable in 0→1 territory — hardware meets software, experiments over sprints, structure built from scratch. - We're hiring across levels. Associate/Mid-level PMs (1–4 years) bring hunger and sharp thinking. Senior PMs (5+ years) set the bar for everyone who follows. ## ⚡️ **Fast Facts** - 💰 **$13.5M+ raised** from top global investors - 📦 **2.6M+ downloads** of our sd-jwt-js library - 🌍 **10+ nationalities** across 3 hubs - 🔬 **82 eID research projects** completed - 🌐 **3 projects accepted** into the OpenWallet Foundation ## 🎁 **Benefits & Culture** - Unlimited PTO - Remote-friendly work model - Real ownership from Day 1 - High-impact, global product - Multicultural, respectful team ## 🧭 Interview Process 1. Recruiter Intro Call (30 min) – Get to know Hopae 2. Functional or Technical Interview (45 min) – Dive into your skills 3. Culture Fit Conversation (45 min) – Collaboration & alignment 4. Offer 🎉 *Note: The process may vary slightly depending on the role.* ##