Product Manager (Protocol)

About This Opportunity

Our talent team at Get A Job.ai is representing a confidential DeFi organization seeking a Product Manager to guide protocol development and strategy. This role sits at the intersection of blockchain infrastructure, lending markets, and ecosystem growth, working with a protocol team to define what gets built and why.

You will own product direction for core protocol initiatives, translating user needs and technical possibilities into a clear roadmap that balances complexity, impact, and market opportunity. This is a high-ownership role in a fast-moving environment where your decisions will shape how financial infrastructure evolves.

Responsibilities

• Own the protocol roadmap, defining the highest-impact problems to solve and sequencing opportunities against organizational goals, user needs, technical constraints, and ecosystem dynamics
• Build and run continuous discovery with curators, distributors, integrators, developers, and protocol users to understand workflows, pain points, and emerging needs
• Translate user and market insights into clear product requirements, decision frameworks, and success criteria that enable protocol and engineering teams to move quickly with strong rationale
• Partner closely with protocol, engineering, research, security, legal, solutions, partnerships, and marketing to take initiatives from exploration through design, implementation, audit, launch, and adoption
• Evaluate product and technical tradeoffs, including when to extend the protocol, improve surrounding infrastructure, enable partners, or deliberately avoid adding complexity
• Define and track signals that show whether protocol initiatives are working, combining quantitative data with ecosystem feedback to guide iteration and future investment
• Communicate product direction, decisions, tradeoffs, and release implications clearly to internal teams and external stakeholders
• Improve how product decisions are made and documented as the protocol ecosystem scales

What We're Looking For

Required Experience & Skills:

• 5+ years building technical products in complex or fast-changing environments
• Proven track record taking products or major features from ambiguous problem spaces through launch and iteration
• Strong technical fluency with ability to reason about system design and constraints, engage deeply with engineers and researchers, and translate technical concepts for non-technical audiences
• Excellent product judgment: ability to distinguish important user problems from requests, make principled tradeoffs, and focus teams on the work with greatest impact
• Strong user discovery and synthesis skills, with ability to uncover needs across different user types and turn incomplete or conflicting inputs into clear direction
• Experience leading cross-functional work without relying on formal authority
• Ability to define success, use quantitative and qualitative evidence, and adapt direction as new information emerges
• Excellent written and verbal communication, especially in async environments
• Comfort creating clarity and driving decisions in highly ambiguous contexts
• Strong ownership and autonomy with team-first mindset and low ego

Nice to Have:

• Experience in crypto, DeFi, traditional finance, or fintech
• Familiarity with lending markets, smart contracts, or permissionless protocols
• Experience shipping products with significant security, audit, regulatory, or governance considerations

How We Work With You

When you apply through Get A Job.ai, one of our recruiters will screen your background and discuss the opportunity in detail. If there's a strong match, we'll submit your profile to our client for consideration. Please do not contact the client directly—all communication should flow through our team to ensure the best experience for everyone involved.

This role is based in Paris or available remotely within GMT-5 to GMT+2 time zones to ensure sufficient overlap with the team.

Pay

Compensation details will be discussed during the screening process and are competitive within the DeFi and protocol development space.

Equal Opportunity: Get A Job.ai welcomes applicants from all backgrounds. We evaluate candidates based on skills, experience, and potential without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, or any other protected characteristic.