About the Role
Ankr is looking for a senior technical product manager for the DeFi team to steer a close-knit team offour backend engineers, two frontend engineers, a QA, a designer, and a DevOps engineer. Your goalis to keep our liquid-staking and DeFi initiatives moving, launch new products on schedule, and spotfresh opportunities across multiple chains.Key Responsibilities•Own the product life-cycle – from discovery and scoping through launch and iteration.•Guide the team’s Agile process in Jira and Confluence: refine backlogs, write clear user stories,track velocity, and surface blockers early.•Deliver on time – balance scope with capacity, negotiate trade-offs, and protect deadlines.•Protect live protocols – run thorough automated and manual monitoring, track health metricssuch as collateral ratios, and enforce disciplined deploy and review routines so user funds staysafe.•Follow DeFi narratives across EVM and non-EVM ecosystems (Cosmos, Solana, Sui, andothers) and translate market signals into roadmap updates.•Support Sales and B2B clients – assess new protocols quickly, shape compelling valuepropositions, join prospect calls, and stay engaged after contract signature to resolve issuespromptly.•Make clear decisions – handle what you can independently, escalate when needed, and takeownership of outcomes.•Bridge developers and non-technical stakeholders, ensuring priorities and trade-offs areunderstood on both sides.•Define success metrics and rely on data (Grafana dashboards, on-chain analytics, userinsights) to guide priorities.What We’re Looking For•5+ years in product management, at least 2 of those focused on blockchain or DeFi.•In-depth knowledge of liquid staking, CDPs, lending/borrowing, money markets, andtoken-economics.•Proven experience delivering software on schedule with Agile teams using Jira andConfluence.•Ability to interpret smart-contract code and on-chain data to gauge feasibility and risk.•Direct involvement in B2B sales and client success for technical products; strongcommunication and problem-solving skills.•A decisive mindset, with a clear sense of when to act independently and when to escalate.•Excellent written and spoken English for specifications, documentation, and clientconversations.Nice to Have•Experience with non-EVM blockchains such as Cosmos SDK, Solana, or Sui.•Past roles in engineering or solutions architecture.•Familiarity with analytics tools like Mixpanel, Dune, or custom Grafana boards for protocol anduser metrics.
