1inch - Senior Product Manager, Aqua
Requirements
• You have at least six years of product management experience owning complex technology products, defining product strategy and delivering long-term business outcomes. • You have exceptional, hands-on DeFi expertise and first-hand experience using and critically evaluating DeFi protocols. • You can explain AMM and RFQ design trade-offs, reason about MEV and solver and resolver economics, and evaluate intent-based execution architectures. • You have deep knowledge of liquidity aggregation, liquidity provisioning, market microstructure, execution quality and protocol economics across decentralised and centralised venues. • You have working knowledge of solver networks, intents, cross-chain execution and advanced routing architectures. • You understand smart contract security, protocol risk, operational resilience and security-by-design principles. • You have demonstrated experience leading structured product discovery, building business cases and defending product investments before executive leadership. • You have strong analytical and communication skills, with the ability to turn technical, commercial, financial and customer information into clear decisions for different audiences. • You have practical experience using AI tools for product research, analysis, decision-making and delivery, and can validate AI-generated outputs while maintaining accountability for decisions. • Experience building liquidity aggregation, trading, execution, exchange or blockchain infrastructure products. • A background in quantitative finance, market making or electronic trading systems. • Experience working directly with protocol researchers, smart contract engineers or blockchain security specialists. • An MBA or advanced degree in Finance, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering or a related discipline. • Scrum certification.
Responsibilities
• Own Aqua’s long-term business success, product outcomes, vision, strategy, competitive positioning, value proposition and multi-year roadmap. • Maintain a structured product portfolio with clear priorities, measurable objectives and success metrics aligned with company goals. • Evaluate roadmap initiatives as investments by balancing customer value, financial return, engineering cost, technical feasibility and risk. • Lead product discovery through customer research, hypothesis validation, experimentation and measurable learning. • Build and defend evidence-based investment cases using opportunity sizing, on-chain data, competitive benchmarking and cost-benefit analysis. • Define meaningful product KPIs and evaluate whether product investments deliver their intended business outcomes. • Use approved AI tools for strategic analysis, market research, product discovery, business-case development and documentation, while validating outputs and retaining accountability for decisions. • Monitor competitors and technological, regulatory, macroeconomic and market developments, translating relevant insights into roadmap decisions. • Assess smart contract, protocol, liquidity, operational, financial, market and security risks before making strategic product decisions. • Align cross-functional teams around Aqua’s long-term vision and communicate priorities, trade-offs, risks and product performance to technical, non-technical and executive audiences.
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