Paris or Western EU - full time - 100/150k€ depending on location & experience

As Lead Product Manager, you will be leading the Kiln DeFi product and ensuring it is successful for Kiln and our customers.  The role reports to our VP of Product.

Kiln DeFi enables non-custodial integrators to seamlessly offer and monetise DeFi access to their users. It also helps them streamline user interactions and improve gas efficiency. The product is live in Mainnet with an initial set of 5 integrators.

Responsibilities

• Owning the product roadmap. What we should build, when, and why, based on intuition and internal/external conversations. 

• Owning the product messaging. How do we talk about this product externally. Working with marketing on this to ensure our message is well distributed. 

• Owning the pricing and packaging. How we price and distribute this product. How we handle commercial arrangements, liability, etc. Working with commercial teams and legal on this, supporting them in the sales process. 

• Communicating all the above, ensuring teams are in sync. 

• Representing Kiln at key events and in key partner meetings. 

• [Optional] Managing product managers working on this product. This is optional as the role can either work as an individual contributor role or a manager role.. 

Requirements

• 5+ years of Product Management and/or Business experience, ideally in a B2B context.  

• Experience & track record in the crypto industry. You are working or have worked in the industry and know it well. 

• You have great product acumen and can put yourself in the shoes of both a retail and B2B user in the industry. 

• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to motivate and inspire team members.

Nice to have

• French-speaking (not a requirement). 

• Worked directly on DeFi protocols. 

Kiln’s smart contract based products in numbers

• $2.7B TVL 

• 18 integrators live in Mainnet

• See more at: explorer.kiln.fi

About Kiln:

Kiln is the leading enterprise-grade staking platform, enabling institutional customers to stake assets, and to whitelabel staking functionality into their offering. Our platform is API-first and enables fully automated validators, rewards, and data and commission management.

With over $8+ billion in crypto assets being programmatically staked, Kiln has a particularly strong track record on Ethereum as we run over 4.3% of the network; this includes 40,000+ validators with 0 slashing events.

The team is made up of over 68 ecosystem enthusiasts formerly at Google, Circle, Ledger, Chainalysis and other leading technology and cryptocurrency companies.

Join Kiln and help us make the web more secure, stable, decentralized, and fair!

How Kiln will support you:

• A fast-paced, no bureaucratic work environment

• Equity Share Options in the business: if Kiln succeeds, we all succeed!

• Competitive Salary

• Flexible holiday

• Choose your IT equipment

• Internet connection paid up to €50/month

• Significant personal development and conference budget

Your interview process:

1. Recruiter Interview (45 min)

2. Take-home test (< 3 hours)

3. Technical Interview (60 min)

4. Core Values Interview (45 min)

5. Founders Interview (30 min)

6. Offer!

Please note that we are not sponsoring visas for persons without work authorization in the EU or the UK. Thank you!