Senior Product Manager, Aqua

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Aqua Product

Your Mission

Product Leadership

• Own Aqua’s long-term business success, product outcomes, vision, strategy, positioning, value proposition, and multi-year roadmap.
• Maintain a structured product portfolio with priorities, measurable objectives, and success metrics aligned with company goals.
• Evaluate roadmap initiatives by balancing customer value, financial return, engineering cost, feasibility, and risk.
• Lead customer research, hypothesis validation, experimentation, and measurable product learning.
• Build evidence-based investment cases using opportunity sizing, on-chain data, competitive benchmarking, and cost-benefit analysis.
• Define product KPIs and evaluate product investment outcomes.

Analysis and Risk

• Use approved AI tools for strategic analysis, market research, product discovery, business cases, and documentation while validating outputs.
• Monitor competitors and technological, regulatory, macroeconomic, and market developments and translate insights into roadmap decisions.
• Assess smart contract, protocol, liquidity, operational, financial, market, and security risks before strategic product decisions.
• Align cross-functional teams and communicate priorities, trade-offs, risks, and performance to technical, non-technical, and executive audiences.

Required Qualifications

• At least six years of product management experience owning complex technology products and delivering long-term business outcomes.
• Exceptional hands-on DeFi expertise and first-hand experience using and critically evaluating DeFi protocols.
• Ability to explain AMM and RFQ design trade-offs, MEV, solver and resolver economics, and intent-based execution architectures.
• Deep knowledge of liquidity aggregation, liquidity provisioning, market microstructure, execution quality, and protocol economics.
• Working knowledge of solver networks, intents, cross-chain execution, and advanced routing architectures.
• Understanding of smart contract security, protocol risk, operational resilience, and security-by-design principles.
• Experience leading structured product discovery, building business cases, and defending product investments before executive leadership.
• Strong analytical and communication skills across technical, commercial, financial, and customer information.
• Practical experience using AI tools for product research, analysis, decision-making, and delivery.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building liquidity aggregation, trading, execution, exchange, or blockchain infrastructure products.
• Background in quantitative finance, market making, or electronic trading systems.
• Experience working 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.