Senior Technical Product Manager (DeFi)

Overview

About the Role

Ankr is looking for a senior technical product manager for the DeFi team to steer a close-knit team of four backend engineers, two frontend engineers, a QA, a designer, and a DevOps engineer. Your goal is to keep our liquid-staking and DeFi initiatives moving, launch new products on schedule, and spot fresh 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 metrics such as collateral ratios, and enforce disciplined deploy and review routines so user funds stay safe.
• Follow DeFi narratives across EVM and non-EVM ecosystems (Cosmos, Solana, Sui, and others) and translate market signals into roadmap updates.
• Support Sales and B2B clients - assess new protocols quickly, shape compelling value propositions, join prospect calls, and stay engaged after contract signature to resolve issues promptly.
• Make clear decisions - handle what you can independently, escalate when needed, and take ownership of outcomes.
• Bridge developers and non-technical stakeholders, ensuring priorities and trade-offs are understood on both sides.
• Define success metrics and rely on data (Grafana dashboards, on-chain analytics, user insights) 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, and token-economics.
• Proven experience delivering software on schedule with Agile teams using Jira and Confluence.
• 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; strong communication 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 client conversations.

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 and user metrics.