About the company
Acala’s mission is to build and nurture the autonomous financial infrastructure of the decentralized web. Delivering on this mission will bring more financial accessibility, opportunity, and prosperity to everyone on the planet through a new, open financial system. Our core project is the Acala Network itself, which we expect to become the multichain DeFi hub built on top of Polkadot. We’ve built a suite of financial primitives including; decentralized, multi-collateral stablecoin; trustless liquid staking derivatives, and Decentralized Exchange, EVM app platform, and multichain asset router. These primitives will be used by other teams to power open DeFi innovations, and remove the need for the intermediaries that inhabit almost every conventional trust-based financial system. We have secured our support from eminent backers like Polychain, Coinbase Venture, Pantera and many more.
Job Summary
About the role
📍As a DeFi App Product Manager at Acala your goal will be to keep our Engineering team focused on building what our growing network of DeFi customers wants. You’ll need to balance data-driven UX decisions with the technical demands of an Engineering Team liaison. Examples of Products that you could work on include: 📍Acala’s Decentralised App suite for all DeFi activities Our Karura dApp suite, a sister suite for similar DeFi activities on Kusama Our EVM app platform, built upon the Polkadot blockchain network Extensions of all of these products into third party applications This is an end-to-end Product Management role, best suited to an ex-Dev who has experienced the commercial side of web-based software products. The role will benefit from an in-depth knowledge of DeFi application practices, and the common pitfalls they succumb to, but you don’t need to be a Crypto expert.
📍You’ll be taking Software Products from conception to launch, and without basic DeFi user knowledge then you may find the learning curve quite steep, but you won’t be alone. You’ll be brainstorming app possibilities with an experienced DeFi PM, as well as the Acala founders themselves, and our Engineering Team of 20+ distributed throughout China and New Zealand.
đź“ŤOur ideal candidate will be a multi-lingual (English & Mandarin Chinese) DeFi user and an experienced Software Product Manager, who has already spent some time working with blockchain applications - whether commercially successful or not. But at a minimum we need a code-fluent Product Manager with a mature interest in decentralised applications, and the general concept behind blockchain applications.
What you’ll do
đź“ŤDefine & Own Product Roadmap goals đź“ŤDefine [and re-define] functional software specifications đź“ŤNavigate workflows & wireframes with our Engineering team đź“ŤExecute UX enhancement projects đź“ŤCo-ordinate Product launches with our Community & Growth Managers đź“ŤOccasional ad-hoc projects with 3rd parties
What it takes
đź“Ť3 years of Commercial Software Product Management experience đź“ŤPassion for working with innovative Software Developers [50% of the job] đź“ŤA Demonstrable methodology for increasing efficiency across teams đź“ŤFluent English & Mandarin Chinese đź“ŤA Software Engineering background is beneficial
What we offer
📍Competitive contract-based compensation (you’ll have to invoice us from wherever you are) 📍Flexible working hours within Pacific timezones 📍Collaborative, transparent and empowering work culture 📍Meaningful work on creating better technologies for a fairer future 📍Opportunity to work in a multinational, high-performance team with diverse backgrounds
