Who are we?
IOHK, is a technology company focused on Blockchain research and development. We are renowned for our scientific approach to blockchain development, emphasizing peer-reviewed research and formal methods to ensure security, scalability, and sustainability. Our projects include decentralized finance (DeFi), governance, and identity management, aiming to advance the capabilities and adoption of blockchain technology globally.
We invest in the unknown, applying our curiosity and desire for positive change to everything we do. By fueling creativity, innovation, and progress within our teams, our products and services are designed for people to be fearless, to be changemakers.
What the role involves:
The future of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology depends on decentralized governance. IO Global, the blockchain engineering company that created Cardano, is looking for an experienced Product Manager.
You will be focused on enabling Bitcoin (BTC) to interact seamlessly with the Cardano ecosystem through the development of enhanced Bitcoin (eBTC). The workstream’s complexity requires dedicated oversight to ensure technical execution, stakeholder collaboration, and timely product delivery. The successful candidate will address challenges related to the development and implementation of secure, trustless cross-chain transactions.
This role requires well-developed analytical and creative skills, a strong strategic and objective-driven mindset, and the maturity to interface with senior stakeholders.
As a Product Manager at IOG, you will be responsible for incorporating feature requests into the product roadmap, refining and prioritizing backlog, developing user stories and defining acceptance criteria. You will work closely with the product scrum teams to clarify requirements, balance business needs with technical requirements, and recommend alternative technical approaches to meet product requirements when needed. You will be excellent at identifying user needs and working with cross-functional teams to manage product releases.
- Guiding the product lifecycle from inception to securing its first users, laying the foundation for growth and long-term success
- Leading and managing a multifaceted product development effort that spans multiple organizations and platforms
- Taking ownership of the end-user experience for a complex technical protocol, ensuring it is intuitive, accessible, and effective
- Strategically positioning the product in the market, aligning its features and benefits with user needs and industry trends to maximize its impact
- Coordinating inputs from stakeholders ranging from executives to engineers to end users
- Synthesizing data and research into actionable insights that can be easily communicated to a non-technical audience
- Monitoring activity and creating reports
- Incorporate feature requests into product roadmap
- Refine and prioritize backlog
- Develop user stories and define acceptance criteria
- Set sprint goals
- Define acceptance criteria
- Plan releases and upgrades
- Follow progress of work and address production issues during sprints
- Analyze preferences and requests of end users
- Refine our agile methodology based on results and client feedback
- Keep track of industry trends
- Work with product managers, delivery team and tech leadership towards common goals
- Own tactical plan to achieve goals defined in product and company strategy
Requirements
Who you are:
- Minimum of five years’ experience in product
- Experience working with pre-market-fit/nascent products
- Hands-on experience managing Web3 products, such as decentralized lending platforms or trading applications, with a proven track record of delivery
- Practical experience working within the Cardano or Bitcoin ecosystems, with familiarity in their technologies and communities
- A background in product management for complex technical products, demonstrating the ability to balance technical requirements with user needs and business goals
- Familiarity with agile frameworks and ways of working
- Some experience in ideation, innovation management and facilitation highly desirable
- Understanding and experience of issue and crisis management
- Excellent writing and language skills (English)
- Good technical understanding (experience in blockchain and crypto technologies preferred)
- Experience in conflict resolution methodologies
- A strong technical understanding of Bitcoin and Cardano, or similar blockchain protocols such as Ethereum or Polkadot
- Expertise in bridging protocols and blockchain interoperability, with a focus on enabling seamless interaction between ecosystems
- A solid grasp of decentralized finance (DeFi), including mechanisms behind decentralized market-making protocols and lending platforms
- Maturity and solid judgment to engage with senior stakeholders
- Analytical ability to design and improve processes
- Curious with growth-mindset
- Team player with an ability to build relationships internally and externally
- Excellent listening skills and high emotional intelligence
- Have strong leadership skills, be resourceful and use initiative
- Demonstrate competency with requirements elicitation, analysis, specification, verification, and management practices and the ability to apply them in practice.
- Develop productive relationships with a variety of levels and roles and manage user expectations effectively.
- Leverage strong interpersonal skills to drive innovation in product development with a team of world-class engineers and Scientists.
- Have exemplary people and communications skills coupled with the savvy and maturity needed to garner the respect of senior management and clients.
- Have a keen interest in Blockchain and Cryptocurrency technology developments and trends in the product landscape.
- Keep up to date with the status of competitors from a technical and business perspective.
Are you an IOGer?
Do you find yourself questioning the status quo? Do you tinker with ideas and long to turn those ideas into solutions? Are you able to spark thoughtful debates, bringing out the inquisitiveness in others? Does the promise of continuously growing excite you? Then get ready to reimagine everything you thought wasn’t possible because that’s what it means to be an IOGer - we don’t set limits, we break them.
Benefits
- Remote work
- Laptop reimbursement
- New starter package to buy hardware essentials (headphones, monitor, etc)
- Learning & Development opportunities
- Competitive PTO
At IOG, we value diversity and always treat all employees and job applicants based on merit, qualifications, competence, and talent. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
