Blockchain Product Manager

As a Product Manager your role will focus on feature development for the Acala & Karura DeFi primitives. These are; A trustless staking derivative (liquid DOT); A multi-collateralized stablecoin backed by cross-chain assets (aUSD); And an AMM DEX – all with micro gas fees that can be paid in any token.

You’ll be working closely with our Auckland-based founders on our Product Roadmap, and even closer with our decentralized Engineering Team of 10+. You'll need to balance data-driven roadmap decisions with the technical demands of an Engineering liaison, all while keeping an eye on the user's needs. Your objective will be to make this DeFi suite the most reliable and easiest way for individuals to access decentralized financial services, and for developers to build DeFi applications for the Polkadot blockchain ecosystem.

Our ideal candidate will be a DeFi SuperUser and an experienced web-based Product Manager who has already spent some time working on Ethereum-based blockchain applications, whether commercially successful or not. But at minimum as an Engineering-centric startup we need a code-fluent Product Owner or Manager with a mature interest in decentralized applications and the general concept behind Ethereum and smart contracts. If you're willing to attempt a short evaluation exercise for us, geared toward Blockchain Product Management, then we want to hear from you.

What you'll do

• Define & Develop the Acala DeFi Product Suite Roadmap for 2022 & beyond
• Work with cross-functional teams on business plans, product goals, functional requirements and testing/validation
• Own Product Development from conception to launch, and drive continuous improvement and development initiatives
• Drive technical specifications, user stories, wireframes, workflows, business rules, and test cases
• Evaluate and implement monitoring and data visibility tools to ensure reliability, stability and accuracy
• Help our team(s) design more efficient quality & automation procedures
• Align teams on a shared vision and steer execution on that vision

What it takes

• 5+ years experience in web-based software product management
• An entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to succeed in a fast-paced environment
• Deep understanding of and passion for decentralized applications
• Technical background and ability to evaluate the technological strengths and weakness of 3rd party solutions
• Demonstrable analytical problem solving skills in economic areas
• Alignment with our core values: communication, positivity, continuous learning, and efficient execution

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

More Information

• Series A statement by CEO Ruitao Su
• Web3 Grant statement by COO Bette Chen
• Coinbase investment statement by Growth VP Dan Reecer
• Get started! Try out our Testnet for yourself

Our Team
Working across New Zealand, the USA & China, our team has emerged from our shared desire for a fairer and more inclusive financial system - in direct contrast to the clear shortcomings of the current institutions that run the world. We’re just people like you but we’re also some of the world's leading blockchain innovators, from full-stack dApp developers and economists to the most influential Substrate contributor and course lecturer. Outside of our professional work our team are part-time artists and musicians, competitive CS players, a snowboard coach, a marathon runner, and some iTunes-awarded app developers.

About Acala
Acala's mission is to support and nurture the DeFi applications of the decentralized web (aka Web3) for an open and fairer financial future for everyone. The drivers of our mission are delivering financial stability, liquidity and accessibility for every human being.
Our core project is the Acala Network itself, which we expect to become the de facto DeFi parachain and stablecoin of the Polkadot ecosystem. Polkadot provides the underlying trust primitives to our parachain, upon which we’ve built our suite of financial primitives including; Multi-collateralized Stablecoin; Trustless Staking Derivatives, and Unified Decentralized Exchange. These primitives will be used by us and other teams to power open DeFi innovations, and burn away all need for the parasitic 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. We’re still preparing Acala’s parachain launch, so there’s no better time to join our mission and be a part of the future that we’re building. Because whoever you are, we’re building it for you 🚀