Company Description
Launched in 2020, Venus Protocol (a.k.a. “Venus”) pushed the edges of decentralized finance through its composition of two pre-existing solutions and deployment on BNB chain, lowering the barrier to entry for millions of new users around the globe. By combining the stablecoin minting facility introduced by Maker and algorithmic money markets developed by Compound, Venus simplified the user experience and provided core capabilities that enabled decentralized finance to flourish in a single application. As a result, Venus found remarkable success and quickly rose to be one of the most widely used decentralized applications in web3.
Job Description
The current wave of cryptocurrency innovation is centered around DeFi and expanding use cases for its viability. This role is focused on building and executing a product strategy for leading offerings in that ecosystem. You will work closely with other product leaders and ecosystem partners to drive success of your program through sequencing, coordination and execution of product and partnership development and launches.
What you will work on:
- Develop a vision, product strategy, feature set and roadmap to launch offerings in a regulated environment by leveraging innovative infrastructure based on decentralized money markets and stablecoins on public and permissioned blockchains
- Work across business, product, engineering, legal and marketing to deeply understand needs, risks and gain agreement on product requirements
- Assess viability, desirability and feasibility while developing go to market strategies, ROI models and business cases to gain agreement from senior leadership developing new offerings
- Managing multiple parallel projects in discovery and delivery through iterations alongside engineering, and ensuring acceptance of feature releases
Qualifications
Must haves:
- At least 5 years experience as a Product Manager or Engineering Manager within capital markets, derivatives, or some other field related to financial engineering and trading (preferably at large bank or similar asset management environment)
- Conversant in the fundamentals of DeFi
About you:
- You have an engineering or finance degree, prior software engineering or very strong technical work experience in financial markets
- Ideally you have previous technical experience with blockchain technology. You are driven by shipping financial services built on crypto assets and public blockchain infrastructure.
- Relationship builder: Ability to build strong, lasting relationships and make connections across teams and clients
- Urgency: Instills a strong sense of urgency and focus on delivering value for the organization continually within the team.
- Perseverance: Demonstrates resilience and persistence to achieve business outcomes in the face of adversity. Compensation All full-time roles can be compensated in crypto, fiat, or some ratio of the two.
What We Do
BNB Chain Innovation is building blockchain infrastructure on the BNB Chain, giving the BNB Chain community tools for developers and enterprise solutions.
BNB Chain, formerly Binance Smart Chain, is a community-driven, decentralized and censorship-resistant blockchain, powered by BNB. It consists of BNB Beacon Chain and BNB Smart Chain (BSC), which is EVM compatible and facilitates a multi-chain ecosystem. It is the world’s largest smart contract blockchain in terms of transaction volume and daily active users. It has processed 3 billion transactions to date from 163 million unique addresses, bringing developers massive user access with ultra-low gas fees and zero downtime since inception. The ecosystem has more than 1,300 active dApps across multiple categories such as DeFi, Metaverse, blockchain games, NFT, and more.
