Senior Product Manager, Trading

In partnership with one of the largest financial conglomerates, we are creating a secure, transparent, and high-performance trading infrastructure that can support institutional volumes while remaining accessible to retail participants. Our strategy to achieve this is by first bringing in Japanese RWAs on-chain, and then eventually all kinds of global assets. We are building a next-generation DeFi L1 blockchain powered by a decentralized exchange with a fully on-chain order book, supporting both spot and perpetual trading, and more.

• →5–8 years of product management experience, with 2+ years shipping product at an orderbook trading venue (derivatives, CEX or DEX).
• →You worked on the trading or exchange team.
• →You have owned a roadmap with market makers and institutional traders as a real stakeholder.

• Fluent in trader vocabulary: funding, basis, skew, taker / maker, ADL, oracle slippage, latency-sensitive flow.
• Familiarity with the operational mechanics of perp markets — liquidation engines, insurance funds, cross- and isolated-margin, funding rate design, mark price construction.
• Strong, specific opinions about other DEXs' product choices: what they got right, what's still open, and what you would do differently.
• You actively trade perps with non-trivial volume.

• Track record of shipping in pre-PMF environments. You can define your own surface and scope rather than executing against an inherited roadmap.
• Comfortable making decisions without a research team behind you.

• Excellent written communication. Your specs, RFCs, and memos align people without requiring meetings.
• Ability to communicate clearly with both engineers and external trading partners, in their own register.
• Japanese language proficiency is preferred but not required, given regular engagement with Japanese partners and counterparties.

• Technical enough that engineers respect you in design review.
• Comfortable reading code and understanding what's happening under the hood.

• You have launched a new orderbook trading venue from zero.

• You have done quant, market-making, or trading work yourself, in a professional or serious personal capacity.

• Experience with oracle design, liquidation auctions, or cross-margin accounting on-chain.

• Familiarity with Japanese or APAC capital markets, retail trading culture, or institutional trading workflows.
• Lending Protocols
• Familiarity with the design space of on-chain lending and money markets (Aave, Morpho, Drift's lending surface, etc.) and how they interact with leveraged trading.
• Hedging & Structured Products
• Experience with hedging desks, basis-trade flows, or structured products from traditional finance or crypto.
• Incumbent Finance Product Experience
• You have shipped product inside or alongside an incumbent financial institution — a broker-dealer, prime broker, established exchange, or asset manager — and understand how they evaluate, integrate, and operate trading venues.