Product Owner

Interested in building in DeFi?

We’re looking for an experienced Product Manager who can help build groundbreaking DeFi products! 🚀

This is a brilliant opportunity to be involved from the ground up on the core design of an early stage DeFi startup.

Our goal is to make DeFi easier to understand, safer, and simpler to use so that people to get more from their money.

About Gro

We build DeFi products that combine innovative blockchain technology and the user experience of consumer fintech apps.

We believe DeFi is reshaping financial technology for the better, and we want to be part of it (and help more people get in as well)!

We’re based remote-first around Europe but we have small hubs in London and Berlin.

We bring the team together regular at offsites around Europe.

What you’ll do

• Define the product and marketing strategy for a leading yield aggregator protocol
• Routinely interact with our community to understand their pain points around saving and yield farming
• Own and maintain the risk management framework to respond to adverse scenarios
• Pair with designers to take points points to new features ideas, to prototyping, to user testing and production
• Work with engineers to build robust and scalable yield aggregation protocol and app
• Develop partnerships that will help more people get know Gro and get more for their money

Job requirements

We’d love to hear from you if you have the following

• 3+ years of working in fast-paced environments on retail investment products
• 3+ years leading a financial products that needed a strong understanding of risk management (e.g. stock trading, fx markets, crypto exchanges, etc.)
• Demonstrated interest in crypto and DeFi
• Ability to organise and lead user testing and customer research
• Willingness to engage with our community of users and be a spokesperson for our product team
• Strong communication skills
• Keenness to work in a fast paced start-up environment with a global team

The fun stuff!

• Competitive compensation in salary and equity.
• Swanky office space in Soho, London and Berlin for those in commuting distance…BUT…
• We’re remote first! Our teams are globally distributed throughout London, Berlin, Barcelona, Shanghai and Chengdu
• We have regular team offsites so we can come together to celebrate our successes and plan what’s next!
• We’re a truly multicultural team 🇸🇪🇪🇸🇺🇦🇨🇳🇬🇧🇵🇱🇩🇪🇦🇺🇨🇱🇮🇹
• Gro is a dynamic, early stage unit where ambition meets high performance - we deeply care about our work, about each other, and about solving hard problems.

Next steps!

If you have an interest in DeFi or crypto, love designing products and have a talent for building…we’d love to hear from you!

We’d love to check out your portfolio too! ⚡

• Apply with your CV
• Take a moment to say hi in our cover letter space - we appreciate a personal touch, but no need to overdo it or be too formal here
• What can you expect if we decide to move forward:
  • We’ll set up a call between you and our talent team to align on expectations, the process, and ask any initial questions on Gro
  • Meet with our Operations Lead, Charlie, to see if Gro is a good mutual fit
  • Meet with our Product Lead, Martin to go through some problem-solving scenarios
  • Meet with our Founder, Hannes and ask any questions that you have left
  • If it’s a thumbs up all around, you’ll be joining us on our journey! 🙌

If you don’t meet all of our requirements exactly, don’t be put off! If you’ve got a passion for DeFi and lots of exciting experiences that you can share with us, we’d love to hear from you!