Head of Product

About Rift

Rift is an ecosystem of decentralized products servicing DAOs. Blockchains have given us new mechanisms to coordinate people and capital at a global scale. Rift is building the infrastructure to support the experimentation and growth of these new communities. Our first product enables a novel form of protocol owned liquidity for DAOs, establishing a sustainable financial foundation on which they can build and grow. We ran a private beta in the fall of 2021 with leading DAOs including Terra, Fantom, and Injective, capped at $50 million in deposits, that demonstrated the power and utility of our first product.

Rift is backed by leading investors including Pantera, Two Sigma Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Spartan Group, DeFiance Capital, Jump Capital, Hashed, and ecosystem funds like Blizzard by Avalanche, Terra, Fantom, and Injective. Angel investors include Stani Kulechov of Aave, Do Kwon of Terra, Sandeep Nailwal of Polygon, and more.

Join us at Rift. We’re building a future that re-centers the individual in the internet, creating a disintermediated global economy. If you want to work with an aggressively ambitious team, create tools that will control billions of dollars, and participate in the asymmetric financial upside of creating foundational internet infrastructure, come help us build the future of finance.

About the Role

Run our product development engine.

Responsibilities

• Be Rift’s primary product leader – design upgrades to our current offerings & new products, while simultaneously executing on daily operations (work with engineering and design team to establish short term goals and ensure they’re being met)
• Obtain feedback from current users of the product and create plans to upgrade the Rift protocol according to this feedback
• Work with founders to design new products within the Rift ecosystem
• Coordinate with designers and engineers to ensure the product is on track to hit goals that you’ve established
• As Rift scales, your responsibilities will also grow – you will have the opportunity to build out a product team to scale our organization with new products and help support your vision for the company and protocol ecosystem.

Requirement

• Ambitious - we are a team of extremely motivated, hard working individuals and we are looking for any new team member to match our drive.
• Technical - designing DeFi products requires deep expertise in the current ecosystem. You’ll be working with engineers across the stack, and you must be able to communicate effectively at a technical level.
• Organization and planning - must be able of define efficient process for our product pipeline and be organized to follow through with it, keep everyone on the team on track
• Teamwork - works collaboratively well, since they will be working with cross functional teams.
• Openness to ideas / criticism - solicits feedback, reacts calmly to criticism or negative feedback.
• Experienced - 4-7 years of experience as a product manager or technical product manager, and either a strong understanding of the DeFi ecosystem, or a clearly demonstrated willingness to learn.

This role is offered by Recursive Labs, an open source R&D company building protocols, tools, and services for the future internet. The team is contributing to the Rift Finance ecosystem.

Recursive Lab’s benefits include competitive compensation, unlimited PTO, medical, dental, and vision insurance, a setup at our NYC headquarters, working with high caliber team members, and more!