Senior Technical Product Manager

The Aave Companies are focused on innovation in Web3, and have cultivated a thriving, collaborative team environment. Valuing expertise and dedication, the Aave fam is welcoming, passionate, and eager to build great products. We celebrate differences and seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool…and we’re hiring!

The Role

We’re looking for an experienced technical product manager with a strong background in engineering who will work with the team to help drive and support development along product roadmaps. The ideal candidate will have both keen leadership and technical skills which should be leveraged to support and guide their team to help them achieve important outputs as we continue to dive deep into the exciting world of Web3.

In this role, you will help support and work closely with team members across a variety of disciplines ranging from smart contract development to frontend, backend, and QA who are eager to develop innovative and industry-shaping products and protocols.

Responsibilities

• Apply your knowledge and expertise throughout the various stages of the building and development processes of products as you work closely across teams whilst ensuring all deadlines are met with the completion of work.
• Ideate and brainstorm within your own team and across the companies to support the scope of complex technical products and protocols as well as carry out independent research to support ideas.
• Support developers along various product roadmaps to help maintain motivation and drum up excitement about what they’re building whilst also guiding them Senior Technical Product Manager 2 through blockers to ensure critical deadlines are met.
• Leverage your ability to think critically and at a fast pace to ensure all tasks are executed efficiently. Ensure your team can rely on you throughout the processes of building by establishing yourself as their main point of contact. A smooth flow of information with no miscommunications should be executed to encourage the most efficient methods of building.
• Carry out formative research that will help you understand the needs of the space and identify other opportunities in the market.
• Be the drive to your team, share your passion for the products being built, and help guide them to the celebration of successful launches.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in product management, working with cross-functional teams to deliver successful products.
• A software engineer turned PM and/or strong technical aptitude.
• Bachelors degree in a technology or business-related field.
• Ability to execute quick but informed decision making, primarily upon the launch of products whilst working in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong organization and documentation skills with the ability to write user stories, acceptance criteria, and technical infrastructure requirements as well as transforming technical specifications into easy to understand product requirements
• Interest in DeFi and Web3 is key alongside a passion for building with the governance community and creating at the forefront of the exciting technology that comes with it.
• You have built and shipped Web2 technical products at scale. Keen ability to understand technical information of a complex nature.
• Self-motivated and entrepreneurially-minded team player with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment and flat organization.
• Have strong confidence communicating with teams around hard technical challenges whilst feeling comfortable collaborating on complex technical product decisions with engineers

Benefits

• Flexible working with office based in Central London (W11) or remote
• Gym membership and daily lunch delivery perk if office-based (based on eligibility)
• Private health care
• Private Dental cover
• Pension 2
• 5 days paid holiday Front-row seat in the development of a new Web3 future and new job category
• Innovation-driven work environment

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