Senior Product Manager, Aqua

Join 1inch as a Senior Product Manager for Aqua, focusing on product strategy, vision, and long-term business success in the DeFi space. Remote work opportunity with a competitive salary. 1inch is a decentralized exchange aggregator that aims to provide the best prices for users by finding the most efficient trading routes across various liquidity sources.

• •Own Aqua’s long-term business success, product outcomes, vision, strategy, competitive positioning, value proposition and multi-year roadmap.
• •Maintain a structured product portfolio with clear priorities, measurable objectives and success metrics aligned with company goals.
• •Evaluate roadmap initiatives as investments by balancing customer value, financial return, engineering cost, technical feasibility and risk.
• •Lead product discovery through customer research, hypothesis validation, experimentation and measurable learning.
• •Build and defend evidence-based investment cases using opportunity sizing, on-chain data, competitive benchmarking and cost-benefit analysis.
• •Define meaningful product KPIs and evaluate whether product investments deliver their intended business outcomes.
• •Use approved AI tools for strategic analysis, market research, product discovery, business-case development and documentation, while validating outputs and retaining accountability for decisions.
• •Monitor competitors and technological, regulatory, macroeconomic and market developments, translating relevant insights into roadmap decisions.
• •Assess smart contract, protocol, liquidity, operational, financial, market and security risks before making strategic product decisions.
• •Align cross-functional teams around Aqua’s long-term vision and communicate priorities, trade-offs, risks and product performance to technical, non-technical and executive audiences.

• •1inch is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to evaluating all candidates on the basis of their skills, experience, and potential — regardless of race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, age, religion, disability, or any other characteristic.
• •We believe diverse teams build better products, and we welcome applications from all backgrounds.
• •We use AI-assisted tools to help us review applications efficiently. These tools support our recruitment team but do not make decisions on our behalf — every application is reviewed by a person before any outcome is determined. No offer or rejection is made solely based on AI.

• •You have at least six years of product management experience owning complex technology products, defining product strategy and delivering long-term business outcomes.
• •You have exceptional, hands-on DeFi expertise and first-hand experience using and critically evaluating DeFi protocols.
• •You can explain AMM and RFQ design trade-offs, reason about MEV and solver and resolver economics, and evaluate intent-based execution architectures.
• •You have deep knowledge of liquidity aggregation, liquidity provisioning, market microstructure, execution quality and protocol economics across decentralised and centralised venues.
• •You have working knowledge of solver networks, intents, cross-chain execution and advanced routing architectures.
• •You understand smart contract security, protocol risk, operational resilience and security-by-design principles.
• •You have demonstrated experience leading structured product discovery, building business cases and defending product investments before executive leadership.
• •You have strong analytical and communication skills, with the ability to turn technical, commercial, financial and customer information into clear decisions for different audiences.
• •You have practical experience using AI tools for product research, analysis, decision-making and delivery, and can validate AI-generated outputs while maintaining accountability for decisions.