Technical Product Manager DeFi at phiLabs

Who are we?

Phi Labs is a software development company, initially spun out of Tendermint with the launch of the Archway protocol, a Cosmos-based layer 1 blockchain designed to reward dapp developers.

At our core, we are a software engineering company focused on the Cosmos SDK and CosmWasm, state-of-the-art frameworks for blockchain development. Now expanding to SUI, Solona, and other ecosystems. Over the last year we have been grooming a DeFi product and now looking to expand our team for a bleeding-edge DeFi product.

How we work

We have team members working worldwide, from the Americas, Europe to the Middle East and Asia. We are very adaptive and agile with the team workflow to stay focused and address challenges of remote and strongly distributed team. Communication is vital to us, and we rely heavily on Slack, Google Workspace, Linear, Notion, and GitHub to help us stay in sync. Most of the technology we build is free and open source.

This role is a full-time remote position, and you’re free to work from anywhere. Be advised that most team meetings occur between 6:30 am and 10:00 am Pacific Time (UTC-8/-7). If you're applying from a location where these hours are outside your usual working hours, we expect you to adapt to our meeting times.

About the Role 

Phi Labs is seeking a Technical Product Manager (DeFi) to join our engineering team. You will play an integral part of the team for a new DeFi product - Bolt Liquidity.

Phi Labs builds software from the ground up and has specialist engineering teams dedicated to protocol development, network experience, and smart contract development. You’ll be working directly with these teams to ensure the business input and the b2b user experience is represented during important decision making. You’ll also be collaborating and communicating effectively with cross-functional teams like design, growth, and operations to ensure best in class product and thoughtful strategic decisions are made at every corner.

⚡ About Bolt ⚡

Bolt is building the future of decentralized finance with a focus on liquidity efficiency, scalability, and interoperability. Our mission is to enable seamless integrations across the DeFi ecosystem, empowering protocols, wallets, and platforms to scale without friction.

What’s in it for you

📍 Remote-first company with company off-sites and retreats (2-3x year)

🌎 Flexible, dynamic environment within a diverse international team

🧑‍💻 The scope to create and build high-impact work that makes a difference in the DeFi space and blockchain industry as a whole

💸 Contract to hire - Attractive compensation package with a token allocation

✈️ Generous time off to rest, recharge, and be your best

Key Responsibilities

• Gather user and partner feedback, synthesize into PRDs and clear requirements for Engineering.

• Define success metrics (growth, spread health, oracle latency).

• Maintain roadmap (now/next/later) with stakeholders.

• Orchestrate launches (testnet → mainnet → cross-chain).

• Ensure analytics and dashboards track user behavior and pool health.

• Partner with BD/Markets to align incentives with protocol milestones.

What you will need

• Required Experience: 5-8+ years in Product Management, coupled with a robust technical background and a deep understanding of systems and engineering concepts.

  • 4+ years of experience in web3, decentralized applications (dapps) and blockchain principles.

• Highly Collaborative: you will work with engineers, sales, product managers, and other stakeholders to translate user needs and business requirements into real-world solutions.

• Analytical and data-driving mindset in decision-making; you have a passion for market research and what is required for product-market fit.

• Experience working with customers: Drive partnerships with external teams within Sui, Solana, and Ethereum to build, test, and integrate Bolt. This includes understanding their requirements, providing technical expertise, and ensuring that collaborations are seamless and productive.

• A deep understanding of one or more smart contract platforms, including CosmWasm, Ethereum Virtual Machine, Sui, and/or Solana.

• Proven track record of building and deploying production-grade web3 applications. Knowledge of best practices around user security, wallets, tx signing, etc.

• Experience with test plans and release strategies.

• Experience planning, designing and building contemporary software with a large engineering team.

• Experience hosting scrum-type meetings, agile practices, and sprint planning.

• Ability to write clear requirements, properly leverage AI to build documentation/code snippets.

• Knowledge of common software development practices like using GitHub, and philosophies including version control.

• Good communication skills + strong english skills.

Nice to have skills

• Experience deploying smart contracts on mainnet chains, specifically financial contracts in the DeFi landscape

• A strong public product persona and network to amplify amongst

• Problem-solving attitude and passion for innovation

• Be a self-starter and able to work independently

• Flexible and willing to perform other tasks as assigned

• Highly organized with great attention to detail

• Open source contributions

• Strong DegenScore