Senior Product Manager, Fintechs & Exchanges

Role Description

We’re hiring a Senior Product Manager to drive onchain adoption by fintechs and centralized crypto exchanges in the Optimism ecosystem.

• Lead the Fintech & Exchange Roadmap: Define and execute product strategy across integrations, SDKs, and infrastructure that help fintechs and exchanges embed onchain services into their platforms.
• Champion the Customer: Build deep expertise in fintechs and exchanges, understanding their needs around compliance, custody, and user experience. Translate those needs into products and partnerships that deliver measurable value.
• Drive Adoption of Onchain Services: Launch and scale products that make it easier for enterprises to offer yield, trading, payments, and other onchain financial products to their users.
• Partner with the Ecosystem: Collaborate and coordinate with DeFi protocols, infra providers, custodians, and chain operators to accelerate ecosystem growth.
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work with engineering, BD, design, and marketing to bring new products from concept to launch and iterate quickly.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product management experience, ideally in fintech, consumer finance apps, or centralized crypto exchanges.
• Direct experience with onchain/DeFi products is a strong plus.
• Strong ability to engage with enterprise partners, uncover pain points, and translate them into actionable product requirements.
• Comfortable working across custody, wallet infra, and protocol integrations to inform product decisions.
• Solid understanding of fintech product mechanics (e.g., trading, lending, payments) or exchange infrastructure.
• Thrives in fast-moving environments with shifting priorities and rapidly developing regulatory landscape.
• Excellent written and verbal skills; able to articulate complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Belief that blockchains can make financial services more open, efficient, and accessible to anyone.

Company Description

OP Labs builds Optimism, an open-source blockchain network that powers the next generation of financial infrastructure.

• Hundreds of companies, from the world's largest enterprises like Sony, Coinbase, Kraken, Uniswap, OKX, and Bitpanda to the most ambitious early-stage builders, use the OP stack to launch their own blockchains and bring their users onchain.
• Today, over 65% of Layer 2 activity on Ethereum runs through the OP stack.
• We’re remote-friendly but the NYC office is our center of gravity.
• We've raised $178M from a16z, Paradigm, and others.