Product Manager — DeFi Products & Applications

About the Role

We're looking for a Product Manager to own and drive DeFi products spanning liquid staking, token launch infrastructure, and on-chain payment rails. You'll work at the intersection of protocol design, tokenomics, DeFi integrations, and regulatory strategy — translating complex on-chain mechanics into products that users trust and adopt.

This is a high-ownership role for someone who understands DeFi deeply and can move fluidly between smart contract mechanics, liquidity strategy, partnership development, and go-to-market execution.

Core Responsibilities

• Define product strategy, roadmap, and requirements for one or more DeFi products, balancing user experience with protocol economics.
• Design and refine tokenomics and incentive mechanisms — yield models, reward distribution, fee accrual, referral systems, and season/budget structures.
• Drive DeFi integrations and partnerships: DEX/AMM listings, lending market collateral use cases, restaking integrations, liquidity routing, and LP incentives.
• Own liquidity and treasury considerations — peg stability, liquidity depth across venues, mint/redeem arbitrage, and treasury operations.
• Partner with legal & compliance on token classification, KYC/AML, sanctions screening, jurisdictional restrictions, and securities exposure.
• Work closely with security and audit teams on smart contract risk, vault mechanics, custody, incident response, and anti-abuse safeguards.
• Drive growth: TVL and volume expansion, user/creator/staker acquisition, CEX listings, and go-to-market with ecosystem and BD partners.
• Support governance processes — parameter control, DAO/multisig operations, and upgrade workflows.

What We're Looking For

• Strong understanding of DeFi primitives: staking/liquid staking, AMMs and bonding curves, lending markets, yield mechanics, and tokenomics design.
• Experience shipping crypto/DeFi products (as PM, founder, or closely adjacent technical/strategy role).
• Comfort reasoning about smart contract mechanics, liquidity dynamics, and on-chain incentive design — you don't need to write Solidity, but you should be able to speak fluently with those who do.
• Awareness of the regulatory landscape around tokens, staking, and payments (securities, AML, tax treatment).
• Ability to balance rapid iteration with the security and risk discipline that on-chain products demand.
• Strong collaboration skills across engineering, security, legal, growth, and external partners.

Nice to Have

• Experience with restaking, LSTs, or token launch platforms.
• Background in payments, billing/metering, or fintech infrastructure.
• Familiarity with AI/compute infrastructure or decentralized compute economics.
• Existing network across DeFi protocols, market makers, exchanges, or auditors.

What we offer

Purpose: The opportunity to contribute to making AI a public good

Growth: A self-directed environment where you can take initiative to shape your role and career

Compensation: Market-competitive compensation including, for most roles, exposure to pre-launch tokens

In addition, 0G Labs is committed to the health and well being of all of our team members. To that end, we provide reimbursements towards a holistic set of experiences and courses:

• Core self: Transcendental Meditation
• Mind: Landmark Education
• Emotion: Art of Communication
• Presence: Speech Coach
• Body: Fitness, gym and exercise memberships/classes