Senior Product Manager, Aqua

Aqua is 1inch’s shared liquidity protocol, enabling market makers to provide liquidity directly from their own wallets and run on-chain market-making strategies, while takers access that liquidity through 1inch routing and the 1inch dApp.

As Senior Product Manager, Aqua, you will own the product domain with end-to-end accountability for its vision, strategy, roadmap and long-term business outcomes. You will define where Aqua is going, why that direction matters and how each product investment can maximise customer value, strengthen competitive advantage and create sustainable business outcomes.

You will apply deep, first-hand DeFi expertise and rigorous analysis to prioritise limited engineering capacity across customer value, commercial impact, technical feasibility, security implications and long-term strategic fit. Working closely with Engineering, Research, Security, Product Design, Business Development, Marketing, Legal and Executive Leadership, you will translate customer needs, market developments, competitive dynamics, emerging technologies and financial risks into Aqua’s direction.

What you’ll do

• 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.

Who you are

• 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.

Nice to haves

• Experience building liquidity aggregation, trading, execution, exchange or blockchain infrastructure products.

• A background in quantitative finance, market making or electronic trading systems.

• Experience working directly with protocol researchers, smart contract engineers or blockchain security specialists.

• An MBA or advanced degree in Finance, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering or a related discipline.

• Scrum certification.