Product Manager

Centrifuge builds the infrastructure that connects real-world assets to onchain capital. We’ve partnered with S&P Dow Jones Indices, brought Janus Henderson’s AAA CLO strategy onchain, and crossed $1.7B in TVL on our platform. Backed by ParaFi Capital, Greenfield, Circle Ventures, and Coinbase, we’re building the open operating stack for onchain finance.

### What you’ll do - **Shape product direction:** Define features and workstreams in collaboration with the Head of Product. Translate protocol-level strategy into concrete product decisions. - **Drive planning and delivery:** Work with engineering on priorities, scoping, and execution. Speak the same language as the team and unblock progress. - **Validate with data:** Ground product decisions in on-chain data, user research, and competitive analysis. Identify what’s working and what isn’t. - **QA before launch:** Catch gaps early, understand the technical surface, and make sure what ships actually works for users. - **Leverage AI tooling:** Use AI effectively to accelerate spec writing, research, and documentation. - **Research and distill:** Investigate technical and competitive questions and surface what matters to the team. - **Own features end-to-end:** As you ramp up, take full ownership of workstreams from problem definition through shipping.

### What we’re looking for - **Technical background:** You’ve written code professionally or as a serious side pursuit. You can read a smart contract, review a PR, and hold your own in an architecture discussion. - **DeFi fluency:** Real experience using DeFi protocols. You can speak to wallet flows, gas dynamics, signing UX, and the rough edges users actually hit. - **Strong product instincts:** You know when something is off, you push for clarity, and you care about the details that make a product feel right. - **Clear written communication:** You can write a spec, a ticket, or a Slack message that doesn’t need a follow-up to clarify. - **Async-ready:** Comfortable with remote work and self-directed time management. ### Even better if you have - Experience building or contributing to DeFi protocols, dApps, or on-chain infrastructure. - Familiarity with on-chain data tooling — indexers, subgraphs, GraphQL. - Interest or background in finance — fund structures, NAV, subscription/redemption mechanics, custody, compliance. - Experience with RWA protocols, tokenization platforms, or structured credit products.

### Why join us - **Mentorship:** Close mentorship from the Head of Product — real exposure to how product decisions are made at the protocol level. - **Impact:** A front-row seat to one of the most interesting spaces in crypto: real-world asset tokenization, cross-chain infrastructure, and institutional DeFi. - **Momentum:** Work alongside top-tier partners bringing trillions of dollars in assets onchain, with rapid ecosystem growth. - **Culture:** A team that’s low on politics and high on building. Competitive compensation.

Centrifuge World is the largest centrifuge rebuilder and provider in the United States, specializing in repairing, reconditioning, buying, and selling industrial centrifuges from major brands like Sharples, Alfa Laval, Bird, Westfalia, and others. They serve industries including pharmaceuticals, food, chemicals, power, petrochemical, oil, and related sectors, with locations in Chicago, IL, and Houston, TX, operating since 1939.[1][5]