Lead DeFi Product Manager — EU Remote & Stock Options

Bitpanda; Wien; Remote; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock option plan

OpenUP coaching & mental health

Udemy courses

Job summary

Bitpanda is seeking a Lead Product Manager, DeFi to build our DeFi ecosystem from the ground up, making crypto-backed borrowing and lending safe, accessible, and intuitive for customers across Europe.

You’ll work in a senior team with smart contract engineers and Risk, Legal, and Compliance, shaping Vision Chain and selecting partners, with EU MiCA knowledge and a focus on regulated consumer products. Remote in the EU.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of Product Management experience, with at least 3+ years focused on DeFi/crypto products.
• Deep knowledge of lending markets: collateral and liquidation mechanics, interest rate models, oracles.
• Proficiency with the EVM and Solidity; able to discuss with engineers and QA.
• Experience bringing DeFi apps into regulated consumer products.
• Ability to lead through influence and write clear business cases with English documentation.
• Strong working knowledge of EU crypto regulations (MiCA) for Risk, Legal, Compliance collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Design and run the lending markets: set loan-to-value and liquidation thresholds, interest rate curves, caps, and oracles; own monitoring and incident playbooks.
• Attract liquidity to permissioned markets: set supply targets, bring euro liquidity from stablecoin issuers, institutional lenders, vaults and market makers; define user onboarding.
• Ensure DeFi infrastructure for permissioned tokenized assets: DEX liquidity, liquidators, oracles and core components.
• Define what customers see in the Bitpanda app, including risk and liquidation explanations; measure usage, bad debt, and revenue beyond TVL.
• Select protocols and partners for Vision Chain; work with Legal, Compliance and Risk from day one on EU consumer credit rules and MiCA.

Skills

Product Mgmt

DeFi / Crypto

Lending markets

EVM & Solidity

Regulated consumer products

Influence & leadership

MiCA knowledge

Job description

Bitpanda is seeking a Lead Product Manager, DeFi to build our DeFi ecosystem from the ground up, making crypto-backed borrowing and lending safe, accessible, and intuitive for customers across Europe.

You’ll work in a senior team with smart contract engineers and Risk, Legal, and Compliance, shaping Vision Chain and selecting partners, with EU MiCA knowledge and a focus on regulated consumer products. Remote in the EU.