Sr. Product Manager

Metrics Recruitment; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Metrics Recruitment's client is seeking a Product Manager to own the end-to-end productization of a new token. The role focuses on building strategy, ecosystem, and adjacent products around the token through the token generation event and beyond.

You will drive tokenomics, incentive design, liquidity dynamics, and on-chain ecosystem growth, working with a small, scrappy team to ship practical integrations with a tier-one exchange partner, and to evolve the roadmap through pre-launch to maturity.

Qualifications

• Product-first mindset with strong product skills.
• DeFi and ecosystem fluency with tokenomics understanding.
• Builder mentality; able to work across BD, comms, and data.
• Self-directed with ability to drive from concept to shipped.
• Comfortable pre-TGE operations and token launches.

Responsibilities

• Build and nurture an ecosystem around the token to drive holding and use.
• Conceive and ship supplementary or adjacent products to extend token utility.
• Own usage and engagement as a product problem to solve.
• Find real integration points with tier-one exchange partner's products.
• Continuously evolve the roadmap through token lifecycle.

Skills

Product management

DeFi ecosystem

Tokenomics

Stakeholder management

Roadmapping

Job description

Our client is hiring a Product Manager to own the end-to-end productization of their upcoming token. The premise: a token is a product, not an event. It doesn't accrue value by being launched and left alone; it needs an owner who builds strategy, ecosystem, and adjacent products around it on an ongoing basis. This work currently sits with a small working group who carry it alongside their primary jobs. This hire takes sole, accountable ownership of it through the token generation event (TGE) and beyond.

What this role owns

• Build and nurture an ecosystem around the token, giving people real reasons to hold it, use it, and stay active with it, not just list it
• Conceive and ship supplementary or adjacent products that extend the token's utility; the first is already planned with a top-tier lending protocol, and more will need to be invented
• Own usage and engagement as a product problem to solve, not just something to report on
• Find real, practical integration points with their tier-one exchange partner's products, negotiated in good faith between two separate organizations
• Continuously evolve the roadmap as the token moves from pre-launch through multiple planned drops and into maturity

You'll be a fit if you are

• Product-first. Product is your strongest, most obvious skill. This is not a BD or marketing role wearing a product title
• DeFi and ecosystem fluent. You understand tokenomics, incentive design, liquidity dynamics, and how on-chain ecosystems actually grow, not just conventional consumer/SaaS instincts applied to crypto
• A builder, not a caretaker. Our client operates like a small, scrappy startup, and you'll pick up adjacent BD, comms, and data work because the specialist roles to hand it off to may not exist yet
• Self-directed. You can set direction with minimal structure, pull in stakeholders across two organizations, and carry initiatives from concept to shipped
• Comfortable operating pre-TGE. You'll help shape a token launch, not just optimize one that already happened

Preferred background

• Product leadership at a crypto/DeFi company that has genuinely executed and grown over the last 6-9 months, even through a difficult market
• Direct experience with tokenomics, liquid staking/restaking, incentive or points programs, or similar mechanism design is a strong plus
• Comfortable working with a much larger, established adjacent brand on integration opportunities while operating with a much smaller, faster internal team