Product Manager
Kaiko
Product
Paris, France
Posted on Nov 15, 2024
Founded in 2014, Kaiko is a global fintech company with offices in New York City, London, Paris, and Singapore. As a rapidly growing leader in the crypto market data and index industry, we serve financial institutions and enterprises engaged in digital assets.
What We Do
Kaiko provides financial data products and solutions, across four main business units:
Market Data: Level 1 and Level 2 data for both CeFi (Centralized Finance) and DeFi (Decentralized Finance) ecosystems, covering spot markets, derivatives, and lending protocols.
Analytics: Proprietary quantitative models and data solutions designed for pricing digital assets and assessing market risk.
Monitoring Solutions: Advanced market and blockchain monitoring tools for surveillance, compliance, and market exploration.
Indices: A diverse suite of mono-asset benchmarks and cross-asset indices, along with custom index creation and calculation agent services.
Kaiko’s products are available worldwide on all networks and infrastructures: public APIs, private & on-premises networks; private & hybrid cloud set-ups; blockchain native (Kaiko on-chain delivery).
Additionally, Kaiko’s Research publications are read by thousands of industry professionals and cited in the world’s leading media organizations. We provide original insights and in-depth analysis on crypto markets using Kaiko’s data and products.
Who We Are
We’re a team of 80 (and growing) passionate individuals with a deep interest in building data solutions and supporting the growth of the digital finance economy. We’re proud of Kaiko’s talented team and are committed to our international representation and diversity. Our people and their values are the foundation of our continued success.
About The Role
You’re part of the Kaiko’s Product Portfolio team who is in charge of designing and developing products.
Missions & Responsibilities
- As a Product Manager at Kaiko, you mainly focus on Product Life Cycle management. You will be accountable for your product line from inception to launch:
- Research: business research to design new products, new features, or incremental upgrades on existing ones, leveraging user research, market trends, competitive watches, etc.
- Product design: specifications and test cases writing, detailed and documented data on product design and how the product will be delivered to users, usable by devs to implement the product
- Product delivery: make sure specifications are clear, the technical specifications written by the tech team are aligned with the functional specifications (including ticket creation and prioritization) and deadlines are being met (progress monitoring). Once implementation is done, you’ll also be responsible for coordinating the testing phase with the help of the Operations and QA teams.
- Product launch: support marketing launch through dedicated case studies, build go-to-market with sales, and ensure Product Operations readiness to cater to new increments/products.
- As part of the day-to-day activities, you’ll also be in charge of the following missions:
- Product improvements: collect feedback from Sales, Product Operations, or clients towards continuous improvements.
- Product Innovation:
- Monitor market trends on product needs and follow up with clients to test and validate new ideas.
- Work closely with the team towards the definition of the roadmap, which shall include - in a fast-changing, maturing environment - strategic product development to position Kaiko ahead of client demand.
- Sales and client support, whether it’s taking the form of competitive due diligence, bespoke analysis for clients, or market materials. As a product expert, you may also be invited to attend client meetings to answer questions about our research or products and represent Kaiko at conferences.
Location: Paris (hybrid)
Type of contract: CDI
What we offer
25 paid holidays & RTTs
The hardware of your choice
Great health insurance (Alan)
Meal vouchers (Swile)
Contribution to your monthly gym subscription
Contribution to daily commuting
Remote-friendly
Multiple team events (annual retreat, casual drinks, etc.)
An entrepreneurial environment with a lot of autonomy and responsibilities
Talent Acquisition Process
● Call with the People team (20 min)
● Interview with the Hiring Manager (45 min)
● Technical test / Business Case (1h in meet)
● Cross team interviews with 2-3 team members (30 min)
● Offer, reference check
Diversity & Inclusion
At Kaiko, we believe in the diversity of thought because we appreciate that this makes us stronger. Therefore, we encourage applications from everyone who can offer their unique experience to our collective achievements.
