Technical Product Manager-office- $75K – $100K- Paris, France

Description

Kiln is now part of the prestigious French Government program #FT120 from La French Tech! 🎉 🇫🇷

As a technical product manager at Kiln, you will oversee our Kiln Connect product. This is our developer-facing API product enabling our customers to whitelabel Earn functionality into their products (i.e offer yield on any crypto asset) through a single abstraction for all assets. This API is used by top fintechs & crypto players such as Revolut, Crypto.com, and Ledger.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in the product vision, strategy, and roadmap. Contribute to the entire product lifecycle, from ideation to integration, ensuring timely delivery and high-quality standards
• Define product requirements, ensuring alignment with business objectives and customer needs
• Communicate internally and externally about product requirements.
• Engage with customers (exchanges, wallets, asset managers…), gathering feedback, identifying pain points, and facilitating product onboarding
• Analyze product performance metrics, making data-driven decisions to optimize and improve
• Stay up to date with the latest developments in the crypto industry, identifying opportunities for product enhancements and new feature developments

Requirements:

• 2+ years of experience in product management (not as PO or project manager)

• Demonstrated pro experience or strong interest in the crypto sector:
  • Either a first professional experience in the crypto industry,
  • Or a very strong personal interest in the sector that can be demonstrated during the interview process (used DeFi, ran validators…).

• Technical background (exp in backend with APIs) and work well with engineering teams
  • You are sufficiently curious and motivated to dig into the details of how products work and can explain complex technical concepts
• Analytical mind and rigorous communication. You enjoy and are good at synthesising complex information and conveying your learnings, both in oral and written formats
• Strong product acumen, you have opinions about great products and can put yourself in the shoes of both a retail and B2B user in the staking space
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced startup/scaleup environment, with first-hand experience

Nice-to-have:

• French-speaking.

About Kiln:

Kiln is the leading enterprise-grade rewards platform that enables institutional customers to stake assets and integrate staking & DeFi functionality into their offerings. Our API-first platform provides fully automated validators, staking & DeFi protocols access, and comprehensive data and commission management.

With $13+ billion in crypto assets staked through our platform, Kiln has established a strong presence on Ethereum, managing over 4.3% of the network through 45,000+ validators — all with zero slashing events.

Kiln serves more than 140 leading customers, including Binance, BitPanda, Bitgo, Fireblocks, VanEck, and TrustWallet.

Our team of 100 ecosystem enthusiasts brings experience from industry leaders like Google, Circle, Ledger, Chainalysis, and other prominent technology and cryptocurrency companies.

We’ve raised $30M in total funding from prominent investors including 1kx, Crypto.com, Illuminate Financial, Consensys, Wintermute, Kraken Ventures…

Join Kiln and help us make the web more secure, stable, decentralized, and fair!

Compensation & Package

At Kiln, our values drive us: Technical Excellence ensures top security and usability; Innovation-Driven Meritocracy elevates groundbreaking ideas; Trust and Transparency build reliability through open communication; and People First keeps our team and clients at the heart of everything we do.

• 15% OKR Bonus
• A fast-paced, bureaucracy-free work environment
• Equity share options in the business: if Kiln succeeds, we all succeed!
• Competitive salary
• Flexible holiday
• Flexible remote working
• Internet allowance (50€/$)
• Personal development budget (books, training)
• Overseas tech conferences budget

Keypoin:

2+ years of experience in product management (not as PO or project manager)

Demonstrated pro experience or strong interest in the crypto sector: Either a first professional experience in the crypto industry, Or a very strong personal interest in the sector that can be demonstrated during the interview process (used DeFi, ran validators…).

Technical background (exp in backend with APIs) and work well with engineering teams

Strong product acumen, you have opinions about great products and can put yourself in the shoes of both a retail and B2B user in the staking space

Location

Paris, France (Office)

About

Democratizing value creation in digital assets | French Tech 120

Company Size 51-200

Headquarters France

https://www.kiln.fi/

Recruiting Tips

The hiring manager would love to see strong profiles based in or around Paris. This role is NOT remote. The successful candidate will expected to work out of the Paris office. For strong profiles outside of Paris/France, they will consider re-location (fully paid and supported by Kiln).