Product Manager (Protocol)

The role

This person will shape product strategy and guide execution for Morpho's core lending infrastructure. They will turn user and ecosystem partner needs into a focused roadmap and work with protocol and engineering teams to drive improvements from discovery to launch.

What you will do

• Own the roadmap for Morpho's protocol team.
• Build and run a continuous discovery process with protocol users.
• Translate user and market insights into clear product requirements and decision frameworks.
• Partner with protocol, engineering, research, security, legal, solutions, partnerships, and marketing teams.
• Evaluate product and technical tradeoffs.
• Define and track signals to show if protocol initiatives are working.
• Communicate product direction and decisions to internal and external stakeholders.
• Improve how product decisions are made and documented.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years building technical products in complex or fast-changing environments.
• Proven track record taking products or major features from ambiguous problem spaces through launch and iteration.
• Strong technical fluency to reason about system design and constraints.
• Excellent product judgment.
• Strong user discovery and synthesis skills.
• Experience leading cross-functional work without relying on formal authority.
• Ability to define success and use quantitative and qualitative evidence.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, especially in an async environment.
• Comfort creating clarity and driving decisions in highly ambiguous contexts.
• Strong ownership and autonomy.
• Team-first mindset, low ego.

Nice to have

• Experience in crypto, DeFi, traditional finance, or fintech.
• Familiarity with lending markets, smart contracts, or permissionless protocols.
• Experience shipping products with significant security, audit, regulatory, or governance considerations.
• Experience working with research & development teams

Benefits

• Fair, top-tier compensation
• Real flexibility
• Time together in Paris
• Great health coverage
• Support to keep learning

About the company

Morpho is a leading Decentralized Finance (DeFi) lending protocol backed by several investors including a16z crypto and Paradigm. It aims to build an open credit network to provide access to the best possible terms.