Junior Product Manager

Full time - Paris, London, or full remote from Western EU - from 45k + equity

As a junior product manager at Kiln, you will contribute to building out Kiln’s product suite, enabling our customers to offer yield to their users on all digital assets seamlessly. This product suite is composed of API services for transaction crafting and reporting (Kiln Connect), web products (Kiln Dashboard, Kiln Widget), and smart contracts (Kiln Onchain and Kiln DeFi).

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

• Technical background or demonstrated ability to understand technical concepts and work well with engineering teams. You are sufficiently curious and motivated to dig into the details of how products work and can explain 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 format

• 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

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 $11+ 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 93 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!

How Kiln will support you:

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.

• 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

Kiln is an Equal Opportunity Employer

We are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace where everyone is valued and respected. We welcome applications from all backgrounds, including women or persons with disabilities.

Your interview process

Our thorough process ensures the best fit for both you and Kiln, and we strive to make each step valuable and efficient.

1. Recruiter Interview (45 min)

2. Take-home test (< 3 hours)

3. Technical Interview (60 min)

4. Core Values Interview (45 min)

5. Founders Interview (30 min)

6. Offer!

Your personal information will be securely stored in our Applicant Tracking System (ATS) and will not be shared with external parties. We comply fully with GDPR regulations to protect your data and privacy.

Please note that we do not sponsor visas for persons without work authorization in your location. This role is for full-time employees only (no B2B or contractors). Thank you!