Product Manager II, DeFi Borrow
CoinbaseThis Product Manager role focuses on the DeFi Borrow product area within a fintech platform. You will manage crypto-backed lending flows and integrate onchain protocols into consumer-facing web and mobile experiences.
What you’d own
- End-to-end DeFi Borrow experience across web and mobile
- Multi-year roadmap for loan origination, management, and refinancing
- Cross-functional execution with Risk, Compliance, Legal, and Finance
- Operational runbooks, on-call preparedness, and incident playbooks
Who it’s for
A fit if you…
- ✓5+ years of experience in consumer/prosumer financial products
- ✓Experience with lending, credit, or collateralized products
- ✓Technical familiarity with smart contracts and DeFi protocols
- ✓Ability to simplify complex financial concepts for consumers
Not for you if…
- ✗You prefer a role without heavy regulatory/compliance constraints
- ✗You prefer a pure consumer experience without technical infrastructure requirements
- ✗You are looking for a standard 100% remote role without periodic in-person sessions
Reading between the lines
- The mention of 'on-call preparedness' and 'degraded-UI strategies' suggests you will be responsible for managing product stability during high-volatility market events.
- The requirement to balance 'speed, safety, and reliability' implies a complex technical environment where trade-offs between innovation and risk are constant.
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Benefits
Full job description
Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase , we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company.
Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase . The DeFi Borrow team within the Consumer Business group empowers millions of customers to unlock liquidity from their crypto assets directly inside the Coinbase Consumer app. You'll own the end-to-end product experience for crypto-backed borrowing, bridging Coinbase's centralized platform with premier onchain lending protocols to deliver simple, secure, and scalable loan flows.
In this role you'll define the next generation of onchain credit products, giving customers the power to access the funds they need without selling their investments. What you'll do: Own the DeFi Borrow product area end-to-end, from vision and strategy through execution, launch, and ongoing iteration across web and mobile. Drive the multi-year roadmap for crypto-backed loans, spanning initial borrow flows, advanced loan management, refinancing, and new product surfaces.
Define OKRs across workstreams (loan origination, positions management, liquidation, observability) and lead cross-functional teams to deliver against them. Partner with Engineering to ship resilient, scalable borrowing experiences, balancing speed, safety, and reliability across core loan workflows, state tracking, and liquidation monitoring. Collaborate with Risk, Compliance, Legal, and Finance to ensure products meet regulatory and controls expectations while preserving an excellent customer experience.
Build operational rigor through launch runbooks, on-call preparedness, degraded-UI strategies, and incident playbooks that keep DeFi Borrow reliable during market volatility. Required Skills and Experience: 5+ years of Product Management experience shipping consumer or prosumer financial products at scale, including at least one lending, credit, or collateralized product (e.g., margin, secured loans, DeFi borrowing). Demonstrated ability to define and drive multi-quarter strategy, translate it into roadmaps and experiments, and deliver measurable results against growth and portfolio-health goals.
Familiarity with onchain concepts, smart contracts, and DeFi lending protocols (e.g., Morpho, Aave, Compound) sufficient to partner effectively with engineers on integrations and loan workflows. Proven track record of using quantitative analysis (funnels, cohort behavior, risk/return tradeoffs) to inform product decisions and simplify complex financial concepts into clear, trustworthy consumer experiences. Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Pay Transparency Notice: Base salary varies by location (see range below). Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)). Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus): $180,370 — $212,200 USD Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period. Equal Opportunity Employer: Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.
Applicants with criminal histories will be considered consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws. US Applicants: View Employee Rights , Know Your Rights , and E-Verify Notice of Participation. Accommodations: If you are an individual with a disability who needs a reasonable accommodation, email us your request and contact info at accommodations[at]coinbase.com. Need screen reading technology? Click here to download a free compatible screen reader and view the tutorial .
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About Coinbase
See all roles →Coinbase is a publicly traded cryptocurrency exchange and financial services company that provides retail and institutional customers with a platform to buy, sell, and store digital assets. Beyond the core exchange, it offers a developer platform (Base), a self-custody wallet, staking services, and an institutional prime brokerage product. Coinbase went public on Nasdaq in April 2021 and has navigated significant regulatory scrutiny as one of the most prominent US-regulated crypto companies. The company employs thousands of people across a remote-first organization and has invested heavily in compliance infrastructure to operate at the regulated frontier of crypto.
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