Lead product discovery and user research to define Nomina’s first niche in onchain trading. Run interviews, synthesize insights, design experiments, and prioritize engineering work to rapidly iterate and achieve product-market fit.
About
We’re building Nomina: a platform allowing power users to access onchain markets and run sophisticated trading strategies in a single interface. We’re looking for early team members to help us bring this ambitious vision to life.
We’re a team who already built a platform that processed over $70M leading to our $18M fundraise from top investors including Pantera, Two Sigma Ventures, Coinbase Ventures alongside angel investors including Stani Kulechov (founder of Aave), Sandeep Nailwal (cofounder of Polygon) and more.
We are growing rapidly and we need ambitious and experienced team members to join us to help scale crypto's future.
We are growing rapidly and we need ambitious and experienced team members to join us to help scale crypto's future.
About the Role
Establish world-class product discovery practices while identifying and dominating our first niche in the onchain trading ecosystem, setting the foundation for our vision to become the go-to terminal of the onchain economy.
- Month 1
- Implement structured user research process and complete 20+ user interviews.
- Work with CEO to aggregate user interview feedback and prioritize development.
- Work with CTO to turn user feedback into concrete engineering plans.
- Month 2:
- First experiments live with measurable success criteria.
- Running user interviews reverse-shadowed by CEO.
- Running engineering standups, planning, retros, and prioritizing engineering work with CTO oversight.
- Month 3:
- Build-measure-learn loops are in full swing, iterating on the product quickly in response to constant user feedback.
- Fully owning user research conversations.
- Fully owning engineering planning and prioritization.
- You're talking to users daily and shipping improvements weekly
- Engineers come to you excited about user insights
- We have a clear thesis on our first niche within 90 days
- 5+ years of PM experience with at least 2 years in product discovery/0-to-1
- Strong working knowledge of financial products (spot, futures, yield, options, perps). Must be able to reason about how these products work, their mechanics, and what traders care about. Experience as a trader, quant, analyst, or having built in this domain is a plus
- Track record of finding PMF in ambiguous spaces
- Excellence at user research and synthesis
- Located in US or Europe
- Able to quickly and efficiently convert user research into actionable engineering work
- Customer centric orientation — actively thinks about how to improve the user experience of trading on Nomina
- User research mastery – design and execute user research, build lasting relationships with users, transform qualitative insights into quantitative experiments
- Detail oriented – every pixel matters. Ensure the user experience is perfect
- Autonomous — specifically seeks to take greater ownership and responsibility and thrives in their personal growth by doing so
- Action oriented — we are looking for people who take action by default, consistently driving forward progress without asking for permission
- Highly intelligent — learns quickly and can participate in abstract intellectually engaging conversations
- Effective communicator — clearly articulates ideas and engages in debates in a productive manner that leads us to making better decisions
- Experience with trading platforms or financial products
- Familiarity with crypto/DeFi (can be learned if you're sharp)
- Technical background (helpful but not required)
Benefits
Values
Our benefits include competitive compensation, token packages for all employees, regular team off-sites around the world and unlimited PTO. In addition, you'll join a team of high-caliber people innovating at the frontier of crypto that work collaboratively to help one another accelerate their personal growth.
Values
We are a mission driven company. We believe deeply that through software engineering we can build a self-sovereign society. In our day to day, we make decisions based upon our company values and operating principles:
Company values
- Customer centricity
- Long-term orientation
- Courage
Operating principles
- High-trust & autonomy
- Kindness & respect
- Collaboration
- Humility & low-ego
- Transparency
- Data driven
- Precise communication
- Results oriented
- “Kerplunk”: clean handoffs and acknowledgement of ownership between team members
The future belongs to all of us, independent of our origins. Nomina is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sexual orientation, gender or any other status protected under federal, state or local law.
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