Senior Product Manager, Trading

Startale Group

Senior Product Manager responsible for product strategy and interface for orderbook trading on DeFi platform. Collaborating with engineers and traders to build next-generation financial infrastructure.

Posted 5/18/2026full-time🇯🇵 JapanSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Oracle

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the product strategy and v1 spec for a core trading surface — order types and margining, the programmatic / API surface, or listings and risk parameters.
Act as the primary product interface to market makers and high-volume traders, turning their input into spec and maintaining a coherent product direction across competing requests.
Drive the listings pipeline end-to-end.
Partner with engineering on the matching engine, risk engine, and API contracts.
Define and track product success metrics.
Build and maintain the competitive intelligence function for the exchange.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5–8 years of product management experience, with 2+ years shipping product at an orderbook trading venue (derivatives, CEX or DEX).
Fluent in trader vocabulary: funding, basis, skew, taker / maker, ADL, oracle slippage, latency-sensitive flow.
Familiarity with the operational mechanics of perp markets — liquidation engines, insurance funds, cross- and isolated-margin, funding rate design, mark price construction.
Strong, specific opinions about other DEXs' product choices: what they got right, what's still open, and what you would do differently.
Excellent written communication. Your specs, RFCs, and memos align people without requiring meetings.
Ability to communicate clearly with both engineers and external trading partners, in their own register.
Technical enough that engineers respect you in design review.
Familiarity with Japanese or APAC capital markets, retail trading culture, or institutional trading workflows is preferred but not required.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive compensation, with equity / stock options available when conditions are met.
Remote, with overlap with APAC working hours. Hybrid in Tokyo or Singapore preferred.
Growth opportunities in a rapidly evolving space.

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Hard Skills & Tools

product managementAPI developmentorder typesmarginingrisk parametersliquidation enginesinsurance fundsfunding rate designmark price constructiontrading metrics

Soft Skills

written communicationstakeholder alignmentclear communicationtechnical respectcompetitive analysis