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Product Manager II, DeFi Borrow

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Lead the DeFi Borrow product area from vision to execution, driving strategy, roadmap, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver innovative crypto-backed loans and borrowing experiences.
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Ready to be pushed beyond what you think you’re capable of?

At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. It’s a massive, ambitious opportunity that demands the best of us, every day, as we build the emerging onchain platform — and with it, the future global financial system.

To achieve our mission, we’re seeking a very specific candidate. We want someone who is passionate about our mission and who believes in the power of crypto and blockchain technology to update the financial system. We want someone who is eager to leave their mark on the world, who relishes the pressure and privilege of working with high caliber colleagues, and who actively seeks feedback to keep leveling up. We want someone who will run towards, not away from, solving the company’s hardest problems.

Our work culture is intense and isn’t for everyone. But if you want to build the future alongside others who excel in their disciplines and expect the same from you, there’s no better place to be.

While many roles at Coinbase are remote-first, we are not remote-only. In-person participation is required throughout the year. Team and company-wide offsites are held multiple times annually to foster collaboration, connection, and alignment. Attendance is expected and fully supported.

The DeFi Borrow team empowers millions of customers to unlock liquidity from their crypto assets directly within the Coinbase Consumer app. By architecting the bridge between Coinbase's robust centralized platform and premier onchain lending protocols, you will deliver a simple, secure, and highly scalable DeFi borrowing experience—complete with sophisticated collateral management, real-time loan health monitoring, and effortless repayment, in service of making Coinbase the best place for people to get the most out of their crypto and access better financial services.. You will define the next generation of onchain credit products and give customers the power to access the funds they need without selling their investments.


What you’ll be doing

  • Own product area end-to-end, from vision and strategy through execution, launch, and ongoing iteration for DeFi Borrow.
  • Define and drive the multi-year roadmap for crypto-backed loans on Coinbase, from initial borrow flows to advanced loan management, refinements, and new product surfaces across web and mobile.
  • Set clear OKRs across multiple workstreams (e.g., loan origination, positions/loan management, balances and performance, liquidation, and observability) and drive cross‑functional collaboration to achieve them.
  • Partner closely with Engineering to ship resilient, scalable borrowing experiences—spanning core loan workflows, loan state tracking, liquidation monitoring, and observability—while balancing speed, safety, and reliability.
  • Work with Risk, Compliance, Legal, and Finance partners to ensure DeFi Borrow products meet regulatory, risk, and controls expectations while preserving an excellent customer experience.
  • Maintain a rigorous operational bar through launch runbooks, on‑call preparedness, degraded‑UI strategies, and incident playbooks that keep DeFi Borrow reliable through market volatility and edge cases.
  • Champion a “crypto‑forward” product approach—leveraging onchain data, protocols, and primitives to build differentiated borrowing experiences that could only exist in the cryptoeconomy.

What we look for in you

  • 5+ years of Product Management experience, with a track record of shipping impactful consumer or prosumer financial products at scale.
  • Experience building or scaling complex financial or lending products (e.g., margin, credit, secured loans, DeFi borrowing) where you balanced user experience, risk, and business performance.
  • Comfort with technical systems and onchain concepts; you can partner effectively with engineers working on smart contracts, loan workflows, and integrations with internal services and external protocols.
  • Proven ability to define and drive multi‑quarter strategy: set a clear narrative, translate it into roadmaps and experiments, and deliver measurable results against growth and portfolio‑health goals.
  • Strong analytical and product judgment: you’re comfortable digging into funnels, cohort behavior, risk/return tradeoffs, and market structure while still sweating UX details.
  • User‑obsessed mindset with the ability to simplify complex financial and onchain concepts into clear, trustworthy experiences for a broad consumer audience.

Nice to haves

  • Experience working directly with DeFi lending protocols (e.g., Morpho, Aave, Compound) or onchain money markets, either as a builder or an advanced user
  • Background in credit, risk, or capital markets, especially in secured lending or collateralized products.
  • Experience expanding onchain ecosystems with developers, creators, or consumers (for example, launching new markets, collateral types, or integrations across ecosystems).
  • “Crypto‑forward” experience, including familiarity with onchain activity (e.g., interacting with Ethereum addresses, using ENS, engaging with dApps, and managing DeFi positions across wallets and networks).

Pay Transparency Notice: Depending on your work location, the target annual base salary for this position can range as detailed below. Full time offers from Coinbase also include bonus eligibility + equity eligibility + benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)).

Base salary range shown. Total compensation also includes equity and bonus eligibility and benefits:
$180,370$212,200 USD

Please be advised that each candidate may submit a maximum of four applications within any 30-day period. We encourage you to carefully evaluate how your skills and interests align with Coinbase's roles before applying.

Commitment to Equal Opportunity

Coinbase is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other basis protected by applicable law. Coinbase will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.  For US applicants, you may view the Employee Rights and the Know Your Rights notices by clicking on their corresponding links. Additionally, Coinbase participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law. 

Coinbase is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please contact us at accommodations[at]coinbase.com to let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.   For quick access to screen reading technology compatible with this site click here to download a free compatible screen reader (free step by step tutorial can be found here).

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AI Disclosure

For select roles, Coinbase is piloting an AI tool based on machine learning technologies to conduct initial screening interviews to qualified applicants. The tool simulates realistic interview scenarios and engages in dynamic conversation. A human recruiter will review your interview responses, provided in the form of a voice recording and/or transcript, to assess them against the qualifications and characteristics outlined in the job description.  

For select roles, Coinbase is also piloting an AI interview intelligence platform to transcribe and summarize interview notes, allowing our interviewers to fully focus on you as the candidate. 

The above pilots are for testing purposes and Coinbase will not use AI to make decisions impacting employment. To request a reasonable accommodation due to disability, please contact accommodations[at]coinbase.com

 


Top Skills

Blockchain
Crypto
Defi
Lending Protocols
Smart Contracts

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