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Live · Open·Digital Assets·Senior

Head of Product at a European DeFi venture studio.

Head of Product, reporting to the founder. The role is a founding Head of Product on the studio's flagship consumer DeFi protocol, working directly with the founder on the product surface as user counts scale past what the founding team can absorb.

About the firm

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A European DeFi venture studio. The firm builds and incubates consumer-facing on-chain protocols. Engineering- and design-heavy, around 25 staff. The studio's flagship protocol launched in Q3 2025 and is now scaling user counts faster than the founding team can absorb. Backed by DeFi-native investors and operator angels.

We name a client on the mandate page only where the firm has approved publication. Where not named, the description above is intended to be enough for a senior candidate to recognise whether their pattern fits the brief.

The brief

What this seat exists to do.

Head of Product, reporting to the founder. The role exists today as a founder remit and is being lifted out.

First Product hire at the studio. Owns the flagship protocol's product surface end-to-end — from on-chain UX to off-chain dashboards and the relationship with the studio's growing user base.

Strategic moment: the protocol is moving from early-adopter to growth-stage. The seat needs to define a roadmap that scales without losing the design discipline that earned the early users.

Remote within Europe, with quarterly off-sites in Lisbon. Some travel to investor and partner meetings in the US expected.

What we are assessing for

  • A founding or near-founding product hire elsewhere — has built a product organisation from one, not joined an established one.
  • Genuine on-chain product instinct. Has shipped consumer DeFi or wallet-native experiences and understands what makes on-chain UX hold up under real user load.
  • Comfortable working with a small, opinionated founder. The studio's founder is technical and product-active; the right hire enjoys that partnership rather than chafing against it.
  • Patterns: a senior PM at a peer DeFi protocol; a founding PM from a consumer crypto wallet or aggregator; an operator-founder ready to step into a senior role.
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Spectrum's read on this search.

The role is a founding Head of Product on the studio's flagship consumer DeFi protocol, working directly with the founder on the product surface as user counts scale past what the founding team can absorb. The work is the product surface decisions that shape what the protocol becomes for new users, not a feature backlog. If you have shipped consumer on-chain product and want a small-team role sitting next to the founder, the form on this page comes to me.

— Peter Wood, Partner & Chief Strategy Officer

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StatusLive · Open
IndustryDigital Assets
SenioritySenior
LocationRemote (Europe)
PartnerPeter Wood
OpenedApr 2026
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