Product Manager

Paris
Product – Portfolio /
CDI - Permanent /
Hybrid
Kaiko offers its clients trusted digital asset market information, empowering businesses with actionable, reliable data. Our data products can be used to inform trading strategies, meet compliance requirements, or assist regulators in market surveillance. Founded in 2014, Kaiko is a global fintech company with offices in NYC, London, Paris, and Singapore.

What We Do 

Kaiko provides financial data products and solutions, across four main pillars:
Market Data: We gather, organize, and distribute market data from over 100 cryptocurrency trading platforms to give our clients a comprehensive view of the  centralized digital assets market.
DeFi and Blockchain: We operate blockchain infrastructure to collect, process, and distribute detailed market data directly from DeFi protocols giving our clients  a comprehensive view of the DeFi market.
Analytics: Our analytics products build on our Market Data and DeFi and Blockchain data products to offer additional analysis for risk assessment, accurate pricing, or market condition evaluations.
Rates and Indices: Trusted benchmark rates and indices for financial professionals and product issuers, compliant under EU BMR regulation.

We take pride in the flexibility of our delivery methods, enabling us to offer Kaiko's products globally on all networks and infrastructures. Whether our clients require public APIs, private or on-premises networks, private or hybrid cloud setups, or blockchain-native solutions with Kaiko oracles, we have them covered. Our goal is to provide clients with seamless access to the insights they need to succeed in the digital asset market.
Kaiko’s Research publications are read by thousands of industry professionals and cited in the world’s leading media organizations. We provide original insights and in-depth analysis on crypto markets using Kaiko’s data and products.

Who We Are 
We’re a team of 80 (and growing) passionate individuals with a deep interest in building data solutions and supporting the growth of the digital finance economy.  We’re proud of Kaiko’s talented team and are committed to our international representation and diversity. Our people and their values are the foundation of our continued success.


About The Role

You’re part of the Kaiko’s Product Portfolio team who is in charge of designing and developing products.

Missions & Responsibilities

    • As a Product Manager at Kaiko, you mainly focus on Product Life Cycle management. You will be accountable for your product line from inception to launch:

    • Research: business research to design new products, new features, or incremental upgrades on existing ones, leveraging user research, market trends, competitive watches, etc.
    • Product design: specifications and test cases writing, detailed and documented data on product design and how the product will be delivered to users, usable by devs to implement the product
    • Product delivery: make sure specifications are clear, the technical specifications written by the tech team are aligned with the functional specifications (including ticket creation and prioritization) and deadlines are being met (progress monitoring). Once implementation is done, you’ll also be responsible for coordinating the testing phase with the help of the Operations and QA teams.
    • Product launch: support marketing launch through dedicated case studies, build go-to-market with sales, and ensure Product Operations readiness to cater to new increments/products.

    • As part of the day-to-day activities, you’ll also be in charge of the following missions:

    • Product improvements: collect feedback from Sales, Product Operations, or clients towards continuous improvements.
    • Product Innovation:
    • Monitor market trends on product needs and follow up with clients to test and validate new ideas.
    • Work closely with the team towards the definition of the roadmap, which shall include - in a fast-changing, maturing environment - strategic product development to position Kaiko ahead of client demand.
    • Sales and client support, whether it’s taking the form of competitive due diligence, bespoke analysis for clients, or market materials. As a product expert, you may also be invited to attend client meetings to answer questions about our research or products and represent Kaiko at conferences.
Location: Paris (hybrid)
Type of contract: CDI

What we offer 
25 paid holidays & RTTs
The hardware of your choice
Great health insurance (Alan)
Meal vouchers (Swile)
Contribution to your monthly gym subscription
Contribution to daily commuting
Remote-friendly  
Multiple team events (annual retreat, casual drinks, etc.)
An entrepreneurial environment with a lot of autonomy and responsibilities

Talent Acquisition Process
●   Call with the People team (20 min)    
●   Interview with the Hiring Manager (45 min)    
●   Technical test / Business Case (1h in meet)    
●   Cross team interviews with 2-3 team members (30 min)    
●   Offer, reference check

Diversity & Inclusion
At Kaiko, we believe in the diversity of thought because we appreciate that this makes us stronger.  Therefore, we encourage applications from everyone who can offer their unique experience to our collective achievements.