Product Owner, Obol
Building infrastructure for public blockchain networks
Job no longer available
Building infrastructure for public blockchain networks
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
21-100 employees
Company mission
To evolve DVT by building a crypto economic protocol and diverse community that can enable the primitive to become a sustainable public good, increasing the security and resiliency of public blockchain networks.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years as a Product Owner; or similar roles
- Experience in blockchain or a related field is a plus
- Proven leadership with a track record of delivering projects on time and on budget
- Experience with blockchain solutions or DApps is favored
- Fluent in English with effective communication abilities
- Skilled at working with international, remote teams across various time zones
- Innovative, self-starter attitude with a readiness to lead and own projects
Desirable
- Technical knowledge in software engineering; Bachelor's in Computer Science or a related field is beneficial
What the job involves
- Lead the full product development cycle of your squad from concept to launch
- Coordinate with other teams to align product strategies with company goals
- Translate product needs into user stories and design guidelines
- Guide the development team alongside the scrum master, ensuring timely delivery of product enhancements
- Foster an agile and collaborative environment, promoting innovation and best practices
- Backlog Management: Prioritizes features, enhancements, and fixes for our project
- Requirements: Transforms high-level needs into detailed and tailored user stories
- Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborates with teams like UX/UI design, marketing, analytics, and sales to align product strategy
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Partners with teams across departments to ensure cohesive product development
- Review: Assesses completed tasks against standards and user-centric design principles
- Release Decisions: Determines the rollout of features and updates to maximize user engagement
- Feedback Loop: Regularly collects insights from users and cross-functional teams to optimize the product
- Alignment with Strategy: Ensures the product direction matches the company's business objectives
- ROI: Strives to maximize the business value derived from product initiatives
Our take
As the finance world embraces blockchain technology, companies work to build the infrastructure that will support new users and combat known on-chain issues. Obol is one such company, working to improve validation in Ethereum by building distributed validators that do not rely on a single operator.
Obol was founded in 2021 to decentralize validation so that it is less prone to failure. Currently, validators – that stake funds to process transactions – answer to a single operator. If the operator fails, then so does the validation process. Obol’s network will enable staking from multiple validator operators, so that if one or even a few go down, Ethereum network transactions will still validate and complete. It uses novel “secret shared validator” technology to do so, which splits validator keys between multiple operators.
Obol has garnered strong support from the DeFi community and received strong investment, the latest of which was led by Pantera Capital and Archetype. This investment will be used to accelerate the deployment of Distributed Validator Technology (a core technology on the Ethereum scaling roadmap). Beyond this, after establishment on Ethereum 2.0, the company has hopes to support additional public blockchains in the future.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jan 2023
$12.5m
SERIES A
Oct 2021
$6.2m
SEED
Total funding: $18.7m
Company benefits
- Opportunity to collaborate with industry-leading validators
- Opportunity to collaborate with Ethereum core client teams
- Twice annual Global Off-sites
Company HQ
Civic Center, New York, NY
Leadership
Collin Myers
(Co-founder & CEO)Worked in DeFi Global Product Strategy for ConsenSys. Former Global Head of Business Development at Token Foundry.
Oisín Kyne
(Co-founder)Director of Kyne Software. Former Full Stack Developer at ConsenSys.
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