Cycles
Institutional Product Lead, Cycles Prime
Remote, New York
Sponsorship not specified$130k-$190kDetected 49 days ago
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About the role
- You bring strong experience in institutional fintech, trading platforms, prime brokerage, clearing and settlement, treasury, or crypto market infrastructure.
- Crypto trading firms have billions in working capital trapped in bilateral exposures across venues.
- No collateral, no escrow, no new counterparties.
Responsibilities
- Lead product and design across institutional products, from discovery and user research through to shipped interfaces on web and (where relevant) mobile.
- Define and own the product's design language, UX patterns, and interaction principles so institutional buyers trust what they see.
- Partner tight with engineering to prototype, test, and ship fast without dropping the quality bar.
- Drive product strategy and roadmap. Find the next surfaces, prioritize the work, and decide what we ship.
Requirements
- 5+ years shipping institutional-grade products end-to-end, in fintech, payments, trading, clearing, or crypto market infrastructure.
- Track record of shipping products from 0→1 and iterating based on real customer feedback.
- You can make sophisticated financial tools feel obvious without flattening the complexity.
Nice to have
- Strong product judgment plus real UX and information architecture chops for complex financial products.
Compensation
- 20 days (4 weeks) of paid vacation annually, plus 3 Spiritual Days
Company info
- The Opportunity
- Cycles Prime frees it.
- We're in pilot with several of the largest trading firms in the market.
- The next chapter is bigger.
- We need a founding product hire to take Cycles Prime from closed pilot to public launch, then expand on-chain clearing infrastructure to new institutional segments.
- About Cycles
- Cycles' mission is to clear the most debt, for the most people, with the least money.
- We are building a neutral clearing layer that interconnects every settlement network across global financial markets.
- By optimizing payment and credit flows, Cycles resolves gridlock and improves capital efficiency and liquidity across the financial system.
- We recently closed a $6.4M round led by Blockchange Ventures, with Coinbase Ventures, Compound VC, and Primitive Ventures participating.
- Earlier backers include CMCC Global, Maven 11, Nascent, and Cygni.
- Founded by Ethan Buchman (co-founder of Cosmos), originally incubated by Informal Systems.
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