Staff Product Manager (Vaults) at Morpho Labs

<h2>About Morpho</h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">Morpho is a leading Decentralized Finance (DeFi) lending protocol backed by a16z crypto, Paradigm, Ribbit Capital, Apollo, Vaneck, Coinbase Ventures, Variant and 50 others to build an open credit network giving anyone, anywhere, access to the best possible terms. Morpho is experiencing exponential adoption, with over billion in deposits on the network and used by institutional clients including Bitwise, Galaxy, and Anchorage Digital and the largest crypto exchanges, such as Coinbase, Binance, and Kraken. Now, Morpho is scaling its team of contributors to establish itself as the open credit network, not just of DeFi, but of the world.</p><div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> </div><h2>Why Morpho Exists</h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">Everyone has the potential to build something great for the world. But fulfilling that ambition almost always requires more: people willing to trust you with their capital. Yet access to capital still depends on where you live, who you know, and which institutions are willing to trust you. Even when capital is available, it sits fragmented across disconnected networks and hidden behind intermediaries. The result is a system that fails most of the people it should serve. Borrowers overpay. Lenders earn less than they should. Many are shut out entirely, not because they are unworthy of credit, but because today's infrastructure was never built to connect them. Morpho exists to solve this. Full article <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://morpho.org/blog/why-morpho-exists/">here</a>.</p><h2>Location:</h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">Paris or remote (from -5h GMT up to +2h GMT to ensure sufficient overlap with the rest of the team).</p><h2></h2><h2>Role:</h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">The mission of this role is to make Morpho the home of the best vault products in DeFi by owning the Vaults vertical end to end, from the consumer application down to the protocol layer, and setting the strategy for how Morpho works with a rapidly growing ecosystem of external vault providers.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2>Responsibilities:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Define and drive the product roadmap for Morpho Vaults, from the application layer down to the protocol, to grow vault deposits and make depositing and earning on Morpho effortless.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Own Morpho's overall vault strategy, working across engineering, partnerships, integrations, legal, and GTM to deliver a best-in-class product.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Build and run a customer research program across trading desks, institutional clients, curators, and depositors to deeply understand their needs and represent them internally so teams make informed decisions.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Articulate and execute a strategy for external vault providers, growing relationships a