Product Lead

JOIN ANTE LABS

Entering and settling credible commitments is critical for global trade, but it’s slow and complex. Ante Labs is building Ante, a protocol for onchain commitments, and hiring talent excited to transform societal accountability.

Imagine how claims settlement evolves in a world without computers, and you get something rooted in legacy courts. But the world has always-on, programmable ledgers. So why not build open tools to create, verify, and settle commitments, which accelerates trust formation and growth?

WHY ANTE?

The vast majority of things attempted in crypto don't make sense, but a few things make a lot of sense. Ante works by enabling users to create verifiable onchain commitments with autonomous settlement. At scale, Ante can help keep the world honest, level the playing field for entering global commerce, and explicitly digitize trust.

Concrete crypto products like Uniswap, Maker, Compound / Aave, etc., have become "verbs" in crypto. That's because they actually are coherent with crypto's differentiating properties. Consequently, they make so much sense now that it's easy to forget that they weren't a part of crypto from day one. 

The goal of Ante is to “verb-ify” a new primitive - an “Ante,” or a credible commitment - that, in retrospect, seems obvious. (“Tokenizing” as a concept seems obvious now, and swapping stems from tokens, but Uniswap didn’t become “a thing” until tokens were ubiquitous.)

ABOUT ANTE LABS

Ante Labs is a seed-stage remote org backed by angels & leading crypto investors like Sequoia. Teammates have worked on global consumer apps, gaming, and crypto, and built a quant trading firm from scratch.

ABOUT THE ROLEWe’re looking for a Product Lead with hands-on experience launching and building user-facing products in the crypto or fintech space. You’ve played a key role in shipping successful crypto or fintech products, and you understand what it takes to build for security, scale, and usability.

Join Ante now to help build Ante V1, a protocol to enable easy crypto commitments beyond a lifetime. “How do I verifiably handoff my crypto in a secure & simple way” is an unsolved & real problem for any crypto holder worldwide, especially digital nomads & network states. Come innovate & ship next-gen UX to help solve this problem and help automate monetary peace of mind for the world.

After all, what’s the point of generational wealth if you can’t pass it on to the next generation?

Responsibilities

• Own the feature roadmap, helping define, prioritize, and iterate on features from ideation through release

• Collaborate closely with designers and engineers to deliver seamless, secure, and performant user experiences

• Contribute to and help implement mobile-first UX design across Ante’s core products and new features

• Run user research and testing to validate ideas, uncover friction points, and support onboarding and adoption

Requirements

• 2+ years of product experience in a crypto startup environment, or a total of 4+ years working on product teams

• Direct experience contributing to the launch and iteration of user-facing products (ideally from 0-1)

• Strong design sensibility and familiarity with UX design is a must, though you don’t need to be a full-time designer

• Deep understanding of Web3/DeFi, with fluency in ecosystem tools, products, and terminology

• Security-aware: you recognize the importance of privacy and safe UX, and you’re attuned to potential vulnerabilities

• Remote-first mindset and experience working in a globally distributed team

You might be the perfect fit, if you(’ve)..

• Participated in the launch of a successful crypto product (ideally with >1M users)

• Worked on products that incorporate biometric authentication and sensitive Secure Enclave data in a user-friendly manner

• Have a strong eye for UX polish, with a passion for making secure experiences feel simple and accessible