Product and Operations
Founding team compensation: $300 CAD/month during trial, scaling with the company.
Eden is a calm financial ecosystem that treats money as part of a whole life rather than an isolated spreadsheet problem. It is organized into a small set of realms — daily awareness, cash flow, long-term stewardship, memory, and a companion — and is currently pre-launch, in alpha. The product surface is financial; the deeper work is restoration.
You will own product thinking across the realms, holding the line between what is worth building and what merely sounds impressive. This is not a process role and it is not a backlog-administration role. It reads as prose, not a list of requirements: you sit close to real users, you write clearly, and you make decisions that protect the calm of every surface you touch.
You will join a small founding team that builds slowly and deliberately. The work feels less like shipping features and more like tending a place — deciding what belongs, what to remove, and what can wait without anyone noticing it is missing.
We hire in a deliberate order: character first, alignment second, the capacity to learn and be corrected third, and current skill fourth. We are looking for strong product instinct, unusual sensitivity to how people feel about money, clear writing, and a temperament that builds rather than performs. We care far more about how you think and whether you can be formed than about a checklist of credentials or years of experience.
We are not looking for someone who wants to own the product vision independently of the founder, someone who leads with process frameworks over product instinct, or someone uncomfortable receiving direct correction. We are not looking for growth-hacking for its own sake, or for anyone who treats users as metrics to be moved.
Months 1 to 2 are immersion and early contribution: get deep into the product and its users, and ship one meaningful improvement to a single realm. Month 3 brings emerging stewardship and your trial review. Months 4 to 6 expand your ownership into beta preparation and launch coordination as the team moves toward its first public release.
Remote (Africa). Monday to Friday, 9-5 local time. The team spans EST and WAT timezones, async-first with synchronous check-ins as needed. Reports to Founder and CTO.
The team works in Figma, Cursor, GitHub, Notion, and Slack, plus whatever a given problem genuinely needs. AI tools are used extensively across the team for efficiency and quality, so comfort collaborating with AI matters. You will not write production code, but you will live in the product every day.
Founding compensation is $300 CAD/month during the trial, equal across all founding roles regardless of department or seniority. The trajectory is $300 to $700 to $3,000+ CAD as the company scales after launch, with simultaneous raises for the whole team. Benefits are not available during the founding period and will be introduced after launch and financial stability. Equity is not offered at this stage but may be introduced later with a 4-year vest and 1-year cliff. Paid stages begin at the challenge ($50 CAD) and the trial ($300 CAD/month); the application, resonance conversation, and foundation review are unpaid but bounded in time.
The path from application to trial start runs about four to six weeks across eight stages: application, resonance conversation, foundation review, a paid challenge, a correction loop, a paid trial, the trial review, and appointment. Every application is reviewed regardless of when it is submitted, even after a role is filled, and strong candidates may be redirected to a role that fits them better.