Role: Blockchain Product Manager
Location: New York, NY/ Mount Laurel NJ/ Charlotte NC / Delaware
Duratuon:12 Months - Conversion Possible
The Senior Blockchain Product Manager will lead the strategy, design, and multi-year delivery of tokenized deposit capabilities . This role will stand at the centre of a significant enterprise program intended to build competitive digital money capabilities and position to participate effectively as the industry evolves.
The successful candidate will act as the organization's lead subject matter expert for tokenized deposits and a key leader in the broader digital asset's agenda. They will translate business, client, regulatory, operational, treasury, risk, legal, and technology considerations into a coherent product strategy, executable roadmap, and scalable operating capability.
Role Mandate
- Own the end-of-the-end product agenda for tokenized deposits, from strategic definition and business case through requirements, design, implementation, launch, adoption, and ongoing evolution. The role will create alignment across drive decisions through complex dependencies, and ensure the program delivers secure, resilient, compliant, commercially relevant, and operationally sustainable capabilities.
- Key Accountabilities
- Product Strategy and Roadmap
- Define the enterprise vision, value proposition, client outcomes, and multi-year roadmap for tokenized deposits and related digital money capabilities.
- Translate client needs, market, regulatory, and infrastructure developments into product priorities, business cases, funding proposals, and executive investment decisions.
- Set delivery sequencing, milestones, dependencies, and success measures from discovery and experimentation through implementation and commercialization, linking outcomes to client and enterprise value.
- End-to-End Requirements and Design
- Define and prioritize business, functional, non-functional, operational, control, data, reporting, and technology requirements, maintaining traceability through design, delivery, testing, and readiness.
- Lead lifecycle design across issuance, redemption, transfer, settlement, reconciliation, liquidity, client servicing, exceptions, financial reporting, and operational support.
- Ensure integration with deposit platforms, payment rails, treasury processes, digital wallets, distributed ledgers, and enterprise systems.
- Enterprise Program Leadership
- Lead the multi-year product program across workstreams, delivery teams, and executive stakeholders, aligning Operations, Treasury, Technology, Architecture, Legal, Risk, Compliance, AML, Finance, Payments, Deposit Product, and Capital Markets.
- Establish governance, decision rights, escalation paths, delivery cadence, and accountability; resolve cross-functional priorities and decisions.
- Partner with program and delivery leaders on the integrated plan, scope, and outcomes; manage dependencies, strategic risks, and delivery constraints, escalating decisions requiring senior leadership attention.
- Risk, Control and Operational Readiness
- Embed legal, regulatory, financial crime, privacy, operational, technology, model, third-party risk, and resiliency requirements into product design from inception.
- Define liquidity, balance-sheet, funding, accounting, reconciliation, and reporting requirements with Treasury and Finance; establish scalable service models, procedures, controls, exception management, and support with Operations.
- Drive implementation readiness through testing, control validation, operational acceptance, training, communications, and transition planning.
- Technology and Ecosystem Enablement
- Define target-state capabilities, integrations, platforms, data flows, and delivery options with Technology and Architecture, ensuring interoperability, scalability, resilience, security, and enterprise standards.
- Assess build, buy, partner, and consortium options with Procurement, Technology, Risk, Legal, and business stakeholders.
- Lead product engagement with market infrastructures, technology providers, industry utilities, networks, and other tokenized-deposit partners.
- Subject Matter Leadership and Industry Engagement
- Serve as senior product expert on tokenized deposits, digital money, blockchain-enabled banking infrastructure, and related market developments.
- Build enterprise understanding of opportunities, risks, and operating requirements; translate industry insights into practical implications, recommendations, and leadership decisions.
- Represent in industry forums, working groups, consortiums, and partner discussions, coordinating with accountable internal stakeholders.
Must have hard skills:
- Experience delivering digital assets, blockchain, payment, or market-infrastructure capabilities in a regulated financial institution.
- Knowledge of bank balance-sheet mechanics, settlement accounts, liquidity management, accounting, reconciliation, and regulatory reporting.
- Experience working with regulators, payment-system operators, industry utilities, technology vendors, standards bodies, or consortium-led initiatives.
- Familiarity with product operating models, agile delivery, enterprise architecture, control-by-design, and operational-readiness practices.
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