Director, Technical Product Manager - Digital Assets

About the role

Drive delivery for key Digital Asset Custody capabilities (wallet services, key management, and operating workflows) by translating outcomes into clear requirements and a prioritized backlog.

Responsibilities

• Write detailed product requirements, define acceptance criteria, and partner with engineering to estimate, sequence, and deliver custody features such as deposits/withdrawals, transfers, whitelisting, approvals, entitlements, and reporting.
• Work day-to-day with Compliance, Technology, Operations, and Risk to refine requirements, document control needs, and ensure custody releases meet client commitments and regulatory expectations.
• Partner with engineers and architects to evolve custody services and integrations (APIs/events) to trading, settlement, and accounting platforms, with attention to resiliency, auditability, and operational controls.
• Contribute to custody security and control design by capturing control requirements in stories, partnering on threat/risk reviews, and supporting evidence collection for audits (e.g., MPC/HSM usage, access governance, segregation of duties).
• Own end-to-end feature delivery across custody workflows including UAT support, runbooks, and go-live readiness with operations.
• Support build-vs-buy evaluations by gathering requirements, comparing vendor capabilities, and documenting tradeoffs across security, regulatory expectations, resilience, cost, and time to market.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in product management or technical product management, ideally within financial services, or market infrastructure.
• 4+ years of hands-on experience with digital asset custody, wallet infrastructure, or adjacent market infrastructure supporting settlement and safekeeping.
• Hands-on technical fluency: ability to work with engineers on APIs/integrations, read logs and metrics, and use data to validate outcomes and troubleshooting issues.
• Strong understanding of digital asset custody operating models, safeguarding expectations, and control frameworks.
• Strong understanding of wallet types and architectures (hot/warm/cold), transaction lifecycle, and blockchain network mechanics (fees, finality, reorgs).
• Strong understanding of key management and cryptography concepts, including MPC and HSMs, key ceremonies, backup/recovery, and secure signing.
• Strong understanding of operational risk topics for custody: approvals/entitlements, travel rule considerations, reconciliation, auditability, and incident response.
• Experience supporting multiple blockchain networks and asset types, with a pragmatic approach to adding new networks safely.
• Experience delivering secure, resilient, and auditable software in regulated environments, including strong SDLC practices, change management, and operational readiness.
• Proven experience delivering platform products end-to-end, translating complex technical concepts into clear roadmaps, requirements, and prioritized backlogs.
• Execution focused with experience working with multi-disciplinary teams comprising product managers, designers, and engineers.
• Strong communication skills with ability to gather requirements across cross-functional partners.

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