Senior Product Manager – Custody, Settlement

Job Responsibilities

• Define and prioritize the backlog for the custody & settlement platform, balancing reliability, operational efficiency, business and client needs.
• Discovery & requirements:
  Work with operations, trading, finance, and institutional clients to uncover the real problems, and turn them into clear requirements for engineering.
• Operational efficiency:
  Prioritize automation of manual back-office processes to improve turnaround, reduce risk, and lower operating cost.
• Platform scalability & reuse:
  Drive the platform toward modular, reusable services so new products and client setups can be delivered faster and more consistently.
• Client-facing product work:
  Shape how institutional clients integrate and onboard, and feed client feedback and competitive gaps back into the roadmap.
• Delivery partnership:
  Work with engineering across the full lifecycle: scoping, trade-offs, release readiness, and validation.
• Stakeholder alignment:
  Keep engineering, trading, operations, commercial, finance, and delivery partners aligned on what is being built and why.
• Regulatory‑aware decisions:
  Make product choices that hold up under the security, compliance, and regulatory requirements applicable to regulated securities dealers and custodians (e.g., DORA, FINMA, BaFin, MiCAR).
• Measure & iterate:
  Define and track the metrics that matter: reliability, operational efficiency, onboarding time, client adoption, and use them to steer the roadmap.

• 5+ years in product management, ideally owning a platform, ledger, settlement, custody, payments, or core banking product within financial services or fintech.
• Proven track record taking products from discovery through delivery, with measurable outcomes.
• Strong grasp of ledger and reconciliation concepts: positions, balances, and how transactions flow into finance and reporting systems.
• Comfort with API‑based platforms and integrations (e.g., FIX, REST, Web Socket) – enough to reason about them, not necessarily to build them.
• Ability to work fluently with both engineering and business or operations stakeholders, and to translate between them.
• Proficiency with backlog and product tooling (Jira preferred).
• Familiarity with regulatory and compliance frameworks relevant to financial markets (e.g., DORA).

• Experience in digital asset / cryptocurrency infrastructure.
• Understanding of custody, wallet infrastructure, key management, or post‑trade systems.
• Exposure to on‑chain settlement mechanics.
• Background in institutional client onboarding, conformance, or integration testing.
• Experience modularizing a large platform or system of record into reusable services.
• Familiarity with trading systems or order management.
• Experience with Confluence‑based documentation and knowledge management.

Demonstrates expertise in product management within financial services, focusing on backlog prioritization, operational efficiency, and regulatory compliance. Proficient in collaborating with cross‑functional teams to drive platform scalability and enhance client onboarding experiences.