Senior Manager, Product Owner – Blockchain, Trading

Role Overview

• Design and lead delivery of a platforms involving blockchains, trading, and portfolio management
• Inspire and empower the squad through a shared mission and roadmap that aligns the work they do and the value they deliver to the partners they support
• Guide the team by serving as the voice of the client/partner towards high value, high quality execution
• Clearly communicate impediments, progress, and results against established objectives.
• Establishes KPI’s to measure progress agreed upon business, technology, and people results
• Collaborate and coordinate with Technology Engineering Management and Scrum Masters to build squad capacity and capability that cultivates a growth mindset
• Make informed decisions to balance quality, cost, and timeline constraints
• Improve value delivery and delivery excellence from planning through implementation

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required, MBA a plus
• 7+ years of combined product management experience working with trading, blockchain technologies, financial services, technology, and/or leading agile teams
• Experience with trading platforms, trading models & algorithms, and/or portfolio management required
• Cryptocurrency, blockchain, and/or decentralized finance (DeFi) interest, knowledge and/or experience required
• Jira and Jira Align experience preferred
• Roadmap Management
• skilled at defining and managing roadmaps that align business, data, and technology objectives by using quantitative and qualitative approaches to understand, sequence and prioritize needs
• Discovery
• crafting current/future state diagrams, process flows, use cases that position prioritized areas for delivery success
• Planning – experience planning across teams for dependency alignment and facilitating quarterly planning activities that effectively break down work towards sprint goals
• Backlog Ownership – owns the backlog to ensure epics and stories are clear and concise with well-defined business value and acceptance criteria. Ensure backlog readiness for upcoming sprints
• Quality Execution – attention to detail with unwavering dedication to quality that is not limited to sign off. Ensure business readiness that ultimately delivers a seamless implementation
• Partnerships
• develop positive relationships and champion a collaborative team environment
• Leadership – demonstrated expertise of leading, influencing, and motivating colleagues without formal authority with a track record of building engaged and empowered teams
• Management – able to delegate, coach and deliver feedback to Business Analysts and/or Associate Product Owners that may report directly to you. Prioritize management responsibilities and support that cultivates associate growth and career development.

Benefits

• comprehensive health care coverage and emotional well-being support
• market-leading retirement
• generous paid time off and parental leave
• charitable giving employee match program
• educational assistance including student loan repayment, tuition reimbursement, and learning resources to develop your career