Digital Asset builds privacy-enabled and interoperable digital infrastructure for global finance, including the Canton Network blockchain for institutional finance. The Principal Product Manager will own the long-term product strategy for Splice, guiding protocol economics, incentives, governance, and related open-source contributions. The role emphasizes strategic analysis, decision-making, stakeholder alignment, technical communication, and long-horizon risk management.
You’ll define, defend, and evolve the roadmap for Digital Asset’s contributions to Splice, while engaging with and responding to the interests of a wide range of stakeholders in the Splice contributor base and in the Canton Network as a whole. You are accountable for prioritization decisions and for the quality of reasoning behind them
Use structured analysis, modeling, and first-principles reasoning to evaluate protocol changes, incentive mechanisms, and governance proposals. You will be expected to articulate why certain paths are chosen—and others are not
Align the interests of the Canton Foundation, application providers, validators, and internal stakeholders into a coherent product direction, even when incentives are misaligned
Guide development across a distributed open-source contributor base. Influence is earned through clarity, technical credibility, and sound judgment
Produce clear, written artifacts that explain complex technical and economic issues to senior engineers, executives, external partners, and governance bodies
Work with architects to identify long-horizon risks in distributed systems design and protocol economics, and ensure they are addressed before becoming constraints on network growth
