The Digital Assets Product Lead role is responsible for designing, launching, and managing endtoend digitalasset products (custody, trading, funds, structured solutions, tokenized assets) that fit wealth clients needs while meeting bankgrade risk, control, and regulatory standards.
The role blends traditional wealthmanagement product ownership with deep cryptonative understanding and demands strong crossfunctional leadership across front office, technology, risk, and compliance.
Responsibilities:
- Define the digitalasset product vision and roadmap for the wealthmanagement franchise (e.g., custody, execution, funds, staking, tokenized RWAs), aligned with overall WM strategy and risk appetite)
- Build business cases for new capabilities, including client demand analysis, P&L, capital and liqui
- dity impact, and operational model design (onboarding, booking, lifecycle, reporting).
- Own endtoend product delivery: requirements, user journeys, prioritization, backlog, and golive for digitalasset platforms used by RMs, advisors, and clients (ebanking/mobile).
- Act as product owner with engineering and design to specify APIs, wallet models, ledger integration, connectivity to exchanges/venues, and downstream reporting and reconciliation.
- Drive vendor and partner evaluations (custodians, exchanges, OTC desks, tokenization platforms, data providers), including due diligence, integration scope, and commercial terms.
- Set and maintain product governance: product programs, approval forums, change management and periodic reviews.
- Ensure regulatory and compliance alignment (MiCA, FATF Travel Rule, sanctions, KYC/AML, suitability/appropriateness, tax, investor protection).
- Coordinate risk, legal, ops, and compliance to design controls for safekeeping, fraud, segregation of assets, margining, collateral, and operational resilience.
- Continuously scan market, protocols, DeFi, and tokenization trends; perform competitor analysis and propose new offerings, pilots, or partnerships.
- Oversee ongoing product operations and client experience, including incident management, servicelevel monitoring, and iterative enhancement of platforms and journeys.
Qualifications & Required Skills:
- 510 years of experience in product roles in wealth management, capital markets, or fintech, with at least several years directly in digital assets, crypto, or blockchain.
- Degree in finance, economics, business, computer science, or related field; professional credentials like CFA or equivalent digitalasset certifications are often valued but not mandatory.
- Deep understanding of crypto markets, key protocols, stablecoins, DeFi, staking, tokenomics, and onchain risks, plus familiarity with Web3 tooling and cryptodata platforms (e.g., Glassnode, Dune, Coin Metrics).
- Strong knowledge of traditional wealthmanagement products and structures (funds, ETFs, notes, structured products, financing, custody) and how digital assets map into existing booking models and client journeys.
- Experience with institutionalgrade digitalasset infrastructure: cold/hot/warm wallet models, MPC, segregated vs omnibus accounts, keymanagement, settlement flows, and integrations with custodians and venues.
- Strong productmanagement toolkit: discovery, user research with RMs and clients, writing epics and user stories, backlog management, acceptance criteria, and release planning.
- Data and analytics capability: use of product analytics and Business Intelligence tools, understanding of trading and position data, ability to define KPIs (AUM, flows, spread income, utilization, risk metrics) and run experiments.
- Working familiarity with regulatory and compliance frameworks relevant to digital assets (e.g., licensing regimes, travelrule standards, marketabuse rules, custody requirements) in key wealth hubs.
Please note only shortlisted candidates will be notified.
