Crypto Technical Project Manager
About The Position
Charles Schwab is seeking a Technical Project Manager (TPM) to lead execution for the Crypto Custody, Blockchain Integration, and Tokenization program. This role will also be responsible for operationalizing the AI-centric Development Life Cycle (AI-DLC) across the program. The TPM will act as an execution architect, embedding AI-DLC principles into planning, design, delivery, risk management, and communication within a highly regulated and high-risk domain. The focus is on ensuring crypto platforms are built using GenAI-enabled, agent-driven engineering practices to enhance speed, clarity, and quality while maintaining institutional rigor. This is not a traditional project management role but one focused on execution and how work is accomplished.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in technical program or project management in complex platform environments.
- Proven experience leading execution across high-risk, regulated, or security-sensitive systems.
- Strong ability to operate in ambiguity while maintaining delivery discipline.
- Demonstrated comfort working with senior engineers, architects, and executives.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with AI-assisted or AI-led delivery models.
- Prior exposure to crypto custody, blockchain, or financial services platforms.
- Experience coordinating with security, risk, or regulatory stakeholders.
- Strong systems thinking—connecting technology, process, risk, and outcomes.
- Comfort influencing without authority.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end execution of the Crypto Custody, Blockchain, and Tokenization roadmap.
- Coordinate delivery across Crypto Custody engineering, Blockchain platform teams, Crypto Security and Platform SRE, and Enterprise Risk, Security, Legal, Compliance, and Operations.
- Manage dependencies across engineering and non-engineering stakeholders with clarity and urgency.
- Translate strategic objectives into executable, sequenced delivery plans.
- Serve as the steward and enabler of AI-DLC for the Crypto program.
- Ensure teams operate with AI-assisted planning and decomposition, AI-augmented design, documentation, and reviews, and agent-assisted dependency tracking and risk surfacing.
- Embed expectations that GenAI is the default delivery accelerator.
- Partner with engineering leadership to reduce manual overhead, shorten feedback loops, and improve execution predictability.
- Actively identify where AI can further simplify, accelerate, or de-risk delivery workflows.
- Maintain sufficient technical depth to understand crypto custody architectures, blockchain integration dependencies, and security, DR, and incident-readiness requirements.
- Ask the right technical questions at the right time.
- Ensure delivery plans reflect true technical complexity.
- Help engineering leaders stay focused by absorbing cross-team coordination complexity.
- Proactively surface and manage technical and delivery risks, security and regulatory readiness gaps, and dependency and sequencing issues.
- Ensure architecture, security, risk, and readiness reviews occur early and intentionally.
- Drive clarity on go-live criteria, cutover and rollback plans, and operational readiness checkpoints.
- Partner with SRE and Custody Leads to align delivery with institutional reliability expectations.
- Establish and run a disciplined operating cadence across the Crypto program.
- Produce executive-ready updates focused on outcomes, progress, risks, mitigations, and decisions required.
- Use AI-assisted tooling to improve signal quality while reducing reporting overhead.
- Ensure leadership has a clear, accurate, decision-oriented view of the program.
Benefits
- In addition to the salary range, this role is also eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
