Product Lead, Protocol Ecosystems

Anchorage Digital

About The Position

At Anchorage Digital, we are building the worldâs most advanced digital asset platform for institutions to participate in crypto. Anchorage Digital is a crypto platform that enables institutions to participate in digital assets through custody, staking, trading, governance, settlement, and the industry's leading security infrastructure. Home to Anchorage Digital Bank N.A., the first federally chartered crypto bank in the U.S., Anchorage Digital also serves institutions through Anchorage Digital Singapore, Porto by Anchorage Digital, and other offerings. The company is funded by leading institutions including Andreessen Horowitz, GIC, Goldman Sachs, KKR, and Visa, with its Series D valuation over $3 billion. Founded in 2017 in San Francisco, California, Anchorage Digital has offices in New York, New York; Porto, Portugal; Singapore; and Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Learn more at anchorage.com, on X @Anchorage, and on LinkedIn. Anchorage Digital's Protocols organization partners with leading blockchain ecosystems and their institutional investors to deliver institutional-grade custody, staking, governance, and DeFi capabilities. As a Product Lead, you will set the strategic direction for how we engage with these ecosystems by defining the frameworks that guide which networks we support, how deeply we integrate, and what differentiated value we deliver. You will drive cross-functional alignment at the senior level, and shape a roadmap that positions Anchorage as the default institutional partner for the most important networks in crypto. This is a role for someone who thrives at the intersection of product vision, people leadership, and deep protocol fluency. We have created the Factors of Growth & Impact to help Villagers better measure impact and articulate coaching, feedback, and the rich and rewarding learning that happens while exploring, developing, and mastering the capabilities and contributions within and outside of the Product Lead role:

Requirements

You have 7+ years of product management experience, with at least 2 years leading or managing other product managers.
You have meaningful experience in blockchain, DeFi, or protocol-adjacent companies, and you understand the nuances of ecosystem dynamics, not just the technology.
You have a track record of defining and executing multi-quarter product strategies that required navigating ambiguity, competing priorities, and cross-functional dependencies.
You have a background in engineering or a demonstrated ability to go deep on technical architecture when the situation demands it.
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, enabling you to distill complex ecosystem trade-offs into crisp narratives for leadership, partners, and your team.
Your empathy and adaptability not only complement others' working styles but also embody our culture of curiosity, creativity, and shared understanding.
You are deeply invested in optimizing the end-user experience and leveraging it to create business value.
You self describe as some combination of the following: creative, humble, ambitious, detail oriented, hard working, trustworthy, eager to learn, methodical, action oriented, and tenacious.

Nice To Haves

You have shipped products that required direct collaboration with protocol foundations or core development teams.
You have built or contributed to ecosystem evaluation frameworks, partnership models, or integration playbooks at a previous company.
You have written your own smart contract or dApp.
You have experience managing P&L accountability or revenue targets tied to product decisions.
You've seen and were emotionally moved by the musical Hamilton :)

Responsibilities

Drive end-to-end product strategy for the Anchorageâs engagement with protocol ecosystems, balancing near-term commitments with long-term platform investments.
Develop and maintain a strategic lens on the blockchain landscape to identify which ecosystems, consensus mechanisms, and on-chain primitives warrant investment and how to sequence them.
Drive comprehensive go-to-market strategy alongside sales and partnerships, defining success metrics and iterating based on data and market feedback.
Demonstrate the ability to understand system architecture deeply enough to set sound technical direction with engineering leadership.
Drive cross-functional initiatives that span engineering, design, sales, compliance, and external partners while resolving ambiguity and maintaining momentum across multiple workstreams.
Contribute strategic insights that shape company-level priorities and influence leadership decisions beyond your immediate team.
Develop and leverage a deep understanding of Anchorage's business model, regulatory landscape, and competitive positioning to inform ecosystem strategy.
Build trusted relationships with senior leaders across departments to ensure alignment on priorities, surfacing trade-offs early, and driving shared accountability.
Navigate and improve organizational processes to increase the Protocols team's efficiency, predictability, and quality of output.
Represent the Protocols organization to senior leadership, the board, and external partners, articulating strategy, progress, and trade-offs with clarity and conviction.
Enable cross-functional collaboration through consistent, transparent communication and thoughtful influence on decision-making at every level.
Serve as a knowledge partner to leadership on blockchain ecosystem trends, helping the company stay ahead of market shifts.