Product Manager Associate Director (Digital Assets)

DTCC • Jersey City, NJ

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About The Position

Are you ready to make an impact at DTCC? Do you want to work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic and supportive team, and receive investment in your professional development? At DTCC, we are at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets. We are committed to helping our employees grow and succeed. We believe that you have the skills and drive to make a real impact. We foster a thriving internal community and are committed to creating a workplace that looks like the world that we serve. DTCC Digital Assets is at the forefront of driving institutional adoption of digital assets technology with a steadfast commitment to innovation anchored in security and stability. As the financial services industry’s trusted technology partner, we pride ourselves on empowering a globally interconnected and efficient ecosystem. Our mission is to provide secure and compliant infrastructure for digital assets, enabling financial institutions to unlock the full potential of blockchain technology The Impact you will have in this role: As the Product Manager Associate Director for Digital Assets, you will play a critical role in shaping and delivering DTCC’s client-facing digital asset offerings, with particular focus on tokenized collateral and adjacent market structure use cases. You will operate at the intersection of client needs, product strategy, and execution by partnering with market participants, strategic partners, engineering, operations, legal, risk, and compliance to identify external pain points, define clear business requirements, and lead one or more workstreams from discovery through delivery. In this role, you will help drive DTCC Digital Assets’ ability to bring secure, compliant, market-ready capabilities to life across initiatives such as ComposerX and the Collateral AppChain, improving collateral mobility, enabling more efficient intraday activity, and accelerating institutional adoption of tokenized assets in a regulated environment.

Requirements

• Minimum 8 years of related experience, preferably in product management, product strategy, business analysis, consulting, or other market-facing roles within securities services, collateral management, repo, securities lending, post-trade infrastructure, market utilities, or regulated digital assets
• Bachelor’s degree (preferred) in business administration, finance, economics, computer science, or a related field or equivalent experience
• Experience working directly with institutional clients and cross-functional teams in regulated environments, with strong exposure to requirements management, delivery execution, and stakeholder alignment
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams and managing requirements via tools such as Jira; exposure to tokenization, tokenized securities, digital collateral, or adjacent digital asset platforms strongly preferred

Nice To Haves

• Ability to foster a culture where honesty, transparency, and accountability are expected
• Strong collaboration skills across external clients and internal business and technology teams; able to build consensus among stakeholders with competing priorities
• Strong analytical, market-structure, and documentation skills able to translate ambiguous client pain points into clear, testable requirements and executable workstreams
• Credible understanding of traditional finance workflows, especially collateral, repo, securities lending, custody, or post-trade, paired with meaningful exposure to tokenization or regulated digital assets
• Strong executive communication and external engagement skills, including the ability to lead client discussions, working groups, and strategic partner conversations
• Ability to articulate the practical opportunity for tokenized assets in collateral, including asset mobilization, more efficient intraday activity, and reduction of capital, funding, and liquidity friction

Responsibilities

• Requirements Gathering & Analysis Partner with institutional clients, market participants, domain experts, product leaders, and technical teams to elicit, analyze, and document requirements for tokenized asset products and workflows, especially across collateral, repo, securities finance, and post-trade use cases Conduct client meetings, working groups, workshops, and process analysis to understand current-state operating models, pain points, adoption barriers, and opportunities for asset mobilization, intraday efficiency, and stronger commercial outcomes
• Requirement Documentation & Backlog Quality Produce clear requirement artifacts such as business requirements, user stories, process flows, capability definitions, and operating model documentation that are unambiguous and implementation-ready Define acceptance criteria, delivery outcomes, decision points, and edge cases so teams can move with speed and confidence while maintaining appropriate control standards Maintain traceability from business goals → workstreams → epics → user stories → delivery outcomes, and transform requirements into an actionable Jira backlog that supports prioritization, grooming, and execution Take ownership of one or more workstreams end-to-end, ensuring requirements stay current, delivery-oriented, and tied to the client and market problems DTCC is solving
• Stakeholder Management & Cross-Functional Collaboration Serve as a liaison across clients, product, engineering, architecture, operations, legal, compliance, risk, and other partners, facilitating discussions and building alignment on scope, priorities, dependencies, and tradeoffs Communicate status, risks, external feedback, and required decisions clearly, helping teams bring the right people into the room, resolve issues quickly, and maintain momentum across multiple parallel workstreams
• Agile Delivery (Scrum) Work within an Agile development framework and actively support planning, refinement, reviews, retrospectives, standups, and other delivery rituals as needed Help ensure delivery remains aligned to business and client outcomes by supporting prioritization, maintaining high-quality requirements entering the sprint, and partnering closely with product and engineering on sequencing and execution
• Solution Design Support & Validation Collaborate with product, engineering, and architecture partners to translate business requirements into functional solutions, with attention to tokenized asset workflows, client onboarding, operating model design, and compliance and control considerations where applicable Support validation and acceptance activities by defining scenarios, reviewing outcomes against requirements, and confirming that delivered capabilities meet client intent, DTCC standards, and broader regulatory expectations
• Continuous Improvement Gather feedback from clients, internal stakeholders, and pilot or production activity; evaluate solution performance against expected outcomes, market needs, and workstream goals; and recommend iterative enhancements that improve product relevance, client experience, and execution quality Help refine how DTCC Digital Assets engages with clients, captures requirements, and scales new offerings so the team can move from assisted execution to independent ownership of strategic workstreams
• NOTE: The Primary Responsibilities of this role are not limited to the details above.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees