DLT Product Director

The Role Responsibilities

The Role

• A senior-level product manager and leader who’s experienced in turning ideas into seamless and intuitive product experiences.
• You are well-versed in planning, designing, scaling, and commercialising products and know how to test, validate, and optimize through the product life cycle.
• Products need to be designed with a client focus and with strong business acumen to prioritize and deliver against competing asks.
• You will influence and inspire indirect teams to deliver positive outcomes with executional excellence. If you are a creative problem solver, love tackling complex challenges and building things from 0 to 1 and beyond, this role is for you.
• The role includes product management, governance, and product commercialization activities to support the Digital Assets goals of the business and build readiness for scale. The person will also be a “go-to” contact for education, thought leadership, and Digital Assets related product knowledge.

Other things about you

• You enjoy tackling complex problems hands on and are eager to find solutions that don’t exist yet
• You are comfortable with ambiguity and can “figure things out”.
• You are resourceful and results oriented. You find a way to get things done without sacrificing quality and integrity.
• You have a strong growth mindset and operate with an open mind. You constantly think about how things can improve.
• You are a radical collaborator and put the success of the team before your own. You err on the side of inclusion and transparent communication.

Principal Responsibilities

• You will support the commercialization and development of innovative blockchain and digital asset solutions that have strategic fit and value to the Bank’s clients
• You will be responsible for leading the product work for one or more of our key strategic initiatives by driving strategy, tactics, and delivery timelines. You will drive the end-to-end product development from opportunity assessment, ideation, validation, and delivery to ongoing optimization
• You will identify opportunities through client conversations, demand from other business lines and your understanding of market trends to determine what will be the most impactful products and features we should be building. You will do so by instilling customer-centric discovery and design methods, implementing strategic experimentation and garnering stakeholder buy-in
• You will influence, inspire and collaborate closely with cross-functional teams (e.g. technology, compliance, operations, marketing, legal, etc.) and other business stakeholders to establish a shared vision for Digital Assets products.
• You will influence the tech stack, data model, APIs, platform, and system architecture, while determine when best to build, buy or borrow new technologies and 3rd party integrations

Strategy

• Awareness of business goals and strategy in terms of delivering DLT and API solutions.

Business

• Awareness of general industry standards and practices for DLT and API. Staying on top of market trends and evolution of the Digital Assets ecosystem.

Processes

• Ability to quickly learn and become aware of the processes within the Bank to assure successful and risk-free solution delivery

People and Talent

• Ability to work with a variety of stakeholders in order to develop and commercialize products in the DLT space

Risk Management

• Responsible for monitoring and assuring that design solutions or implementations are risk-free. In scenarios, where risk cannot be avoided, be responsible to identify and highlight it to the appropriate stakeholders

Governance

• Responsibilities relating to the direction, planning, structure, frameworks (e.g. processes and policies) and oversight. For example, Responsible for assessing the effectiveness of the Group’s arrangements to deliver effective governance, oversight and controls in the business and, if necessary, oversee changes in these areas; Awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework, in which the Group operates, and the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role

Regulatory and Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct.
• Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
• Lead the product management team] to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles: [Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.]
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key stakeholders

• DCDA management
• Financial Markets Digital Assets teams including Financing and Security Services
• Transaction Banking
• CCIB Technology
• CCIB compliance