Product Manager, Digital Assets

London Stock Exchange Group; London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Join an innovative team at a leading financial institution as a Product Owner, where you'll shape the future of financial services through blockchain technology. This role offers the chance to work on groundbreaking projects that aim to revolutionize financial markets. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement product development, ensuring that solutions meet the evolving needs of clients. If you're passionate about technology and finance, and ready to tackle complex challenges, this is the perfect opportunity to make a significant impact in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Experience as a Technical Business Analyst or Product Owner is essential.
• Basic knowledge of blockchain technology and DLT is required.

Responsibilities

• Support product design for tokenisation-centric strategic products.
• Gather requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
• Ensure product development aligns with business needs and quality standards.

Skills

Product Design

Blockchain Technology

Agile Methodology

Technical Writing

Requirements Gathering

Project Management Tools (e.g., Jira)

Data Analysis

Financial Services Knowledge

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Business or Technology

Certification in Agile or Product Management

Tools

Jira

Blockchain Platforms (Ethereum, Hyperledger)

Job description

We are looking for a candidate with deep-seated experience in product design and development to join our team as a product owner and help us build the future of financial services on blockchain technology. This is a unique opportunity to work on cutting-edge products and services that will transform financial markets.

DMI (Digital Markets Infrastructure) is an ambitious project: large-scale, complex and uses a range of blockchain architecture patterns, with numerous stakeholders (internal and external) and use cases. The work is focused on the tokenisation of financial instruments, i.e. as digital assets.

In this role, you will be responsible for defining and implementing product development for a suite of new infrastructure solutions and capabilities, as well as contributing to the development of LSEG’s brand and ecosystem in Digital Assets. We seek candidates with an interest in the financial markets with experience of working on large projects.

The role will work closely with cross-functional teams across Capital Markets, Post-Trade, and Data & Analytics, as well as relevant functions, including Sales and Account Management, Strategy, and Technology to develop innovative and market-leading products for our clients.

This is a chance to work on an innovative, intellectually challenging project backed by the influential reach of London Stock Exchange Group.

Role Responsibilities

1. Support the blockchain product & operational design for all tokenisation centric strategic products across the LSEG DMI (Digital Markets Infrastructure) programme.
2. Be responsible for the product backlogs and steering prioritisation aligned to business needs, including prioritising user stories, features, and other work items.
3. Work with stakeholders to gather requirements and feedback. Translate business requirements into technical requirements.
4. Work with the development team to ensure that the delivered solutions meet the needs of the business, deliver and test new features and bug fixes.
5. Resolve blockers and ensure that the product development process is running smoothly.
6. Own product & customer documentation and align to standards, policies & best practices.
7. Work closely with business, engineering, ops, central functions as well as customer & external stakeholders to ensure functional, commercial, product and operational design goals are met.
8. Develop knowledge of blockchain & web3, capital markets and digital assets trends relevant to the components and capabilities they are responsible for.

Candidate Profile

1. Experience as a Technical Business Analyst/Product Owner or a similar role.
2. Basic knowledge in distributed ledger technology (DLT), web3 and blockchain technology from product design, adoption as well as network and token design perspectives.
3. Delivery focused: Ability to work with cross functional teams to deliver high quality products that deliver tangible value to users on time and on budget.
4. Data driven: Ability to use data to inform product decisions, prioritise features and measure success.
5. Awareness: Commercial awareness and knowledge of financial services, financial markets and market structure, as well as the unique challenges faced by regulated players in the financial sector is desirable.
6. Communication: Excellent communicator who can interact with product teams, architecture, engineering teams, QA testers and UX designers.
7. Vision and creativity: Ability to foresee roadblocks, conceive intelligent solutions and contribute innovative ideas, as well as manage change and ambiguity effectively and confidently in consultation with the relevant stakeholders.
8. Innovation: An interest in new technology and the ability to conceptualise and work with early-stage ideas.
9. Leadership: Ability to lead ownership of deliverables and work with stakeholders across the business to progress and achieve the relevant goals to ensure development, deployment & delivery is successful.

Technical Skills

1. Strong expertise shaping product & operational design, business requirements capture, technical requirements creation as well as established product methodology.
2. Strong experience leading product design as well as agile delivery & execution, and understanding of the product development life cycle and agile processes.
3. Experience with Jira and other project management tools.
4. Experience with requirements gathering and analysis techniques.
5. Experience with technical writing and documentation.
6. Experience working with blockchain/DLT/web3 technologies (e.g. Ethereum, Cosmos, Besu, Hyperledger etc).
7. Experience working in financial services is desirable.