Head of Product

Abaxx Technologies; United States; On-site; USD 160,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Abaxx Technologies seeks a Head of Product to translate company strategy into executable product direction across its technology ecosystem, uniting market needs, regulatory requirements, customer workflows, legal frameworks, and engineering execution. This horizontal role demands deep systems thinking and the ability to convert complexity into engineering-ready specifications.

The Head of Product owns shared platform capabilities across MarketOS applications, identity infrastructure, collateral,

Qualifications

• 10+ years of product leadership experience in regulated or operationally intensive domains.
• Strong understanding of software architecture and engineering processes.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with executives, engineers, regulators, and customers.
• Experience producing detailed requirements and product specifications that engineering teams can execute against without significant rework.
• Strong analytical and systems thinking capabilities in ambiguous environments.
• Direct experience with procurement, security review, legal review, and IAM integration in enterprise sales cycles.

Responsibilities

• Define product strategy across the Abaxx platform ecosystem.
• Align product initiatives with corporate objectives and the commercial roadmap of each business unit.
• Prioritise investments across competing initiatives and maintain balanced roadmap priorities.
• Maintain a coherent long‑term product roadmap across MarketOS applications, identity infrastructure, the collateral platform, and AI systems.
• Coordinate product direction across engineering, infrastructure, legal, operations, and commercial teams.

Skills

Product leadership

Software architecture

Executive communication

Enterprise sales cycles

Travel willingness

Job description

The Head of Product translates Abaxx's company strategy into executable product direction across its technology ecosystem, serving as the connective tissue between market needs, regulatory requirements, customer workflows, legal frameworks, and engineering execution. This role operates at the convergence of financial market infrastructure, digital identity, legal documentation and digital title, clearing and collateral operations, AI and agent systems, and enterprise workflow automation — a scope that demands deep systems thinking and the ability to convert significant complexity into engineering‑ready specifications. The ideal candidate brings direct domain fluency in one or more of these areas, not just transferable product skills.

This is a deliberately horizontal role. Commercial business leaders own product strategy and P&L for their respective markets; the Head of Product owns the shared platform capabilities those businesses depend on, ensuring applications, identity infrastructure, and AI systems work coherently across every commercial motion. Enterprise identity federation — SAML, OIDC, SCIM, and directory integration — is the gating constraint on every enterprise sales cycle, and this role owns the identity roadmap with the expectation that it stays ahead of commercial demand. The right candidate can walk into a room with a clearing operations team, a regulator, a fund administrator, legal counsel, and engineers — and leave with a requirements document that everyone agrees on. They are ultimately accountable for ensuring that the right products are built, in the right order, for the right reasons.

Key Responsibilities

• Define product strategy across the Abaxx platform ecosystem.
• Align product initiatives with corporate objectives and the commercial roadmap of each business unit.
• Prioritise investments across competing initiatives, ensuring no single business captures roadmap priorities at the expense of others.
• Maintain a coherent long‑term product roadmap across MarketOS applications, identity infrastructure, the collateral platform, and AI systems.

Requirements and Product Definition

• Convert business objectives into actionable, engineering‑ready requirements.
• Produce clear product specifications, user journeys, and operational workflows.
• Eliminate ambiguity before engineering execution begins.

Customer and Market Engagement

• Gather feedback from customers, partners, exchanges, clearing firms, fund administrators, and regulators.
• Identify market opportunities and inform competitive positioning.
• Validate product market fit for emerging products and support strategic commercial initiatives.

Cross‑Functional Leadership

• Coordinate product direction across engineering, infrastructure, legal, operations, and commercial teams.
• Resolve conflicting priorities and maintain organisational alignment.
• Partner with the Head of Engineering as a peer on platform versus feature prioritisation, with shared accountability for velocity, technical debt, and architectural trade‑offs.
• Own product backlog prioritisation and define release objectives.
• Ensure requirements remain aligned with business goals through the build cycle.
• Measure product outcomes, adoption, and stakeholder alignment.
• Identity federation (SAML, OIDC, SCIM, directory connectors) is the gating constraint on every enterprise sales cycle. Own the identity roadmap and ensure it stays ahead of commercial demand, not behind it.

Talent and Team

• In year one, operate as the senior individual contributor and translator across the organisation, with selective product management hires to support specific surface areas.
• Build and develop the product organisation as the function scales, with active mentorship of internal product talent into senior roles.

Required

• 10+ years of product leadership experience, with a record of shipping complex B2B or infrastructure products in regulated or operationally intensive domains.
• Strong understanding of software architecture and engineering processes. You can hold your own in a technical design conversation and think about engineering velocity, debt, and architectural trade‑offs alongside feature delivery.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with executives, engineers, regulators, and customers, often in the same meeting.
• Experience producing detailed requirements and product specifications that engineering teams can execute against without significant rework.
• Strong analytical and systems thinking capabilities. Comfort operating in genuinely ambiguous environments where the requirement is not yet known and your job is to define it.
• Direct experience with enterprise sales cycles where procurement, security review (SOC 2, ISO 27001), legal review, and IAM integration are gating constraints. You have personally walked deals through these processes and know where they break.
• Ability to travel; requiring regular travel of approximately six to eight trips per year to Singapore plus periodic visits to other geographies.

Strongly Preferred – Background in One or More of the Following

• Capital markets, exchanges, clearing systems, or commodity trading
• Financial market infrastructure and post‑trade systems
• Enterprise identity systems and authentication platforms (W3C DID/VC, OAuth/OIDC, enterprise IAM)
• AI products and agent systems, particularly in enterprise or regulated contexts
• Workflow automation systems
• Regulatory technology and the compliance frame around financial services identity (KYC, AML, MAS Notice 626, OFAC)
• Digital asset infrastructure and digital title or tokenisation frameworks

About Abaxx

Abaxx Technologies is building next‑generation digital market infrastructure where identity, security, and intelligent automation converge. Our platform ecosystem spans decentralized identity (ID++), enterprise authentication, AI and agent orchestration, secure messaging, digital signing and evidentiary workflows, and cloud‑native and regulated financial technology systems.

In addition to our technology platforms, Abaxx operates the Abaxx Commodity Futures Exchange and Clearinghouse, regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore, supporting physically‑settled benchmark futures in energy transition markets. As our platforms scale across regulated environments, we hold engineering excellence, release confidence, and operational reliability to the highest standard.

Compensation

Base salary. $160,000 - $240,000 commensurate with experience and geographical location. Equity, bonus, and benefits.

Confidentiality

This role has access to highly sensitive legal, governance, strategic, and intellectual property information and is expected to maintain strict confidentiality at all times.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Abaxx is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace free from discrimination and harassment.

Disclaimer

This job description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed and is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities. Management reserves the right to modify duties at any time based on business needs.